Parent Staff Society
Our Parent Staff Society (PSS) is at the heart of a dynamic school community.
The PSS is a group of parents/grandparents from across the whole school (Kindergarten to Senior School), who with the support of the Senior Leadership team at Talbot Heath, put on fundraising events to raise additional funds to support those ‘extras’ which enrich the school life of our girls.
Key events over the last twelve months have been Festive Friday, a Parents’ Quiz Night, the Easter Basket Raffle and our first ever Colour Run. Whilst raising additional funds is one of our primary goals, equally important is the hosting of events for all families and staff of Talbot Heath to have fun, socialise and be part of our community.
Projects that have been supported over recent years are £20,000 towards the cost of the sports pavilion, £10,000 towards the Hardy gym along with many other smaller projects such as the purchase of drones for the girls to learn coding, buddy benches and outdoor sports equipment. Upcoming projects being supported by the PSS are an outdoor learning roundhouse and a new play area for the pre-prep girls, both of which will play an important role in supporting the school with the delivery of their Learning for Sustainability.
The parents on the Parent Staff Society Committee represent their Year Groups and we are always keen to welcome parents to our society, it is a great way to meet parents from across all year groups. If you would like to get involved with events or fundraising, please contact us at psstreasurer@talbotheath.org .
We look forward to hearing from you.
SURVEY! We are always looking at new events to put on so please let us know via the form below if there are any fundraising events would you like us to put on?
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Gift Aid
Gift aid is a scheme whereby HM Revenue & Customs give money to charity. The PSS annual subscriptions of £15 which are added to the September fee notes are eligible for the scheme and all parents need to do for us to claim £3.75 per family each year is to sign, date and return the gift aid declaration to the PSS. The only things to think about are to ensure that it is the person who pays the school fees who signs the declaration, and they need to actually pay UK income tax or capital gains tax. It makes no difference to the scheme if the signatory is a parent, grandparent, aunty etc, as long as it is the person paying the school fees. If the person signing the declaration pays income tax at 40% or 45% then they can also claim tax relief for the donation of £15 on their tax return, so that they also get a tax benefit.
Once a declaration has been signed it will stay in force till your daughter leaves the school or you ask for it to be rescinded – for example if you move abroad and are no longer a UK tax-payer. Although the annual sum for each family is only small, it soon mounts up to a decent sum.
The Gift Aid form is here