ok to go a bit further on the club membership thing I'll explain how it works.
Our PLI was about £350
Team shirts are about £300 for 20 of us
Wristbands I paid for lol so we'll ignore them
So WB's had £600 we needed to pluck out of the air. £40 membership compared to most sport clubs is very good value for money. When we formed the club we had about 16 members which totalled the money we had to £640 although this didnt all come in at one time but its easier to explain it if we assume it did.
£640 = PLI and T shirts sorted with £40 left over in the club account.
Next month another 3 people joined which added another £120 to the account. What do we do with this money? Various stuff as time goes on but here are the basics and the 2 things which I mentioned yesterday that still some of the WB's dont know about.
- General expenses such as Banner, stationary, sound system for festivals etc.
- minibus trips to places like the gym fest
- Petrol expenses in mine and Jeeves car since we ferry loads of people around
- FREE gym session
- Bocker of the year trophy
and the 2 things to be launched shortly:
- Buy 3 get 1 free gym sessions (ongoing)
- Bocking feet and broken part replacement scheme - every month the club will buy 2 new pairs of feet for the 2 members who need it the most or any other broken part. It wont include springs
We also charge £5 per gym session to the members to cover the cost of hiring the gym. Sometimes we have more money raised at each session than is needed to pay for the gym. We decided a long time ago it is far easier for the excess money to go in the club account rather than try to sort out change for everyone and split it equally on the day. This also helps on days when not many attend the gym and we dont raise enough to pay for it so the club helps out there.
As time goes on and we get more members, we grow as a club and get more funds in the bank and as a non-profit organisation everything goes back into the club one way or another.
Ricky in Swansea is developing the swansea branch and he's about where we were a year ago. We're also setting up a club in the next town, Newport.
This is exactly the sort of thing bocking needs to grow and get recognised as a sport and the only people who are going to make it happen are us, the bockers
