Parental donations to school funds rising
The average monthly voluntary donation parents are making to school funds rose by £2.45 over the past year from £8.90 to £11.35, according to a survey carried out by Parentkind.
The charity surveyed 1,500 parents – 1,200 from England, 100 from Northern Ireland and 200 from Wales – over the summer holidays.
Other findings from the survey include:
- 43% of parents say they have been asked to give money to a school fund
- over a quarter of the parents (26%) reported paying for school clubs that used to be free
- 28% had been asked to pay to attend events such as sports days and concerts
- a fifth (21%) had been asked to supply teaching equipment such as stationery, books and glue pens – up from 15% in 2017
- more than one in 10 (12%) had supplied essentials such as toilet paper – up from 7% the previous year
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