Why spend charitable money on resources for teachers?
We believe that, like all charities, we have a duty to explain what we do by setting out our values and principles. We also have a commitment to share what we know, to contribute as part of wider society to the education of the coming generations. Helping others learn and develop from the understanding of the world that comes from our work is part of what we do. We also have an official support role to the UK government in humanitarian matters. This includes enhancing respect for humanitarian values and human dignity, and running educational programmes to promote awareness of the laws of war. To put the spending in context, the British Red Cross has a yearly expenditure on all its services of around 226 million. The total spending on the whole of the schools and community education department which also runs peer education projects, youth volunteering and development education is just over 1 million a year or 0.47 per cent of the charity’s total spending. We think it is money well spen
