4 reasons why you should fundraise on No Pens Day 2024😆🚫🖊🌟
Here at Speech and Language UK, we were thrilled to see so many of you super-teachers cast the pens aside in your classrooms last year for No Pens Day! We also like to think that lots of you have signed up again for this year’s bumper day of pen-free fun (it’s on November 27th, by the way😉 sign up here!)
But there’s something more pressing we need to discuss – what’s all this brouhaha from us about fundraising as part of No Pens Day? 🤔
Well, here are 4 reasons why you should raise vital funds for the 1.9 million children facing challenges with talking and understanding words on November 27th:
1️⃣ Fundraising teaches your pupils that they can truly help other children find their voice!
It can be easy to think about No Pens Day as just another opportunity to tick off oracy in the school curriculum, but fundraising is a vital tool in your arsenal to teach your students another lesson: that everyone has the power to change young lives! 91p of every £1 donated goes directly towards helping the 1 in 5 children with speech and language challenges – that’s up to 6 students in every average classroom – with communication skills that will set them up for life.💜
2️⃣ Fundraising is easy!
Raising money in your school doesn’t have to be a faff, and we’re here to help make it as easy for you and your students as possible!
If you haven’t already, sign up and get full access to our No-Pen-tastic selection of fundraising resources: there’s a chatterbox and handouts for kids to take home (with QR codes to make donations a breeze🍃), a fundraising guide, posters, and even presentations and email templates to let your Senior Leadership Team know why you want to take part in No Pens Day and the difference that £1 can truly make!🙌
3️⃣ FUNdraising is FUN!
Why stop at asking your students to bring in their pound coin? Boost your fundraising with creative ideas that get the whole school community involved!💡 You could choose a couple of pupils to present their Show and Tell item and ask people to sponsor them, hold an auction, host a school-wide pen-free competition, set challenges, make crafts, bake… the possibilities are endless! 🚀 Find more ideas in our fundraising guide (sign up to get it in your inbox – you know you want to😉)
4️⃣ Change starts with you🌠
Imagine a world where you and all your colleagues have all the tools and training you need to help every child with their speech, language, and communication skills. Right now, only half of teachers say that this is the case, and with up to 6 children struggling to talk and understand words in every classroom, it’s just not fair to expect teachers like you to bear the load without fundamental systemic change.
Not only will you transform the lives of struggling children by raising vital funds on No Pens Day, but you’ll also be making a real, valuable contribution to the movement that holds policy makers accountable and advocates for educators across the country. Your support is vital to our work: as a campaigning charity, we’re calling on the government to fund tools and training for every school in the UK. And this is just the start.
So there you have it! You have the power to make No Pens Day not just the biggest Show and Tell ever, but the world’s biggest pen-free fundraiser too! 💥🌍💗 And don’t forget: every school that fundraises will receive a pack of exclusive No Pens Day fridge magnets… score!
We can’t wait to see all the fun activities that put speech, language and communication skills at the heart of classrooms across the UK, so tag us @SpeechAndLangUK so we can share your amazing efforts.
Any questions? See if they’ve been answered in our FAQs or send our friendly team an email: nopensday@speechandlanguage.org.uk
