Raising money: Funding for a shade sail in a school isn’t always easy to secure. That’s why Sun Safe Shades has produced this list of online resources. Furthermore, we have developed the Sun Safe Shades Community Club to help give you the edge when it comes to raising money.

The Sun Safe Shades Community Club provides you with marketing support to help raise money from local businesses to cover the cost of your shade sail. We offer:

	A pre-drafted letter to be sent, by the school, to local businesses to help develop their interest in investing in your project
	A free plaque to be erected at the school, promoting the businesses that have invested in the project
	Marketing support for those businesses to help them promote their investment to the local media

However, if the Sun Safe Shades Community Club doesn’t help you raise all the money you need, the following sources of funding can also help:

Supergrounds, a Royal Bank of Scotland funded initiative to improve school grounds:
http://www.ltl.org.uk/schools_and_settings/programmes/primary-programmes.htm?t=1&item=58

Teachernet, a valuable online resource for funding:
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/management/schoolfunding/

Learning through landscapes, the UK school grounds charity:
www.ltl.org.uk

Information from Cancer Research on building Sun Shades for schools:
http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/healthyliving/sunsmart/schools/shadeforschools/

Website for the Department for Education and Skills:
www.dfes.gov.uk

Wooden Spoon, a national rugby charity established to help disadvantaged children with a history of funding such projects:
www.woodenspoon.com

Details of EDF Energy`s School Grounds Award Scheme:
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/growingschools/resources/funding/detail.cfm?id=47

Details of how to apply for lottery funding in the United Kingdom:
http://www.lotteryfunding.org.uk/

BBC Children in Need (but note the emphasis on the disabled and the disadvantaged):
www.bbc.co.uk/cin