Are you thinking of taking the Send My Friend challenge by running a 1GOAL event in your school?

This page offers some useful links and resources to help you organise a fantastic 1GOAL event and to help influence our leaders to keep their promises on Education For All.

Getting Started

1. Check with a teacher that they are happy for the school to get involved in the campaign
2. Sign up for a Schools pack or ask your teacher to do that for you
3. Plan who you will need to involve – are you working with specific classes, a year group, or the whole school?
4. Think about how to spread the word and get people involved – you might want to use a message given out by teachers at registration, an assembly, or posters around the school.
5. Make copies of the supporter scarf template for everyone who will be taking part – photocopy it onto A4 paper.
6. Check the Teachers Guide for instructions on what to do
7. Organise a 1GOAL event in your school – check out our event page for ideas about what this might be
8. You might like to involve a local footballer your local MP – they can help you to draw attention to this issue and get the government to take action on education.
9. Send your school's supporter scarf to the Prime Minister with a letter from your school – don’t forget to include your school’s name and address so that you can receive a reply.
10. Tell us how many 1GOAL supporters there are in your school by filling out the online Scoreboard.

Other resources

• Our Education For All handout gives a bit of background about education issues and explores why 72 million children around the world are missing out on school
• Our MP factsheet tells you all about what your local MP does and how they can help you
• The Local to Global handout explains how your campaigning actions can help someone in the developing world have the chance to go to school