To think that nursery fundraisers are a bit cheeky?

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My DC's nursery had a fundraising day last weekend, where parents were invited to attend and throw money away on raffles, cake stalls etc. I naively asked which charity we were supporting, and was told that all monies raised were for the nursery and would go towards new nursery toys etc.

This is a private nursery, which is consistently oversubscribed and isn't cheap - AIBU to think that they should use some of their sizeable profits to purchase equipment, rather than fleecing parents for more money on top of already high fees?

YANBU bloody cheeky

YANBU. I know of two people who have owned nurseries and made plenty money. They chose to take a big part of the money for their own wages, rather than put money back into the nursery. May not be the same case in smaller nurseries of course.

If it is a private nursery intended to make a profit then YANBU.

However, some people have no idea the costs that go into running a nursery ot preschool.

The pre-school that my children have both attended is a registered charity and completely self funded. They recieve the 3 year old funding, but that doesn't cover all hours and when you accept children from 2 it is less than half of the children that are in receipt of this funding.

Fees are kept low and do not cover wages let alone other costs. 2 options which are regularly given to parents are fundraise or up the fees to almost double so all costs are covered this way. Unsurprisingly people would rather fundraise (or leave it to the minority that will actually get of their bums and plan something) than pay more money.

I think nursery fundraisers are fine. But I wouldn't feel obligated to participate and contribute financially. I would tell friends and family about it though.

dd1 nursery was a PRIVATE BUSINESS which charged £70 per day and had the how to beg for supermarket vouchers when they were on offer. no fricking chance

Dd2 is at a local montessori which is run on a cost basis. costs £17 per day. No problem at all with vouchers or anything else they might want.

YANBU. DD's private nursery used act as if they were a charity too with fund raising events. I thought that they had a real cheek and never used to contribute.

I would have contributed to dd's preschool as it was a non profit making registered charity. They never used to ask for anything though. Even though their fees were lower than private nursery fees they were enough to cover their costs.

YANBU. DS2's old nursery had a summer fair while he was there, to raise money for equipment. They actually had the gall to try and sell us tickets to get into the damn thing. The poor nursery assistant looked mortified trying to sell these tickets but I just gently explained as I already paid a third of my salary to these money grabbing bastards people they were getting no more out of me. Especially as they were touting the opportunity to buy my own child's artwork....hahahahahahaha etc