Spending Leftover Childcare Vouchers!!

superflygal

Dear MSErs,

Hoping someone can give me good advice here!

Have £80 in Childcare vouchers left over (Now DS is over 3, we don't have to pay for his pre school any more).

Can anyone think of how I can use them up?? Our DD is due to start pre school next Jan, I don't think I can use them for her though???

Many thanks!
SFG x

mirrorimage0

is there any holiday clubs near you that you think are suitable activities for your child, you could alway s book them in for a day here and there using your vouchers. ours used to go to one at the ymca for odd days as a fun day out, they usually do different activieties on different days. not sure what age from though

storm000

Same as mirrorimage, we use ours for a couple of days at Supercamps in the holidays, also, they are valid for upto a year, so we've kept for next Sept preschool! (have spoken to the preschool for prepayment in May 2012).
Leave them in your account until Jan, there shouldn't be any problems using them then.

superflygal

Thanks for the tips folks.

THe vouchers expire this November though. Maybe I could approach the Head and ask if they will let me pay for DD early... Don't they have to be linked to the specific child though?

Failing that I willl try the holiday clubs. Mind you, as DS is only 3, he is probably too young for most of them.
SFG x

go_cat

Will he be using a pre school or after school club that you could use in september or october?

go_cat

superflygal wrote: »

Thanks for the tips folks.

Don't they have to be linked to the specific child though?

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Ours are not specific to a child they just get taken out your salary and stored ready for use when we pay we just put our DS name as reference for nursery

Spendless

Are they not issued to a specific childcare provider? (ie the pre-school)Mine were, though not to a specific child.

superflygal

AH! If they are not linked to DS, I may be able to pay them to preschool early, and be 2 weeks paid up!! That would be great. I'll ask Monday!

Thanks!

SFG x

Moomum

They aren't linked to a specific child and you can also add a new provider if you want. We have £200 left over from my son and have been using them with my daughter and a local childminder.