Seven good sources for school fundraising

Every year billions of pounds in external funds are available to primary schools in the UK to enhance and extend educational opportunities. In this article I will provide a whistle-stop tour of these funding sources, highlighting those that are proving especially helpful to schools during this period of challenging financial times. My aim in this overview is to:

The good news for school fundraising coordinators is that there is a great diversity of external funding sources available to UK primary schools, with no less than seven distinctive categories of funds and literally thousands of individual funders within these. Indeed, books have been written on this complex topic, and therefore in this article it is only possible to provide a snapshot of the huge number of potential funding sources for your school. In selecting the funders to list below I have focused on those that have the best track record in funding work in primary schools.