The loss is down to the impact of Covid-19 restrictions on the usual PTA fundraising events – especially summer fairs and the like.
A study from charity Parentkind finds that its 13,000 or so PTA members raised around £80m in 2020 for their schools. However, this compares to £121m raised the year previously.
Furthermore, the PTAs had projected to raise more than £150m in 2020, meaning the pandemic has left them around £75m short.
Summer fairs were hit hardest, plummeting from being the most popular event of 2019 for 45 per cent of PTA members, to being held by only nine per cent of the PTAs in 2020.
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