Cost-optimized warehouse management

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A relatively large amount of money can be saved in certain areas with little effort at Jungschar camps. This article is a collection of tips on how to keep the financial expenditure as small as possible

Early warehouse / -place reservation is worth

Especially if you are looking for the warehouse or the storage space über Internet directories, it is worth to plan möglichst early and to reserve the location. Later, often only the more expensive locations are available

For storage facilities it is worth looking 12 months in advance, for storage locations from online directories about 10 months.

Of course you can still find possibilities later, but the necessary time investment and the price of the free locations will usually be higher

Natural donations (list)

In order to keep the costs of food low, one can create a natural donations list, on which parents of young people or people from the local church can sign up to contribute something to the camp with a donation in kind.

This way, the needs of many products (e.g. spreads, cakes, syrups, etc.) can be largely met. From experience, people from the local church are happy to contribute to the success of a youth camp

Save on train journeys

SBB children's day tickets instead of collective ticket: Especially with long arrival and departure distances, the associated costs are not insignificant. With this trick, the costs for ÖV can be reduced to 15.- per child and travel day, regardless of the distance.

Children's day tickets can be purchased from the SBB (machine, counter or online) at a price of 15. They must be validated on the day of travel and are then valid as a day ticket. This is subject to a number of conditions:

  • The child must be accompanied by an adult GA or half-fare card holder (leader)
  • One adult may travel with a maximum of 4 children
  • The Half-Fare travelcard area of validity applies

If there are not enough accompanying persons, this can also be combined with a collective ticket. The accompanying persons can be included in the collective ticket, but at the same time take children with children's day tickets. Children with children's day tickets are excluded from collective tickets.

SBB Gemeindetageskarten für Leiter (also without Half-Fare Card): Vor allem für Leiter ohne Halbtax-Abo sind Bahnbillete sehr teuer. For longer journeys, it is worthwhile to reserve a community day ticket in good time.

Many municipalities in Switzerland offer these at a price between 30.- and 40.-. The tickets can be reserved online and must be collected from the municipal office

Subsidies from addiction prevention programmes

In some cantons there are addiction prevention programmes for youth associations. If you register a camp with these programmes, you can receive additional money (several hundred francs) in the camp fund. The amounts of money and the conditions attached to them vary from canton to canton

All programs are subject to the federal program "Voila".

Subsidies from "Jugend + Sport" (J+S)

Young people's camps can be held in Switzerland with J+S. If you meet some conditions, you will receive a compensation per child (of Y+S age) per day

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