Fundraising
Ideas and resources to help you support African families through Send a Cow
Raising money for Send a Cow should a be a rewarding experience for everyone involved. So we’ve come up with various ways to help you make your fundraising successful. Have a look through our resources, including Harvest materials, Read to Feed, Miles 4 Moos and other fun ideas. If you’ve got any other great fundraising ideas that worked well with your group, please let us know by making an entry on the Guest Map on the right.
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Map poster
Poster showing where we work, with 'Pass it on' examples
You can order this poster using the Order & sign-up page. It is for use in schools, groups, churches or wherever you want people to find out about Send a Cow’s work. The poster includes examples of how we work in three countries and has a map of Africa showing the countries that we work in, all with the theme of ‘Pass it on’ - a key part of why our work is so successful.
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Categories: Visual aids and Tools for the job
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Send a Cow online Gift Catalogue
Donate to our work in a tangible way
Our gift catalogue is online too! It’s where you can donate towards our work - giving things like cows and goats to bees and trees. Children respond really well to being given an amount of money to raise and fundraise towards tangible help. Click on the link below to visit the online catalogue.
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Categories: Fun ideas, Visual aids and Tools for the job
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Sponsor a sunflower!
Sponsor a sunflower for Send a Cow - tallest wins!
Add a splash of colour to your home or school garden this Summer by ordering our Sponsor a Sunflower Kit. Growing sunflowers is a great activity for children to do over the Summer Holidays as they grow so quickly (taking between 75 and 90 days), with the Russian Mammoth sunflowers growing up to 12ft tall! As the sunflowers climb higher, your children will be helping African families and learning about why they grow their sunflowers too. You can use the sponsor form provided if you want to use your own sunflower seeds and the images from our sunflower gallery to make a classroom display. Find out more, including how to order a kit by visiting our sunflower kit page, or call us on (01225) 874 222.
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Categories: African garden ideas and Fun ideas
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Send a Cow - Our Work - video clip
Find out how cows can help poor families in Africa
This video, mainly from Uganda, introduces how cows can help - click play to view. This video is hosted on YouTube, if you have restricted access to this site (as is the case in some Primary schools) you will not be able to view this video online.
The high-quality version of this video can be found on our Cabbages & Cowpats DVD. Order a copy here.
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Categories: Visual aids and Tools for the job
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Book a free speaker
Find out more about Africa and Send a Cow - book now!
If you would like to find out more about our work and help pupils learn about life in African countries, why not book a speaker to come and give a talk? We have ‘Ambassadors’ around the country who speak about Send a Cow - many of them have first-hand experience of our projects. They often use Powerpoint slides, DVDs and visual props, and are a great way of bringing our work to life in an assembly, workshop or lesson. So, to add to pupils’ learning or help with fundraising, call our bookings secretary, Jodie Sampson on (01531) 821751, or email Alternatively, download and print out the speaker booking form below.
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Categories: Assemblies, Book a free speaker and Other useful stuff
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Child-led fundraising ideas
Some fun things for your children to do for Send a Cow
There are all sorts of ways that children support Send a Cow, many of them truly unique! Here are a few pointers to get them going - perhaps they could work in small groups and run their fundraising task as a mini-project. Whatever fundraising they choose to do, it should be great fun!
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Categories: Fun ideas
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Read to Feed fundraising
Encourage reading and raise money for children in Africa
Read to Feed is a great way to both get your pupils reading more and raising money for children in Africa through Send a Cow. Not only that, the books that they read can be linked to learning about Africa and the environment. The pack contains all you need to get your class going: bookmarks with stickers to keep children focussed, sponsorship forms and certificates to reward them. To find out more visit http://www.sendacow.org.uk/readtofeed You can order a pack in the Order and sign up page., but to keep our costs down we ask that you please only order if you are definitely going to use it.
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Categories: Read to feed, English/literacy and Read to feed
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Miles 4 Moos fundraising
A healthy way to fundraise for Send a Cow
Miles4Moos is a healthy way for schools and groups to help raise funds for Send a Cow. By walking, cycling, running, or even hopping to clock up some miles you can raise funds for livestock gifts from cows to bees. You could link your event to the distances that African children often have to walk to get to school or fetch water. The pack includes a poster, advice leaflet and a sponsor form to photocopy. Find out more on how to run a Miles4Moos event at your school at http://www.miles4moos.org Use the Order and sign up page to request your Miles4Moos fundraising pack.
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Berna’s goats and chickens assembly
Visual resource about how to help a group of orphans
This assembly is about the best way of helping a child-headed household. It explains how goats and chickens can make a difference to a group of orphans. It can be used on its own or with Berna’s Story. If you would like to help people like Berna you can donate using our gifts website, featuring goats and chickens, using the link below.
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Categories: Assemblies, Tools for the job and PSHE/Citizenship
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‘Goats and chickens’ Powerpoint
A simple summing up of help from goats and chickens
A simple Powerpoint giving some background pictures and information about Uganda, which then explains how goats and chickens can benefit an African family. The slides loosely link with Berna’s story and include some background notes. If you would like to donate to Send a Cow using our gifts website, featuring goats and chickens, please use the link below.
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Categories: Background info, Visual aids, Tools for the job and Pink poster
