Popular PTA Events Poster : Make a PTA event poster using our free template!

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Popular PTA Events Poster : Make a PTA event poster using our free template!

We have designed a disco poster template that you can edit and use to design your own poster for your PTA disco event. You can then save it, download it as a PDF to print or post online or send in an email or by Parentmail. No excuses not to buy a ticket. Particularly, when you can insert a live link on this poster to buy tickets directly should you have online ticketing. You have, haven’t you? 😉

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Finding Sponsors for your PTA Events

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Finding Sponsors for your PTA Events

It’s important to have the confidence to approach prospective sponsors. Confidence comes from believing in your cause. This is usually quite easy for a PTA because we raise funds to support and enhance our children’s educational experience. A cause very dear to our hearts. So how do we find suitable sponsors?

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PTA Christmas Crafts

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PTA Christmas Crafts

Organising a craft room in the run up to Christmas each year is a great idea. Crafts are always a big hit and can prove to be a big fundraising success. The PTA craft room can be run alongside the Christmas fair as a paid activity. Alternatively, it can be run as a stand alone event beforehand where each year group makes something different that the children sell themselves at a Christmas stall or buy as family gifts!

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PTA volunteering myths and facts

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PTA volunteering myths and facts

Many of you will be having a Tea and Tissues event or similar for your reception parents at the start of the new school year. This is a fantastic opportunity to tell them all about the great work you do as a PTA collective. Some people already have preconceived ideas about a school PTA and it’s important to separate the fact from the fiction at a very early stage. That will make it a lot easier to get them on board and win their support.

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Free communication and collaboration tools for your PTA

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Free communication and collaboration tools for your PTA

Let’s face it my PTA tribe, communication can be a huge issue when trying to organise an event, manage finances, win the hearts of sponsors, work with stall holders and share success! It’s infuriating and time-consuming and can cost you volunteers!  Having tried all types of collaboration tools and techniques, I think I hit the payload with Google Apps.

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Promote your PTA fundraising events with FREE eye-catching posters .

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Promote your PTA fundraising events with FREE eye-catching posters .

Did you know that  90% of all information transmitted to the brain is visual? In fact,  images are processed 60,000 times faster in the brain than text. Wowzers!
This is good insight for a PTA to take on board when promoting an event or sharing success with the school community. To have a much higher chance it will be remembered, why not design an eye-catching poster or flyer?

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PTA ice lolly sale - Keeping your cool 😎

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PTA ice lolly sale - Keeping your cool 😎

Frozen Friday or Cool after School - whatever you call your ice lolly sale event, it’s an easy fundraising win in terms of effort and volunteers required. The best places to buy from are Iceland, Aldi or Lidl, Bookers or Costco. A PTA should be able to charge between 30p and 50p per lolly depending on demographic and of course, weather.
But how do we keep them cooler for longer?

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