AFFORDABLE SCHOOL HOLIDAY CHILDCARE

Ways to Pay

School’s Out Activities makes booking and payment as flexible as possible for all customers. We accept various forms of payment methods to make it easy to book with us. Choose between two ways to pay:

1) PAY NOW

Book your children’s places and pay there and then online to finalise and secure your places at camp. Nothing else more to do. Simply pay securely via Debit/Credit Card with our secure Worldpay gateway, all at no extra cost!

2) BOOK NOW AND PAY LATER

Reserve your places online and pay at a later date to secure the booking. Choose from a variety of methods or even use a combination of methods to create your own staggered payment plan.

When making a reservation you are entering into a contract in which the full balance will be required to be paid.

Pay later options

• GOV.UK TAX FREE CHILDCARE

  Our most popular form of payment from parents, as if you are eligible you get 20% paid towards the cost of School’s Out bookings throughout the year. Simply make your reservation, organise payment from your Gov.UK Tax Free Childcare account, and we will do the rest!

  Your eligibility depends on:

  – if you are working

  – your income (and your partner’s income, if you have one)

  – your immigration status

  – your child’s age and circumstances

  – your child must be 11 or under and usually live with you. They stop being eligible on 1 September after their 11th birthday.

  Our Gov.UK registration numbers are as follows: (Colchester 50013966049, Ipswich 50019042914, Bury: 50060571446, Felixstowe: 50104809531, Shenfield: 50111303338.  Woodbridge 50024554979.

  – Chelmsford and Braintree venues are in the process of registering, use either Ipswich or Colchester account for now, it all arrives into the same bank account)

  • CHILDCARE VOUCHERS

    School’s Out Activities can receive Childcare Voucher payments from all voucher providers. Simply log on to your voucher provider and search for our business name, postcode, or Ofsted registration number to find our account. Click here for more info on Childcare Vouchers.

  • ONLINE BANK TRANSFER

    Simply register our account details with your online banking system and include your booking reference number when making a transfer payment:

    The Bank details will be provided to you once you make your booking.

  • INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

    If paying from a foreign bank account you will also need our BIC and IBAN details to complete your transaction:

    The Bank details will be provided to you once you make your booking.

  • CASH AT MORNING RECEPTION

    You can pay any remaining balance by handing over the correct amount of cash at morning registration. The full amount must be paid in the morning before we can accept children at camp. This flexible method is handy for those last minutes late additions.

  • DEBIT/CREDIT CARD ANYTIME

    If you have any remaining balance to your booking then you can pay the full remaining balance anytime. You can also choose how much you pay off your booking each time so you can create your own payment plan by clearing regular amounts of your booking:

    Click MY BOOKINGS  >  click the red button “Pay remaining balance by card”. By default it will ask for the full amount, but you can overwrite this with any amount you want to clear from your booking.

  • CHILDCARE GRANT PAYMENT SERVICE (CCGPS)

    For those parents studying at University, you may be entitled up to 85% of your fees with School’s Out to be paid via the childcare grant payment service (visit here). Initially you have to link your child(ren) to our venue accounts. You then make your booking on our website as normal, making sure to choose “Other Method” and then select CCGPS from the dropdown menu. This will trigger an email to us to ensure we claim for 85%. All we ask is you pay 15% of your booking total to us using one of the manual payment options (bank transfer or cash at morning registration – unable to do this via debit/credit card unless you phone customer services).  Once camp is finished we will confirm on the platform the attendance of your child which will trigger an alert back to yourselves, for you to authorise those days. This then generates the payment to us so we can mark your booking as fully paid. For more info on this service visit the Gov.uk website here

  • Ipswich Registration Number: CCG8779799
  • Woodbridge Registration Number: CCG2276576
  • Colchester Registration Number: CCG9989282
  • Bury St Edmunds Registration Number: CCG3783485
  • Felixstowe Registration Number: CCG2385386
  • Shenfield Registration Number: CCG3255347
  • Braintree Registration Number: CCG2435775

  Cleared Funds

  We do require cleared payment of funds before your child arrives at camp, so please remember to allow 5 working days before your first camp date for bank transfer and childcare voucher payments to clear. Cash/card payments upon arrival are also accepted. You can check the outstanding balance and add/edit booking details until the day before camp via your My Bookings page.

  Should you need to cancel your booking, please refer to our cancellation policy in our terms and conditions. Alternatively, you can reschedule your booking for free! Find out how on our Info page.

Help paying for childcare

Some households can receive help paying for their School’s Out childcare.