It takes so little to do so much.

Round Square is a registered not-for-profit association and welcomes any and all gifts to help support its world-wide activities. For more information on how to make gifts and grants in support of Round Square, please contact the Head of any member school or our ChairmanThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , Mr. Rod Fraser.

Primary support for operating expenses of Round Square is an annual subscription paid by member schools. Schools are also invited to voluntarily increase their annual fee if circumstances allow. Other major funding sources are gifts, grants and donations from individuals, corporations, foundations and other groups, such as alumni associations.

Although donations may be made directly to Round Square, which is a registered charity in Great Britain, gifts can also be directed to a member school in the nation where the donor is located. Materials and supplies for each year's service projects are purchased with funds raised by the students themselves at each member school through the Prince Alexander Fund.

Fundraising for Round Square involves different targets for different purposes:

Friends of Round Square
Money is required to provide assistance for deserving students who wish to go on projects. This can be channelled through the regional foundations of Friends of Round Square or to the Executive Director. There are presently Friends of Round Square foundations set up in Australia, the U.S.A., Africa,Germany, Canada and similar foundations underway in India and the United Kingdom. Funds can be directed to these foundations and according to the tax laws in the individual countries, receipts can be issued.

Developing Countries
Funds are also needed to support less-advantaged schools in developing countries in becoming full members of Round Square. These would cover their annual subscription fees, and the cost incurred to send delegations to both regional and annual conferences. These funds can be directed either to the individual Friends of Round Square foundations or to the Executive Director.

Prince Alexander Project Fund
This is a fund which we expect to be supported by the students of member schools. The bricks, mortar, pipes and other building materials for Round Square international projects are paid for through this initiative. The standard set for member schools is based on the equivalent of a cup of coffee per student.

At the 1986 RS Annual Conference held at Salem, Prince Alexander of Schleswig-Holstein (who previously was a member of the RS Board), made a suggestion that was designed to give a real and responsible role to all students in all Round Square schools. He put forward the idea that those students who attended Annual Conferences should be strongly encouraged to go back to their schools and set up fund-raising mechanisms, the proceeds from which would be used exclusively to support Round Square International Service Projects.

Thus, every student in all Round Square schools has a direct involvement with the RSIS Projects, which are the pinnacle of RS commitment to other people. It was understood that the money was to be raised by the initiative of the students and not by the efforts of the RS Staff Reps. who had quite enough to do already. All the money raised is collected centrally in order to be available to pay for the bricks, sand cement and water pipes used in RSIS Projects. .  The goal is to have each school raise the equivalent of one good quality cup of coffee per student at their school, in local currency.