First UK Sub Regatta - Proposal............

[himszy]

I have received an email

I have received an email from Emma Spray this morning.

Emma SPRAY in charge of the pool? MMMM interesting......

[paul von braun]

Andy,
that does sound awfully expensive.

Andy,
that does sound awfully expensive.
What do you think about Black Park, not a million miles away.
Parking is £2 for the day, and its public property - can we get charged for using that?

Paul.

[himszy]

Well as I see it,

Well as I see it, we have two options]http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/Home....ido.htm[/url]
Look at the size of that pool! Sadly I don't think that it is for private hire.

Or what about this one?

http://www.hagbourne.oxon.sch.uk/School_pool_hire.htm

Pool hire is £10. Thats £80 for pool, and the lifeguards it says here cost £6p/h. Now that means that if we need 2 lifeguards like Andy says, then £16p/h. So a total of £208! However it doesn't look like an extremely large pool, and I've no idea of where it is. But then it is indoors. A field is right next to it, we would be supporting a school, and with 40 people going it would only cost £5.20.

Just a suggestion

Michael

[himszy]

Hi,

I've just emailed a person

Hi,

I've just emailed a person at the University of Birmingham, inquiring as to the cost to host it there. I'll let you know the cost when he replies. Sadly I don't have a picture, but it is a very large pool and a school I used to go to hire it for swimming lessons, (of which my mum is a teacher).

Also my mum is classed as a lifeguard for any 25m pool which includes the University Of Birmingham. That any help?

Michael

[Guest]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I checked out all the London lidos. Tooting Bec Lido is fantastic, probably the largest open air pool left in the country. I can only imagine what the cost to hire that for the day would be, but it would probably be at least £1000!

To be honest, I wanted somewhere fairly local. Organising one of these things is tricky enough, whithout having to rattle up and down the motorway aswell.

The small school pool looks nice, but as you said perhaps a little too small. However, very competitive rates of hire. By the looks of their website, the school is based in Oxfordshire.

I've never been to Black Park, however I know it attracts a strong crowd of submariners. One possibility I'll bear in mind.

Birmingham is too far for me. If you want to organise something up there by all means go ahead, and I'll help where I can.

However I couldn't take overall responsibility for the event if it was held that far away.

Thanks,

Andy

[Guest]

Received another email from Emma

Received another email from Emma today.

I asked if a reduction in price was possible. The best she could offer, was to wave the cost of life guard hire, so we would still be looking at £394 for the 8 hour hire, plus VAT.

Now as far as I know, aren't clubs such as ours considered to be 'charities'?

If so, then we can at least claim back the VAT.

Food for thought.

Andy

[JWLaRue]

Andy,

The SubCommittee is incorporated as

Andy,

The SubCommittee is incorporated as a non-profit organization. Perhaps this will help with your discussions with Emma?

-Jeff

[himszy]

Andy, from what I understand]

[color=#FF0000]Andy, from what I understand]

[paul von braun]

Well, that's a significant reduction

Well, that's a significant reduction in the cost in my book. Despite Michael's sledgehammer way of putting it, he is probably correct about the registered charity issue - and given that the subcommittee ia a primarily US based organisation I agree that it is doubtful that it is registered as a charity in this country.

So, that leaves us with two options. Either move it to somewhere cheaper if numbers cannot be guaranteed, or perhaps sell tickets in advance. But then I guess Middx Uni want the cash up front...

I feel that the costs of other things ought to be weighed up too, such as the cost of publicising the event in the rags that are MMI and MB (we all know who!).

All that said, is there not a bit of water in almers Green, Andy? Could be my imagination.

Paul.

[Guest]

Yes ther is a boating

Yes ther is a boating pond in Palmers Green- Broomfield Park.

Nice little lake, for targets, hopeless for submarines though. At it's deepest it is only about 15", and that just won't cut it I'm afraid.

There are a couple of other places I can try, but to be honest, they're not such nice venues.

Regarding advertising, it's my understanding that magazines will list these events free of charge.

Andy

[himszy]

Andy any news?

We using their

Andy any news?

We using their pool or finding another?

Michael

[Guest]

I've been away in the

I've been away in the balearics for a few days, and just got back today.

As things stand at the moment, I am looking into alternatives. Will post when I have something worthwhile to say.

[himszy]

Ok Andy,

Was the holiday nice?

Michael

Ok Andy,

Was the holiday nice?

Michael

[Guest]

Very nice!

Plenty of swimming pools

Very nice!

Plenty of swimming pools over in Menorca. Seven in my hotel alone!

[paul von braun]

Andy,
with reference to your earlier

Andy,
with reference to your earlier post on rc groups.com, will you be elaborating further on here?

Paul.