Our downloads are either in Word or Excel or Powerpoint if they are for adaptation to your context, or as pdfs if they are to be reproduced as class materials.

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Classroom Teaching Resources

Resource cards

Side one of each card provides information about the key concepts.

Side two of each card gives either research information or a case study  - based on real-life examples - of people and charities in action.

Charities and charitable action

1  What do we mean by ‘charity‘? [side 2: what other young people think about charities]

2  Who wants to change the world? [side 2: how the World Wildlife Fund was established]

3  How do charities use the money we give them? [side 2: the 2004 Asian tsunami appeal]

4  How do you decide which charities to support? [side 2: the 2005 Make Poverty History campaign]

5  The charitable action module ends with an action-planning lesson resource card.

Volunteering for young people

1 What is volunteering? [side 2: other young people‘s views on volunteering]

2 The benefits of volunteering [side 2: the experiences of young people who have volunteered]

The volunteering module is supplemented by an online project, here

Activity cards

These cards engage students in a range of activities designed to reinforce the messages and themes of the resource cards. For example, they ask students to think about groups in their local community, the relationship between services provided by charities and those provided by the Government, and how to start a campaign. 

Activity cards match the lessons as outlined above:

Charities and charitable action

1  What do we mean by ‘charity‘?
2  Who wants to change the world?
3  How do charities use the money we give them?
4  How do you decide which charities to support?
5  Action-planning lesson

Volunteering for young people

1 What is volunteering?
2 The benefits of volunteering

Teachers Notes Booklet

The teacher notes give guidance for the use and adaptaion of every lesson, show where the lessons fall into curriculum requirements for each of the 4 UK nations, and end with advice on how to develop a school volunteering framework or policy.

Download the teachers notes here

G-Nation Certificate
Recognise and reward participation in giving activities with our certificates.  Order them free from us (call 020 7566 4141, or email Terry.Silvers@citizenshipfoundation.org.uk) and use this template to personalise them for your school when presenting them to your pupils

Activity Support Resources

Volunteer Placements Resource
A letter to local organisations to enable you to create a list of volunteer placements in your area. Send these to local charities in order to fulfil health and safety requirements for the placement of under 16s. Once it‘s done you‘ve significantly improved your pupils‘ chances of a fulfilling local connection.

G-Nation spreadsheet
Tailor made Excel template to record the financial transactions for charity events. Designed for students to use - ideal for developing maths lessons out of charitable activities, but very handy for everyone.

G-Mag Template
A Word based template to create your own rag-mag style G-Nation magazine. Currently an 8-page version that students personalise to their own school; enter your own jokes and cartoons and publicise the G-Week activities to the rest of the school.

Checklist for Organisers
A handy word document to keep everyone on track

Code of Practice
Professional guidelines to help everyone stick to good practice in fundraising with young people

Fundraising Ideas
A list of nearly 70 ideas for activities to raise money. Designed for you to use as stimulus with young people when you‘re planning an event.

Portfolio Skills Chart
Use this to help your students to identify the skills that they have used in completing a charitable activity

Model Press Release
To help your pupils develop an attention grabbing press release

Self-Appraisal Form
Helping your students look back over the year and see what they got out of their charitable activities.

Sponsorship Form
Customise this form and make sure you claim tax-back from adults who support your pupils

Sponsorship Letter
An example letter for your pupils to try get sponsorship from local companies

G-Nation Poster Template
To advertise a ballot on the charities your school will support

G-Nation Ballot Form
To ask pupils what charities they‘d like to support 

Model declaration form for Gift Aid
Get the tax back on donations and be 28% better off

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