Funding
You can come to the Parrot Centre even when the child or family does not pay for the visit. Here you can see how a school, a municipality or a person who cares can support a visit.
Who can pay for the visit?
School
A school can pay for a grades 1–9 visit from its Culture Backpack budget.
Your municipality
We have approached neighbouring municipalities so they can support visits by their residents to the Parrot Centre.
Supporter
A person, company or fund can gift a visit to a group of children that could not come on their own.
Culture Backpack
The Culture Backpack (Kultuuriranits) is a Ministry of Culture grant in every general-education school’s budget. Pupils in grades 1–9 can use it for curriculum-related cultural visits. With its programmes (colour, sound, rhythm), the Parrot Centre is on the Ministry of Culture website, in the list Museums in Tartu County.
Programmes
Our learning programmes follow the national curriculum. The full description of each programme, including learning outcomes, is in the national environmental education portal keskkonnaharidus.ee. Six of our programmes have received the quality mark “Thoughtful programme” (cloudberry mark), which external assessors award to a programme that meets the quality criteria for environmental education.
Support from your municipality
We want families, groups of children and older people to be able to come to the Parrot Centre even when a visit would otherwise be too much. That is why we have applied to neighbouring municipalities, so they can support visits by their residents.
If a municipality decides to support what we do, we will add here which residents the support covers and how to use it.
Could your municipality help? Tell them you would like this, or write to us at keskus@papagoi.ee and we will get in touch.
Gift a visit
Many kindergartens, groups of children with special needs and smaller schools cannot pay for a visit. The Culture Backpack does not cover everyone. If you want a group to meet the parrots, you can gift their visit.
An individual
Gift one group's visit, or part of it.
A company
Support a kindergarten or school visit in your area.
A fund or organisation
We can work together over a longer time.
Write to us
We will talk about who the visit would suit.
We find a group together
Or name the group you want to support.
The group comes to visit
We will tell you whose visit your support made possible.