Just because I was talking to DD's friend's mum the other day and i was shocked at how much her activities were costing her, and she has 3 DCs, so was spending about £70 a week. (She was complaining about it too, but was feeling bad about cutting down)

DD (7) does

Tae Kwando - free (subsidised by school)

SNY choir - free (auditioned for a place) but £2 bus fare

Brownies - £2 plus £3.50 bus fare

We also go swimming a few times a week, but are members of a hotel gym with pool, so about £9.50 a week for both of us.

So all in I pay £17, including travel. Which seems to be a fair bit less than other activities that DD's friends do (especially dancing, which seems to cost loads!)

So just interested really.

Dd does ballet which is ?3.50 per week (although if she wants to be in the show it will be ?150 for costumes!). She also goes swimming with my mum which is free as we paid ?10 for her to join the gym for a year.

Dd does ballet which is ?3.50 per week (although if she wants to be in the show it will be ?150 for costumes!). She also goes swimming with my mum which is free as we paid ?10 for her to join the gym for a year.

dd1 does raianbows - £20 per term
violin - £70 er term

swimming - free with dh's membership

Ballet, modern and tap @£110 per term, so about £10 a week plus various other expenses for kit, competitons etc

Musical Theatre(acting,singing etc)£5 a week

Clarinet lessons at school £5 a week

Swimming £3.50 a week

Cheerleading £2 a week

So about £35 a week probably, but she does absoutely loads for that price, plus she is an only, so only one set of costs.

myy dd does taekwond which cost us 22 pound per month tsanding order and the kit they done over a free months traing fees whihc is 50 pound for her do bok and her licences so not bad at all. for 2 hours a week. she could have done judo at school for half an hour a week which would have cost us 29 per month plus kit hire. so we decided against it.

DS is quite cheap really

Beavers is £25 a term, so roughly £2.25 a week.
Athletics is £1.50 per week
Rugby is £30 for the year, so I guess about £1 per week a it does not run all year.
Total of £4.75 a week - bargain!

brownies for dd2 - £14 a term
violin at school - free
art club - £3.50 a week

dd1 flute at school - free
she's going to start orchestra, chemistry club at school but they're all free
horse-riding once a fortnight so £11 a week

SO we don't spend a lot on activities apart from the damned horse riding

3 DC.

They do scouting, karate and two play musical instruments.

They do camps with cubs/scouting, and competitions with karate, which both boost the cost somewhat.

Not sure I want to add up the costs, tbh.

They all go swimming too, but we have a family membership at a small gym/pool and that's quite reasonably priced.

Oh, and DS3 has just embarked on a six-week footie course, but that's only £12.

I forgot table tennis for DS1, but that's sporadic, depending on other activities, and DS2 may start.

They go to clubs etc at school that are free - hockey, netball and chess.

The stuff we have to pay for is as follows:

Piano lessons at school cost around £15 each per week

Tennis lessons out of school cost around £10 each per week.

Swimming lessons for DS (DD has thankfully finished her badges) at £7 per week.

Total weekly expenditure £57 excluding travel.

My son does:
Swimming - £60 a term (Sept-Dec)
Enjoy-A-Ball - £25 a month
Plus we go to softplay probably once a week - £4.50

That's it.

Not sure I want to add it up tbh !

dd (7)
Dance lessons - about £18 total
Swimming lesson - £5.50 ish
Piano lesson - about £15 a time

ds(10)
Brass lesson - £16.50
Swimming - £5.50ish
Sailing - £14.50

sooo that's about £75 p w

oh forgot tennis - about £5 a week for dd

Country Dancing-Free with School
Beavers-£50 a year with extras. The Panto is an extra £10 but I haven't had to pay that yet or any others plus I'm paying off the £50 between now and Christmas.
They also do swimming lessons for £1.50 and £2.20 transport but our local pool is about to shut for refurbishment so I haven't got her into that yet.

She's 7 though and I've just started work so this is the first paid activity she's ever done.
The only other before now was art club through school for a term last year.

