Funds
Category
Student Education Trusts funds balance (end of quarter)
Number of educational purchases using Student Education Trusts
Percentage of purchases against total purchases
Sessions
Signup
Oct to Dec
5
Apr to Jun
Jul to Sep
Oct to Dec
Early childhood
$73,637.60
$34,589.12
$33,615.87
$26,857.89
Primary school
$98,134.52
$131,236.93
$134,241.07
$127,991.65
Secondary school
$58,123.91
$62,392.32
$63,077.19
$59,097.93
Further education
$6,350.53
$4,554.10
$24,490.42
$2,848.47
Completed school
$22,453.94
$22,453.94
$22,453.94
$22,453.94
Non-active
$25,736.50
$32,833.86
$26,141.19
$26,141.19
Early childhood
60
3
29
10
Primary school
142
48
126
107
Secondary school
22
25
15
53
Further education
-
-
2
7
Completed school
-
-
-
-
Total purchases
224
76
172
177
Early childhood
27%
4%
17%
6%
Primary school
63%
63%
73%
60%
Secondary school
10%
33%
9%
30%
Further education
0%
0%
1%
4%
General Purchase support 24
Jan to Mar
67
Change details
Total
-
96
Staff in Coen also embraced the use of a pre-paid credit card for parents to purchase educational items online and have them delivered to the student. This enables parents in Coen to access a wider variety of educational goods at more reasonable prices, particularly in the wet season, and makes educational buying easier and more efficient.
Achievements Approximately sixteen per cent of our donors are ‘committed contributors,’ remaining up to date with all of their Student Education Trusts payments. An estimated thirteen per cent are ‘intermittent contributors’ and have paid part of their committed contribution.*
I would recommend Student Education Trusts to anybody. Helen Peter
Wise Buys Membership In 2012, our team continued to promote Wise Buys as an opportunity for partners to meet their needs by accessing good quality, affordable items. Throughout the year, Coen’s Wise Buys membership rose to fifty-one individuals, approximately twenty-two per cent of Coen’s adult population and thirty-six per cent of Coen’s MPower members. Total membership rose two hundred per cent from seventeen members in December 2011. This is the *
second highest take up rate across the four Opportunity Hubs, a reflection of the time and effort our team has put into engaging with families and promoting the benefits of Wise Buys. Sign-ups were steady in the last three quarters, after a significant jump from only one sign-up in the first quarter. The largest increase occurred during the third quarter when membership rose by 15 members (a fifty-
These figures may include accounts that are inactive, closed or are funded by other educational means. Due to the nature of how we capture data, it is too difficult to break this down further however hopefully with the new database this will become clearer.
January to December 2012
35