Financial help from schools???

brokeanddesperate

We have just paid a £60 deposit for a school trip to france for my son, but now my husband has been made redundant, does anyone know if schools have finances to help parents out with the cost of the holiday???

carolenoble

Usually schools operate a Private Fund from donations etc which in our authority area help hardship cases to fund trips etc, check with the bursar at your particular school I would be quite surprised if they don't have one...

Shelldean

Ask your school, arrange a meeting with the Head and politely ask.

I have four children and the eldest 3 have all done the school trip in yr 6.

When my DD did the trip I had help from my grandmother,my ex (her dad) and my current partners mum. So it was easy to fund.

Then the twins got the letter, trying to find the money for two to go was hard, but again my grandmother and my mother in law helped with the cost. BUT I also spoke to the school and said we was finding it difficult. The school agreed to let us pay for one and the other went free.

Now youngest is wanting to go. My grandmother is no longer alive, and my mother in law is a widow, so no help from them. Also the cost has risen greatly as the school has changed venues. SO I went to the school and explained to them that I really didn't want youngest to miss out, but that we was in a very different financial position to what we was 3 yrs ago when the boys went. And tbh there was no way we could justify the cost for a school trip ( esp when i can take ALL six of us on holiday for less than that for twice as long) The school told me to go home work out my finances and come back with an offer. This I did and we have agreed I'd pay 2/3 of the holiday. And I can pay over a longer period with smaller repayments.


SO my honest advice to you is go into school and speak to them and explain. The worse they can do is say NO.