Grants / Donations

Here we bring you details of sums of money given to the school by the PTA. The 'grants' are the major amounts of money given for a specific project, whilst 'donations' are those given for things like the nursery party and the harvest festival.

During the process of registering as a charity, we have found that the PTA is not generally allowed to sit on funds. Traditionally the PTA seems to have carried £5-7000 over from one year to the next, but we have been made aware that we should aim to spend sums raised in line with our objectives, rather than just bank it against future needs.

Accordingly a 'shopping list' is maintained by the school. The top of the list (in fact at present the whole list) looks like this:

nothing that's not below...

Past Grants and Donations

Note that commitments (in blue) are amounts we have agreed to pay but not yet paid.

May 2005	Library control software	£3200
May 2005	Ocean World costumes	£200
May 2005	Gazebo Repairs	£635
May 2005	Playground markings and equipment	£888
July 2004	A climbing wall (a day's hire not a purchase!)	£550
May 2004	Furniture and other items for the Nursery	£1066
May 2004	Garden shed and gardening equipment	£450
February 2004	A netball post (and weights to hold it down)	£104
February 2004	Furniture for Elm and Cedar classrooms (rest)	£1922
February 2004	Furniture for Elm and Cedar classrooms (part)	£1216
February 2004	Fencing for the wild area	£526
January 2004	Commission on sale of catalogue items (*)	£145
December 2003	New bark chips for the nursery area	£625
October 2003	Final costs for the outside classroom	£1795
July 2003	New liner for pool and repairs to exterior panels	£3386
March 2003	New bark chips for outside classroom	£490
March 2003	Hats for pupils waiting for 'peer mediation'	£54
March 2003	The vegetable garden (initial contribution)	£118
October 2002	The outside classroom (initial costs)	£3420
October 2002	A 'story-teller' for half a day	£150
October 2002	New football shirts for the school team	£147
June 2002	Jubilee medals	£296
June 2002	Jubilee Party costs	£233
May 2002	Repairs/renewals to climbing equipment	£1000
May 2002	Repairs/renewals to playground games	£1000
May 2002	Meet cost of sculptor for Big Arts week	£330
January 2002	Storage cabinets for new corridors	£1296
January 2002	Furniture for Pine classroom	£1435
November 2001	Teddy hundred board	£30
November 2001	Christmas tree	£36
October 2001	17 pairs red shorts (wow!)	£42
July 2001	18 red tee shirts (wow!)	£45
March 2001	General donation (art)	£2000
March 2001	General donation (sport)	£1000
March 2001	General donation (other)	£1000
March 2001	The Maypole	£470

(*) This item was paid direct from the catalogue company to the school.

This is in addition to meeting the cost of swimming pool heating, the annual harvest festival loaf, a few other odd donations like food for nursery parties and Stuart's overtime for PTA events.