Paul Cooksey wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 10:14 pm
Chris Goodall wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 10:00 pm
We're talking about the extent to which the sky will fall if we don't indulge the "professional" aspirations of strong amateur players
The thread is "Membership renewal". Chris is entitled to his eccentric views on professional chess, but I find it distressing he is exaggerating the amount of money the ECF gives to professional chess because this sort of misinformation might damage the ECF. But I'm going to try ignoring it.
Thanks Paul and i think that Chris should look at the ECF council papers in july when
Salaries, Pension and NIC Staff expenditure is the following
2017/18 £60216
2018/19 £71895
2019/20 £71946 (but this is due to Furlough i would say)
it is simple
Admin for the ECF
2017/18 £141305
2018/19 £143659
2019/20 £130523
Also I will Quote on the ECF finance report that he put in his report and you can see this here
Last Year 2019/20
The latest view of the Federation’s financial performance for 2019/20 is still much the same as
provided in July. We should make a small surplus for the year’s activities of approximately £9k
against a planned loss of £12.5k. In the management accounts the important column for last year is
the” Forecast Column for 2019/20”. Key reasons for achieving this favourable position were:
• Membership income for the year is much as expected with a few late Bronze renewals of
about £900;
• Game fee income has been prudently included as £12k as it is not expected that all
organisations will be able to pay;
• Income from Supporters seems to be lower than previously predicted, but increasing;
• Expenditure generally has been restricted to mainly supporting online events and
administration costs;
• The largest expense for the Online Olympiad was covered by sponsorship/donations
successfully raised by the International Director;
• If the outstanding Game Fee income is collected there should be a surplus for the year of
about £9k which is better than previously calculated;
• Note, if we had not received the Government grants from the Job Retention Scheme and from
the local authority of £21k there would be a deficit of about £12k.
Also if you also see on the ecf main page this
https://www.englishchess.org.uk/change- ... ice-hours/
In order to save money and take advantage of HM Government’s continuing flexible furlough scheme during the pandemic, it has been necessary to reduce the office opening hours and furlough the staff to temporary part-time working patterns whilst maintaining a suitable level of service.
From Monday 5th October, Andrew will be available from 9.30 to 12.30 Monday to Friday, and Gary will be available 9.30 to 16.30 Wednesday and Thursday. Both will be able to deal with telephone queries and emails during these revised hours. If anyone needs to contact the ECF urgently outside these hours, they should email the relevant ECF Director.