Status, November 2026: first final April 15, 2027; no winners, no sponsors yet

No sponsors yet. The first ฿250,000 is the non-profit's.

A promise about money is worth nothing without the arithmetic beside it. So here is the arithmetic, and it stays here whether the number is flattering or not.

Season 2569 · updated September 30, 2026

What has come in, and what has gone out

In฿
Sponsorship0
Listing fees passed on from USAEnglishTeacher.com — none charged this season0
The non-profit's own funds, committed for April 15, 2027250,000
Total available250,000
Out฿
Prizes paid to children0
Prizes paid to teachers0
Travel, hotel and meals bought0
Venue, sound, judging, printing0
Total spent0

Nothing has been spent because nothing has happened yet. The first line to change will be the venue deposit in Chiang Mai, and it changes here the day it is paid. The non-profit's running costs — hosting, domains, fuel, the score sheets — are not in this table and never will be, and no one draws a wage from it.

The working budget

Where the ฿250,000 is going

Line฿
Prize money to the ten children — ฿30,000 / ฿20,000 / ฿12,000, then ฿5,000 each97,000
Teacher Behind the Winner — ten coaching teachers, ฿5,000 each50,000
Travel, hotel and meals for 30 people — child, one family member, teacher75,000
Venue, sound, judging panel, printing28,000
Total250,000

Estimates made in September 2026 against September 2026 prices. When they are wrong, the corrected figures go here with the date they changed. Why ten finalists and not seventy-eight →

Sponsorship

Nobody buys a say in who wins

This page once sold sponsorship tiers. It does not anymore. A sponsor who pays for the stage eventually wants a say in who stands on it — and the judging here deliberately rewards a child from a village school with one shared phone, on the same hundred points as everyone else. That is exactly the kind of choice a funder talks you out of.

So for now the money and the decision both sit with the non-profit. No child, no family and no school has ever paid a baht to enter, and none ever will.

USAEnglish is a non-profit program. Registration is pending; the numbers will be published here the day they are issued. The two teachers who run it take no salary; it reimburses their costs and nothing more. Until then, write to ben@usaenglish.com and we will tell you where the filing stands.

Donations are not accepted until the registration numbers are issued. When they are, the way to give goes on this page, and every baht given is a line in the table above.

If that changes — if a company or a person wants to add to the prize fund with no strings — their name and their amount go in the table above, and the rule stays: money buys a line in a ledger, not a seat on the panel.

The job boards: a Thai school that posts a vacancy on USAEnglishTeacher.com or ESLteacher.com pays nothing this season. Free to post, free to ask. If a listing fee is ever introduced, every baht of it goes to the competitions. That board's own ledger is here.

The useful thing is not money

Tell a teacher in your province that this exists. Ask a school to enter a child. Send us a district date we have missed. Write to ben@usaenglish.com.

The monthly letter

Dates for the final, by email

One letter a month — dates for the 2027 final, new teachers checked, new vacancies. No other mail.

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