BD and FC, Let's just say we got pretty lucky this weekend. All tour actually with the weather and each of the venues. Our venue was a new one so we pretty much assumed we'd get something wrong somehow and we pretty much did but learned how to do it right next time.
So the lessons learned...we could have been better with the water distribution. We were supposed to have the pitches placed in the close corner near to the parking and found out Friday they were in the farthest corner. I also underestimated the heat and didn't put dedicated people on water duty for 100% of the time. Flyght Club had a rota going but that seemed to not be enough. Last lesson, if you buy a generator make sure you read the instructions prior to plugging things in to it so you don't pump 300+ Volts into your PA system. Also, we would have had some portaloos had we known the location of the pitches. Anyhow that will be solved next time. The Thanks...first and foremost Dene Sheppard the co-TD without whom none of the Nottingham events would ever happen. Also, Dan Smith-Rowsey and Russ Bousfield who helped with last minute organising while I was away in India just prior to the weekend. James Melzack (Chef) who acted as first aid on Saturday. Lastly the teams, Flyght Club, who always step up and pitch in and the GB Juniors who were present that did a heap of rubbish collection for us. One credit as well to Jaimie Cross as I didn't hear a single complaint to me about the schedule and in fact heard that it was very fair. I heard the showers were hot until the end of Saturday. Good news. Finances are below after the results. The Results were... 1. BOOM 2. Chevy 3. Brighton 1 4. Thundering Herd 1 5. Ltd Release 6. Strange Blue 7. Discuits 1 8. EMU 1 9. Locomotive Leeds 10. ABH 11. BAF 12. Brighton 2 13. BPF (PLATE and SPIRIT WINNERS) 14. Curious Bacon 15. Flaming Galahs 1 16. High Altitude (Honourable mention for Spirit) 17. The Brown 18. EMU 2 19. Flump 20. Meat Pie 21. Discuits 2 22. Flyght Club 23. Boogie Mix 24. Thundering Herd 2 25. Sheffield Steal 26. The Hoff 27. Flaming Galahs 2 28. Basic Very rough details of the accounts for those interested.... Budget: 27 x 180 = £4860 (27 because we didn't charge ourselves) -- The Pitches: £1000 First Aid: £250 Camping: £300 Food at Camping: £200 (we made a loss on that unfortunately because for some reason people didn't seem to know it was going to be there, even though the detail was on the website, captain's pack, captain's sheet). Gazebos: £300 Pitch Discs: £140 (£5 a disc TD deal from Lookfly...thanks Lookfly!) PA Hire: £50 Fuel Expenses: £50 (generator and other) Generator: £100 Giant Gas Can: £20 Awards: £70 Car Hire: £96 Food and drink for volunteers: £100 Stationary, Bin Bags, Tape: £30 35 Small Cones: £17.50 Costs: £2723.50 Total profit remaining: £2136.5 Donation to GB Juniors: £1000. The remaining profit will go to Flyght Club. So...the analysis is, we could have charged less? Possibly. We had a figure of £1000 for the GB Juniors in our heads from the start so that worked out. That number came from thinking we'd have charged £140 for the event normally so with a price of £180 we'd give the difference to the Juniors. £40 x 27 = £1080. Perfect. Also...it's worked out as around a 50/50 split which I think is fair given the time and effort that Flyght Club players put in. Next time we'll have the portaloos which will add expense as well. One last thing, the food at the pitches was a private little venture run by the Sheppard family so that's why that isn't listed here. I didn't want to have to deal with that kind of detail on the tournament finances so I just off-loaded it completely. That's all Thanks Steve __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