DS1 Does Taekwondo 7 euros a week.But 25 euros a year for membership and 20 for grading.
Swimming 60 euros for 10 lessons
Golf 100 euros a month.
Plus all these have extras like outfits and clubs and balls etc.

Nothing, they don't do any EC, so it costs nada .
3 DC, age 4-almost 9yo.
Actually, DD does music, but that's in school hours, for about £55/term.... £5/week inclusive?

DS1 10yo - ice hockey £160 per year
Kumon - 2 subjects £90 per month
Scouts - £20 per term
Circus skills club - £30 for a term.

DS2 6yo - Rugby £35 per season
Kumon 2 subjects £90 per month
Beavers - £17 per term
Piano lessons £10 per week

DS3 2yo - Micro sports £60 per term
Music - £4.50 per session

DS1 and 2 do cricket at £100 for the pair in the summer.

Adds up to a lot really doesn't it.

DD (5) does

Ballet $150 per term £7.50 per week
French $350 per term £17.50 per week
Gymnastics $60 per term £6 per week
Swimming $220 per term £11 per week
Violin $360 per term £18 per week

I had just started to realise how much all this stuff was costing. She also does some speech work which is $100 per WEEK! Last one this week, thank god. Plus swimming will finish too, so costs will come down.

dd1

netball-free at school club
choir-free at scghool club
bell ringing-free at school
brownies- £1 A WEEK
BALLET
£4 a week

swimming lesson £4 a week

tennis £4 a week

so 13 quid a week for her

dd2 does rainbows- ppound a week and swimming-£4 a week

total £18 a week

dd1:

guitar at school - £5 per week (but only for 15 minute lesson!!)
ice skating - £5 per week for 1/2 hour lesson
gym - £5 per week for 1 hour lesson

dd2 - no lessons as she has SN. But she does go to a Saturday morning club once a month which is free !

So £15 per week plus travel (minimal as nearby).

Good Lord artfishy-those are very expensive lessons you are paying for!

DD2
french club (at school) £5
Drama (at school) £4
Cheerleading (at school) £4
Brownies £2.50
11+ Tuition £23
Ballet,Jazz,Modern classes £10 perweek
Total £48.50

No she doesn't go to a private school. All the school clubs are run by outside agencies (none by the teachers)

DD1
Ballet,jazz, modern,tap £14
Guitar lessons £14
Total £28 per week

£78.50 in total perweek.

<faints>

Wouldn't be so bad if we could actually pay weekly but they are all paid termly or half termly.

DS is 5

Baking club (@ school) 50p per week

Performing arts. (@ school) Free

Rugby training ( with boys team at local professional team) £2 a week

God I'm cheap!

DD does: Beavers (£17/term)
Swimming (£3.50/wk)
Brownies (£2/week)
ballet (£5/week)

DS1 does swimming (as DD)
Cubs (£17/term)
football (£3/week)

DS2 does swimming
football
gym (£3/week)

So total is about £30 or so a week. Wow that's less than yr one DD frank!

Older two also do choir with school which is free. DD also want to go back to a dance class she used to do which was £3.50. DS2 will do Beavers next year too. etc etc

Music lessons seem to be a big price bumper upper!

Yes the start of term is always a painful time shelling out for everything.

These people always see me coming [empties wallet].

Uh and £3.50 to take me dh and DS swimming. I get DLA and have a council card that gives me 50% off plus allows another adult to accompany we for free.

We live in a very deprived area with a very good council

dd1 dancing three times a week @ £3 per time. but when she is five will move to four times a week. when she gets back into comps etc. will be still be four times a week but more hours and will be £3 per hour.

also tap shoes, ballet shoes etc all need paying for and the x mas play end up costing about £100 - £150 all including make up/ travel/ hair things / costumes.

so quite a lot when its all added up. also she usually does something on a weekend i.e ice skating/swimming/softplay which usually comes to about a tenner. according to her she is thinking of starting trampolining club. im thinking of filing for bankrupcty as she cant just do lessons she has to get all over involved so that would be more leotards, competition fees etc.

