easyfundraising
We often say the best recommendations are word of mouth, and we couldn’t recommend easyfundraising enough for our members.
Offering an easy, accessible and continual way to raise free funds, easyfundraising gives PTA’s the chance to fundraise effortlessly through online shopping.
Watch our recent webinars to find out more from PTAs that are already using easyfundraising to boost their funds
Top Tips for a Fantastic Fundraising Year
Success stories from other PTAs
Joanna S – Lady Eleanor Holles SchoolWhether it’s my weekly delivery from Sainsburys; buying electrical goods from Argos; some bedding from John Lewis or booking holidays at booking.com, the cash pours into my daughter’s school.
easyfundraising in action
Big brands like Tesco, Amazon, M&S, Booking.com, eBay, Argos, John Lewis, Baker Ross, Clarks and 7,000 others want to give back to schools. That’s why they have partnered with easyfundraising, so when someone shops online with them, the brand gives back a percentage of what that online shopper spends to your PTA; for free. It’s like using a cashback site, but instead of the money going to one individual, as a collective – parents, committee members, staff and friends of your school can all raise together.
For example, Sarah is buying new school shoes for her twins. Instead of visiting the Clarks website, Sarah heads to the easyfundraising website or app first then clicks the Clarks link.
easyfundraising directs Sarah to Clarks, where she buys two pairs of shoes. Because Sarah started at easyfundraising first, her PTA will receive a percentage of her spend from Clarks. It’s a win-win, Sarah is happy with her purchase, and her twin’s school will be delighted to benefit from Sarah’s smart shopping.
What’s in it for your PTA?
Unlike one-off activities like cake sales, quiz nights and raffles etc, easyfundraising will bring in income all year round so it is the perfect option to complement those other activities. It enables your school community to support your PTA without having to donate actual cash which is valuable, particularly in the current challenging financial climate and relieves pressure on both families and your PTA. This is a low-effort fundraiser that will run in the background with minimal management required from you.
Emma B – PTA Chair – Friends of Swing Gate School‘It is only our first month, but already we are starting to see donations adding up. The marketing tools, social media messages and posters, make it really easy to share with the school community and enables families to raise money for the school while doing their every shopping.’
How to get started
Just follow these three simple steps:
- Register your PTA as a cause with easyfundraising. It only takes a couple of minutes to complete the registration process.
- You’re all set! But, if you’d like a little more information and tips to help you get off to a flying start you can book a call with one of the fundraising coaches at a time to suit you. They are the experts at helping PTA’s raise.
- Now it’s time to share the good news with your school community. On the easyfundraising website, you will find lots of ready-to-use promotional material to share. Choose from ready-written posts for Facebook or Twitter with eye-catching images, posters, flyers, newsletter wording ready to copy and paste, and even email signatures and content to add to your own website pages all automatically populating the link your supporters need to get started.
Don’t just take our word for it…
We know PTA’s work tirelessly to improve the experiences children have at school and having low-effort fundraisers like easyfundraising is more important than ever, 8,000 Parentkind PTA’s can’t be wrong!
Gemma W – Stourfield Parents Association‘It’s amazing what a small group of people with big ideas can do. Our volunteers don’t necessarily have lots of time, they just have big hearts and believe passionately about enriching the lives of our children at school.’