All of CHaOS' activities are subsidised by funding from several external sponsors. However, we don't have enough money to cover all of the activities we run, so we usually ask schools to make a contribution towards our costs.

For schools outside Cambridgeshire, in our 2012 Summer Roadshow, the standard contribution for a one day school visit will be £150 (this is reduced for half visits, where we split our Roadshow between two different schools for the day).

In the Cambridge area, our costs are likely to be lower, although this depends on the exact arrangements of a visit. If we don't need to cover accommodation for our volunteers (e.g. just after term ends, before they go home), costs for the transport, food and consumables are usually less than £100. We try to keep it as affordable as possible!

Please drop us an email if contributing to our costs would prevent you asking for a visit. We ask for a contribution to help make the numbers balance overall, and it is possible for us to absorb some of these costs if a school is unable to afford it, but obviously this reduces the amount of funding available for other visits (and currently, as a result of the recession, obtaining external sponsorship to cover any additional subsidies now seems to be more difficult than it was).

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