Our school takes part in this every year. It’s meant to be a fun challenge that’s raises a bit of money to charity but because they give a free football to children who raise £25 or more it becomes the source of arguments in our house. DS is insistent we should sponsor him and DD unreasonable amounts of money so that they can both get footballs. We try to be really conscious of where we donate money but the info leaflet about the event was really unclear where the money goes. If he needs/wants a football we’d rather just buy one. Anyway after many tears we’ve managed to explain this and all is well but I still feel grumpy about school getting involved in things like this that put parents under pressure to raise money for unclear causes. AIBU?