moving the club

[Vintaren]

Okay here is what I have so far from Warragul (still waiting to hear back from Drouin) there is the exhibition hall next to Logan park for $290 a day with a bond of $100 which you get back, also if the club doesn't have its own public liability insurance there is an additional $20 fee which will cover you. The second option is the old shire hall on queen street -  $75 per day plus if needed public liability $20 no bond, on the plus side its less than 30 seconds from the train station on the negative it is upstairs. Anyway thought I would list them as possibilities so people can see what is out there, I'll post again when Drouin gets back to me (although from the sound's of it where looking for Warragul or further east?).

- What game do you get armies for?
If you were going to buy them that would be a counsel decision or put it to a vote by the members. If you take donation whatever you can get

- Who paints them?
Well some donations would come pre-painted and others you could offer painting classes and use them to practice on. Not really sure on the one.

- How do you stop someone using them all the time and not getting their own army, and thus the 'club army' becomes their army by de facto?
Well that's where rent comes in, say $5/$10 an hour (actually probably per game would be better). That way if someone is holding onto it, it is good for the club (cash wise) and at the end of the day it is returned to the club. Also if hogging armies becomes a issue you could right up a booking sheet or put a limit on how many games in a row

- Could the money spent on the army be better spent elsewhere; ie. more terrain, better equipment, etc?
With the rent it would turn into a money maker and open up the club to people who might otherwise have not tried it (again more money).

[Chosen of Sanguinius]

Fill me in on the exhibition hall.
I am familiar with the old shire hall though have not  been in it for a while, it is a bit small upstairs for a growing wargamming club (though with current turnout it may not be a problem).

You may want to start an independent thread about the club armies to get more discusion on that one, i think its a great idea...

I don't think moving the club is a huge priority based just on convenience, but if there are better options out there then I'm all for it.

[Vintaren]

@ Chosen of Sanguinius- the Warragul Exhibition fits 500 people, from memory their is storage space at the back too. It is a short walk from trains and taxi rank. And with both the old shire building and the Exhibition hall if you goto the shire office they said they would give us the key's to go have a look. Also they have canteen area right at the entrance to the main hall so it would still only require one person on door/food duty.


I have also called around to a few other places (still no reply from drouin shire) Drouin primary has a basketball hall but is currently booked solid, Drouin secondary hall is available for $600 a day but you need your own insurance, no bond. And Warragul regional hire there hall out at $21/h no bond needed but own insurance required.

Not sure of the condition or regional's hall perhaps someone can shed light on that, but drouin secondaries hall is huge and relatively new. I realize some of these suggestion are very expensive but I think it helps to highlight how good you have it atm.

[Vintaren]

p.s. its on Howitt street number 19 I think

[Chosen of Sanguinius]

Ok i must have only seen a small part of it...
Sounds very good

[carson]

The club currently has around 800-900$ (at last count, most of it's sitting in a safe at drouin, because it's safe!)

Most of that was generated through memberships this year. Now we're paying $10 a meet (we also get liability insurance with it)

24 meets a year x $10 per meet = $240 dollars.

We also make around $30+ each meet on food and drinks, though with the trouble with the door that might have to go and we just have a door entry fee.

We had I think 15 memberships this year at $50 each.

Which gives us $750. Now if we move to any of these other places we're going to be paying (at the cheapest place per year which is $75 a day) 24 meets x $75 = $1800 a year. Now we could always go for fewer meets a year, say 12 which is $900.

At the Exhibition Hall, 290 a meet x 12 meets = $3480 per year!

So that is still costing us MORE than our garrunteed $750 from the 15 memberships. We could increase the entry fee, certainly, but by how much? And would it be worth it considering we're still effectively growing?

At the moment having the extra cash is good, especially with the costs that're going to be invovled with getting incorporated, etc.

Give or take the odd non-member per meet, which is probably an extra $20 here and there, we're not currently making enough to cover costs for a move like this.

Also, our biggest revenue maker (drinks/snags) might have to go if having people do shifts on the door is such an issue.