Saturday 10th May 2008
An evening with Martin Peters MBE,
plus memorabilia auction
Tickets £25 – Wine, Dine and Dance till late.
In conjunction with MSPG Autographs
Limited ticket availability
Regret over 18s only
Click here for an order form,
e-mail gala@chingford-school.co.uk
or visit www.mspgautographs.com

Dear Sponsor

We at Chingford Foundation School have reached a critical stage in our development. We are a successful mixed comprehensive school that has very close links with our community. Our ambition has driven us forward and made us a very popular school. Our examination results at all levels are impressive but like most businesses, we have our sights set on the future which is why we seek your help.

We are putting together a Specialist Schools Bid which will enable us to offer more to our students, parents and community. We want to be a Specialist Humanities and Arts School and we believe that this will drive results up in all areas of the school. To this end, we have acquired a building that we believe would make a wonderful drama/arts facility. If we can secure Specialist Schools Status it will enable us to inject funds of up to £1 million into our school. We have raised, with community help, over £20,000. Our initial target is £50,000 and we have a short period of time in order to do this.

This is why we need your help and in return for your help we will be able to offer you various incentives depending upon the level of contribution that you may be able to give us. I am sure you will agree that this is an exciting project and we intend to reflect in perpetuity the help that you are able to give. Please see our exciting plan overleaf. Of course there is only so much that we can describe in this document and we know that different organisations will be able to offer different levels of contribution.

We would like to invite you to an informal evening on
Wednesday 27th February 2008 at 7.00 pm in Chingford Foundation School
to outline these proposals and give you an opportunity to ask any questions.
(There will be press coverage on this evening because it coincides with the unveiling of a commemorative display)

In the meantime I would like you to consider the advantages of sponsoring a school such as ours:

Raise educational standards in our schools
Specialist schools outperform non-specialist schools by 10% even though their intake of ability is similar. Raising educational standards in our schools is crucial to the long-term prosperity of England.

Unlock government funding
For every £1 invested in a school by a sponsor, the Government provides on average an additional £12. This means that when a school achieves its target of £50,000, additional funding worth £600,000 will come from the DCSF: a huge sum of money going towards the improvement of teaching and learning in the schools the sponsor chooses to support!

Create beneficial partnerships
Sponsors can, if they wish, develop long-term relationships with their schools including:

• Appointing governors to the school’s governing body;

• Provision of careers advice and work placement opportunities for students.

Valuable PR exposure
Supporting a specialist school provides innumerable and ongoing opportunities to raise the profile of a particular sponsor through the association with a flagship national government initiative. In addition to national recognition and perhaps just as important, sponsors can expect a substantial level of local recognition as a considerable proportion of the increased investment going into a school is used to help and improve local communities.

Community involvement
Sponsoring specialist schools gives you the opportunity to put something back into your community.

Staff involvement
Supporting a local school provides numerous opportunities for your staff to get involved in the local community. Sponsors are able to place up to 2 representatives on the school’s governing body, which is an exciting opportunity for staff development.

In addition, there are mentoring opportunities, working with both teachers and pupils to impart expertise and experience.

Recruitment
This is a real opportunity to build long-term relationships with schools and to influence the ways in which our young people are taught and exposed to industry. You have the opportunity through sponsoring a school to promote careers in your industry to our young people. Many sponsors have used this as an opportunity to devise work experience programmes that are beneficial to both their industry and the partner school(s).

Tax efficiency
Every penny donated to the programme is deducted against tax, eg if a company makes a gross donation of £50,000 to the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust for their chosen school(s), this enables the company to obtain tax relief at 30% thereby reducing the net cost to £35,000.

Click here to download a DONATIONS AND SPONSORSHIP FOR SPECIALIST SCHOOL BID pro forma

Click here to download a GIFT AID pro forma

(If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader you can download it for free by clicking here)

Thank you very much for the time you have spent perusing these documents. This is an opportunity for you to make a real impact upon Chingford Foundation School and its community. We very much welcome your presence on 27th February.

If you are able to attend or would like more information, please contact the school:

Has Mahir 020 8529 1853 x 275 h.mahir@chingford.waltham.sch.uk
Julie Cornelius 020 8529 1853 x 239 j.cornelius@chingford.waltham.sch.uk
Jackie Beaumont 020 8529 1853 x 227 j.beaumont@chingford.waltham.sch.uk

Many thanks

Has Mahir, Deputy Head Teacher