Organise a Christmas jumper day for your staff

Organise a Christmas jumper day for your staff

Do you want to spread Christmas cheer this December? Well, there’s no better way than supporting Save the Children and taking part in their Christmas Jumper Day. After all, you’ll be helping to spread festive magic to children and staff all over your school.  

What is Christmas Jumper Day?

The idea behind is for people all over the country to wear the funniest, jazziest, most colourful Christmas jumper that they own. The first Christmas Jumper Day was held in 2012, and since then, millions of pounds have been raised just by pulling on a jumper!

Let’s be honest, we all know that wearing festive knitwear helps us to feel the merry magic of Christmas. But remember, you’re not just wearing a jumper. You’re raising money to help children in need across the world. So, what better way to make sure your staff know about the day, and they wear the most Christmassy jumper they own? To make it even more festive, why not add some reindeer antlers or a Santa hat?

How can schools get involved?

It’s easy to get involved in this year’s Christmas Jumper Day, taking place on Thursday 8th December. Don’t worry if this day isn’t suitable for your school. Just choose another day which suits the school better. You don’t just have to organise it for your staff, you can get your whole school involved. Ensure you tell your staff and school with enough time to have everything run smoothly. For more tips on planning your workload, check out our recent blog here.

People wishing to take part in Christmas Jumper Day at your school are asked to give a donation of £1 to support Save the Children’s hard and heroic work.

Why should we take part in Christmas Jumper Day?

Christmas Jumper Day is a day filled with festive fun, but it’s also so much more than that. Raising both money and awareness makes an enormous difference to this brilliant charity.

Save the Children works in countries around the world helping children affected by conflict, poverty and famine. They also work hard here in the UK, giving support to families to create better homes for children, helping with essentials such as cots and pushchairs, as well as supporting children’s reading.

You might think that giving £1 isn’t much, but every penny raised is used by Save the Children to change the lives of children around the world. This year is even better. For every £2 you give to Save the Children, the government gives £2 also. Donations could make sure that a child can go to school or support a young person, forced to leave their home, to build a new life. It could give a child hope.

To put it further into perspective, £1 could buy a set of pencils to help a child to write and learn. With 200 of these donations, £200 could buy a stove and fuel to heat a classroom for five months.

Read the stories of the many children that Save the Children have helped to find out more about where your donations go.