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Friends of Charles Darwin

We are the Friends of Charles Darwin committee. We are parents who have children at the school and with the support of staff, students and families closely linked to the school, alongside local businesses, we run events and raise money for the school community.

Meet your PTA Committee

Chair – Taskeen Jamal

I joined the PTA in 2025 because I am passionate about contributing to our wonderful school community.

I have two children at the school in Year 4 and Year 5.

As Chair, I set the agenda and lead our committee meetings, keeping projects moving smoothly. We work as a team to turn ideas into exciting activities and events to enhance our childrens’ daily school life.

Vice Chair & Treasurer - Danielle Barton

I joined the PTA in 2025 and stepped into my positions in September 2026. As vice chair, I support all our activities and as treasurer manage our bank accounts, track income and spending and prepare financial reports.

I have two children at the school in years 6 and 1.

Secretary – Sarah Buckenham

My youngest child is in Year 6 and my eldest was also a pupil at the school. As secretary of the Friends of Charles Darwin, I take minutes of the meetings and manage documents for the team. I have been a member of the group for over eight years.

Other committee members who regularly attend meetings and support at events:

Steph Buisst

Jess Hoskins

How can you get involved?

We welcome parents, carers, and family members to join us in organising and running events and fundraisers.

Every idea, bit of time, and helping hand makes a real difference to our school.

Offer just an hour of your time and connect with our wonderful school community!

If you would like to be contacted to help at our next event, please join the Friends of Charles Darwin Volunteer WhatsApp Group. (link: https://chat.whatsapp.com/ET0JM6N9XKF9NLhm7j2PWh?s=cl&p=i&mlu=0&ilr=4&iam=2)

Second-hand uniform

We hold a second-hand uniform sale at the front of the school playground at school pick up time in the first week of every month or as advertised in the MCAS app.

Please see the price list below. If you have any uniform, you would like to donate, please drop this off at the school office. Thank you

Uniform Sale Price List

Useful Links

Joining (or supporting) the Friends of Charles Darwin

If you would like to join the Friends of Charles Darwin Group (ie attend meeting and helping organising events and fundraisers) or our volunteer phone list (to be contacted to help support running of events) , please fill in the online form: https://forms.office.com/r/hZtYCuBk3F

Events

If you have any ideas for fundraising or suggestions for events that your children may enjoy, please email Friendsofcharlesdarwin@outlook.com

Lost Property and Name Label Scheme

Lost property has been a huge issue in the school and we are sad to see hundreds of pounds of unclaimed items go to waste each year, which must be having a financial impact on our families! We will be taking lost property out on to the school playground with our second hand uniform sale, every last Wednesday of the month, however, labelling your Children’s clothing could save both money and waste.

We know this can be time consuming so we have joined an exciting scheme to make this both easier for parents and also raise extra money for the school!

MyNametags.com offers personalisable sticker tags and iron on labels which are both easy to use and affordable, and one purchase could possibly last you most of your child's time at school. Children can design their own label, lots of choices available including MrMen and Hello Kitty, and postage is free of charge.

Labels costs the following:

Iron on and sticker labels 56 for £15.95
Maxi sticker set £15.95
Mini sticker set 175 for £15.95

As an extra bonus, If you use the link or codes below to make your purchase, the school will receive 24% of every purchase back to add to their yearly fundraising which goes towards equipment and events for children.

Link: https://www.mynametags.com/affiliate?id=108846

Website: www.MyNametags.com and code 108846.

Did you know you can also get personalised name bands for water bottles?! These are available at lots of different online retailers and tend to cost around £8, just google ‘personalised bottle bands’.

If you are able to, please join us in trying to reduce lost property this school year. We appreciate your support.

Thank you

Easyfundraising

Calling all online shoppers

Did you know if you regularly shop online there is a quick and easy way to raise extra money for the school at no extra cost!

We are signed up to the ‘Easy fundraising’ scheme and would really appreciate your support in raising extra money for equipment and events for the children. It doesn’t take long to get started.

First go to the following website: ‘https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/

Or download the ‘Easyfundraising’ app from your app store onto your smartphone.

Once you have clicked ‘sign up’ (as above) it will ask you to search for a cause, just search for ‘Charles Darwin Primary School’ and create an account. It will not ask you for any personal details apart from your name and email address.
When your account has been created you are ready to shop!

If shopping on a web browser you can set up a reminder to sign in to your easyfunding dashboard before shopping or if shopping on a smartphone just open the app first. Whichever way you shop you will just need to search for a retailer from the ‘easyfundraising’ dashboard and shop as usual

Once you have completed your shopping, each retailer offers cash back which will go back into the school's account. Please be reassured that your bank details or shopping habits will never be shared with us!

This is a fantastic initiative to help support the school. If you are able to, we greatly appreciate you signing up to this scheme!

Many Thanks