Giving Nation is an active citizenship project of national education charity the Citizenship Foundation  that supports and promotes secondary schools learning and involvement in charity and community action.   

Giving Nation offers:

Entry to the Giving Nation Awards and a FREE website diary for your students to promote your school’s actions to make a difference through charity, community, social enterprise, volunteering and campaigning action;

The Giving Nation Challenge offering FREE grants of up to £450 and curriculum-based teaching materials to secondary schools. The Challenge gives your students direct experience of running  their own social enterprise activity to benefit charities and community causes important to them.

FREE teaching materials, downloadable resources and a charities database to support you to teach and encourage learning and involvement in charity and community action at your school  on our designated teachers site.

Making Life and Learning about Charities Easy for Teachers and Students
All Giving Nation programmes and materials have been designed with a commitment to minimising effort for teachers whilst ensuring depth of learning and engagement for students. We provide online diaries, ready-to-use resources and templates for both teachers and pupils, facilitating everything from ’charity week’ style magazines to self-appraisal by pupils as they review their activities for charity and others over the year.

Support
Giving Nation has been supported by unique pieces of  research into students in UK secondary schools knowledge, attitudes and behaviours in regard to charities and giving, and also into teachers’ views of Giving Nation, charities and giving.

It is also supported by an exciting website for young people www.g-nation.co.uk A place where they can find inspiration to get involved, publish their articles on how they are making a difference and keep up date with the work of charities in the U.K and overseas. The website also leads them on to action if that’s what they’re ready for, with links to hundreds of places to participate in communities and for national organisations.

This website will also become your port of call for tricks and tools to make your own school programme come alive.

Contact details:

Giving Nation
The Citizenship Foundation
63 Gee Street
London EC1V 3RS

Email: g-nation@citizenshipfoundation.org.uk

Tel:  020 7566 4141
Fax: 020 7566 4131