There are many ways to get involved in raising vital funds that are put towards enriching our children’s experience at school. These range from volunteering at our fundraising events to shopping online, to recycling unwanted phones or ink cartridges. If you have new ideas for fundraisers we’d love to hear from you. Contact Angela McHale at angelamchale@gmail.com or Catherine Barlen at cbarlen@talktalk.net
Below are details of our shopping online and fundmatching schemes.
Shopping online
www.easyfundraising.org.uk is a shopping directory listing many online stores including Argos, Next, Debenhams, John Lewis, Toys R Us, HMV and over 2000 others. Just use the links on the easyfundraising site whenever you shop online and, at no extra cost to you, Southfield will receive a free donation of up to 15% from every purchase you make.
It’s completely FREE to register and you won’t pay a penny more for your shopping when you use the easyfundraising site. You can even SAVE MONEY as many retailers offer discounts, special offers and even ‘e-vouchers’ exclusive to easyfundraising.
If you shop online anyway you will raise valuable extra funds for us by using this scheme. All you need to do is visit http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/southfieldps and when you register, select Southfield Primary School – W4 as the organisation you wish to support. Then click on the link for the retailer you want to shop with and shop as normal. We’ve raised in excess of £1100 for school funds from the site since we launched it. The more parents who use the site, the more funds we raise. Thank you for your support.
Easy2Name
We’ve teamed up with Easy2name, who specialize in stickers, iron and sew on labels for school clothing, lunchboxes shoes, gym bags, etc. Easy2name give us 20% back on any orders parents place so long as we remember to quote ‘Southfield Primary School W4′. You can order over the phone, via the internet www.easy2name.com or by filling in the form available from the school uniform shop and posting it.
Fund Matching
Could you raise £500 or more for school funds by giving just a few hours of your time, just once?
If you or your partner work for any of the following companies you could make a big difference for very little effort.
3i, 3i Deutschland Gmb, Abbey National plc, ABN Amro Bank, Accenture, Alliance & Leicester, Alliance Capital, American Express, Amoco Foundation Inc, Andersen, Argos, ASDA Group Ltd, AstraZeneca, Bank of America, Bank of England, Bank of Scotland, Barclays Bank plc, Barclays Capital, Barclays Group, BOC Group plc, Boston Consulting Group, BP, Bradford & Bingley plc, Bristol-Myers Squibb, BT plc, Cable & Wireless, Camelot Group, Capital Int Research, Centrica plc, Chase Manhattan, CitiBank Group, Coutts Bank, Credit Suisse First Boston, De la Rue, Deloitte Consulting, Deutsche Bank, DHL, Diageo, Dixons Group, Dresdner Kleinwort, EMI Group, Ernst & Young, Exxon Mobil, GlaxoSmithKIine plc, Goldman Sachs, Guardian Royal Exchange, HSBC, Halifax, Invensys, Kingfisher plc, KPMG, Littlewoods, Lloyds TSB, McKinsey & Co, Merrill Lynch, Mercury Microsoft Corp, Inc Morgan Stanley, National Grid Transco, National Power plc, NatWest, Northern Electric plc, Norwich Union plc, Pearson, Pfizer, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Proctor & Gamble, Reuters, Robert Fleming & Co, Rolls Royce, Royal Bank of Scotland, Schroders plc, Scottish & Southern Energy plc, Seeboard, Shell, Sigma Securities, SIT Invest. Assoc. Foundation, Sky Broadcasting, Stagecoach Holdings plc, Standard & Poor’s, Tesco plc, Texaco, Thames Water, The Economist Group, UBS Warburg Vodaphone, Warner Music International
All of these organizations and many more operate charity fund matching schemes in the UK. Put simply, they will match funds raised at charity events (up to a maximum of £500 or even £1000 in some cases) in return for employees volunteering their time at the event. And you only have to do it once!
Employees who work for these companies and help at any SPSA event whether it’s the Christmas Bazaar, monthly cake stalls or car boot sales, Summer Fete or any other event could make a major difference to the funds raised for Southfield.
