to hate feeling that we have to donate to fund raising for kids rugby tours?

[PervCat]

You want to go on a jolly then pay for it or for hte really needy ( not many IME) then apply to club funds. As it is feeling pressured to join in for fund raising for a tour I am not going on and most of the people can well afford irks me.

I am generally happy to give to kids bag-packing in Sainsburys - raising money for football kit, scouts activities etc. However, one week a Very Well Known independent school netball team were bag-packing to raise money for a 2-week tour of China. i found myself mysteriously without loose change that day.

Charlotte we had a very similar thing a while back when a local independent school were doing a bag pack to raise money for their cricket tour in South Africa. I don't think so.

I get the point of the fundraising - make the kids try and earn/raise some of the money themselves, see that it is a lot of money needed, not take it for granted etc. BUT this "fundraising" should only be done within the family or amongst close friends where you can reciprocate with each other's kids. Definitely not amongst the general public or wider friends, it's hardly "charity fundraising" is it?
If someone wants to sweep my driveway, wash my car, babysit etc as they are raising money for a rugby tour then great. But don't just expect me to "donate" ! It's the parents that need talking to, the kids can't be expected to realise this at their age imo.

i think that generalyl if you can afford to go then go , if you cant, then organise one you can afford to do

Ha! I'm even resentful of DS2s own (state) school organising a rugby trip to ARGENTINA at huge cost! (He won't be going).

ho ho

$3400?

small world!

bloody unbelievable. Luckily not even a consideration!

Loved the way the original letter bigged up the exotic destinations and made France (expensive enough) sound really dull and boring.
The PE Dept. obvs fancies an adventure!

nothing new there!