No Hello, just P4C.

[North Angel]

thank you for coming on to explain further Ang, it is much appreciated I am sure


Just out of interest, would the hotel not refund the £1500 to a charity where the cancellation was clearly no fault of the charity? I expect they resold the rooms, or at least they usually try to in such circumstances.

Seems a bit mean spirited (name and shame!!)

Apparently the only reason we were asked for full payment of the hotel rooms was because it was on the same weekend as the Great North Run, although we did explain that we had nothing to do with that they still wanted payment for the rooms in full, and if I remember rightly this was just over £3000 for 14 rooms.

We were told if they could sell the rooms then they would refund the whole amount again unfortunately this was not the case and they did refund £1500 back to us. The refund took just over 9 weeks to get repaid to us. Thanks Premier Travel Inn!!!!

[TightEnd]

Thank you Ang...

I would have thought on Great North Run Weekend the occupancy in the region would have been massive and resale would not be a problem, maybe not though.

Thanks for naming them too. 

[Royal Flush]

Thank you Ang...

I would have thought on Great North Run Weekend the occupancy in the region would have been massive and resale would not be a problem, maybe not though.

Thanks for naming them too. 

They flogged for shizzle, bastards.

Still without all of that we would never have had the caravan experience or the infamous Palestine's comment

[North Angel]

Thank you Ang...

I would have thought on Great North Run Weekend the occupancy in the region would have been massive and resale would not be a problem, maybe not though.

Thanks for naming them too. 

That was what we thought, but they were messing us around telling us that the rooms had gone back on the internet for sale, but when a few of us checked there were no rooms available.

[booder]

Still without all of that we would never have had the caravan experience or the infamous Palestine's comment

possibly the funniest weekend of my life.   where is Ian "at-it-at-lidls-drives-a-poofs-car" Bradley these days ?

[ripple11]

I dont believe for one second they didnt sell those rooms. £1500 is a hell of a lot of money!
write to the MD of the Travel Inns.
Ask for confimation for occupancy that night.
if your not satsified with their answer .... theaten them with the small claims court.(this can now be done online and cheaply), and bad publicity.

[booder]

i do not wish to fan any flames or cause further unrest on this thread , but are there any figures to show what profit was made on the Irish (individual and team) heads up events.if they have alreadt been posted somewhere,please pm me and i will delete this post.
thank you.

[North Angel]

I dont believe for one second they didnt sell those rooms. £1500 is a hell of a lot of money!
write to the MD of the Travel Inns.
Ask for confimation for occupancy that night.
if your not satsified with their answer .... theaten them with the small claims court.(this can now be done online and cheaply), and bad publicity.

Ripple we all thought the same thing, we all tried and we all threatened them with the newpapers et etc they were having none of it, because we signed an agreement they were entitled to keep the money the £1500 was a gesture of goodwill on their behalf......so they say.

[North Angel]

i do not wish to fan any flames or cause further unrest on this thread , but are there any figures to show what profit was made on the Irish (individual and team) heads up events.if they have alreadt been posted somewhere,please pm me and i will delete this post.
thank you.

Hi Booder,

I only have access to the P4C events I'm afraid, until Davey returns home.

Ang

[booder]

i do not wish to fan any flames or cause further unrest on this thread , but are there any figures to show what profit was made on the Irish (individual and team) heads up events.if they have alreadt been posted somewhere,please pm me and i will delete this post.
thank you.

Hi Booder,

I only have access to the P4C events I'm afraid, until Davey returns home.

Ang

ok  thanks Ange.

[North Angel]

Also Motherwell, again, if they've already been posted, I'll delete this too.

Added to the list Tank

Ang

[matt674]

that reminds me.................anyone seen Sark lately ?       

Working with the rest of us 9 to 5 ers - a bank in Kilmarnock i believe

[thetank]

Cheers.

[Dingdell]

Ok - I have a question - this link http://www.lifecycle-fundraising.org/display.php?op=showgallery&page=16 takes me to a project at the Bluebell nursery school which looks exactly like (in fact the pictures are the same) as the ironside project on Game for lifes web site.

What contribution has GFL made to this project - my assumption was it had paid for this to be rebuilt etc but Lifecycle (whose name is on the wall in one of the pictures on the G4L website) states "As with all the nurseries built from the 2005 Ball, funds have been put aside for all operating costs (including teachers' remuneration) for one calendar year."

It would appear that this charity has built the nursery and will be paying for ongoing costs. 

So my questions are:

1. Why have the GFL pictures have a different name above the door (albeit a temporary board)

2. What has GFL donated to this cause?

Thanks

Tracey

[thetank]

Thankyou for that, the Motherwell expenses look to be not as bad as I feared.

The expenses add up to just over £4.1k there, including the £1.5k lost to the Hotel and the £0.9k in Cardiff.

Earlier, we were told the total expenses for the year had been £20k.

With the £8k wages, and £4.1k accounted for here, a remaining question is what was the other £7.9k spent on. I understand if we can't get this inforamtion right now right now. We'll wait patiently, but firmly.

(Someone want to check my maths)