DD does:
- ballet at £5.00 a week
- trampolining at £4.50 a week
- swimming at either £2.60 or £5.20 depending on whether she is accompanied by both of us or just one (she is free!) so call it £3.90

£13.40 week on average, plus about 35 miles' worth of petrol (ouch).

Guides - £1 a week! The rest are after school clubs.

DD does:
cubs £1 per week, plus annual £23?
brownies £1 per week, plus annual £23?
Swimming lessons about £5 a week
Gym (2hrs) about £8 a week
Piano about £5 a week (in school)

DS does:
beavers 50p per week, plus annual £23?
Swimming lessons about £5 a week
Football (2 hrs) about £2 a week
Cornet about £5 a week (in school)

Plus swimming with me £1.40 each!

We decided against swimming club at about £9 a week each for 2x1hour lessons each! - too much time and money!

It would seem that cubs, scouts, rainbows and brownies are the cheapest then!

Some classes are really expensive. Although i do like the sound of circus skills!

Ballet, Tap & Modern £150 a term
Jazz £40 a term
Brownies £14 a term
Panto rehearsals - free but costume charge of £20
Mardi Gras comp in Nov - £60 entry

All of the above require outfits.
Its a killer

Only one DS.

Football

Rock Choir

Swimming

Cricket (Summer)

I have no idea re price.

Yeah Beavers etc is a bargain imho.

The leaders do it as volunteers too unlike a lot of thing (suppose that helps to keep price down).

TBH that's the one thing I make sure they always do - football and dance is all fine but Cubs and Brownies is where they see thei rmates just for fun.

2 dds.
Only swimming, about £80 a term each.

DD (8 yo):
Swimming 3 times a week £9.00
Beavers £2.00
Horse Riding £25.00

DS (6 yo)
Swimming 2 times a week £6.00
Beavers £2.00
Football £5.00

DD has given up dance & drama to do Horse Riding as definitely couldn't afford both.

Cheapest are also those run by teachers at school (Ed dept) and those run by Community Ed dept. Just as cheap as brownies etc. Worth acknowledging local authorities every now and then.

Not sure I want to add it up...

DS1 (12)
Flute, £12 a week
Sailing £90 a year (call it £2 a week)
Scouts £2

DS2 (9)
Brass lesson £8 a week (plus exams at £25 to £40 a shot)
Swimming £4
Gymnastics £4
everything else free (thank you school!)

DD1 (7)
Piano £8
Swimming £4
Music theatre 50p (so ner ner to Stagecoach)

All comes to about £45. Actually that's not too bad for three, is it?

All you people whose DDs do dance. Are any of them doing the exam courses at 6?

When DD moves up from pre-primary to primary ballet in Feb we have a choice of one class a week or two classses a week if you want to do exams. How do yours find the exam classes? Is it too much for a 6 year old or do they enjoy it?

I have to put in the expression of interest forms next week and I have no idea what to do. I think she'd get some enjoyment out of working for something concrete but not sure how full-on it is.

<sorry for hijack>

Daughter (age 6) does

Dance at approx £100 a term (for two classes)
Gymnastics £6 a week
Brownies £20 a term

Arfishy - when daughter did her first exam (pre-primary, I think) earlier this year she had to do extra exam classes for about a month beforehand. She enjoyed the extra classes and loved the exam itself; she wasn't worried about it, as they do it as a group and their teacher is in the room with them. We all trooped off to the exam centre and the teacher got the girls looking extra ballerina-like with hair gel and ribbons, which I thought was a bit precocious but the girls loved. They are all very proud of their certificates!

But I think it depends on the child - only about half of daughter's usual class entered for the exam. Some of the other mums thought that an exam would take the fun out of it.

Sorry. Long post. Too late. Zzzz.

Dancing £10.30 a week plus uniform, competitions, costumes and private lessons (approx £2k a year)

Gymnastics £4.25 a week plus leotard and rosettes at £5.00 every 2 months or so

Swimming £55.00 for a 10 week term plus badges at about £2.50 a term

Bloody hell at what you are all spending! <faints>

DS climbs once a fortnight outdoors, this costs peytrol money for him and I only, about £10 a go in a shared car

Once a fortnight climbing indoors, £8 for both of us. In the winter when we don't go outdoors this goes up to twice a week.

arfishy my daughter studies for her exams within normal class times. she has her first one coming up soon. if they need extra help they stay for an hour for a one on one after normal class.

