Friends of the Trust

As part of our fundraising activities, we actively encourage other organisations to either partner with us on a specific campaign or pledge funds to benefit a community of their own.   If you would like to find out more about becoming a “Friend”, please contact the Trust office on 01525 714467 or email motocharity@talking360.com

Adopt a School
Every Moto site in the UK has adopted a local school in order to focus their support on building strong community links with one school. The schools that form part of our ‘Adopt a School’ programme will be weaved into our community activities, which include our staff volunteering scheme – ‘making a difference’. We have 30 Moto staff volunteers qualified as Reading Buddies already working in our adopted schools, and offer reading support into our communities. 

Our special thanks to Orchard Toys who are supporting our reading buddies with resources that make it possible to work on both social and communication skills with our children as well as their reading abilities. Orchard Toys design and manufactures quality games and puzzles in the UK, to make learning fun for children between 18 months and 12 years.  For more information visit their website www.orchardtoys.com.

Moto sites have been busy building strong bonds with their adopted schools.  Following an extensive survey carried out with each Head Teacher, the Trust has been able to identify opportunities to provide support and assistance.  Each Moto site has their own calendar of fundraising events tailored to raising funds for specific projects at our adopted schools eg;

• Funding and planting sensory gardens
• Funding musical instruments allowing more children access to learn a musical instrument
• Improving school libraries with books to encourage children to be inspired by books
• Funding and supporting new sports and equipment
• Setting competitions and supporting initiatives that are linked to the education of environmental topics, including recycling and creative campaigns

Adopted schools

To view a list of adopted schools and which Moto sites they are twinned with, click here.

Annual Book Programme
Each year since 2006, Moto in the Community has gifted a selection of books to each of our Adopted Schools. To date, more than 40,000 books have been presented to our schools. Moto staff around the UK hold various fundraising events specifically to fund the presentation of new books to our adopted school children. We are very proud to partner with the Oxford Unversity Press for this project.

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship and education by publishing worldwide. 100 years after founding its first children's books in print, Oxford continues to publish a wide range of prize winning children's fiction, non-fiction, picture books.

Oxford University Press has made it possible for us to purchase more than 10,000 fiction books to enrich the lives of our adopted children. 

If you would like to learn more about this campaign or view some of the book presentations, please click here

Friends of the Trust – Christmas Book Appeal 2007

A further campaign supported by Oxford University Press is our Christmas Book Appeal 2007.  Friends of the Trust have been given the opportunity to pledge funds towards the gift of books for a childrens ward in a hospital or hospice anywhere in the UK.  This has also extended to schools outside our adopted school network.

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the following organisations for their generous pledges to this campaign.

Our special thanks to Oxford University Press and The Book People for their support for this campaign.

If you would like to become a friend of the Trust and do something worthwhile in your community with the gift of books, then please contact the Trust office or visit our JustGiving campaign site www.justgiving.co.uk/christmasbooksappeal