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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
Lets get practical- cost projections as Garinda rightly requires.
The Dickensian Fair, Grassington was mentioned as an example. Beautiful Dales village, popular with tourists all year round ( Compare with Accrington?).
Fair costs in 2003(8 years ago)-Skipton website.
Total cost-£30,000.Insurance-£2000.portable loos £1500(Accrington will need them!).45,000 programmes,not costed but £1000 to distribute. Can't find list of other costs.
They got some money back by charging £5 car parking-8 years ago! Could Accrington get away with special parking charges?
As far as I can see that was for 3 Saturdays.
With inflation at 5%-I think thats about £44-£45 thousand pounds(can't remember how to do compound interest) and I'll bet it's actually a lot more now.
Returns - someone tell me! How do you get any of that money back?
Can HBC afford that? Will volunteers be able to do it for nothing? No to both.
Some lovely ideas but in todays climate not on! Just being a realist.
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I can only make out £4500 here, why would there be a need for portable toilets when we are talking about an afternoon/early evening. Why a need for programmes when posters/ emails would suffice? Why can Hyndburn council not liaise with Rawtenstall council who seem to be having some success in their own quite deprived area which is nothing like Grassington or is that not allowed? Are you thinking too deeply about this? Are you able to say what the £25000 excess in Grassington consisted of? I know this answer sounds a bit aggressive but it's honestly not intended to be, it really is just my genuine curiosity based on my ignorance and naivety on this subject.