Sports
Arts & music
STEM
Camps
After-school & life skills
Affordability
Fee waivers, sliding scales and scholarships published by the organizations that run these programs — each with who is eligible and the page that decides it. Nothing here is estimated from a family's income, and a program with no aid published simply does not appear. A few are awards toward college rather than help with a program fee; those are labelled College scholarship.
7 schemes serve Natick families.
Enables any Natick resident aged 5 to 18 to take part in activities offered by the Natick Recreation & Parks Department or other Natick-based recreational providers; a school, Recreation or program representative applies on the child's behalf and NSC reviews it.
Limited financial assistance for Natick residents in a temporary crisis, which can cover child-related activities such as tutoring, after-school programs, extracurriculars and summer camp; eligibility, availability and level of support are set case by case through NSC Case Management.
Funds after-school enrichment for Natick students, including camperships, sports, the arts, tutoring, clothing and personal-care items, with representatives from NSC, Natick Rotary and Natick High School counsellors meeting monthly to identify and assist students.
Assistance toward Natick children's and teens' extracurricular and enrichment activities and toward one-to-one tutoring for students in grades 1 through 12 through the Kids Connect program, based on NSC Case Manager screening and available funding.
Discounts for Natick families applied to a variety of Recreation & Parks programs, summer camps and passes, granted through an approval process conducted by the Natick Service Council.
Year-round assistance, granted on the basis of income and family size, toward many school and program fees such as athletics, ASAP/Earlier Risers, lessons, musical instruments, preschool tuition, summer programs and transportation; applications are submitted annually.
State subsidy that pays a family's child care and out-of-school-time provider directly for Massachusetts families who meet the program's service-need and income rules (income up to 85% of State Median Income); families may owe a parent fee based on family size and income and many families pay nothing.
What’s new
Registration openings, deadlines and published dates for programs in Natick, taken from the providers’ own pages. Nothing here is a deadline we worked out — where a source does not state a date, it says so.
When providers say registration opens and closes.