hey just wanted to clarify a few things, in particular for freshers and people who may not have read the constitution, etc:
firstly this is a special grant, the club already gets a grant each year to run the club trips etc. we applied for a special grant so as to update all the gear in the boathouse....in particular paddles, buoyancy aids, the general plan is that in 5 years time the oldest kit in the boathouse that would have to be used would be 5 yrs old.
the AUC got back to us and said they were willing to fund 12,000 if we were willing to fundraise the other 12,000.
The reason for calling an egm is because this will obviously affect the club for the next 5 yrs.
The idea is that no committee would be able to get the full 12,000 grant from the AUC and leave all the fundraising to some poor future committee who are currently in school.
We felt that linking the amount each committee got to the amount of fundraising they did each year would hopefully prevent this, ie. this year having fundraised 1,800 the AUC would match this and put up another 1,800.....the main thing with this idea is that in effect the fundraising that this years committee does would be spent by next years committee, hence again the need for an egm.
so there ya go, obviously there may be things that we have forgotten to explain, we've been talking about this for a while so may hae forgotten to include some of the basic random things, ask away.
Guess we'll get back to you about the date.
Thanks
Meabh
