Celebrating 70 years of Parentkind
It’s time to celebrate PTAs and parent volunteers!
Across the UK there are well over 14,000 PTAs raising more than £140 million a year* for schools, with hundreds of thousands of volunteers organising around 100,000 events and activities annually. And in the last decade, PTAs have raised an incredible £1billion for their children, schools and local communities.
In 2026, we’re celebrating 70 years of promoting the amazing work of PTAs, first as The National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations and now as Parentkind. Over the last 70 years, our PTAs and incredible parent volunteers will have raised well over £5 billion for schools — an achievement we think is worth celebrating.
*Calculation based on Parentkind research and membership data.
We’re not the only ones celebrating a big anniversary… We spoke to two PTAs who have reached incredible milestones of their own!
St George’s CE Primary School on celebrating their 40th anniversary
“The Friends have been around since 1985, and to my knowledge have never ceased operations! Our main strength is that, although most of us work, we have different working patterns that allow us to run events on almost any day of the week.
“To celebrate our 40th anniversary, we’re looking to produce an anniversary logo, tea towels and tote bags. They’re going to be sold at our upcoming events and via our uniform shop. We also thought it was the perfect occasion to share the Friends’ journey with a wider community of PTAs and celebrate the impact of parent volunteers everywhere. Sometimes parents overthink joining a PTA, but they should just go for it – anything you can do to help will make a big difference to the children.”
Southrop School PTA on celebrating their 53rd anniversary
“The PTA was formed back in 1973. The first recorded funding was in the same year to take the children swimming on a weekly basis. From the minutes of the first ever meeting, it’s funny how some things haven’t changed. There was a discussion about a coffee and cake morning and funding a trip to the theatre. We’re so pleased that these have continued to the present day.
“We’ve always had a strong sense of community at the heart of our village school. The PTA have always been an active and integral part of the school community, as well as village life.
“In 1991, the school faced potential closure. There was a huge petition led by the school headteacher and the axe was lifted on the impending closure of Southrop School. The school and the PTA then worked really hard together to encourage more awareness of the school and broaden the marketing of events held, with the intention to get Southrop School more publicly known.
“At the end of last term, we celebrated 175 years of the school. We had a whole day filled with events for the children, parents, staff and governors and local people, which was a wonderful celebration. We invited pupils, staff past and present, and held a church service. We held traditional games in the playground and one of our amazing PTA artists created a stained-glass window with the children for the wildlife garden.”
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