By Vivienne Pearson and Margaret Paton
Published.
March 12, 2020 06: 36:03
” I’m growing resentful,” says Kate *, who is clocking her third year as a Parents and Citizens association (P&C) committee member at her seven-year-old’s main school in NSW.
” It’s always the exact same people putting their hands up to assist … the burnout rate amongst volunteers is growing.”
A couple of weeks into another fresh academic year, Kate is however one of a number of moms and dads around the country currently feeling jaded organising events and funding drives to increase deficiencies in school budget plans.
Last month, we wrote about whether volunteer fundraising ought to help prop up public school education.
However when volunteers frequently feel obliged to continue due to the fact that they are fundraising for basics, not luxuries, it presents a new issue: school fundraising fatigue.
Fundraising tiredness does not take a holiday
Over the previous couple of years, Kate’s P&C has actually raised $20,000 to install 4 reverse-cycle air conditioning system in classrooms.
It was, as she puts it, “a lot of barbecues and cake stalls”.
” We needed to spend all of our P&C- raised cash on those units,” she says.
” This enrages me due to the fact that I feel our school fundraising efforts need to go on additional activities like artist residencies, sports efforts and kitchen area garden programs, not fundamental infrastructure.”
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