What your fee makes possible
The youth fee is not a ticket price. It is a share in everything that surrounds your child each week, kept deliberately modest so the ensemble stays within reach of ordinary families. Your contribution helps provide:
- Professional direction. A full term of rehearsals led by professional conductors and musicians, so your child learns from people at the top of their craft.
- Music and materials. Scores, sheet music, and the rehearsal materials your child needs, ready for them rather than another cost to chase.
- Concerts and venues. Real performance opportunities, with the venue, staging, and production that let your child play or sing to an audience.
- Pastoral care and safeguarding. The youth team, the child-safe practice, and the personal care wrapped around every young person, so your child is known and looked after, not just enrolled.
In other words, the fee is an investment in your child’s growth as a musician and as a person, inside a community that cheers them on.
Where to find current fees
Fees can change from season to season, so rather than print an amount that may go out of date, we keep the current figures in one place. You will find them on the Youth Orchestra & Choir Information page, and they are confirmed clearly at the payment step of onboarding before anything is due.
If it helps to spread the cost, fees can usually be paid by instalments rather than all at once. The formal terms for payments, instalment plans, and refunds are set out in our Refund Policy.
If cost is a barrier, here is how to ask
If the fee would genuinely stop your child taking part, please tell us. We would far rather quietly work something out with you than lose a young person over money. There is a simple, confidential pathway:
- Email finances@australianchristianarts.com. A short, private note is all it takes. You do not need to explain everything or prove anything.
- We work it out together, case by case. Every family’s situation is different, so there is no fixed formula and no public process. We listen, and we find an arrangement that works for you.
- It stays between us. Your conversation is held in confidence. Your child will simply take their place alongside everyone else, treated no differently from any other member.
This is the quiet, dignified pathway we promise every family. Asking is never an imposition. It is exactly what it is there for.
Our heart on this
We want the arts to be for every young person who longs to take part, not only for those who can comfortably pay. If you are weighing whether your child can join because of cost, reach out first. We will do everything we reasonably can to make it possible.
Part of the Parent Onboarding & Character Guide. See also What AChA Commits to You and the Refund Policy.