The Committee at Blues Pre-School
A small committee of volunteers runs the
pre-school, meeting approximately once a month during the school
year. They employ staff to run the sessions; fundraise; arrange
trips and develop day-to-day policies.
The committee is elected each year at the Annual
General Meeting, which is usually held during September each year, new
members are always welcome as “many hands make light work!”
Thinking about joining the Blues Pre-School
Committee?
What is involved?
The pre-school committee chairperson will be happy
to tell you in more detail about how you can become involved. There are
lots of ways you can contribute to the committee and you can choose to
give as much or as little time as you can spare. The good thing is you
don't need any experience to make a difference.
The committee is responsible for the overall
management and smooth-running of the pre-school. This can mean anything
from organising a summer fundraising event to negotiating with a
landlord over the terms of a lease. The committee is the employer of
staff in the pre-school so has overall responsibility for recruiting,
training and developing staff, paying their salaries, and managing
their contracts of employment.
The committee also has responsibility for things like developing a
business plan, managing the daily accounts and, working with staff,
ensuring the pre-school follows health and safety, risk assessment,
insurance and first aid guidance and procedures.
What you can choose to do
A lot of the work committees do is fun – building
new partnerships with other parents and professionals, coming up with
new fundraising ideas, getting exciting plans off the ground but there
are some regular jobs too. The three main roles on the committee are
chair, treasurer and secretary. The tasks can be shared between
different parents so all the work need not fall on any one person. The
pre-school may have a budget for specific tasks to be done by paid
professionals, for example the monthly accounts. However, overall
responsibility for these areas rests with the committee.
Every
year, as the children move on so do our parents. We are always
happy to have new faces join the committee. However we do
appreciate that sometimes parents simply want to help on an as-needed
basis, so we have a special team of
Committed Parents
who help out when they can as needed. Often this tends to be in
the run up to a fundraising event where it all gets very hectic and
exciting!
Vacant Committee Posts
Forthcoming Committee Meetings
9th Jan 2012
7th Feb 2012
7th Mar 2012
19th Apr 2012
To find out more click here
to visit the resources area of the Pre-School Alliance website, where
you can download a leaflet giving more information about volunteering
for a pre-school Committee.
