What do you think?

Each year it gets more difficult to raise enough money for us to run our Toy Library Play and Lend Sessions. These are the sessions for families with pre-school children that run during school terms in community centres and church halls in and around Bulwell. Last year well over 200 families used these sessions.

For the 30 years that we have been running them they have been completely free, the only cost being a voluntary payment of 15p to borrow a toy.

To keep the Toy Library sessions running in the future we have no choice but to think seriously about starting to make a small charge.

The Management Committee and staff have thought long and hard about this and don’t want to do anything without finding out what our members think. Many of you will know that we recently asked people to fill in a questionnaire about charging at the sessions.

The results of the questionnaire were almost all in favour of us making a small charge to come to each session. Most people suggested that a fair amount to charge was £1 per session per family or childminder.

This will be discussed at the next meeting of our Management Committee, please let us know what you think if you haven’t already.

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