FOSLS - Friends of St Luke's School
Introduction
FOSLS are The Friends of St Luke’s School, a group of parents, carers and friends who volunteer to raise money to support the education of all the children at St Luke’s.
We meet every term in Queen's Road Social to discuss fundraising ideas and events, and then work with the school to agree how to spend the money raised. We always welcome new members so please get in touch if you want to join us. Details of our meetings can be found in our minutes below, our newsletter, or on facebook. Coming along doesn't mean you have to sign up to lots of jobs or commit to every meeting, but if you have some spare time to get involved from home or at one of our events, we'd love to hear from you. No contribution is too small and we're a friendly group who are focussed on raising money for school whilst making sure the children have plenty of fun events throughout the year.
All the money we raise is spent directly at school for the benefit of all children, and we would like to say Thank You for your ongoing support.
Current Committee Members
Everyone involved in the life of St Luke's is automatically a "Friend" but there are a core group of people involved with much of the decision making in FOSLS. The current committee is listed below - please feel free to speak to us if you would like to become more involved or have any questions. We'd like to hear from you if you have any ideas on fundraising or suggestions on what you think we should be spending the money on. Email us at any time, or find us in the playground!
Chair: Amy Avis
Treasurer: Graham Spencer
Secretary: Frances Jones
Headteacher: Karen Allen
Deputy Headteacher: Fiona Govan
Parent Support Advisor: Ali Dwan
Governor: Cherrie Edger
What we spend our money on
It’s been another busy and hugely successful year for FOSLS – THANK YOU for all your support of our fundraising and events. Our volunteers have worked tirelessly to organise fun activities for the children (and parents) and enjoyed planning some new ideas, as well as old favourites. Read on to find out how much we raised, and how we have supported school this year…
- Chicken eggs and hatching
- Contributions towards Leavers’ hoodies
- School caps and coaches for trips
- Class parties
This year we raised an amazing £16, 243!
We are planning to spend some more money on developing the main playground.
How you can help
- Time - We need help throughout the year so every little bit of time offered is well-received. If you can do a little work for us from home (e.g. producing events materials, making up sweet cones, organising documents etc) or if you can volunteer in person to set up or help with an event, we'd be very grateful.
- Donations - Keep an eye out for regular requests for donations - school uniform, tombola prizes and unwanted gifts are collected all year round.
- Contacts - Can you, your business, or any of your contacts help us out with fundraising and events? Please get in touch if you can help in any way whether it's finding us a DJ, sweet supplier, marquee hire, quiz master etc, helping us out with printing materials, or offering us commission or discount with your business.
- AmazonSmile - https://smile.amazon.co.uk/
ch/1046465-0
- EasyFundraising - https://www.easyfundraising.
org.uk/causes/stlukesformby/
- FOSLS 100 Club
- Second Hand Uniform - www.pta-events.co.uk/fosls-
formby
- Matched Funding
Events
Each term we try to arrange fun activities and events for the children, which form a large part of our fundraising efforts. In the past these have included:
MUFTI Days
DISCO
Christmas takeover day
Breakfast with Santa
Movie Night
Rock-Paper-Scissors and Cup Stacking Competitions
Comedy BINGO (for the parents!)
Wine Tasting evening (for the parents!)
For a list of upcoming events, please see our latest newsletter (below) or the noticeboard outside of school. We operate an online payment system, so to make a payment or to find out more details, please go to www.pta-events.co.uk/fosls-formby.
If you have any suggestions for events or activities we could run, please get in touch using our email address.