On 20 June 2011 13:42, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
I suggest considering a "fire sale" later in
the year once the amount of the
underspend is better known - literally assign half of the spare cash (or w/e
can be spared) to whatever ideas the Chapter agrees would be useful things
to do/have. I tend to mean "big" ideas here, stuff that it too expensive for
the normal program of expenditure but would be really useful/helpful to
have.
The problem is finding the time to do those big ideas. The reason the
previous board decided to hire lots of staff is because we had lots of
money and very little time. Hiring staff is the best way to convert
money into time. If there are volunteers wanting to organise big
events themselves, I'm sure WMUK can fund them, but there tend not to
be such volunteers. That's why hiring an events organiser was a good
plan - they can do a lot of the time consuming work of organising
events and leave the volunteers to just do the interesting bits.