About £400 pa, plus kit/shoes/uniform
that covers
brownies for two
trampliling for three
gym for two
plus travel, parties, exam fees
Makes me a bit weak to think of it actually

DD is only 3 so does swimming lessons, £50 per term, and we go to fun swimming sessions sometimes at the weekend and in the school holidays at about £4 for both of us. I'm hoping she can start dance soon too which will be £3.20 per week. We walk to all of the above.
We did start forest school but it was £5 per session + about £7 petrol and I decided that was too much money for what she got out of it.
Glad to see that rainbows etc is so reasonable as she'll join when shes old enough.
But then they'll be after school clubs too!

Forgot to add thats part of our reasoning for having an only child as Dh and I are both in fairly low paid jobs so couldn't afford more children. I'd love dd to be able to start horseriding too, but it is so expensive, and she's too little at the moment anyway.
I also spoke to a friend of mine who pays £15 for half an hour private swimming lesson for her 3yr old dd, struck me as alot of money!

Hmmmm let me add mine up

ds1
fencing - £4
urban self defence -£12.50
piano - £7

dd1
art club - £3
scuba diving - £25
violin - £7

dd2
art club - 50p
horse riding - £15

total - 62 quid

ds aged 2

parent and toddler gym £26 for half a term to include insurance.

Two toddler groups £2

Swimming class £3.20
Swimming class £8.00

Jumpstart £2.50

Kindermusik £35 for 6 weeks

arfishy my DD does exams as part of her dance class - twice a year - they are working towards them now (I think they are in early Dec).

The class is 90 mins long and she is 7 if that's any help. Younger ones (say up to 5+) doe an hour but they do exams too.

LittleB £15 for a half hour swim lesson is A Lot. And for a 3yo too <struggles to spot point for such a young child>

Thanks all for the replies about the dancing. I've spoken to her teacher and we think it is probably best not to go with the exams (we are not a particularly agile family ). I'm going to see if she wants to do tap instead, which I think she will love <adds new tap outfit and shoes to list of outgoings>. I had to veto jazz as I felt the outfits and moves were a little too suggestive for a 5 year old.

I forgot that we are enrolling in Nippers this weekend. It's the surf life saving club for children. That'll be another $150 I think. Important though, the surf is dangerous and I can't teach her surf safety myself, I didn't get that much experience in riptides and sharks in SW London.

DS (2) does

Swimming £10

Tumbletots £5.25

Toddler group x 3 - £4.50

Playgroup £20.20

£19.75 without playgroup
£39.95 with playgroup

DD (9) does:
Swimming - £6 / week
Brownies - £1/50 / week
Tennis - £4.50 / week
Recorder Club - free (lunchtime)
Choir - free (lunchtime)
Flute - £10 / week
Netball - free (after school club)

DS (7) does:
Swiming - £6 / week
Beavers - £2 / week
Recorder Club - free (lunchtime)
Tennis - £4.50 / week
Guitar - £10 / week

Eek that's almost £45 per week. Never thought about it like that AND I disapprove of too many extra-curricular activities....!

Ds1 (7);

Violin lessons (in school) - £10
Piano lessons - free (I am the teacher )
School choir - free
School orchestra - free
Gymnastics - £4.50
Swimming lessons - £4.00
Tennis - £3.00
Orchestra - about £20 a term

Dd (5);

Cello lessons - £10
School choir - free
Gymnastics - 4.50

Ds2 (2);

Nothing regular as yet!

DD, 7, does -

Stagecoach - £330 per term
Irish Dancing - £4 per week
Art Class - £3 per week
Kumon - £50 per month

She tends to do swimming, diving courses during the holidays - £70 for an intensive course.

All her friends seem to do masses of after school activities - there's a great community centre near the school that runs lots of them.

