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There is an awful lot of administration ... bank accounts and what happens if insufficient funds are raised are two issues.

 

My local sailing club runs the Hamble Winter Series, a fairly majpr yachting regatta series known world wide.

They lost the headline sponsor , Hamble Yacht Services a while back and so far no business has come forward for a £2500 sponsorship.

The worst previous one was being dumped at a moments notice by Garmin a few years back, after they had committed to years more support.


So they put up the competitors entry fees and the event continues.

 

To me it’s starting to smell like those that own the forum aren’t that interested in it anymore and if the easy route of a single sponsor isn’t available want to pack it in and use Facebook as a excuse

If the current small sponsors produce enough money to cover the costs I don’t see the problem it’s not that hard to organise this into one pot to pay the fees and yes I would volunteer to help.
If this isn’t enough that lots of people have said they would be will to pay to become patrons/sponsors.

I use Facebook and it’s completely different to a forum and what makes this one work is the banter and multi page discussions along with the mods keeping it gentle you can’t get that on Facebook.

 

I would have no issue with it working like the Samba where all you really get for paying to support the operation is a badge on your postings.

And maybe instead of handing over all the surplus each year, having an account with a reserve held in it would be able to delay any disaster for even a couple of years..

 

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I thought it was You, Dog and Fish who hold the power to determine if it survives or not.

 

Perhaps we got crossed wires, but either way, it is now clear that what we need

We need what you describe as a treasurer, that's for the status quo to remain. I think it is useful to have that clear, if it took a minor misunderstanding, to get the facts out, then no worries, we're all adults. I had assumed HF was looking, politely, to step back, clearly that's not the case, which is a great outcome, rather HF than me

 

If not interested is it just a case that you are bored and want to stir it up.

It appears you have options of raising the funds from smaller sponsors and have offers of help if no large sponsor but you still say the forum might have to move to Facebook

 

Anyway this is getting to heavy and to much like real life so have a puppy

 

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