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Hi Paul –
We just held our first Giving Day and kept it quite simple.
We did have a call centre with parent volunteers, which I’m very happy to speak with you about. We had between 4 and 10 volunteers every 2 hours or so, but it was flexible. We found that the parents of scholarship recipients were very keen to help out in this way and were our most passionate callers.
Regarding student involvement, we had prefects handing out flyers the afternoon before and the morning of the event to the car lines. We didn’t do a mufti day, but we did do an activity on our field with the entire student body. We also did cupcakes for staffrooms to include staff in the day in a small way. I think house colours would be great and I’d like to do that for a future event with a gold coin.
I’d be happy to talk through our day with you if that’s helpful.
Philippa
Hi Michelle
We have an ex-student’s instagram – it is a great way to engage with younger alumni but we find a lot of our older alumni are also on there. It’s a great way to find out news and information about the younger ones for sure. We also have a private FB group for our ex-students.
Feel free to have a look @plcsydneyexstudents, and I’m happy to answer any other questions about our experience.
Philippa
PLC Sydney has an Ex-Student Union logo and a College crest, however we are currently exploring moving ex-students to something more closely related to the College as our research has shown that ex-students don’t recognise the ESU logo at all (or only ex-students over a certain age do). A slow process but happy to share more information if it’s helpful.
