To think it's a bit off DS having to buy all the stock for his Christmas fair stall?

[MidMay]

DS(13) is a member of a club at school which is affiliated to the Rotary Club.

This school club are organising a Christmas fair to raise funds for charity - fine.

DS tells me he we has to buy the stock for the stall to sell which basically equates to a shed load of sweets plus plastic cups for them to go in.

Volunteering time is one thing but expecting him to purchase all the stock out of his our money seems a bit excessive to me. AIBU?

My usual experience of these things is that the children who attend school are asked to send in donations for a fair, not for it to be down to the child manning the stall themselves.

DH suggested that he reimburses himself out of monies made at the event, with over and above as profit. DS says he can't do this and is getting upset about it all.

Am thinking of emailing the School teacher link for the club but the kids seem to have organised it themselves and I don't want it to reflect badly on him.

Speak to the school (or whomever) - I can't think of any circumstance where this should be so - (am school governor).

It's not like your son is running a business is it!

Thanks topcoat for clarifying that I'm not spectacularly misunderstanding. I suspect it may be the case that DS is so will email School.

Are you sure he's got this right?

It wouldn't be at all uncommon for "someone" to have to buy the materials / stock for a fundraiser, and be reimbursed either from existing funds or from what's made on the day. If only for practical reasons, charity accounts often don't have bank cards to go online shopping with etc.
So I don't get why he wouldn't be reimbursed from the profit

Separate question is whether it's fair your DS you is the only one who has to do this.

Do the profits go to charity or to the people or organised the event?

I'd suck it up for charity but I wouldn't be happy doing it for someone else to make a profit.

To the people who organised the event*

Mire likely ds has got the wrong end of the stick somewhere!

My Ds had to do this in yr 8. They had free choice over what the stall was and had to "source" the stock/prizes themselves by asking for donations, which of course in most cases meant parents. They did it in teams though so wasn't too onerous.

I was a bit [Hmm] about it at first but can see that the dc did get a lot out of it - not least seeing how hard you have to work to make a few quid profit.

It is for charity.

pretty interesting to read your experience.

I wonder if my fairly gullible DS got volunteered to do this by his peers and now doesn't want to lose face.