[ivfdf-news] Outstanding Questions on Sheffield IVFDF 2008 Budget

[Ian Thompson]

Dear All

Reviewing the various questions and responses we 
have had I find the following questions are still 
awaiting answers, which would help to clarify the 
strength of your bid in terms of your request for underwriting.

1) I'm not aware that you have yet had your loan 
from central IVFDF (I've not received a request 
in writing for this loan which was all that was needed to release it)

2) Are you in a position to indicate the kind of 
ball park funding you are applying for from the 
lottery as previous year's have done ? ( Yes - X 
amount, No, with reason why can't indicate)

3) Can you give an indication of any other places 
you might be looking for funding (grants) from ? 
and How much you might be aiming to get ?

4) [Partially answered] Your budget does not 
indicate expected ticket prices for the weekend ? 
Please can you include these along with some 
reasoning as to why you have budgeted on these 
numbers of attendees and how conservative your estimates are?

5) What element of contingency is included in 
your budget figures and if not why you have not felt this necessary ?

6) you are requesting £1000 underwriting, but it 
is not clear from the budget what justification 
their is for this figure. (some worst case what if scenarios might help)

Sorry to be asking lots of questions, but I 
continue to feel there is a fair bit of detail 
missing in your reports, when I compare it with previous year's reports.

http://lists.ivfdf.org/pipermail/ivfdf-news/2005-February/000255.html
http://lists.ivfdf.org/pipermail/ivfdf-news/2006-February/000280.html

It might be useful if you covered in any reply 
and further update the same areas that are in 
these reports, the titles they use are 
Budget/Venues/Events/Publicity/Stewards/Organisation/Other 
Stuff/Summary and it might be useful if you also 
had these titles and included a little more 
detail than you have already under some of the 
headings. (Your budget in fact has more detail 
that these ones do but due to the nature of 
things with your bid I expected this).

This is aimed to be constructive criticism to 
improve the quality of your bid before the vote, 
please take it in the way it was intended.

Regards

Ian


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Dr Ian M. Thompson
Treasurer, Central IVFDF