St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School

General information

Overview
We are fortunate at our school to have a PTA that is and has been an integral part of the school community for many years. In its time the PTA has raised thousand of pounds, which has been spent on equipment and resources to enhance our children's education experience and the school's facilities.
Our PTA is about much more than simply fundraising. The PTA exists to provide closer links between home and school and it is an excellent way to bring staff, parents and friends together socially in support of the school, working towards a common goal. The PTA is extremely conscious of the ethos and diversity of our school, and we try very hard when organising and planning events to respect this.

Not all of our events are run as fundraisers. The FS2 and new
family welcome evening, the Surprise rooms, the Christmas disco, sports day refreshments, Thank you coffee afternoon etc are run with the aim of giving the children a good time and as a way of thanking families for their continued support for the PTA.

How we raise money

Like most PTA's the majority of our funds are raised through the events that we run. Some of our most popular events are:
Christmas & Summer Fair, Spring/Summer Ball, Band nights, Disco's, Calendar, Recipe book, Family Portrait Day, Bags 2 School, Mother's, Father's and Christmas Surprise Rooms, Fashion Show, MacMillan Coffee morning and many
more.
There is always something going on. We always try and respond to the children's requests too; it is great to see them having fun at the events or enjoying using a piece of new equipment that the PTA has donated.

We raise money in other ways too. Donations from parents are extremely important. You can donate time, money, items for sale, raffle prizes and auction lots or offers of services and skills.

Company matched giving

Company matched giving is a very simple. Companies or businesses pledge to donate to a charity such as ourselves an amount of money relating to the amount that an employee(s) donates or fundraises for us. We have been helped enormously in the past by this type of donation, and there are several benefits to both ourselves and the company involved:
The PTA benefits from receiving perhaps double what we have raised at an event employees' morale is boosted by having their efforts supported by their employer the company benefits from having charitable donations written off against taxable profits The company can endeavour to get publicity for their
giving.

Links with local businesses

We have, over time, developed strong links with the local community and are always well supported by both residents and businesses, for which we are very grateful. Many of our local shops are very generous providing donations for raffle prizes, auction items etc and some have taken part in our Christmas and summer fairs. We are also extremely grateful to the local businesses who have sponsored us over the years in our Summer Fair programme and at our biannual balls sponsoring tables, donating prizes etc