Membership Fee and Donations

In the past few years, our school’s fees are quite low. Due to the increase in teachers’ salaries and venues’ rent, unexpected additional operating costs (such as professional cleaners), the school committee had to make some adjustment to the fees for 2019/20.

The adjustment is as follows:

• Chinese Class Fee: Increase £15.00/year (equivalent to 50p/week, 25p/hour)
• Interest class fee: Increase £10.00/year (equivalent to 33p/week)

The adjusted class charges are as follows:

Class	2018/19 Fee* (Old)	2019/20 Fee* (new)
Chinese Class (C1–C9)	£115	£130
Exam Class (CN5, Higher)	£145	£160
Happy Chinese Class (HC)	£180	£195
Activity classes (with the exception of music classes, the charges for music classes have not yet been determined) **	£60	£70
Adult Business Chinese Class ***	£120	£129.95

Note:

1. This figure is the full fee. 
2. The cost of the music class is still to be confirmed.
3. The cost of a business Chinese class is decided by the Confucius Institute.

Cleaning fee

• Students in the language class need to pay a cleaning fee of £ 10 per year.
• Students in each activity class need to pay a cleaning fee of £ 5 per year.
• Students attending both Chinese class and Activity class at the same time only need to pay £10 per year.

2019/20 List of fee examples

The following fees are based on the selection of Chinese Class and/or activity class (except music). Since the music class charges have not been determined, if you choose a music class, please pay the music class later. If you have questions about the cost, please contact info@accschool.org.uk before paying.

Selected classes	Total Fee (tuition + cleaning fee) (GBP)
Chinese Classes	140 (130 + 10)
Exam Classes	170 (160 + 10)
Happy Chinese class	205 (195 + 10)
Chinese class + Activity class	210 (130 + 70 + 10)
Exam class + Activity class	240 (160 + 70 + 10)
Happy Chinese class + Activity class	275 (195 + 70 + 10)
Business Chinese class	134.95 (129.95 + 5)

Payment method

We recommend everyone to use online payment for your membership fee via the GoldenGiving website. If you have any difficulty with the online payment, please contact management@accschool.org.uk for other payment methods (cheque, cash or bank transfer).

Online Payment using GoldenGiving

• Step 1： Open Alba Cathay Chinese School’s site on GoldenGiving.com https://www.goldengiving.com/wall/alba-cathay-chinese-school
• Step 2: Click “Single Donation”
• Step 3：Input Paymentment Details
  • Your Donation: “Enter an amount or choose above”: Input the total membership fees for all children. The fees of different classes are in the table above.
  • Your Payment Details：Input card details and the address details. We encourage to use the debit card as there is a higher process fee for the credit card.
  • About You：Input your personal details.
    Please select “Are you happy for your supported organisation to stay in touch with you?” so that we can contact you if there is any problem with your payment.
  • Your Comment:  Please ensure to add the following information in the “Enter text…”  text box：
    1) Student Name (not your name)
    2) Class to be enrolled (Chinese class and Activity class)
    3) total fee for each student
    If paying for multiple students, please include all students’ information. If you do not include full information, we may not have your payment record.
  • Tick ”I’m not a robot”，and select pictures as required.
  • Finally, click “Donate” to submit your payment.
• Step 4：You will see the confirmation page once the payment is successful. You will also receive an email with your donation details.
• Step 5: Check your mailbox for the donation confirmation email. You should bring this email to school during the first day as evidence of payment. You may be required to show the confirmation email.