15-09-2016, 01:59 PM
Phil Thomas Wrote:Jonathan,
Pedant warning everyone
Looking at their accounts on line for season 2014-15 Man City don't actually need a crowd.
Match day income £ 43 Million
TV income £135 Million
WAge Bill £194 Million
Operating Profit £10 Million
So if attendance was free they would have had to reduce their wage bill to £161 Million to break even.
Its a different world out there. :-\
I actually think that there is a serious point here. I am not sure Chess Scotland is a different World, but rather a different scale. Ultimately, we shouldn't be too worried about raising £20 or £25 from members, we want to be pulling in the £2k or even £20k. We need an embryo of a development programme in place and some ambitious plans. Then we need to tap up individuals in the finance sector in Edinburgh or Glasgow.
I firmly believe funding going forward will be about rich individual donors, not mass memberships or companies. Of course large memberships are beneficial for other reasons.