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Summary:

Introduce your pupils to the work of small charities, explain how Global’s Make Some Noise helps these small charities, and kickstart a fundraising brainstorming session for your school

What children will cover: How small charities work and who they help What Global’s Make Some Noise is, and how they help small charities Activities to help your school choose how they would like to fundraise for Make Some

Noise Activities to explore your pupils’ creativity (and radio presenting skills!)

Activities:

Group activities and individual activities are designed to get your pupils thinking about why Global’s Make Some Noise is raising money, how they can help our small charities and how to make some noise for a good cause. You can choose the right activity or combination of activities for your class and adapt them to suit your other lesson plans….

Resources:

All the resources you need are listed under each activity.

Video: Global’s Make Some Noise – Who We Are (Find it at http://bit.ly/2hVAnkg) Video: Gethin Jones visits a small charity (Find it at http://bit.ly/2upFvk ) Newspaper template: Print out from www.makesomenoise.com/schools

Activity 1 – Introduction to charities

Resources: Group discussionTime: 5 minutes

[Read out the questions and answers to your class]

Who are Global’s Make Some Noise?

Global’s Make Some Noise supports lots of small charities across the UK.

Who started Global’s Make Some Noise?

The charity was started by Global which is a media and entertainment group. Global runs several radio stations including Capital, Heart, LBC and Classic FM and Global’s Make Some Noise is the official charity of all the stations.

How long has it been going for?

Global’s Make Some Noise was formed in 2014. Before that each radio station had their own charity (for example Capital had Help a Capital Child and Classic FM had The Classic FM Foundation) but they have all been brought together to make one bigger charity: Global’s Make Some Noise!

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How does a small charity work?

Global’s Make Some Noise works with small charities that support disadvantaged children. [Define disadvantaged as something that causes difficulty: something that makes someone less likely to succeed than others]

Small charities work with volunteers who give up their time to help others, and help to raise money to buy useful things like hospital equipment, and pay for fun days out for children and their families who have been through a tough time.

Charities need lots of people to know about them to make sure they can raise enough money to help these children.

For small charities, it can be really difficult to get their message heard by enough people so Global’s Make Some Noise helps them by showcasing the charities on the radio.

How can Global’s Make Some Noise help small charities?

By being on the radio, Global’s Make Some Noise can tell the audience stories about the small charities and the children they support– it might even make them want to donate money to help.

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Group Activity – Small Charities Case Study

Theme: storytelling & raising awareness

Resources: YouTube videoTime: 10 minutes

[Watch]

Here is a story from one of the charities that Make Some Noise Supports

[Play this video] Global's Make Some Noise: Who We Are

[Discuss in groups]

How has Global’s Make Some Noise made an impact on Whoopsadaisy?

Make Some Noise helps small charities by telling more people about them. How do you usually hear about people who need your help? TV? Radio? Newspapers? Do your friends and family tell you? Do you hear about things at school?

What elements help to create a powerful moment?

How could sharing a charity’s emotive story affect radio listeners?

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Group Activity- Presentation

Theme – storytelling & raising awareness

Resources: YouTube video

Time: 20 minutes

[Watch]

Here is a video that Heart radio presenter Gethin Jones made when he visited one of the small charities supported by Global’s Make Some Noise.

[Play this video] Gethin Jones visits a project supported by Global's Make Some Noise

Activity: Present to your class

Create a video like Gethin’s or put on a presentation to explain why your school is raising money for Global’s Make Some Noise.

[Research] Explore www.makesomenoise.com/2017-charities/ to find out more about the small projects that Global’s Make Some Noise supports.

Think about:

- What makes Global’s Make Some Noise different to other charities?

- What are the three ways that Make Some Noise helps small charities?

- How is the money spent?

- How could your school raise money for Global’s Make Some Noise?

- A catchy theme tune for your charity campaign.

- Which Global radio station you would work with to help fundraise. Why have you chosen them? What do you think would make this radio station’s target audience listen up?

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Individual Activity – News story

Resources: YouTube videoNewspaper template

Time: 10 minutes

There are lots of ways to spread the word about people who need our help. This is important because the more people who hear about the charities, the more support they are likely to get.

[Watch]

Make Some Noise Day 2016

[Play this video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f4V-mJ4Pfk

[Print out and fill in] Newspaper templates about MAKE SOME NOISE DAY 2017

Consider covering different angles of Make Some Noise Day – what could happen on the big day? What celebrities are rumoured to make an appearance to show their support? What will the day mean to the charities?

Get creative and imagine your own perfect Make Some Noise Day!

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Seniors: Activity 6 – Radio Show

Resources: Charity case studies (Find them on www.makesomenoise.com/2017-charities )

Time: 20 minutes

Let’s pretend that we’re on the radio! Get into small groups and put on a radio show which will tell the story of a small charity.

Some of you will play the radio presenters asking questions, and some of you will play the small charity telling your story.

Research task: Ask your pupils to talk about what they’re passionate about, and set an internet task to find out about local small charities in their own area. These charities could even be a Global’s Make Some Noise charity one day!

Ready to go: If you’re short on time, you can use one of this year’s small charities as your example.

Here’s some key facts from one of our small charities – Deafinitely Theatre Deafinitely Theatre is a small charity based in London 1 in 7 people in the UK are deaf or hard of hearing, but there isn’t much chance for

deaf young people to put on shows and work in the theatre The theatre company trains deaf young people and helps them to become actors

and writers Deafinitely Theatre has worked with over 100 deaf young people Global’s Make Some Noise will help Deafinitely Theatre to help other deaf young

people take part in their youth theatre programmes and summer schools.

To get you started…here’s some typical interview questions.

Radio presenters: Think of questions to ask the charity...

- What is your charity called?- What’s an interesting fact about your charity?- Who does the charity help?- How can people get involved and help the charity?

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Charity volunteers: Think of what you’d like to tell the radio listeners about your charity – it’s your time to share your story!

To get you started…here’s some things to talk about.

- The people that the charity helps- Why the charity was set up- Fun ways that listeners can raise money to help (from baking to dressing loud!)

What’s next?

Why not make the most of all your pupils’ amazing fundraising ideas and kickstart your school’s own fundraising event to help support Global’s Make Some Noise? You can find everything you need to make some noise at your school, from assembly plans to bake sale labels, over on www.makesomenoise.com/schools.

We can’t wait to see how your school turns up the volume!

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