Cross country after schoo £0

Band rehearsal in rec.studio after school £0

Karate £5pweek, £35 for quarterly gradings.

He's quite a cheap date. A friend has 3 kids and pays out over £500 a month for activities

dd1, brownies (£25 a term), cheerleading £0

dd2 rainbows (£20 a term), thats it so far

lol.

DD age 6 does

Stagecoach Free (should be £315 for 13 week term (3 hour class), costumes and admission to performances included)

Ballet £55 for 45 minute class for 10 weeks

Recorders, singing club, choir and gym club all free at school.

Ds age 4 does

Stagecoach Free (should be £157.50 for 13 week term 90 minute class)

Gymbobs £4.75 per week 45 minute class

DS1 - steel band, football, cricket - all free through school.

Sunday League football, £3 per week plus FA registration fees (£20 IIRC)

DS2 - goes out to play with his friends. Free!

DS#1 does nothing now but will be starting drum lessons soon at £6 a week.

DD - riding at £10 a week and swimming at £4 per week. She's do more if she could.

DS#1 - nowt as yet but I suspect we might start swimming lessons soon and he's like to go riding.

Over the years we have tried karate, climbing, sailing, gym club, Rainbows so the costs are relatively low now.

My activities bills are HORDENDOUS!!

DD1 - 9
Tuesday Gymnastics - £56 per term, (plus new leotard £20) = £6 pw
Thursday Ballet - £69 per term = £7 per week
Saturday Stagecoach - should be £315 a term (we pay £105 as dh teaches) = £30pw
Sunday Riding £14pw

DD2 - 7
As above plus
Friday Piano £12 a week

TOTAL for 2 kids = £116 a week

HOLY CRAP ADDING IT UP IS SO SCAREY!!!

However we don't do exams/expensive costumes etc

dd does

gymnastics (16-18hrs per week)

costs me £135 a month

One DD does:

Yoga - £40 sept - december
Swimming - £40 a term
and gulp - Horse riding £20 a week.

DD (6y and Y2):

Playball (done at school) = £5 a week
Drama class (outside of school) = £3.50 a week

I refuse to take on any more at the moment, and never allow any at weekends as that is family time. 2 plus play dates is enough for us.

Swimming
Spanish
Trampolining
Stage school (type thing)

No idea what it costs

DD does one hour's ballet per week (about 500 euros for the year, plus regulation leotard/tights/shoes - so maybe about 600 euros all told) and one hour's tennis (645 euros per year).

I think that these activities are outrageously expensive . But the times and distances and quality of the respective schools were all fab...

Dd aged 4 does:
swimming (£5 approx)
dancing lesson (3.50)
She is due to start Rainbows when she turns 5 too.

Ds is only 6 months and we do:
baby group (£2)
baby massage (£10 but only 4 week course then doing another class at £4 per week)
Swimming (£3)
Music class (£2)

We all go swimming at the weekend as well, often twice so about £7. well worth the money IMO!

ds 6:
- swimming lessons (once a week), 450 euros for a year (and that's because I was too late to sign him up for lessons at the council swimming pool, which would have costed me a half )

- he has a trial on friday for music lessons (needs to choose an instrument). No idea how much that would be

dd 4:

- has a trial on friday for music lessons as well.

Not too many activities, as I'm also looking for an english speaking babysitter of some sorts to keep up their english

ds (age 5) has football and swimming that are council run and cost around £3 a week (but I have no recollection of paying for footie so I probably owe friend for that! ooops!)

dd (2) has toddlers at £10 a term...keep wondering about Jumpin Beans but don't think I can be bothered...

dd (15ish weeks) goes to toddlers but is currently free. I'm torn between being grateful for this and wondering at what age we should make siblings pay...

the also all go to church things on Sunday and on alternate Thursday pms but they're free

Hmm... some of these threads make mine seem ok, after a friend had a go about their extra activities the other day.
Dd1 (11);
Youth Group £1 per week
Violin £158 per term
Orchestra £37 per term
Ballet £55 per term
Hockey free at school
Ds1 (10);
Youth group 50p per week
Swimming £66 per term
drama free after school
football free after school
tri-golf free after school
cheer leading free after school
Dd2 (6);
Swimming £66 per term
Ballet £55 per term
Multi-fitness club free after school
Science club free after school

Dh often takes ds to topgolf, and we often take dd1 to swimming when the others have their lessons.

