To just bung the school twenty quid?

[NapQueen]

Dd came home from school last week with a sponsor form for a Dance a thon. Its to raise funds for a refurbishment of the school playground. And tbf it needs it as the current stuff got installed 25 years ago when I attended.

The dance a thon is the entire school, for 30 mins. So I feel like id be asking for sponsor money for what is essentially her pe lesson that week.

Additionally its a very small community, very very small place so id just be re-asking people who are probably already sponsoring other kids for something I dont think is sponsor worthy.

Aibu to just give the school twenty quid for their playground fund? If the school had just said "donations welcome, this is what it is for, give what you can, if you can" then surely that makes more sense than essentially asking the kids to beg money from the neighbours?

I always just wrote our names with the amount I wanted to give. I never let DD take sponsor forms to neighbours and extended family, etc.

Only one I have done properly in that way - well, via one of the Just Giving type sites, was an externally arranged event for Cancer research - and then just put it up on my social media once, and left it there - still didn't keep pushing it or anything.

Nope. It was shockingly easy. We sat together for an evening trying to figure out how we could really support the local public schools, with 47% of kids in receipt of FSMs. This was our idea. We approached our employers and two gave $25k each, another 2 gave $10k and DH donated $10k through his business. We decided on a whim when setting up the website for the PTA (who drove us nuts for donations) to blast the whole town with what we were doing. The support was incredible. Most people donated $20 to $50 via their employer who matched it. A lot of people also did donations to the charity in lieu of birthday presents.

Here in the us it's a 501c3. We pay an administrator to do all the legal stuff for us. Not sure what it is in Canada.

jannier we still have car washes and a support our schools restaurant week where restaurants give 10% of revenue to the charity.

Community work is also undertaken and the kids do way more than I ever did when I was at school.

Hate sponsorships too and would just send a donation in an envelope

When mine have had sponsored events I've just given a donation.

I'd rather give a direct debit to the school than all the sponsored stuff they do. I pay for it anyway! The children do enjoy 'doing their bit' though so it does encourage them to think about their contribution.

Like others, I've always just put 'Aunty X', 'Uncle Y' to make the form look busy and then put all the money in myself. Brothers and sisters do the same. Just saves all the faff.

Meh. We get sponsor forms for various things for primary school, it's only once a year.
Me and DH give something, and ask family to donate, £1 or £2 usually is the norm.When you've asked the grandparents and great grand parents for a quid and your brother/sister for a quid for their little nephew, it all adds up.
You don't have to fill the form!

I think £20 is generous. If you can afford it great. £10 or even £5 would be fine.

Joanne stumped me as well - I clearly don't go out enough..

I agree that children get a lot out of doing a sponsored event (provided the school don't ask for the money before the event)

I hate asking for sponsorship so I used to make cakes with my dds and they would usually get them to knock on doors of neighbours and ask for a donation in return for cake or - even better - send them in to work with daddy who would then get his colleagues to make a donation in return for a "free cake" (City firm full of young childless couples so not short of cash and thought it was terribly sweet).