Membership of the Out of School Alliance (OOSA) costs from just £55.00 per year depending on how many settings you operate. Read on to find out more about how the membership subscription works.
You can join online today and start enjoying the benefits of membership right away.
When you join OOSA you benefit from a wide range of member-only services, all designed to make your time (and money) go further. These include*:
- Monthly newsletter with the latest news and events relevant to the out of school club sector, plus special offers, topical activity ideas, and practical tips
- Comprehensive library of example documents, including forms, policies and procedures, necessary for an out of school setting
- Discounted insurance specially designed for out of school clubs, from the childcare insurance experts Morton Michel
- Discount on all OOSA template products including our popular Start-Up Pack
- Termly update training sessions including a safeguarding update, ofsted update and one other topical session depending on members needs
- Access to OOSA Academy for all your training needs
- Ask OOSA consultation sessions where you can book a 30 minute consultation with OOSA Director Rebekah Jackson Reece
- OOSA Owners Forum where six times a year you can meet online with other OSC owners with facilitated Q&A and guest expert slots
- In-depth articles containing practical advice on running your business, such as marketing ideas, holiday entitlement, statutory sick pay, and how to prepare for your Ofsted inspection
- OOSA Vetting Scheme enables owners of out of school clubs to obtain an enhanced DBS check
- iPAL club management software at a 20% discount, MagicBooking Free month, KidsClub HQ at 20% off and Childcare Online Booking system at 25% off
- OOSA Club Database invoicing and management product available exclusively for OOSA members
- Child protection training and support from SAFE CIC at an exclusive massive discount
- Discounts from other organisations, including Magic Whiteboards, Muddy Puddles, CPD Online College, Creative Steps magazine, Inspired Children, Sprouts Training, Creation Station, Kid-Eco, and many more
- Club Chat online forum for you to swap tips and ideas with other providers of out of school care
- OOSA Jobs Service to advertise your playwork vacancies
- Library containing hundreds of activity factsheets plus sample activity plans to help make your session planning simpler
Join OOSA now and start enoying the benefits of membership right away.
We also offer discounted group membership rates for local authorities. See our Local Authority Membership Scheme for more information.
* We reserve the right to modify the member benefits from time to time and without notice.
Your Membership Subscription
Our membership subscription has been developed to fairly reflects that our diverse sector is made up of lots of different types of businesses, both single setting providers and multi-site providers. This new model speaks to our commitment and values over consistency, fairness and transparency.
Your subscription rate will change as your business grows so that each operational setting will contribute to the membership. OOSA is a ‘buyers club’; you put your subscription contribution in so that when you need to, you can draw out from the resources available. That means that if you’re potentially ‘drawing out’ for multiple settings, it’s important that you’re putting in for all of them. We have scaled up the contribution for multi-site providers, but we have developed a pricing structure that we are confident does not penalise you for growth.
Our membership operates as a ‘subscription’ model, where your annual subscription will automatically be collected. We will of course remind you one month before that subscription will be collected, but this will reduce the administration of your membership for both you and us and most of our members tell us that they thought it always was this way!
Those of you who have multiple settings will also be given a log in for each setting that you operate. That way your setting team can ‘self-serve’ our factsheets, information and activity ideas and the newsletter will also be sent directly to them as well, so your team will have access to information and support directly.
Please ensure that you take out membership in the correct membership category. We reserve the right to undertake suitable checks on publicly available information to confirm you are in the right membership category. Your continued membership is contingent on this as outlined in our Terms and Conditions.