Childminders Etiquette

[eltonbyrne]

I take my son to a really lovely local playgroup in a church hall. We get free use of the hall for a £1 donation per child. In the last year quite a few childminders have started to come to the playgroup. Today I noticed that the childminders are only paying £1 despite some having as many as three kids with them. I feel like this is taking advantage of a charitable service. One childminder complained to a regular grandparent about not having tea and coffee as standard and also complained about the lack of arts and crafts, etc. available. The grandparent gently suggested that the childminder organise these things if she wanted them available. Just wondered what others thoughts and experiences are. Wondering if it is worth chatting to the church about laying down some concrete ground rules mainly around the donations.

I’d say it was standard. I used to attend a playgroup which was £2 suggested donation. We were an honest bunch so there was a general lack of counting and record keeping. You chucked money in tin. We all took turns at buying snacks/ milk and you took money out the tin.

Donations were really to cover snack/ tea/ coffee, biscuits for grown ups. I was rubbish at carrying change so I whenever it was my turn to go buy snacks, I’d just leave the receipt and round down to nearest number of weeks

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