Independent School Fees_Monitoring and governance

Okell

Hoenir said:

Flugelhorn said:

agree the facilities are a big cost but they are built to attract parents (and pupils) 

I visited one private primary that hired the local village hall  for indoor PE / dance / games, the local cricket club for outdoor sports and  took the kids to the local council swimming pool - they didn't have huge costs in building these places or the responsibility of maintaining them - hence able to keep fees reasonable and numbers are fine 

Private schools often receive extremely large sums from benefactors that enable them to build specific facilities. 

Completely - or maybe not - off topic, but it's quite common for benefactors to donate large sums of money to NHS hospitals to buy very expensive pieces of kit.

But this can become a major problem when the recurrent revenue and running costs of the piece of kit need to be taken into account.  I've known instances where benefactors have donated - or appeals have raised - relatively large sums of money to purchase a piece of equipment, but the hospital can't take advantage of it because they can't afford the annual running costs.