I have four children and pay a big fat zero for after school stuff. Older sons (16 & 12) play after school sport 3 nights a week, DS2 sings in the school choir - all arranged through school.

We are family members of an expensive tennis club (I think it costs about £700 per annum) but we use it a lot.

swimming lessons at £3.50 per week paid termly
is starting karate at £5 per lesson
ruby at £2 per lesson and wants to do beavers at £2

so £12.50 a week plus uniforms and such, what a cheapskate I am!

DS 13
lifesaving lessons about £70 a term

Scouts £20 a term and volunteers as a cub leader

Also occasionally goes to our mariners base for sailing etc £13

School has a lot of clubs all free. Last year he went to German Cooking, Chess and Science.

This year he should be doing Crest Club, chess if they can get someone to take over it and basketball.

DD 11
swimming about £50 a term

Guides £20 a term

just given up cubs but will carry on being a voluntary leader

Dance club at school £1 a week

Dd (6) does

Saturday - swimming, about £4 a lesson.
Tuesday - gymnasitcs, £2.50 a session.
Thursday - singing / music, £1.50 a session.

So £8 a week.

Ds (18mths) does

Rhyme time - free at the local library
Toddler group - £2

Sometimes we go to soft play, so £3.50, or swimming which is £2.70, but not often.

French is about £4.50 a week for 45 minutes (through school)
art club will be £1 but limited numbers wont get to go for more than 5 weeks
will do beavers in a little while don't know cost
football is £5 a week but on a pay as you go basis

we did do swimming but council threatening to shut pool so not offering more lessons that way they can say there is no demand , we're hoping the credit crunch will put paid to that idea.

we're in London

DS1 (9) does
guitar through school £45 a term
cubs £1.50 a week
football after school £2.00 per term voluntary donation
football on saturdays £2.00 I think
now also in cross country team and football team after school (both free)
He is about to start piano lessons at school at 11 quid for 20 mins

DS2 (4) does at nursery but extra costs:

Rhythm time (elementary music skills/play) - about £30 quid a term
Reading for fun - about the same

6 year-old dd does ;
swimming £4.00
piano lesson £12.50
Music theory £7
violin at school £3.50
maths and english tuition £25.00

I didn't realise until now we spend a total of £52 a week on after school activites.
dd loves after activities but I think £52 is too much. Maybe I have to sack her maths and english tutor and teach dd myself.

We do swimming once a week - I think the lessons cost about £5.50 each but we pay termly so I'm not absolutely sure. Football on a Saturday morning - £3 a week and if you don't go you don't pay and gymnastics, about £55 a term but we may not carry on next term.

ds (just 6).
Beavers - £20 annual sub and £25 per term, plus uniform but that's a one off, and camps I guess.
After-school nature club - free.

Did do swimming last year (£46 for 10 lesson term) but isn't doing it this year.

Ds 4
Piano at school £8.50
Music class at school (after school) £1.25
Music class Saturdays £5
Swimming £10
Sunday school free
Total £24.75

Think swimming class may stop after this term as ds spends his time walking up and down the pool rather than trying to swim!

dd 6 does ballet £60 for the term
swimming £6 per lesson
cycling club £2 per session

ds2 8 does swimming and cycling and will be joining cricket club next season - last summer he did council-run cricket sessions at £2.20 each

ds1 11 does swimming - he's in a club so swims 5 times a week which costs £53 a month plus gala entry fees (which can really mount up ..)
cycling £2 per week
all other sports/clubs done at school so included in fees (phew)

ds1 does
rugby at school 3x week - no extra cost
rugby sundays £30/yr
scouts £60/yr
basketball at school free
hockey at school free

ds2
rugby after school 3x week - free
rugby sunday £30/year
scouts £60/yr

ds3
rugby after school 2x week free
sunday rugby FREE - only pay for first two children in any family
cubs £60/yr
cross country running at school -free
art club - free at school

ds4
rugby sunday - Free, as per ds3
badminton at school free
ICT club at school free
art club at school free
swimming lessons £45/for 10 sessions (I think!)
is joining cubs in jan and can't wait

DD1 age 4 Swimming £50 term
Did Stagecoach for a bit but got fed up of getting up early on Sat ams (so did I), wants to do Tennis but am not going to start until the summer....

