Or is it just VA primary schools?
Quite cross about this. Our school has just sent out a letter asking for contributions (a suggestion of £25 a month no less) to the governors' fund needed to meet 10% of capital projects undertaken by the school.
The explanatory note that accompanies the request states that ALL primary schools have such a fund but it was my understanding that it was only VA primary schools that had such a fund, which supposedly came from church coffers to meet the 10% shortfall in funding from the LA in return for which the school gets to set its own admissions etc.
I have a good mind to make the school clarify the advice it has sent out to make it clear that this 10% funding is only required because it is a VA school (but I need to check I am right first ), the implication in their current letter being that it would be unreasonable for any parent not to pay because the situation is the same in all local schools.