How much do you send on children's activities weekly?

claysam

More than £20 - please state if it's not too rude of me to ask!

I have 3 girls

Oldest girl has

Ballet £4
Singing and drama £8
Brownies £2.50
Swimming £4
Karate £4.50
Running club £1

Second

Ballet £4
Singing and drama £8
Brownies £2.50
Swimming £4
Karate £4.50
Running club £1
Cheerleader £5

Youngest


Ballet £4
Singing and drama £8
Swimming £4
Cheerleader £5

Myself = £0 lol

anguk

Reading these replies and seeing the expense I'm pleased my DD has never shown any interest in playing an instrument, drama or singing! My DS did enjoy drama and singing but was in the church choir which was free (and got paid for doing weddings). He was also in a drama club at school which was free and led to him being a paid extra in Byker Grove!

jackiegibbo

More than £20 - please state if it's not too rude of me to ask!

9yr old daughter

£27 per week afterschool holiday club
£14 per week piano lesson
£2 per week cub subs

thriftmonster

More than £20 - please state if it's not too rude of me to ask!

13yo: Violin £10/wk plus music and exams
Piano:£10/ wk plus music and exams
Hockey: free at school but lots of gear to buy
Scouts £2/ wk plus camps
Golf fees - paid annually £180 pa
Running - just his trainers thank goodness!
School orchestra etc - free

9yo: Trumpet £18.75/ wk plus exams etc
Piano £10/wk plus exams etc
Swimming lessons £5/wk
Ju-jitsu £3/wk
Cubs - insurance only as dh is a leader
Golf - £80pa
School swimming lessons - £2/wk for 1 term a year

Apart from music lessons, the cost of exams is horrendous - I have paid for 1 Grade V, 1 Grade II and 1 Grade I this term and it was approx £100 for the 3.

Some things look more expensive than they are - the golf not only lets them play, but also weekly comps in the summer hols and free coaching once a week from Easter to Sept.

We may let them give up piano after Grade V as it is only their 2nd instrument for each of them.

Spendless

not sure never added it up before:cool:

DS aged 8

cubs £2.50 per week
football £1.50 a week
total - £4

but you also pay £35 per year football subs and about £20ish for cubs, so add another £1 on. This also doesn't take into account 'special events'. Tonights 'hallowe'en and bonfire' cub party has cost £4. Camping last w/end cost £25, next month I think it's £30-£35 though these are optional to go on. He's only just joined so there'll be uniform to buy too.

DD aged 5- just does cheer-leading thru the school at min, cost £2 a week term-time.

princess

More than £20 - please state if it's not too rude of me to ask!

DS 13
Singing £10
Drama £3
Keyboard £12
Boys brigade £3
Also another drama and badminton free.

Lunar_Eclipse

More than £20 - please state if it's not too rude of me to ask!

My children have only chosen to do swimming, piano and brownies as paid activities at the moment, which is nothing compared to a lot of kids I know. This alone easily puts us into the highest category of the poll since it costs:

£9/week each for their swimming lesson.
£11/week for eldest's piano lesson.
£4/week for brownies.

I know many children who would be doing at least another two paid activities a week on top of this. Male friends tend to do cubs, tennis, football & rugby/hockey to the base swimming and a musical instrument. Girls two to three dance lessons a week (modern/tap/ballet) by the time they're eight seems to be very common if they like that sort of thing.

ETA: having read the replies now, the price variations are ridiculous! One poster's swimming club at £40/term which is what ours is a month for instance.

Millie's_Mum

Less than £10

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

ETA: having read the replies now, the price variations are ridiculous! One poster's swimming club at £40/term which is what ours is a month for instance.

Its my daughters swimming club which is £40 a term, I assume that what you get for your £40 a month is considerably better than mine, which is staffed entrirely by volunteers and some weeks doesn't run because they do not have enough volunteers.

She is in the smallest group at the moment, there are 7 kids to 2 volunteers usually and this is the group which can't swim on their own yet! Other groups might have 2 volunteers to 20 kids.

I assume for your money you are getting a better ratio and more intensive swimming lessons. I know a friend of ours who pays £7.50 a lesson but I cannot afford that.

anonymousie

More than £20 - please state if it's not too rude of me to ask!

Good thread!

Nice to see that, though I am shelling out crisp tenners all over the place, the costs for music lessons are pretty consistent at £10-15/ half hour.

Interesting that swimming costs are so variable though - is that differences between council run schemes and private clubs??

BTW if your kids are keen on music then the £10-15 per half hour for a 1-1 lesson isn't bad compared to school group lesson costs.

We pay £5 for DD2 to have a clarinet lesson in school with 1 other child for 20 mins. Progress is slow and I think probably she has to progress at his speed (she can read music and plod through the book hereself re fingerings etc as she is a good recorder player).

I know the peri teacher doesn't get the money directly and the "admin" of the music service take a cut, but £10 for 20mins (from 2 kids) is the £30/hr of the more expensive 1-1 lessons IYSWIM, and if she were in a group of 3 (getting less attention from the teacher, and she was till 1 dropped out) then the music service would be getting a whopping £45/hr!

saver_sam

Less than £10

DD1 (6 years old)
Ballet £3 pw (was £7.50 but dropped a lesson)
Biscuits (After school club run by Church) 50p pw
Sunday School - free but I give a donation in Church every week

DD2 14 months
70p Pram & Toddler Group

DD1 is now talking about going to Brownies which is £20 per term (13 weeks) so might consider that. She also did swimming for a couple of terms and that was about £6.50 pw for 30 minutes.

And exams and costume for ballet does add up too - the higher they go in grade the more expensive the get and the uniform changes too! Got to shell out £15.50 soon for all in one costume - bit annoying as only just got the different skirt as she had moved up a class!