I found out an interesting fact the other day about transporting children around during the school holiday periods. The bus charges are escalating and will no doubt go up with the increase to GST, petrol and any other charges passed on to consumers.
If this has impacted on your programme getting out and about during the holidays, my suggestion is to get in touch with your local sports clubs, Te Kohanga Reo’s, Cosmopolitan Club's and Senior Citizen Club's etc. Many of these groups have vans and happily hire them out to other organisations when they aren’t using them. Some of these groups just ask for petrol to be replaced and/or a koha towards the upkeep of the vans, buses etc.
It is worth looking around for transport options. Who knows, if enough programmes get on board to support their local clubs by hiring their vans and stop using the buses, the bus companies may have to lower their prices.
Tania
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