DD2 age 2 Music with Mummy £42 term
Play group £2 per week.

I have given myself a policy that each child can do two extra paid regularactivities a week eg ballet and swimming, or brownies and piano, or tennis and piano etc.

Not so much for the money but more because it puts a strain on 'down time' which I value highly as an idle parent.

Ds 5 does no regular activities. He finds school tiring and so we do things like swimming on an adhoc basis according to how tired he is.

Dd is 11. She does tennis, Chinese and cookery at school after school, and all are free, even though they do cookery in a local restaurant!! And she makes her dinner so I don't even have to feed her on Wednesdays

Her main thing though is swimming club. We pay £30 a month and for that she can attend 5 hours of classes a week. Normally she does an hour Sunday and Monday and 2 hours on a Friday.

Scary not sure I want to add it all up TBH
Its all paid per term in advance now and doesnt run in the hols mostly so quite hard to ave out per week and would be more /week if took out hols etc but....

DD1 age 7 does

stagecoach (3hours a week) at £300 term x3/year = ??on ave £17/week
trampolining £50/term x3 + club fees and insurance = ?£4/week
brownies £20/term +outings = ?£2/week
swimming = £35/10 lesson block about 4-5 blocks a year I guess = ??£3.50/week

So that is £26.50 /week actually not to bad considering how much she does and averaged out over the whole year, however that is a grand total of >£1300/year just on extra curricular activities GULP
She is keen to learn guitar and do regular climbing but I have out my foot down as it is too much money and we have very little chill out time as it is ...
DD2 is only 10 months so god help me !

DD3 (12) swimming club once a week £3.00 per year, ditto circus, tennis once a week £75.00 per year; sailing £75 year once month plus weekends away - 15 per weekend

DS1 swimming once a week free (in a club), multisports (different activities each term, one cultural eg theatre, one sport eg golf) £75 per year; sailing as per dd3

Much cheaper in France.

Also do week of sports activities each hols, everything from rock climbing to surfing, £20 for the week!

DS aged 6 does football - £70 per year
Swimming - £6.75 per lesson

DS aged 6 does football - £70 per year
Swimming - £6.75 per lesson

Hmm, I think I'm not going to be happy when I add all this up.

DS1 (7)
Judo £70 per term
Swimming £120 per term (but 1:2 classes as we are desperate for him to get the hang of it!)
Football - free club at school
Choir - free at school
Piano - £150 per term (yikes)
Beavers - £9 per month

DD (5)
Ballet - used to be free at school but is now £75 per term
Art club - free at school
Swimming £120 per term
Violin - £150 per term
Rainbows - £2.50 a week

DS2 (3)
Music group £7 per week

So that's about £80 per week. Holy cow. Right, those little buggers are going to learn to swim this year if it kills me. And we're just going to chuck ds2 in the deep end and let him get on with it.

ds1

keyboard 10 euro/week
violin 9.50/week
chess club 3/week
gaellic football free

ds2
swimming 11 euro/week

DS1 (age 12):
badminton free
piano lesson £15
swimming training £1.50
fencing £2 (school subsidised)
Youth club 50p
skiing at ski slope £16
rugby - free training one lunch time plus weekend match
recorder ensemble and music theory £24 per term
also attends variety of clubs at school inc film club, biology club, chemistry club, DT club (all free except for fact that we have already paid school fees!)
cricket summer term £30 club membership

DS2 (age 11)
rugby - free training 4 lunch times plus weekend match subs £2
music theory and wind band £24 per term
school orchestra and wind band free
brass £15
swimming training £1.50
youth club 50p
cricket summer term £30 club membership

DD (age 6)
swimming lesson £1.50
rainbows £1
recorder group £24 per term
choir free

We must cover a minimum of 150 miles per week purely to transport to these activities, mostly shortish journeys (5 miles plus) with school weekend rugby being the killer as approx 20 miles to school and for the away matches DH can't even hang around and watch.

