_Sponsored seeds hunt. Go on a sponsored seed hunt, with the object

being to collect as many different kinds of seeds as possible. You could

develop science work from this.

_Dig for dosh. Ask the children to help in the family garden (or the school

garden) and ask for ‘payment’ for doing it.

_ Weed bash. Consider organising a massed weed of a local park (with

the local authority' s support) and encourage donations from parents and

friends.

_ Sponsored bug hunt. As for the sponsored seeds hunt. (The Association

for Science Education produces a ‘Be Safe’ booklet for making this activity

safe).

_ Teach or read in. Organise an extra lesson or reading session at

lunchtime after school, perhaps as part of an existing club, and invite the

parents to contribute money for their children to attend.

· Conker bash. Get it out of their system with a conker competition with a

fee to enter.

· Whacky veg. Have a whacky vegetable competition, with a fee to enter

and prizes for the most unusual or silliest shape. The items can then be

auctioned or eaten as apart of a healthy schools initiative!

· Lunch munch. Have a vegetarian lunch (local supermarkets may help!);

with the children sponsored as to the number of different varieties of fruit

and vegetables they eat.

· Veggy Tables. Set a maths challenge with a charge for entering. For

example if each 1kg of vegetable seeds produces 10 kg of vegetables and

each family eats 100kg of vegetables a year, how many kgs of seed will it

take to feed 1,000 families.If each kg of seeds costs £1.50, how much will

those seeds cost?

· Manure mountain We can email / post a picture of a giant heap of cow manure used for fertilizer. Guessing the number of cowpats would no doubt appeal to some!

· Money maps. Trace large outlines of Zambia, Malawi or Africa and try to

fill as many as possible with copper or silver coins.

Finally

Whatever you decide to do, have fun and thank you for supporting our work to

transform the lives of some of the poorest farmer’s in the world. Please send

the results of your fundraising, together with any pictures we can use to:

Harvest Help, 3-4 Old Bakery Row, Wellington, Telford, Shropshire, TF1 1PS

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