Mouseketeer
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Thank you Sunnyday, just a week to hang in there....everything is crossed 🤞
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It might not seem much per hour or session but it’s surprising how it adds up isn’t it? welcome to the forum 🙂 -
I will be so pleased to get everyone out now, our local primary school so far have had no confirmed cases but a not so far away high school was closed completely on Wednesday through to Jan opening following advice from PHE so they must have taken a hit 😕
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I’d be livid too Louby, it’s so thoughtless/selfish 😡
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Well done on being brave enough to take the decision to close this Friday 🎩 of to you, was waiting on a result to know if even opening tomorrow but thankfully that has come back negative.
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PayPal fees cost us 20p per transaction +1.4% (the £1 donations were costly), you can’t just run a raffle through PayPal though so had to find a platform that would allow a raffle and there weren’t many of those, we came across ‘total giving’ eventually and setting it up as a charity was free, (we had to include everything that should be on a ticket in the blurb) you then had to choose a payment option from 3 (I hadn’t heard of a couple so stuck with PayPal). FFC - It does seem unfair that some counties are still dead against making a consumables charge when they’re clearly not giving us enough, my county tell parents to expect it now on the parent funding agreement terms, we say it covers snack, seasonal activity supplies, visitors, we supply waterproofs, at the moment it’s all the extra cleaning products we are getting through. Our charge doesn’t cover the difference lost between hourly funding rate and fee rate but it will be an extra 1.5k on the Spring 2021 term, some are just charging the difference end of. what will your county do if you introduce it? I keep reading the living wage is going up by 19p an hour but funding only 8p an hour, I wonder how some manage their budgets when they can’t work out 1x 19p an hour against 8 x 8p an hour is still a profit 🤔
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Our FFC is now 30p an hour and there isn’t anything optional about it 🤭 great planning on the getting out earlier...enjoy 🙂
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Committee run Pre school
Mouseketeer replied to Emma Bailey_902595195's topic in Committee-run Provisions
If you mean as a volunteer we have on occasion asked one to cover staff absence (if DBS/suitable person check in place), we don’t leave them unsupervised or expect them to carry out toileting duties, you’d need to make sure your qualified to non-qualified staff ratios work. Employed staff can be on the committee if you are running with the correct constitution (ours 2011 PSLA/ EYA) or your constitution if that’s included. If committee members have a volunteer DBS they can’t be paid to work, if that is going to happen they need a fully paid one. This is only my understanding of a confusing situation 🤔 -
Brilliant! We took about £950 on ours less some gift aid people added that we can’t include, PayPal fees and a bit of outlay like the lotteries licence we expect to clear £850 which is 4x what we would have made on normal Xmas raffle. indoor play as a whole group for the first time this week ...oh boy the noise and mess, they have so forgotten how to adjust from outdoor to indoor play, has anyone else noticed this? So wishing we’d started back a week early and was finishing on the 11th now, a few challenging children have staff moral quite low as it is and now a couple of staff are getting anxious about having a positive case in the last week, I’m trying not to even think about that and the feeling of guilt that will ensue if it happens and it messes up their Xmas plans hang in there everyone 🤞
