Important Information about the Passport to Learning

You may have seen that we recently achieved the magnificent total of 2 MILLION HOURS of extra learning undertaken by the children and young people who are CU members in Sheffield – a fantastic achievement for the thousands of members across the city!

Even as our CU grows (we now have around 37,000 children who have taken part in CU in Sheffield), we continue to face increasing pressures on our budgets as part of the City Council. The day-to-day costs of all our resources including card and printing for certificates, badges, award ceremonies etc. continue to increase alongside other costs and ultimately this does impact on us, and the service we provide. Of course, we work really hard to minimise the impact of this on schools, Learning Destinations and families but sometimes this is just not possible.

We introduced the Passport to Learning over 6 years ago and in that time, we have been able to keep the cost exactly the same. However, a significant price increase from the CU Trust a few years ago means that Passports now cost us a lot more to buy in. Whilst we have been able to absorb some of these costs since then, we are now in a position where we need to increase the price of the Passport in order to be able to deliver our service.

As such, from 1st April 2017, the price of each Passport to Learning will increase to £3.50 each. They are currently £2.00 each.

As always, Passports to Learning are available for the new price of £3.50 each from all Sheffield Libraries. Some schools (which are subscribed to Sheffield CU) also sell Passports to Learning too.

This is a decision we have not taken lightly as we fully appreciate the impact this may have. However, in order to continue delivering Sheffield CU and all the activities, events and award ceremonies, we now need to introduce the price increase.

Don’t forget: there are a number of fantastic activities available at our Learning Destinations across the Easter holidays – take part and collect CU credits in your Passport to Learning! Download our Easter Newsletter here: https://goo.gl/FzyZh8 to find information about the events. You can also use your Passport to Learning to collect CU credits at Learning Destinations across the country too!