The children of Bridge School have benefitted from leasing two school minibuses for the past seven years which has resulted in lower costs to parents when arranging school trips and more opportunities for curricular and extra-curricular activities, such as sporting and art events.
As the lease is coming to an end, we have been given the opportunity to purchase our existing minibuses which is more cost effective than starting a new lease.
The amount we have been quoted for both minibuses is £29,000.
The PTFA are able to use their existing funds to secure the purchase of one of the minibuses and have already pledged £14,500.
As we were not expecting this opportunity, we do not have the immediate funds in the school budget although we can commit to £4,500 (which was the annual cost of the lease agreement).
This leaves us with a target of £10,000 to raise by the end of the financial year.
