SCHOOL We’ve put our thinking caps on to help your school have fun and twin some !

HOW TO GET STARTED Go for a fundraising target Book a date for a fundraiser or Check out the extra to twin your school toilets choose us as your charity of resources online available with the toilets of families in the year. A Blue for the Loo Day to download poor comunities might go down well?

IN THIS PACK, we’ve included: An ideas sheet with loads of fun suggestions for fundraising A sample certificate so your school can see what Twinning is all about An info leaflet about (ask us for more to give them to your students) A poster to help you make a splash on your school noticeboard A short history of the toilet Roman Going to the toilet in private has only been part of British culture for the last 150 years. Medieval The word loo originates from a In medieval England in the country, the general rule was that French expression “Gardez l’eau!” you would go “a bow’s length” from your home to go to the which means “Watch out for the toilet in a bush or field. That means, as far as you could shoot water!” People used to empty their So it’s only in theToday past an arrow away, that was your spot. chamber pots out of bedroom century and a half that the water windows into the streets so you closet (WC) or toilet has graced had to keep an eye out when ordinary homes in the UK. And that we’ve understood the importance of you were walking below. hand-washing to prevent disease. Inform the palace of the royal bowels being evacuated! Sadly in many parts of the world they ONLINE – in our resources section of In cities people used still don't have a toilet, which is vital which were for health and well-being. A third of emptied by gong farmers. the world’s population is still at risk A gong farmer was a very from disease because they don’t smelly man who owned a horse, a cart and a shovel. have a safe or sanitary place to go to the toilet. “Watch out for the water!” He would empty out the cesspits for a small fee. The Big Stink In the 1850s parliament had Toilet Twinning By spreading the loove of In Roman times the to shut down in the summer toilettwinning.org – you’ll find: loos, you can help people toilets were communal because of the smell from the without a loo, get training with places for up to 30 poo in the . This and help to create a safe people at a time. To wipe delightful episode was called they used a sponge on a place to go to the toilet. stick. (No The Big Stink. back then.) Legend has it that Sir John Harington created a 100BC for his godmother Queen Elizabeth I Alexander Cumming 0 but she was too embarrassed to use it for fear that If anyone can lay claim to the title of being the roar of the rushing water would “inform the father of the modern-day toilet, it is Primary and senior school assembly talks on PowerPoint 500 palace of the royal bowels being evacuated”. Alexander Cumming, a watchmaker in Bond Street, who was granted the first 1348 patent for a flush toilet in 1775. 1500 1600 The lack of hygiene really got serious 1775 when the Black Death took hold of the 1850 1861 1880 population and spread like wildfire. TODAY Between 1348 and 1350 it killed nearly Remember, one third of the whole population of Films and an animated song England. The disease was spread by the 1861 is one of the most significant years in the history of the toilet. Louis loos save fleas on rats, which thrived in the filthy, Pasteur published his Germ Theory which said that germs caused disease. lives. poo- and wee-ridden streets. He encouraged surgeons to wash their hands before operating on people. When Prince Albert died in 1861, apparently of typhoid, a grief-stricken Queen Victoria demanded that piped water and be installed throughout Britain. A decade later, her son Prince Edward Some light started to dawn came close to dying of the same disease, and word about the need for about the connection between flush toilets went out across the land. From Britain, it spread to France, unsanitary conditions and A fun quiz disease when the people and then the rest of Europe and the world. discovered washing their hands Every minute, a child under in warm water with wine or five dies because of dirty vinegar seemed to increase water and poor their chances of survival. Meanwhile, the Crusaders returned to Europe from the Far East with a strange new Thomas Crapper substance called soap. He did not invent the flush toilet. He did, however, do much to A fun poster – giving a potted history of the toilet increase the popularity of the toilet, and developed some important related inventions, such as the

If you’d like to order resources, you can ask for any of the following by sending us an email: [email protected] – or by ringing us on 0300 321 3217: Stickers (toilet- and poo-related! I know, we couldn’t stop ourselves!) Bunting and balloons if you’re planning an event

SENDING US YOUR DONATION If you wish to send in your donation as a transfer direct into the Toilet Twinning bank account, our details are: Account name Toilet Twinning Sort code 20-00-00 Account number 53798860 Cheques can be made payable to Toilet Twinning and sent to: Toilet Twinning, 1052-1054 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH7 6DS If you pay us by bank transfer, or by cheque – you will need to email us or ring us to tell us how many Toilet Twinning certificates you need for your school cloakrooms. You won’t receive certificates automatically.

If you have any questions, we’re only an email or phonecall away. Thank you for considering raising funds for Toilet Twinning. I hope you have lots of fun.

Elyse Kirkham Fundraising Manager for Scotland [email protected] Call: 07495 980251

Toilet Twinning is part of Tearfund. Tearfund is a Registered Charity No. 265464 (England and Wales) and No. SC037624 (Scotland).