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Schools: Crowdfunding

Question for Department for Education

UIN 243362, tabled on 10 April 2019

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on schools in England using crowdfunding to raise money for supplies.

Answered on

23 April 2019

The Department does not collect information about how many schools use crowdfunding to raise money for supplies. Schools’ financial returns show that income from donations and voluntary funds has remained steady at about 0.7% of schools’ overall budgets since 2011-12.