NickFaulks wrote:Michael Farthing wrote:but the proposed five year budget showed by the end year that 50% of the proposed membership fee increases were being used to support international chess. David Eustace reluctantly conceded this and promised to see if the figures could be rearranged.
Where does the 50% number come from? It looked north of 100% to me.
In any case, I resented the assumption that if Council did not welcome the plan, the solution was to rearrange the numbers to make them look different.
You shouild have been listening, Nick, when I went set them out to David in the meeting
However, I made the following assumptions were made:
Junior chess funding would come entirely from the John Robinson Trust. I believe this has been formally stated, but in any case the projected junior budget exactly matches proposed drawings from the JRT in all years of the plan.
I took the view that all other expenditure apart from international was 'administrative'.
There was a final year draw down from the PIF1 of £10007 (beautifully precise) in the finsl year which would offset about half of the £20360 rise in the international budget, the other half necessarily coming from membership and game fees. It should be noted that sponsorship income, either actual or projected, nor its use, has been disclosed to Council for confidentiality reasons (though it seems odd to me why a sponsor would not want its generosity to be known).
When I presented my figures I was doing so to challenge the specific assertion that international spending would not be met from membership and game fees. Seeking to be scrupulously accurate, I therefore allocated any other possibly non administrative expenses to membership ahead of international spending so as to be absolutely sure I was not overstating the position. This leaves the following items, that might be regarded as non-administrative, still being paid for out of membership and games fees:
Women's chess: £2000
Chess in prisons; £500
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I've been looking at a slightly different question from you Nick:
The figures only concern themselves with increases (ie the planned increase in international spending and the planned increase in fees). The international budget for this year is already £50000 and is all coming out of membership fees. In that sense, you are correct: international chess is in no way meeting the target of coming from sponsorship and in the final year of the projection £60000 out of the shortfall of £70000 will still be coming from membership.