Help improve road safety for children
Earn an award by organising a sponsored walk or event.
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Your school can help make a real difference when it comes to improving road safety issues affecting children locally.
We need you to ask your school council and pupils generally to organise a fund-raising event for us - proceeds will be split jointly between the Kent and Medway Walking Bus project and the Jade Appeal.
Your sponsored event could be:
- Sponsored walk - perhaps during National Walk to School Week in October
- Non uniform day - purple theme (colour of Jade Appeal) pay £1 to take part)
- Nominate teachers for a silly singing session (sponsor teachers to stand on stage and sing a solo at school assembly for our charity pot)
- Your own idea
Pupils taking part in sponsored events will receive coverage on the regular Walking Bus page that your local edition of the Kent Messenger Group provides to support the green scheme. The Walking Bus project will award a certificate to the top fund-raisers at your school.
If four or more teachers take part in a singing session on stage we will organise a meal valued at £25 for the best solo singer (provided a minimum of £250 has been raised in sponsorship at the school).
About the Jade Appeal
The Jade Road Safety Appeal was originally founded in 2001 to press Kent County Council into building a footbridge across the A249 at Detling following the death of Jade Hobbs, eight, and her grandmother Margaret Kuwertz, 79.
Now the campaign group, chaired by Caroline Hobbs, funds a wide variety of other road safety projects in Kent and Medway that would never receive funding from the council.
About the Walking Bus project
The Kent and Medway Walking Bus Group helps schools and parent groups to set up and operate Walking Buses. Walking Buses help cut the numbers of vehicles on the twice-daily school run, give children essential daily exercise and teach them vital road safety skills. The project is now setting up a series of road safety skills tests for children and needs sponsorship to set up this and take the Walking Bus project county-wide.
Get in touch with us if you can help
If you can organise a fund-raising event then let us know what you are planning by calling the walk to school office on 01227 825383
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