The Fundraising Group (TFG) has been assisting schools to raise vital extra funding since 1987, so when you work with The Fundraising Group you will benefit from over 20 years fundraising experience and proven success. When you think about The Fundraising Group we hope you think Highly Profitable, Healthy Fundraising and just as important we hope you think about Full Service (both Material & Personal) because at The Fundraising Group we aim to give you great outcomes and outstanding service!
We were founded when Jeff Hopp recognised the need for schools to have 'viable healthy alternatives' to traditional junk-food drives and chocolate bar fundraising. The idea for a company dedicated to goal-centered, healthy fundraising was born and in term one, 1987 we conducted a fundraising event with our first partner school!
Today we are proud to be supplying fundraising ideas and healthy fundraising programs to over 1,800 partner schools across Australia and New Zealand every year.
OUR GOAL is to offer proven, successful, healthy and highly profitable fundraising programs for schools, clubs and community groups to raise more money with less work... IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE that we take the job of fundraising with children very serious and to us its critical that we set a positive example to your students and school community. As such you WON'T find Cookie Dough, Chocolates or other Junk Food at The Fundraising Group.
We strive to provide you with only the very best fundraising ideas, the ones that benefit everyone involved and we are looking to partner with schools that share our same values.
We are very appreciative to all the sponsors, schools, teachers, parents, and students that allow us to work at a job we greatly enjoy!
For your peace-of-mind all our programs are self funding PLUS we guarantee your profit, which means you don't need a budget to start fundraising today and you can't lose ... it's our service guarantee ... its safe and its easy!
To find out more simply call us today on 1300 733 788 or request a FREE information kit by clicking here: FREE INFO KIT
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EXTRA QUOTES AND INFORMATION
Extract from "School Doughnut Row", Herald Sun, Jane Metlikovic:
Nutrition Australia recently released a Fundraising Ideas for Healthy Kids manual which lists a number of alternatives.
"We have seen some schools take the risk and drop hugely successful junk-food drives in favour of staging a fun run," Ms Neville said.
Obesity expert Professor Boyd Swinburn said Krispy Kreme was undoing the programs to reduce childhood obesity. "They are undermining all the hard work that the State Government, schools and parents are doing," he said. "All junk food should absolutely be banned from school fundraising."
Parents' groups have joined the experts in calling for junk-food bans. They say chocolate, lolly, pie and especially doughnut drives should be dropped. The State Government plans to ban sugary soft-drinks at schools.
But parents say schoolground bans are pointless when their children return home with boxes of junk food to sell.
Parents Victoria president Elaine Crowle said schools with good healthy eating policies were hypocritical by raising money through junk-food drives. "They really defeat the purpose of having healthy eating at school," she said. Ms Crowle urged schools to be wary of Krispy Kreme.
"I suggest schools look very carefully at the nutritional value of Krispy Kremes and not just at the dollar signs."
Victorian Parents Council executive officer Jo Silver said junk-food drives should be used in moderation. "Parents need to consider the health food messages their children are learning at school and should think about other fundraising alternatives."
Williamstown North Primary School scrapped its chocolate fundraiser - that netted about $4,000 per year - in favour of staging a Golden Circle fun run that earned them just as much.
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Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, Former AMA President (National):
“The doctors' group isn't just targeting advertising, it wants a ban on selling junk food at school canteens and says vending machines selling soft drinks, lollies and chips should to be taken out of schools and the practice of selling chocolates and the like for fundraising has to stop.
Good health substitutes need to be available. That reinforces the same messages that happen inside the classroom. Things like fundraising, an important part of activity in community building within schools needn't be around selling chocolates and selling other sorts of high sugar beverages.
It could well be done by selling fruit as a fruit drive or certainly doing things like fun runs, which can work quite well, as examples.”
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Dr Mark Yates, AMA Victoria President:
Dr Yates said obesity in school children was a serious and increasing problem in Victoria, and fundraisers such as Krispy Kreme would undo the good work being done to ensure our children are healthy and active. “Junk food should be banned from our schools, fundraisers such as this send the wrong message to children and make it difficult for parents who are trying to ensure their children eat healthy food.
Fundraisers using unhealthy products such as chocolate or donuts are unnecessary when there are many other healthy alternatives which would send the right message to children and can be just as successful. We know childhood obesity is a problem, and unfortunately, it can lead to health problems for children in their adult life. It is disappointing schools need to raise funds by using the junk food industry.”
