Lesson 7 - Helping Out

To:

• Understand what a charity is

• Understand how we can support

charities and why this is important

• Design an item that could be sold to

raise money for a charity of your

choice

Focus

Have you seen these logos before?

• What are charities?

A charity is an organisation that helps people,

animals or the environment. Charities usually

raise money from donations and have

volunteers that help

• Why do charities exist?

Charities

• Did you know the RNLI is a charity?

• What work do you think it does?

The RNLI

• It costs £398,000/€465,000 each

day to keep the RNLI running

• For every £1/€1 spent, 84p/84c

is spent on running the lifesaving

service and 16p/16c is spent on

raising more money

How much does it cost?

Film 9

• How do charities raise money?

Raising money

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• Think of a new product that could be

sold to raise money:

• something small

• appeals to lots of people

• will raise money

Design a product

To:

• Understand what a charity is

• Understand how we can support

charities and why this is important

• Design an item that could be sold to

raise money for a charity of your

choice

Review

• Which fundraising product would you

buy?

• Why?

Take a vote!