Kids earning monies to pay for school trips/tours

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Any ideas for my 13 year old son to earn his own monies to pay the £2000 for his school cricket tour to the Caribbean? I want him to have some financial responsibility.

I think its a great idea to have DS contribute. The £2000 would be a stretch? When is the trip?

Does he have any skills etc? Music? Art? Etc

I knew a girl that bought beads, made bracelets/ Jewellery and sold them at various school fates to pay for a school trip.

OP, our philosophy on this is we fund one short trip per year (e.g. ds2 has just come back from 5 days in Germany, they went by coach, trip cost £600). Any more than that and we do 'matched funding' i.e we pay half the cost. Both DS's are anticipating expensive long-haul trips (rugby tour) in 6th form and there is 2 years to plan & pay for this - so they ask for cash for birthday & xmas presents, save pocket money, ask for extra jobs to do e.g. gardening, car valeting and ds1 (16) will (hopefully) earn some decent money this summer from a temp job. Ds1 has already saved up almost £2k, but for ds2 cash burns a hole in his pocket.

Paper round. Dd1 went to Kenya on the earnings, then handed it on to dd2 who is going to Vietnam on it.