It's scarey isn't it? Our IFA recently said to me if it came to the worse that's a lot you could cut down on without you really noticing it!

DS is only just one, so doesn't really count yet. But for the record, we do toddler group twice a week (£3 total) plus the occasional trip to soft play (about £4 IIRC). Would like to start swimming lessons but can't afford it, so planning to ask rich in-laws to give him lessons for Christmas.

I'm a bit at this thread tbh. Starting to think I won't be able to afford to be a SAHM any more once DS is a bit older!!

Mine are mainly paying for a course so I would have to break it down:

DS:
swimming - £50/12weeks = £4.17
beavers - £43/term = £3.58
football (local under 8s team) - £55/year plus £25 for winter fees = £80/40 = £2
football (local professional club coach after school but only until 1/2 term) = £2.50

Total: £12.25

DD:
swimming (as above) - £4.17
dancing (ballet and tap) = £4

Total: £8.17

But DD is only 4 and will probably start rainbows when she is 5. And DS's will go down by £2 after half term which is good because two football trainings and PE in one day is a bit much.

Tom (2.6)
1x toddler group at 50p
1x toddler group at £1
Sing a rainbow music class £4

So £5.50 a week.

We had been going swimming as a family but haven't been since July (costs £6.70 for 2 adults, kids go free).

The community farm asks for vouluntary donations, so would put a £1 in. Soft play is around £2.50 for 90 mins, but we don't go that often.

I was thinking the other day, when we have another child, they'll probably be doing more activities than Tom does now! (and Tom will be doing more).

dd (2.5)
2x toddler group -£2
baby ballet -£4
swimming -£3.50
soft play once a week -£3.50 (£10 if we both have lunch too)
she also does 2 afternoons at nursery -£44 a week

DD (10]
Nature Club (free at school)
Art Club (free at school)
Ballet & Tap £4.40 per week
Brownies £22 per term but they also have to bring 50p each week.

DS (4) - occasionally swimming at my gym - costs £3.50 a time.

I just looked at the local youth theatre which takes kids on at 3 and worked out it would cost £5 a week for that, so not too bad. Only problem, 4 workshops are on a Saturday (I work) but there is one on a Wednesday late afternoon/evening which might be doable.

dd1:
art club and gardening club after school clubs - free
Horse riding £16 a week
Hockey £2 a week
Swimming £3 a week

dd2:
french club £4.50 a week
ballet £3.50 a week
swimming £3 a week

dd3:
mother and toddlers £2 a week

It's the dancing that costs us a fortune! The price goes up as the grades get higher.

DD1 (15)
Ballet, tap, modern
Mixed "fun" dance class £10/month
Explorer scouts £20/term
Youth club £2/week

DD2 (5)
French £6/week
Ballet/tap/modern
"Fun" dance class £10/month
Swimming £44/8 week courses
Rainbows £20/term

DD3 (9 months)
Gymboree £24.50/month
Mum & Baby "2.50/week

The main dance classes are billed together as they do a sliding scale of discounts depending how many classes the family takes - was £400 for a 15 week term this time

So, scary maths time (finds calculator...)

£58 per week. Ouch.

My son aged 6 enjoys dance and swimming the most at the moment.
The two days i have work he attends Kids club £5.00 and they do activitiesd there and great for him to socialise without me
Library free(tues)
Swimming £2.90 (thurs)
ice staking £2.90 (fri)
dance £ 8.00 every (sat)

we had a drop out karate and football for the time bein as hes too tired. I think sometimes thers too many activities hence the money

I spend just under £20 weekly .

oh yea forgot the kumon programmes on weds and sat. lol £10 weekly also. Altogether £30

oh yea forgot the kumon programmes on weds and sat. lol £10 weekly also. Altogether £30