Anyone elses playgroups putting prices up after September

me_and_me_monkeys

Mine has.

Jan 06 £6.50 for 3 hour session
Jan 07 £7.50 for 3 hour session
Mar 07 £9.00 for 3 hour session
Sept 07 £9.96 for 3 hour session

Anyone elses playgroups charges rising like this???? If it goes up much more - i won't be able to afford

bumpybecky

wow that's a big increase this year alone :eek:

have you asked why the big hike?

me_and_me_monkeys

The letter says that it is a govenment reccomendation

miemie

Wow thats alot,we have just put prices upto £5.50 for 2.5 hour session, what part of the country are you in, I'm north Lancashire and £5.50 - £7.00 is about average, We have had various grants and do alot of fundraising to keep prices down, I'm really shocked that they are changing that much.

keatergreyhound

Im in Leicester and theyve gone up 60p an hour so £1.80p for a 3 hour stay

Cissi

That's a big hike (and a strange price, why £9.96?) but it's still less than we pay in West London... Ours went from £12 to £13 per session in April, but they also increased the time from 2 1/2 hours to 3 hours, so the actual cost went down. It's still a lot of money though!

joannasmum

Ours has gone up from £7.50 t0 £8 were in West Lancashire. As a good will gesture there not putting the children already theres fees up till after xmas which is good for me as thats when dd get goverment funding.

Spendless

Are they putting it in line with the government funding do you think? I know when I was on committee of a playgroup they preferred funded children cos they got about £8ish a session for them, whereas not funded they were charging the parent about £5-£5.50, this was Sept 05. Initially this was for 2 hours but was later changed to 2.5 without the fees going up.

dee_mum_of_3

in 1995 our youngest son attended the best preschool/playgroup in the area it was substantially dearer than other local groups boasted several staff fantastic facilities they did oodles of craft,baking etc etc and the children loved it doors opened at 9am and home time was 12pm all my friends were amazed that i sent him there as it was so costly- it was £6.50 a week!!!!!!

Kelinik

Our prices are going up to £6.50 for 3 hrs in September but this new amount also covers snack which used to be charged separately. I'm on the Surrey/Hampshire border.

trigger2

I work in a playgroup in Fife & our prices are just over £4 a session. This doesnt include snack though, can't remember how much that is (but is much lower)