[SSC] Financial support

[Joss Winn]

One other thing to add to this is that we currently have over £1000 in the bank and a growing income each month from member contributions, so we're not really financially constrained at the moment. So far we have paid for all external services (graphic design, room hire, catering, printing) without any difficulty.

On 4 May 2012, at 14:19, roland pascoe wrote:

> 1.Offers of financial support
> 
> I must admit that I share some of Sarah's concerns. Is there a way of creating a new way of doing things without finding ourselves hamstrung by financial constraints? How can we harness the support and enthusiasm that the open day has created without feeling that the core aims of the enterprise have been weakened.
> 
> A response to  this might be for there to be a separate entity of a charity whose sole purpose is to benefit the SSC. It would allow people who want to provide financial support to do so without the SSC being totally dependant any one source of finance.Of course there are many concerns about the whole idea of "charity" , how can a critical enterprise continue to develop innovative new organisational structures( or should that be manifestations?) when it gets some of its funding from something that stems from one of the oldest and most traditional legal structures that this country has?
> 
> On the other hand is there a way of making the SSC financially secure in the long run, not so that it becomes a money making enterprise but so that it can at least offer to pay the cost of services, e.g. graphic design etc.
> 
> I don't pretend there are easy answers but at least we have to think about them.
> 
> Roland
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