'Wet Side' Pool Fees
Next term's fees are always due by the last club session of the current term. Thursday 29th March 2012 is the date for your diary if you want to guarantee your child's place for Summer term 2012.
Divers will NOT be allowed on poolside during term until fees have been paid - or a specific arrangement to pay within 4 weeks of the start of term has been made with Ian or Alison.
Fees are charged as below:-
- 1 session £50.00
- 2 sessions £68.00 (by coach's invitation only for squad divers)
There are 4 hour long club sessions to choose from. These are:-
- Tuesday 5pm
- Tuesday 6pm
- Thursday 6pm
- Thursday 7pm
How To Pay Fees
Have you considered setting up an electronic transfer from your bank account direct to the WFDC account? Once done, every future payment for term fees, dry land fees, ASA fees and all those competition entry fees will be simple and easy to make from your home or work computer screen at a time that is convenient to you. Ask the club officers for the required details to set up your transfer at the next pool session.
Once cleared, your payment will appear on the club's statement which can be verified online. Please drop a quick email to admin@wfdc.org.uk to let us know to look out for your payment on the statement. You do NOT need to quote your own personal bank account details in this email. We will issue a club receipt and confirm the number by way of reply to your email. The paper version can be handed to you or your child at the next pool session after the payment is checked.
Fees can also be paid during normal weekly diving sessions to club officers. You will be issued with a receipt as proof of payment.
Alternatively, fees (cheques only) may be sent to The Treasurer. Please write the diver's name and the session they attend on the back. A receipt will be given to you at the first session the diver attends in the new term.
Unless parents contact us we will assume that anyone who has not paid their fees by the end of the current term does not wish to continue with the club. Their child's place on the next term is at risk of being offered to the next person on our waiting list.
Fees Collection Policy Statement
9th June 2011 - Parents of WFDC club members will be aware that deadlines for fees collection are now being more strictly enforced. A short explanation for this is offered.
- the club has some of the lowest fees in London but costs do not remain static
- the committee strives to delay fee increases for as long as possible and also to ensure that any unavoidable increase is as low as possible
- to achieve this the committee needs to i) maximise the income of the club using the limited number of places available and ii) ensure a constant revenue stream across terms
- there has been a problem with some divers leaving but not telling the club for several weeks into the new term so that a fee generating place is lost to the club's coffers
- late and lost payments make for a very unpredictable income stream which then makes budgeting very difficult
- the relatively low number of members (approx 60) means that every unrealised termly fee makes for quite a significant gap in our cost/income ratio
- we have a waiting list of new divers which means that every place not taken up costs the club real money
- the club is run by just a few volunteers who would ideally like to devote their limited available time to work more usefully for the benefit of the club and its members BUT the effort needed to chase late fees significantly and negatively affects their ability to achieve this aim
Given all of the above, the club committee has decided it now needs a definite financial commitment to the next term from all parents and this MUST be received by the last day of the old term.
The Membership Secretary then has the entire holiday period to contact divers on the waiting list to ensure the club fills every available place from day one of the new term.
The new policy on fees merely brings WFDC into line with all other sports clubs, leisure centre swimming lessons and activities such as ballet lessons which are ALL far more rigorous in collecting fees at the end of a current term to reserve a place on the next term.
The committee trusts that parents will understand the reason for the new fees collection regime which aims to strengthen the club's position and ensure a stronger future for diving in Waltham Forest.
Dry Land trampoline training is held at Kelmscott Leisure Centre (Markhouse Road) on Wednesdays. Hour long sessions start at 6pm and at 7pm. Fees are £30.00 for a 6 week course. You can be pay dry land fees along with your 'wet side' term fees or separately. Places are limited so parents must book their child onto the course with Bill.
February 3rd 2012 - The following explanation is offered to parents / carers about the need for WFDC to tighten up the fee collection process. The Club Committee hope everyone will understand and appreciate the need to take this approach. If any one person recognises aspects of their own situation in the following then please be assured that this is not aimed at you in particular. The Club Committee has decided to generally tighten up the whole area of fees collection because the process has not been as clearly implemented as it should have been.