Developed by professionals at Educational Communications and The Citizenship Foundation the pack contains:

* Colour resource cards with clear factual information

* Photocopiable cards with ideas for motivating activities

* Teacher notes and curriculum matching grids

* Comprehensive guide to running a Giving Nation event at your school

* G-Week ideas

* G-Nation poster

* CDrom of Giving Nation resources for teachers and pupils.

You can order the pack by using the order form on the left.  Or click to download many of the resources in the pack.

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 adaption 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

These subjects are designed to develop students‘ understanding of their own capacity to shape the world through participating and giving. They also help fulfil a variety of curriculum targets:

Citizenship in England
Social & Environmental/Language & Communication/RME/Citizenship in Scotland
PSE in Northern Ireland
PSE in Wales

The teacher notes give guidance on using the lesson plans, enabling teachers to adapt them most fully to their own school‘s needs. They provide background information on issues raised and ideas for extension activities. They also contain additional contact addresses and useful resources.

This educational resource has been developed in association with the Department for Education and Skills to support the teaching of Citizenship.