Good morning

North Mymms Youth Project always aims to charge as little as possible for activities and camps as we appreciate that particularly at the moment families are under significant financial pressure. However, unfortunately due to the recent major increases in food and fuel costs (which were not really forecast when we budgeted for summer camp last October) we are currently facing a quite significant loss of several thousand pounds on this months summer camp.

We believe that the £250 we have charged is excellent value for money for what we are offering. This price was in fact cheaper than the prices we charged pre-covid for our week long camps in 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016 as we were aware that some families were struggling.

We are asking parents if they would be willing to make a voluntary £35 payment to cover the unforeseen additional expenditure for this year’s camp. Although we did budget for a bit of contingency money it unfortunately just hasn’t been enough to cover the massive increase in costs we are now facing. We believe even at £285 our 7 day trip still is exceptionally good value when compared to other school based trips your child may have attended, however we are going to keep this additional payment voluntarily so if you are unable to pay it please do not feel any pressure to do so. This has been added to your online account but will be removed during September automatically if it has not been paid.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about this.

Thanks

Jame