Friends of Asfordby Captain’s Close

Our Friends of Asfordby Captain’s Close are a very committed and enthusiastic team. Their fundraising events throughout the year enable us to enhance our provision for all children, including transport costs to cultural events, developing outdoor play, resourcing our library and much more.

Current Committee members are:

Janette Green, Chair 

Samantha Smith, Treasurer 

Hannah Johnson, Secretary

Our Events

Events that we would normally run through out the year have included the main Christmas and Summer Fairs, weekly cake raffle, occasional after school sweet stalls, competitions, sponsored onesie/ dress up days, school discos, family fun events, and raffles. Funds that have been raised in the past have been used to fund the purchase of new Maths and English equipment and books for the whole school, the outdoor picnic tables, swimming pools upkeep, computer resources for teaching staff to use in lesson preparation, buses for the annual Panto trip, the Year 6 leavers trip and so on.

This last year Sept 20-present, we have provided the new starters with book bags, provided refreshments for the school MacMillan Tea Party and given every child a Christmas gift bag from Santa and his Elves.

Since September we have raised £931.00 from just the cake raffle and 2 sweet stalls alone!

Previous year’s events have raised the following funds:

19-20: £2825.42

18-19: £3858.11

17-18: £4883.98

16-17: £4508.27 

Proposed Fund Raising for the future:

The weekly cake raffles/ sweet stalls will continue to be held

*If possible some form of Summer and Winter Fair

*Competitions/ Quizzes/ Raffles

*The launch of the National Schools Lottery,

*Linking the school to easyfundraising.org.uk, which allows people to make donations to school whenever they shop online

*Sponsored Fun days- own clothes, dress as a superhero type things to tie in with school events, Break the Rules days, crazy hair days and so on- to be discussed with you obviously.

*Class 5p Challenge throughout school (each class given an empty bottle which is to be filled with 5 pence pieces over the course of a month, with the class raising the most money winning a prize)

*Sponsored Usbourne Read-A-Thon

*Pre Loved school uniform sales, from lost property/ donated goods.

Project for Fundraising

In 2020-2021, the FOACC team are raising funds for a new library

How to get involved

We have an active Facebook page: www.facebook.com/friendsofasfordbycaptainsclose, where we regularly share information, news and fun things. We have a general Whatsapp group where we discuss fundraising, ask for volunteers, organise events and where ideas can be shared. The committee members are all available for a chat in the playground or out of school, and can be easily approached about events and general information about us- will always be found on a Friday morning selling cake raffle tickets.

Getting involved could be done by helping to set up events, helping to run an event, helping with the cake raffle stall, joining the cake raffle rota, helping to sell other raffle tickets or general sales of goods, becoming a committee member, attending meetings (when allowed to hold them again), generally thinking of events and fundraising activities.

Thank you and Kindest Regards
Janette, FOACC Chair