Our Sept/Oct Holiday Programme bookings are now LIVE!!! The first week of the school holidays, 30th Sept – 4th Oct 2024.  Click on the hyperlinks below to view the brochures:

• Kea (School Years 1-3) – including a trip to the Antartic Centre, Willowbank and lots of games!!!
• Pukeko (School Years 4-6) – including a trip to Woodend Camp, Minute to Win it and a Mystery Outing!!
• Piwakawaka (School Years 6-9) – including a trip to CoCA, Willowbank and a Mystery Outing!!

UPDATE: Children in School Year 6, can book for either Piwakawaka or Pukeko. This is to encourage those feeling too old for Pukeko and to help with the transition for those going into that age group next year anyway. Please chose one of the other, not both programmes though.

Note: Activities are subject to change, due to weather, staffing or other circumstances.

Priority Bookings

Youth Alive Trust are only accepting bookings from previous families who have registered for our programmes in the past 12 months up until 12noon Wednesday 4^th Sept. This is to provide time for our regulars to make a booking, so they don’t miss out. After 12noon Wednesday, we will accept bookings from anyone else.

Oscar Subsidy

Check out if you’re eligible for government subsidies.  If you have 3 or more children, you now need to be earning more than $2,902 per week to not be eligible for any support. If you have 2 children, you need to be earning more than $2,579 per week and if just 1 child, $2,257 per week (gross).  This is a dramatic increase and many probably don’t realise they will qualify, if they just jump through a few bits of paperwork. The subsidy is only for those in work or study who need childcare. Click on the link below for full information about applying for the subsidy:

Out of School Care and Recreation (OSCAR) Subsidy – Work and Income

Booking Confirmation Policy

If you click that you’re applying for a government subsidy, then YAT’s policy is to only ‘confirm’ your booking once we’ve received your completed WINZ forms. We need to sign your form, so this can be dropped off at reception anytime in office hours, and we can send the paperwork to WINZ for you. OR, once we’ve signed it, we can take a copy, in case WINZ loose it (which does happen) and you can take it all into WINZ yourself.

Your booking will sit in the ‘Pending’ category for a week, until we’ve seen the paperwork. If we’ve not seen the paperwork, there is a chance your booking will be cancelled unless you get in touch to explain circumstances: rego@yat.org.nz

A reminder that you and we often don’t find out about how much WINZ will contribute to your holiday programme fees until after the programme, so you are responsible for any shortfall to be paid as soon as possible.

Staffing Changes

We’re sad that Hannah has left the YAT team this week – but stoked that she’s going on maternity leave and we will soon have another YAT baby! Amazingly, Shelly has returned from her maternity leave also this week, and will resume her role as Oscar coordinator and Holiday Programme administrator too. Contact her direct at: rego@yat.org.nz

Bookings

All Bookings are done online at: https://yat.aimyplus.com

Here’s a reminder of how to make a booking after logging in:

– Click on ‘Make a booking’

– Select childs name

– Choose Programme Venue: ‘Youth Alive Oscar’

– Select ‘Holiday Programme’ & click ‘Next’

– Select the programme appropriate to your child’s age & select all the days you want to book

– Click ‘Next’, ’Next’ and ’Finish’

There are 3 options for payment at the time of booking:

1. Bank Transfer (no fee for you). Please reference ‘HP’ and ‘Your Name’
2. Visa or Mastercard – Credit or Visa Debit (2.5%)
3. WINZ Client. You will need to input your client number into your profile before choosing this option. As above, it will stay ‘PENDING’ for a week until we have signed the paperwork.

Upcoming Holiday Programmes

16^th – 20^th December 2024

13^th – 17^th January 2025

20^th – 24^th January 2025

14^th – 17^th April 2025

Any issues or questions about programmes, registrations or cancelations, please email us at: rego@yat.org.nz

Any finance questions, please email us at: accounts@yat.org.nz