To make this as easy as possible, you can download a letter here which you can give to schools.

The Giving Nation Challenge satisfies statutory National Curriculum Enterprise and Citizenship criteria, so is not an additional ‘ask‘ for schools and will not require additional curriculum time.

The Giving Nation Challenge compliments and extends schools‘ existing charitable and social enterprise activities. Schools can continue existing charitable and social enterprise activities and use the Giving Nation Challenge as part of their existing activities.    

Please encourage your schools to go on to www.g-nation.co.uk/challenge  or to ring our Active Citizenship Officer Richard John on 020 7566 4152 to find out more. 

Watch a short video about it here

Read the FAQs here

Further information

The Giving Nation Challenge benefits schools by -

* Providing schools with free high quality curriculum material and up to £450 free start up capital*
* Satisfying statutory National Curriculum Enterprise and Citizenship criteria.

The Giving Nation Challenge is a Citizenship Foundation project.  It enables secondary school students aged 11-16 to simulate forming a charity or a social enterprise.  This personalised active learning programme puts young people in the driving seat by allowing them to decide what cause they want to support and then enabling them to experience social enterprise and charity operational issues. The Giving Nation Challenge started in January 2007. Currently over 75 secondary schools have registered for the Giving Nation Challenge. 

Teacher Testimonals

* ‘Very exciting Challenge‘- Sir William Robertson High School, Lincolnshire

* ‘Excellent activity-all got something out of it‘ - Dartford Technology College, Kent

* ‘Hard work was worth it‘ - Phoenix High School London

* ‘Helped us develop an ethos of Social Entrepreneurship at our school‘ - Wilmington Enterprise College, Kent

* ‘Already used the money to fund an ongoing mini enterprise‘ - Cherwell School, Oxford 

* Each class gets £50 start up capital - up to a maximum of nine classes per school