Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Estate Agents' boards advertising school fetes
I've no doubt school fetes are worthy activities, but do people really need to let estate agents get free advertising by allowing them to set up their hideous boards on their property in return for advertising school fetes. There was even one attached to the rails at the end of a section of Harringay Passageway. Do people find them pretty?
Tags for Forum Posts: estate agents signs, school summer fair signs
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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They are a source of revenue for schools. That's why schools do it. Usually they are up for a couple of weeks before the event and then taken down. Any other suggestions for raising approx £1000 in a couple for schools are welcome...or indeed the money itself.
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Permalink Reply by Andrew on
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Estate agents don't get free advertising. They pay to put those boards up and the various PSAs and parent organisers then get the money which benefits the school / nursery.
what's the problem with that?
In North Harringay's case I think the money raised was close to a third of the revenue raised during the school fete.
Have you had a bad experience with estate agents? have you been groomed by an estate agent? I haven't read much about estate agent grooming in the Mail yet, looking forward to this summer's moral panic.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Thought North Harringay's art on estate agent board was wonderful. Very colourful. Better than most shop fronts on GL. :) They go up 2 weeks before fete/fair and come down 4 weeks after. The school's get £20/board and are allowed up to 50 boards. The costs of making the boards and putting them/taking them down are met by the estate agent.
As Liz says, if anyone has got a better way of making a cool grand, let us know! Cake sale anyone.
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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In short, yes.
There have been many discussions about this on here before and I have yet to see any alternative money raising ideas that, get's the local schools some 'easy' money.
As Matt states NHP boards aren't even For Sale signs they were kids art with a small Keatons logo in the corner. If any kind and generous person wants to donate 1-2k to your local schools, I think the PSA may reconsider using estate agents. Until that happens it's much needed revenue for our local schools. Our local schools aren't blessed with sugar daddies/mummies that schools to the west of us may have.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Go the whole hog then - rename the school the "Paul Simon Primary School ". They would probably pay quite well for that :-)
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Permalink Reply by Nigel Lupton (luptonn) on
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They (Paul Simon) sponsor Finchley Cyclling Team, so would probably consider a school sponsorship if offered.
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And with budget cuts running deep maybe next year a Paul Simon helicopter advert .... flying around the ladder for a day.
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Permalink Reply by Helen Riley on
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I don't think you've used 'sugar daddies' correctly! But in the 'west' as you refer to streets just a stone's throw away from your own, we have estate agents boards aplenty. We need the revenue too. In addition to all the reasons stated previously estate agent money is also useful to underwrite an event and to make sure that events don't actually run at a loss if there is terrible weather or some unforeseen event which means the fairs are cancelled or curtailed. Given all the effort that parents and friends put into these events/ it's surely not too much to ask that they are relieved or the worry or not making any money at all for the school?
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I know the schools west of us have the estate agents signs too, and I didn't mean they didn't need the extra resources because there are plenty on the Ladder who export their kids over the tracks. I know a few who attend schools over that way and the parents seem to contribute a fare amount of finance through different measures in comparison to us who use our local schools here in Harringay. I think Harringay's schools have a larger mix of lower economic backgrounds, that was the point I was trying to make, badly.
John, don't be daft its The Mcdonald's Academy!
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Don't laugh! Gove, who comes across as somewhat naive has bizarre plans, a mishmash of 'ideas' to flog off state schools to private sector control. So, David Ross, co-founder of Carphone Warehouse calling his academys the Talk Talk Academy. Or he could get creative and name them after the top 10 ring tones; the Crazy Frog Academy has a certain ring to it.
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