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Last updated: 23 February 2010
The Citizenship Foundation offers an innovative and enterprising active learning project on charitable giving for secondary school citizenship classes through the Giving Nation Challenge, a project funded by the Office of the Third Sector. The Challenge aims to both educate pupils about charities through the classroom and enliven the school environment through extracurricular charitable activity. As part of the Challenge, pupils are taken through the process of forming a mini-charity or mini-social enterprise in their class, and encouraged to compete against other classes for the ‘hearts and minds’ of the rest of the school.
Schools taking part in the Challenge are provided with free curriculum materials, these satisfy the statutory enterprise and citizenship national curriculum criteria, and are given £50 per class for a start-up grant. Schools using the Challenge are also automatically entered into the Giving Nation Awards, which recognise outstanding achievement in school-based social and charitable action.
The Giving Nation Challenge, launched in 2007, has already built a community of over 450 English secondary schools that are registered and participating in the project annually. In the 2008/09 academic year the Challenge was run in over 2,800 classes and reached over 84,000 young people who actively participated in creating their own charity or social enterprise project.