Secondary schools: Lent Fast Day 2010
If you’d like to get everyone thinking about the point of giving something up for Lent, and then doing it for a good cause in a fun and interesting way this year, we hope you’ll enjoy our fresh approach for Lent 2010, called Give it up!
You can do it for one week, two, or even the whole of Lent. Everyone thinks about what would be a good thing to give up for a while. It could be chocolate, it could be video games. It probably isn’t green vegetables or homework.
Then they get sponsored to give that thing up and the money they raise is used to give a family in one of the poorest countries in the world something they really need. It might be bees for making honey. It might be clean water.
People are going to be giving it up in parishes and schools across England and Wales, with the goal of raising more money than ever before at Lent to help others.
Read some Give it up! fundraising success stories.
Watch the clip above to see how the money raised by giving up chocolate could be transformed into things that people in the world's poorest countries really need, such as bee keeping training for communities in Mozambique.
Use it in assembly as a Lent focus, with the educational activities and case studies online, or at youth groups or residential centres.
You can access more videos here .
 | Background information on give it up! and how to get involved with your school or youth group this Lent |
 | Secondary teachers & youth leaders notes (136.01 kB) How to use our range of materials to support your lessons and group work, showing how learning and fundraising can make a difference to the lives of our sisters and brothers around the world living in poverty |
 | To help the young people drum up support for their fundraising |
 | Having someone speak really helps to bring it alive for parishioners, and encourages people to give more generously, not to mention the valuable skills you develop along the way, such as organisation and public speaking, so your effort can really make a difference |
 | Stations of the Cross (1.78 MB) Use in a liturgy, or one slide per day in classroom worship during Lent. |
 | Stations of the Cross (2.08 MB) Word document including images and prayers. Use alongside the Stations of the Cross PowerPoint in a liturgy, or print out and display in a hall or chapel during Lent. |
 | Give it up! poster (994.74 kB) A3 poster to help promote your fundraising |
 | Transform your uniform poster (408.97 kB) To help promote a Transform your uniform fundraising day |
 | Case studies slideshow (2.27 MB) This Lent we are asking you to give something up and to get sponsorship for it to help people living in the world’s poorest countries |
 | Donation form (secondary schools) (311.45 kB) To return with your fundraising money |
 | Donation form (youth groups) (308.04 kB) To return with your fundraising money |
 | A-Z of fundraising ideas for Give it up! (307.64 kB) An A-Z of fun fundraising ideas to support your give it up! activities this Lent, including stories of what young people have been doing to raise money for CAFOD's work |
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