Our school hires out their hall to the community for events, we've hired it for our daughter's birthday party in a couple of weeks time.
They charge an hourly rate to hire, then an additional hourly rate for 'care taker's time for locking up - so if you hire it for 3 hours you pay 3 x the hourly rate, plus 3 x the care takers rate, which more than doubles the basic hall charge
If you're a regular hirer, you can have your own set of keys, and not pay the care taker's rate
There are several key holders who all take it in turns if the care taker isn't available to lock/unlock. My DH is one of the key holders.
So, last week I drop off the hire forms and the cash which covered the hire charge and I rounded up as an extra donation. Thinking that as DH had a key and will be locking up behind us, we'd be treated as the other regular key holding hall hirers
But no, I get an additional invoice today for the 3 x hourly care takers rate, ignoring the £8 extra I rounded up on the hire charge
Trivial I know, but I'm annoyed - the amount of times DH has gone out to lock/unlock (we live closest to school so seem to be the first port of call), I would have thought they'd let us off the care-takers charge
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to think this is a bit cheeky and they should let us off the charge?
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freddiefrog · 08/07/2013 10:48
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