Discounts for family members are subject to “fair use” terms and conditions.
Yes, that does mean that your cat’s previous owner’s sister won’t be considered a family member! Most other reasonable immediate family relationships will qualify for family discount however, providing you live at the same address. Family members living at other addresses may be accepted under the family discount programme, but will be considered on an individual basis.
The students who attend the most classes are counted as the “earliest” family member for discount purposes.
For example:
For a family consisting of 2 students (one who attends one class per week and one who attends two classes per week), the cost is £25.00 + £15.00 = £40.00, not £20.00 + £18.00 = £38.00.
For a family of 4 students (two who attend two classes per week, and two who attend one class per week), the cost is £25.00 + £18.00 + £10.00 + FREE = £53.00, not £20.00 + £15.00 + £12.00 + FREE = £47.00.
Payments are due on a monthly basis
We ask all students to pay for classes on a monthly basis, in advance at the beginning of each month. Allowing weekly payments would not only be time-consuming and an administration headache for us, but it would also do little to encourage students to attend classes on a regular basis. When students take up karate, it must be understood that a degree of commitment must be made in order to benefit from it; as such, students are expected to commit themselves to the full monthly cost of classes, irrespective of potentially irregular-attendance and/or non-attendance.
Prices quoted are based upon payment in advance, by Standing Order.
Like any business, paying cash or cheques into our bank account incurs substantial charges, which could ultimately mean that we would have to increase our prices. We want to keep our prices low.
Experience also shows us that accepting cash or cheques as payment for classes takes up valuable time in administration. We would much rather spend our time teaching our students.
For these reasons, we do not accept cash payments for classes. Whilst we do accept cheque payments for classes we do ask that students pay for class fees by Standing Order where at all possible.
A Standing Order is merely an instruction to your bank, asking them to pay us a fixed amount every month.
Standing Orders are safe, from our customer’s point of view, because:
You arrange the Standing Order with your bank - we cannot put a Standing Order in place for you (though we would be happy to give you a form to assist you with setting it up);
When you first arrange the Standing Order, you tell the bank how much you need to pay us each month - we cannot change this amount;
You can tell your bank to cancel the Standing Order, at any time, without having to give us any notice.
For customers who are unable to pay by Standing Order, the option to pay by cheque is available, however a small surcharge (currently 50p per payment) is applicable.
