Unsurprisingly, parent-teacher associations (PTA) across the country have been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, with many fundraising events postponed or cancelled.
Charity Parentkind, which supports PTAs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, says that its members raised a collective £121m for their schools in 2019.
However, its latest analysis shows that PTAs are predicting a 35 per cent loss in income in 2020, which will leave a “black hole” of as much as £42m.
In 2019, the most popular PTA events were summer and Christmas fairs as well as bonfire night events and activities like quiz and film evenings. It is easy to see how the pandemic will have devastated programmes for 2020.
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