Short, honest notes for class treasurers - the stuff we wish someone had told us the first time we volunteered.
An honest 2026 look at the best app for class treasurer duty: Collctiv, Collection Pot, Cheddar Up, PayPal, a plain spreadsheet and ClassKasa compared.
Every class kitty starts hopeful in September and ends in June archaeology. Three rules keep the pot sane, from a parent who actually runs one.
A class rep's guide to collecting school trip money from parents: one amount, one deadline, kind reminders and no public naming. Two templates inside.
A dispatch from a sun lounger in July, where "the class fund is closed for summer" turns out to mean one banking app and one still-missing dad.
A field report from week one of the class fund, filed at 23:40 from a spreadsheet called dues_2026_FINAL_v3_fixed(2).