Parent Teacher Association (PTA)

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IGS Great Art Auction 2025

Calling all artists parents/carers/students/staff

All art is TRANSFORMATION

• Could your creativity help us to raise money to transform our school?
• Do you have an artwork you can donate for auction?
• Do you want to see what someone might be willing to pay for your artwork?

Submit artwork here by 6th June: https://forms.office.com/e/uC8fNxk7bu

How will the auction work?

1. Fill out an artwork submission form - https://forms.office.com/e/uC8fNxk7bu

• Name, title, medium, size and guide price and confirming (if required) that you have permission to donate.
• All artwork donated must be suitable for a school environment.

2. Deliver artwork by Friday 6th June

• Students/staff: Deliver the artwork to Mrs Harris in her Art room on A Floor
• Parents/carers: Deliver the artwork to IGS reception

3. Exhibition and cataloguing of work

• Work will be exhibited in B8 during each of the Creative Arts Evenings (1st, 2nd, 3rd July) and will then be available online via Galabid
• Work will be catalogued on the Galabid website, and each artwork will have its own unique QR code to make bidding easy.

4. Bidding for artworks

• This will be a ‘silent auction’ using the online bidding platform Galabid.
• Parents/carers will need to sign up to the online platform to participate – full instructions will be provided
• Students can only bid via a parent/carer
• Parents/carers can make a bid in person at the launch event on the evening of the 1st July and online bidding will remain open until the 10th July.
• A bid will be a commitment to buy the artwork at that price if yours is the highest bid
• The online portal will always show the latest bid.
• The auction will close on the 10th of July after which time successful bidders will be informed, and payment requested.

5. Payment and pick up

• You will be notified if your bid is successful, and an invoice will be generated automatically
• There will be a small 1.2% charge payable to Stripe which will be automatically included in your bid.
• There will also be the option to ‘tip’ Galabid’ to support the running of the platform.
• There will be the usual payment options available on the Galabid platform (e.g. Visa, mastercard etc.)
• Artworks will be available for collection from Reception from the 10th July once payment has been made.

Delivered by the IGS PTA - Supporting the IGS Enrichment Fund

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The PTA works to raise additional funds for school that enhance the enrichment and education of all our students. Extra funds also support a range of projects that the school would otherwise struggle to deliver within existing budgets.

Each year we run a series of fundraising activities such as our cafés at the Ilkley Literature Events at the school, Wine Tasting evening, Quiz Night, Auction of Promises and other café support at school events. 

In past years we have funded:

• The IGS Bursary which is available to provide financial assistance to students who otherwise would not be able to afford to participate in trips and enrichment opportunities. This is an annual commitment.
• A grant of £400 for three more outdoor benches, following a specific request for these from the school council (May 2024).
• A new outdoor water bottle filling fountain near the Armitage building. This is heavily used now. This cost a total of £600 (including plumbing in). The fountain is recessed so it can't be damaged (May 2024).
• Four high-quality hand dryers for the Armitage Building toilets (Sept 2024). 

     

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The Latest News & Events

Volunteering

We continue to support school events with cafe-bars requiring several volunteers to share the responsibility. The Auction can raise a lot of money. If responsibility is shared among 3 or 4 people, the workload is minimal. You can help with this without coming to meetings! Email PTA@igs.mlt.co.uk to help.

IGS Marketplace

You can also help to raise money via IGS Marketplace on Facebook by selling your 'pre-loved' school items. This is a group for Ilkley Grammar School parents and staff to buy and sell second hand school uniform, sports wear and sports equipment, miscellaneous educational equipment, books etc, to raise funds for the PTA. Please provide a description, photo and asking price with your post. Once sold, we ask the sellers to make a donation (50% suggested minimum) to the PTA using Parentpay to the school office. Thank you!

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Next Meetings

As parents we help provide our children with purchases of school equipment that improves and enhances their school life.

IGS PTA warmly welcomes all parents to our meetings, held in the School Library at 19:30. We start meetings with tea, coffee, biscuits.

If you have any questions and/or are unable to attend our meetings but would like to be kept up to date, email PTA@igs.mlt.co.uk

PTA meeting dates for 2024-25:

• Tues 24^th September 2024
• Thurs 7th November 2024 (inc AGM)
• Tues 14th January 2025
• Mon 28th April 2025
• Wed 18th June 2025

Further ways to support us