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I do wonder if some of the schools will remove themselves from charitable status to avoid having to do any community outreach and similar.
That should save them a solid 20% of spend.
It would also lose them the 25% gift aid uplift they receive.
There are a lot of weird charity / gift aid things going on in education.
For example, my daughter's school asks* us to pay £30/mo for laptop provision. This gives the students a standardised laptop with on site support for repairs/fixes. It's an awesome setup.
But, rather than pay £30/mo directly to the school for the laptop the money goes to a charity arm of the school and benefits from the gift aid uplift. And even though we are receiving something in return for our donation (which wouldn't normally be allowed by the gift aid rules) there are exceptions in place for this kind of scheme in educational settings.
(State secondary, but that won't stop people quoting some of this out of context in the GC thread.)
* Those who can't afford it don't have to pay as much or at all and the school still provides a laptop.
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I do wonder if some of the schools will remove themselves from charitable status to avoid having to do any community outreach and similar.
That should save them a solid 20% of spend.