School Angel Information

School Angel provides equipment to schools to aid the advancement of learning and the promotion of well being through physical exercise. Therefore the primary use of funds raised is to buy books, computer equipment and other reading materials for education and sport-related equipment, or funding of specialised sport sessions to promote physical well being. The charity also helps disadvantaged children with a discretionary fund administered by the trustees. One of the obstacles which current children's charities face is getting appropriate help to the right children at the right time. his is where School Angel is unique. Working with schools we rely on school teachers to identify children in their care who are disadvantaged. This may be through a physical or mental disability of through social deprivation. Often such children fail to be identified through other funding bodies through a combination of fear of stigma, or simply not falling into the right category to receive additional help. We believe that highly targeted and timely help to such children can make the difference between that child succeeding and being happy at school or falling behind. It is far harder and generally much more expensive to try and regain lost ground in a child's education than making sure they stay on the right track in the first place. Simple interventions range from discreetly funding a school trip for a child otherwise unable to attend through to funding a specialist piece of equipment to enable a child with a disability attend a mainstream school. Having four children go through school, I have always had great admiration for the small army of parent and teacher volunteers on the many parent teacher associations, who work tirelessly to raise school funds. It takes an enormous amount of work to organise even simple fetes and the funds raised are often not large and certainly not considering the volume of volunteer hours required. So the idea of School Angel was born, a simple concept to capitalize on what all parents are already ...