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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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My kid has a fund raiser coming up soon so they can have their yearly trip out to a play centre. With them being toddlers and young children every child needs one parent to accompany them whilst in the centre (fair enough - health and safety!)
Last year the kids did really well and raised just under £500 in sponsorship money. It costs £5 per child to spend 5 hours in the centre and they get a small packed lunch included - pretty reasonable! - and with it being a maximum of 25 children going from the school there was more than enough to cover the costs!
But then after this every parent has to pay an extra £5 to accompany them and then buy lunch whilst there. I will happily buy my own lunch or just not eat when out, but with them raising nearly 4 times the amount they needed last year and a similar amount expected this year should they still make the parents pay?
I should point out they do a fund raiser once every 2 months doing different activities for various funding reasons, but looking at the figures (providing all 25 kids go, which they never do) even if they raised £450 this time it would only cost £250 to cover the parents entry cost too meaning they would still have a £200 profit to put towards the school
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what do they do with the left over money? If it goes to one of the other fund raising events they do sounds ok to mme. Is the entry more expensive for adults than children. £5 sounds reasonable for a day out and id take sandwiches rather than buy food when i got there. If the kids are anything like my son he would get the packed lunch from school and take another one that i made up. £10 for an adult and a child to have a day out is really reasonable, well i think it is when i know how much it costs to get in some of these places |
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"what do they do with the left over money? If it goes to one of the other fund raising events they do sounds ok to mme. Is the entry more expensive for adults than children. £5 sounds reasonable for a day out and id take sandwiches rather than buy food when i got there. If the kids are anything like my son he would get the packed lunch from school and take another one that i made up. £10 for an adult and a child to have a day out is really reasonable, well i think it is when i know how much it costs to get in some of these places"
The place they go to includes the small lunch for the kids in their entry which i think is great, they choose what they want beforehand and its all ready for when they get there
The school does A LOT of fundraisers and they always get more than needed for said project, and the remainder of the money goes into the 'kitty'. They always have plenty of money to fall back on for things that are not covered by the council etc
They only have one school trip out a year and they need the parents to take and accompany the child, but they always seem to raise 3/4/5 times the amount they need to cover any cost and any goods that may be used/sold are donated or supplied by the parents meaning there is no cost to the school in the first place, and since its only once a year they could very easily cover the parents entry cost too even from just that one fundraiser and still make a good profit |
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Surely the value gained by both parent and child from participating in such events in the form or creating memories and developing relationships and social skills far outweighs the monetary objectives of just raising funds....  |
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i think its fair to charge the parents, as someone previous said its a cheap day out with your child, they will have a great time. Its an ideal time to get to know other parents too.
£5 for most people isnt a lot of money but to the school that amount times 25 will make a substantial difference to the fund raising pot. |
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Is the event subsidised by the school? They may charge a fiver per child but it may cost the school more and they pay the rest. Our school subsidises loads of events. Unfortunately that means parents at our school think they don't need to help out with PTA stuff.
Also a lot of our events have voluntary contributions, so parents that can't afford it don't have to pay. The extra fund raising money would cover that. |
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