The Fundraising for Schools Pocketbook (Teachers' Pocketbooks) - Softcover

Aimed at headteachers, senior managers and governors, "Fundraising for Schools" walks you through planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating your fundraising strategy. The book highlights the need for a fundraising co-ordinator, identifies whole-school issues and explores the link with school development planning. It helpfully outlines the principal external funding sources and details a number of success stories. A final chapter contains planning templates, '71 fundraising ideas' and details of recommended CDs, online resources, books, directories and newsletters.

Author Brin Best, managing director of Innovation for Education, an education training, publishing and consultancy company, edits the monthly School Financial Management. He has spoken widely on fundraising for schools and chaired several national conferences on the subject. Assistant headteacher Ken Dunn raised over GBP200,000 for his secondary school in Barnsley. He writes widely on school fundraising and gave the keynote speech at three national fundraising conferences.