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Subs
The Club has had another profitable year. The
subs are up by another five members over last year, mainly due I think
to John’s Novice and Intermediate licence classes which have been very
well attended and provided some very good pass rates.
Junk Sales
The
junk sales have again been very profitable and a good source of income
for the club. Could this possibly be due to Brenda and Colette’s famous
bacon butties and of course the expert gavel of Robin the
auctioneer?
Rally
We had
another successful rally despite the fact that we lost Springfields and
had to find another venue, the Gleed School which turned out to be
excellent and should be a good venue for us in the future.
The club
did have quite a bit of extra expenditure due to this move. We had to
invest in extra advertising, a club rally banner and other expenses some
of which will not be incurred next year and should make the rally even
more successful. I think this was money well spent.
Thanks to
all the people who put a lot of hard work and time into what turned out
to be a successful rally.
Miscellaneous.
The annual Christmas dinner at the
Mermaid was a break even as usual with the raffle money donated to the
Children’s Ward Trust Fund at the Pilgrim Hospital.
The SHDC has
waived the rent on the clubroom so we have paid no rent this year so
the club has shown a saving there.
As you all know we have to be
out of the clubroom by April and we have to find new premises. This
could be a time of sink or swim for the club. I hope it will be
swim.
A Portakabin has been suggested and I think it would be a
good idea, it would keep the club together and we wouldn’t have to hold
meetings in a backroom somewhere ands also the radios and equipment
would all be in one place.
The only problem is finance, a
reasonable Portakabin would cost the club in the region of £3000 plus
VAT which is a very considerable chunk out of our resources and leave
us with very little or no money at all until the next junk sale and the
AGM when the subs are due, which are our next sources of income.
The licences and insurance will also have to be paid before the junk sale
and is also a drain on our resources.
If anyone would like to
donate to the Portakabin any donation would be gratefully received, or
failing that any constructive ideas on how we can raise some of the
cash would be most welcome.
Don’t forget this is YOUR club and the
problem is not insurmountable, so lets swim and not sink.
On a
final note does anybody know where the clubs G5RV aerial and ATU is?
Our old long wire is past its sell by date and the new aerial will be
required at the new location.
J.Hall
Treasurer.
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