To ask as school summer fair and fete season starts

[NynaevesSister]

You volunteer to help, if you can of course, with the fair/fete at your school? I would say, put your name forward, be clear about what you can do/time you can do, and finish when you said you were going to.

But please so pitch in, even if to run a stall for an hour. Maybe the fair looks chaotic, maybe a few stressed people don't necessarily seem friendly on the day! But please don't let it put you off. Children love getting to do something in their school that isn't actual school, and the money raised does help. Especially these days.

Yes. Not helping is one thing, moaning is quite another and moaning because you weren't listening or can't read is really really annoying.

It was made perfectly clear that the PTA could afford panto tickets, but not transport, several times in several places. People still looked when asked for money for the coach.

But did you give people the chance to say no panto then? Or was it a done deal the PTA was buying panto tickets? Because id rather not pay the coach fare and have the PTA allocate the ticket money somewhere else.

Yes JohnCusackswife, that is exactly it. I'll never forget years ago when I was doing a cake stall with the PTA at an infant school. Huge stall, tons of cakes, sold out within perhaps 25 mins. Some parents who had chosen to come along later having let their kids play on the swings at the park first complaining that we had no cakes left by the time they arrived. I'll never forget how kindly and patiently one of the other PTA women explained to her, very apologetically, that we could only sell as many cakes as the parent's brought in and there was nothing we could do. It amazes me how many people are prepared to moan but never to help.

I think 80 people who need pancakes are well 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😉