Hold a Pink Stumps Day at your School

4 simple steps to get you started

1. Hold a Pink Stumps Day at your School

Sign up and rally your school community to support people experiencing cancer. 

2. Brainstorm your fundraising ideas

  • Students wear pink for a donation 
  • A students vs teachers cricket match 
  • Hold a Pink BBQ, bake sale or car wash 
  • Challenge classes or year groups to a fundraising competition 
  • Pink up your principal or one of the teachers for a price!  
Four young cricketers in white uniforms wearing pink caps pose on a cricket field beside pink stumps and a pink cricket bat during a Pink Stumps Day event.

3. Pick a day and spread the word

Pick a day that works for your school calendar, then share it through your newsletter, classroom notices, assemblies, social media and school bulletin boards.

4. Celebrate the difference you're making

See how your school community comes together in the name of care and know you’ve helped take cancer care to more people in Australia when they need it most. 

St Peters Lutheran College made Pink Stumps Day a meaningful school tradition

Each year St Peters Lutheran College turn their annual Pink Stumps Day into a whole-school moment that brings students, staff, families and cricket together to support people experiencing cancer.

What started as a way to help the school community understand the impact of breast cancer has grown into an annual event in conjunction with Marist College Ashgrove.

On the day, cricket fields are fitted with pink stumps, students wear pink, families come along to show their
support and the school community gets behind a meaningful cause .

The schools cricket coordinator, Garry has supported the McGrath Foundation since the very first Pink Stumps Day. Gary remembers when a cricket captain’s mother shared her story about her own breast cancer experience.

“From that moment, we saw how important the event was for families and the wider school community
. Pink Stumps Day is a chance for all of us to come together and show our support.”
 

How they fundraise
  • Posters with QR codes around both schools and in newsletters 
  • The sellraffle tickets 
  • A Score-a-Thon, where players are sponsored for each run, wicket and catch 
  • Bake sale run by the students 

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