We are here to support you

Along with general questions of security, one of the major concerns for parents is the fundraising that their son or daughter is going to have to raise.

As you'll see in the fundraising section of this site, we provide comprehensive fundraising backup and support, and we do everything we can to encourage volunteers to raise money from trusts, companies, sponsored events, their own earnings - in short, not their parents.
However, we also acknowledge that fundraising, at least psychological if not financial, can weigh upon parents.

Among the fundraising support that we give is a series of parents' meetings around the UK. These are run by a senior member of staff and include a section on raising the funds. At these meetings we discuss fund raising ideas and progress.

In addition, if the whole idea of fundraising is new to you and you are unsure of how to go about it, or indeed the role you should take as a parent, we will be happy to put you in touch with parents of previous volunteers who have gone through the same experience beforehand.

There is no doubt that reaching the fundraising total is a challenge which volunteers have to take seriously. The closer it gets to final exams, the more difficult it is to concentrate on fundraising. For this reason we urge anyone who is interested in applying to Project to do so as soon as they can. Volunteers selected before Christmas in their final year at school find it markedly easier to fundraise than those selected afterwards.

For those selected in February, with exams finishing around the end of June, it leaves at worst another month and a half and at best another two and a half months free of exam pressure to finish fundraising.

It is possible to be selected as a volunteer in August - a whole year before heading overseas.