Having just attended another meeting meeting tonight away from football in the local community looking at budgets, sponsorship & just keeping a once a year event ticking along whilst trying to engage the public to volunteer and look at ways of getting people through through the gate on the day at an affordable price to ensure it carries on next year & the year after etc.
I have perhaps realised what a difficult and fine balancing act it is to ensure survival through revenue streams but I also heard the same points from every member of the committee who are all volunteers and from a broad sweep of proffessions is that every avenue has to be explored finacially to keep within the strict budgets set whilst not having any effect on the event itself and minimising the cost to still make it a viable affordable day out for the public whilst still making money to keep the event going year in year out.
It's a tough call so I do understand that the Club has to look at every aspect from the Top down in terms of becoming self sufficient and that prices are rising be it a loaf of bread or a ticket for a football game but the point I am trying to make is as the fiscal hand tightens so does peoples spending certainly more on their desposable income for things like footy or trips to the cinema whatever is your bag.
I really want this Club to succeed and the community to flourish with it to bring about prosperity to the town itself and what better way than through footy and Stanley itself.
I will shut up now but hopefully you get the point
