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After the half term break (week beginning 22^th February 2010)

we will be asking you to pay £1.00 per family group

To attend each Toy Library session

We have thought and talked long and hard about this but it has become more and more difficult to get enough funding to keep these sessions going without finding other ways to pay for them.

When we asked members if they would support this the overwhelming response was that you would.

Toy Loan charges

Families will continue to be charged 15p per toy per week

but the charge to Childminders will go up to 50p per toy per week

We hope you all had a great Christmas and wish you a wonderful New Year.

The schools are back this week and here is a reminder of when our sessions will be starting again in 2010:

Our After School sessions in Crabtree Community Centre start this week on Tuesday 5^th January.

The first Pulley Park session is on Saturday 9^th January.

All Play and Lend sessions will restart next week, that is the week beginning Monday 11^th January.

See you soon.

Don’t forget it will be party week at all of our Play and Lend sessions in the week beginning Monday 7^th December. Santa will be visiting so don’t forget to bring along a wrapped gift for your child (maximum value £5).

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.

We are pleased to be sharing the great news about our Play & Lend Sessions through our new leaflet.

Look out for your copy or download a pdf verion here and now.

Download our Play & Lend Sessions leaflet