Important notice regarding swimming fee increases

and payment methods

Notice of fee increases from January 2011

The committee has recently passed the budget for the 2010/2011

swimming season.

Unfortunately, in order for the club to break even financially for the

coming season it is necessary to increase the fees from January 2011

as follows:

Senior Squad

Dev squad

B Group 3 days p.w.

B Group 2 days p.w.

Current fee

€77

€66

€55€45

2011 Fee

€8503

€58€48

It should be noted that the last fee increase was in February 2009,

almost two years ago.

The budget assumes a significant target amount to be raised from

fund-raising activities. Therefore in order to meet our fund raising

targets it will be necessary for all members to take part fully in any

fund raising activities organised during the year.

Payment of fees - Move towards payments by Standing Order

The current practice of invoicing all swimmers for swimming fees ona monthly basis and collecting cash/cheques involves a lot ofadministration in handling cash/cheques and is very time consumingon the committee members.

In order to reduce the amount of cash handled and administrationeffort it is proposed that the following new procedures will beintroduced from January 2011.

New invoicing periods:

Invoices will be issued in three terms during the season:

Jan-Mar Term - covers period from January to March. Date of issueof invoice January 1S

t, 2011

April-July term - covers period from April to June/July. Date of issueApril 1S

t, 2011

Sept - Dec term - covers period from September to December. Dateof issue of invoice September 1S

t, 2010

The invoices will include the following charges

.1. Swim Fees- Feesfor each month in term

2. Swim Ireland registration fees will be invoiced in Sept - Decterm.

3. Gala FeesGala fees incurred in a term will be invoiced in thefollowing term.

Payment of fees must be made by the end of the month of billing. Ifyou do not pay your bills on time your child will not be allowedswim in the following month.

If you pay the invoices by Standing Order you may continue tomake regular monthly payments against your invoices. You maywish to consider taking into account an estimate of gala entries whenestimating the monthly standing order amount. You may alsoconsider leaving the standing order run over the 12months to coverall charges in addition to the monthly fees.

We would encourage all swimmers to move towards payinginvoices by monthly Standing Order.

If any swimmers wish to continue paying invoices by cash/chequethen the full invoice for each term much be settled in full by the endof the first month of the term.

Standing Order forms may be obtained from Angela Torsney or youmay complete a form at your own bank branch. The details are asfollows:

Aer Lingus Swim Club bank account

Ulster Bank Sort Code no - 985011

Bank account no - 05027072

If you have any queries please call Angela at 0872312230.