Primary School Funding.

byhookorbycrook

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tabby aspreme

strawberrie wrote: »

Interested to know what parents contribute to the running of the school in terms of voluntary contributions, money for materials activities or fundraising.
Also on a BOM, over 5 years and think you are either fortunate to be on BOM of a school with plenty of cash reserves in the bank or don't have too much involvement with the figures.

€25/ family for materials, that's it, the school is in a good position financially, which makes things easier especially for the first four months of the school year while waiting for dept funds to come in, reserves are replenished by the end of the year. If parents have a valid reason for fundraising we allow it , but due to previous grief caused by fundraising for the sake of it, and for peoples own egos with huge pressure being put on parents and children and people thinking they can run the school and order teachers around if they fundraise, valid reasons are hard found . All board members are involved financially as all are responsible for how money is spent, if heads were too roll for financial issues mine would probably be first , so I'm very involved

byhookorbycrook

tabby aspreme wrote: »

the school is in a good position financially, which makes things easier

And that's probably the difference, most schools are playing catch up all the time, so never have a "cushion" to draw on.