20 Apr
2021
20 Apr
'21
3:06 p.m.
Hi All,
Following on from last night's discussion we decided that we will ask for a
25% refund, 25% then goes towards the general DERT fund given to host teams
to get them started. 50% of what we paid is non-refundable, so effectively
we're splitting the other bit between us and DERT.
Emma kindly put this into the context of crawls for us the refund is
equivalent to 1 crawl in pre-Covid times - so we will get £145, DERT will
get £145. Our current funds are about £1600 - a little above October 2019,
DART funds from our fundraising efforts to date are separate from this.
Discussion covered the point that there are up to 30 teams that are in a
similar position - some may not be as well off as a team as us and not
everyone will have entered as many people as we did, but even so there
should be a good increase to the DERT pot. Keeping a bit for ourselves is
potentially helpful - both for future DERTs / DART. We'll ask if they can
share what the fund goes up to once all of this concludes out of interest
and how this gets used but the next team (as potentially maybe interested
one day hosts ourselves...) and are going to suggest that in the future if
the fund needs increasing again, perhaps teams could be asked if they would
be willing to help contribute.
If anyone has any issues or queries they would like to raise please let me
know asap, and Emma feel free to correct any of the above if I'm quoting
wrong!
Thanks,
Hannah
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 19:53, Emma Hope <emmahope112(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You mean, it's not the fund to buy slushies? What
a waste.
Plan sounds good to me, I'll bring a summary of the accounts at present.
Emma
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021, 18:08 Hannah Norman, <hannahruthnorman(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi All,
To follow up on this, we now have the official minutes from the DERT
Steering group meeting, see attached, along with the Handover Statement
from Whip the Cat.
We now need to decide as a team what we are going to do about the
registration fees we paid for DERT 2020, the options are:
- 50% refund
- 25% refund and 25% to "DERT slush fund"
- 50% to "DERT slush fund"
Any money in the slush fund will go towards increasing the DERT float,
which currently sits at £1000, and providing security for future DERTs in
case of unforeseen circumstances. This fund is to help the host team get
things up and running. We need to make a decision on this by 30th April, so
perhaps we could discuss on Monday?
Thanks,
Hannah
On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 16:26, Hannah Norman <hannahruthnorman(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi All,
Minutes from our "post DERT" discussion the other day. I guess the key
thing anyone who wasn't able to make it might be interested in is our plan
for return to dancing when we are able. In summary, we need restrictions on
social distancing to end in order for us to practice - currently the
earliest this would be is 21st June. Following this, we would aim to do a
crawl, noting that we may have to dance outside pubs at times depending on
their opinions on it and any requirements at the time. Once we have had a
crawl we can then look at events again, and will register interest in going
to Bath Time at the end of October.
We would also want to check in with how people are feeling regarding
this in case anyone has any concerns nearer the time. If you do, please let
me or Becky know in the first instance.
While we still can't practice, we could potentially have the odd
stepping practice within the guidelines - at the moment this is limited to
6 people (so 5 dancers and 1 musician). I will keep a close eye on
guidelines if we do this, and the Morris Fed have a really helpful risk
assessment to help organise this safely.
Otherwise, obviously we can meet socially! Once groups of 30 are allowed
we'll organise an en masse Ravens meeting in a park somewhere. However, if
you want to hang out with up to 6 ravens, please do - the spreadsheet
we had last year is still around
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZlZ9QoJTF0C7c_suG4SWp7TVYG02HrQvGf-GvNqoB-o/edit?usp=sharing>,
although I think about 6 ravens have moved houses/are about to move house
so it possibly needs updating. You don't have to have a whole postcode, you
can just pop your general location in (e.g. Stockwell) which might help
with working out who is nearby, who might be willing to travel in a
favourable direction!
Hope you're all having a lovely week and hope to see some in person
faces at some point soon!
Monday night zooms will obviously also continue!
Hannah
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