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 Click here to view

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!