Welcome Pack
2015
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Photo by kind permission of Heather Ridge Infant School, Camberley
Welcome to RWB Day
Thank you so much for signing up to take part in
this year’s Red, White & Blue Day. As you will have
seen from our website we hope that your pupils will
get behind the campaign and come up with some
great fundraising initiatives. We were delighted
with many of the ideas used last year to raise
valuable funds to help the work of the three main
Service charities who will be benefiting from
your participation.
This pack contains:
1 Welcome
2 A few things to mention
3 Activity suggestions
4 RWB Day logo outline
5 RWB Day poster
6 Foreign coin poster
Your donations will help support the work of the three national military charities
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A few things to mention
This year’s Red, White & Blue Day is to be held on 9th October 2015 but you and
your school can raise money anytime before the end of November.
We ask schools to collect at least £1 from each pupil to help our fundraising. You might like to consider having
someone from the Armed Forces, or a recently retired member of the Forces, come and speak at one of your
assemblies. We found last year that schoolchildren were fascinated to hear, first hand, what life is really like
serving the country in some extremely hostile locations. Whilst we cannot promise, we will certainly
do our best, given sufficient time, to arrange a visit to your school. Please email pwallis@soldierscharity.org
for more information.
Newsletters are produced during the year, as we as updates on our campaign. These are sent to you electronically
but will also be available to download from the RWB Day website. The newsletters will give you information about
new partners, news stories and updates on how we spend the money you help raise to support children and
their families.
After your own event we would be very grateful if you could send us in your cheque, or you can pay money in at
any branch of HSBC in the UK. It is really important that you give us the name of your school, particularly when
depositing cash at the bank, as we do send everyone a specially designed and printed certificate showing the
amount raised. Details of where to pay are clearly shown on our website. If this could be done by the beginning of
December, to avoid the usual Christmas rush, it would be most helpful.
Whenever people return from an overseas trip, invariably you have some foreign notes and coins that are just
put away in a drawer somewhere. By encouraging your pupils to bring in these unwanted currencies we can, with
the help of our partner Easy Coin, turn your spare foreign currency into much-needed cash to help our Armed
forces and their families. Please use the enclosed poster for your notice boards. At the end of the campaign all
the notes and coins can be sent to us. Please email pwallis@soldierscharity.org for details on how to send your
package using our prepaid address.
We hope to get even more companies signed up this year – if you know any that would be interested in joining us
do please let us know.
If you have any ideas on how we can make RWB Day even bigger and better please email us – we would love to
hear from you.
Patty Wallis
Project Manager, Red, White & Blue Day
pwallis@soldierscharity.org
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We have produced a special RWB Day Sticker to give to
your pupils who donate £1 to take part. If you would like
a supply please email pwallis@soldierscharity.org stating
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Activity suggestions
Bake a cake
Our television screens have been awash with baking programmes
encouraging people of all ages to bake at home. Last year Hazel Oak
School make cup cakes to sell during their fundraising day. Using red,
white and blue your school could run a competition and give a prize for
the best entry. Thanks to Andrea Cox for producing this lovely cup cake.
Have a WW2 school lunch
Instead of your usual lunch why not make one using ingredients to make
dishes such as corned beef hash and teach your pupils about rationing
at the same time.
Design bunting
Using off-cuts of red, white and blue material, which many shops sell
quite cheaply, encourage each pupil to produce one piece and then as
a team effort stitch them all together to decorate your assembly hall.
A cheap way to produce a stunning visual effect.
Invite a member of the Armed Forces to speak
at your school assembly
Many schools now have service children and we have found that their
parents often make excellent speakers and are happy to come along
and talk about their own particular experiences serving our country.
Heather Ridge School was fortunate in having not only a couple of
soldiers but also a Matron from the local barracks visit them last year.
Smarties tube
Suggest students fill a Smarties tube with £1 coins whilst sharing them
out to their friends.
Be creative with the RWB Day logo
All Saints Primary School in Wales produced an amazing version of our
logo using red, white and blue. You could do something similar perhaps
using your own school logo or even one of the WW2 planes – a Spitfire
or Hurricane. Colour the shapes of our RWB Day logo
The Union Jack is our national flag and is flown regularly throughout
the year but can you remember the colour scheme? Print out our black
and white logo on page 4 and let your pupils have fun colouring in the
blank spaces.
A wall of pennies
Longfield Academy asked its pupils to save their one and two penny
pieces during the summer months and then bring them into school to
make a long line against the assembly wall. It was amazing to see and
the “wall” raised a lot of money for the campaign.
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We’re supporting
RWB Day is on:
We are encouraging the children to come to school dressed
in red, white and blue and donate £1 to go towards helping
children in need whose families are serving our country.
Read more at redwhiteblueday.co.uk
Your donations will help support the work of the three national military charities
Don’t let unwanted
foreign notes and
coins lie idle at home!
As part of our involvement with the Red, White
& Blue Day campaign our school will be collecting
unwanted foreign notes and coins. Money from
any country in the world, including former EU
currencies, can be donated as well as old coin
collections and medals. Please ask your family
and friends to check and see what they have
at home and bring them in to school. Read more
on our website redwhiteblueday.co.uk
Working in partnership with Easy Coin
Your support today will help Service children tomorrow.
Your donations will help support the work of the three national military charities
Thank you!
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