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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: BMC Resolutions shout out 📣
« Last post by Nails on Today at 08:49:29 pm »Hi Offwidth, I personally have no problem with pie charts. What I would like to understand better is the breakdown of some of the larger slices of pie in the expenditure section on the 2022 Financial Report. From a total of £4.412M expenditure:
30% - £1.305M - Administration Costs including governance Costs, AGM and Area meeting support.
26% - £1.148M - Membership Support Costs including the costs of the insurance programme.
2% - £93K - Trading support Costs to enable travel insurance sales.
The limited itemisation here is weird and rather random.
Could we have a more regular itemisation of Administraion Costs? eg. Wages, Buildings, Utilities, Legal, Travel.
That way we would be able to consider if these seemed reasonable for an organisation of
the BMC's size. How much are governance costs seeing as they are specifically mentioned? Likewise AGM and Area meeting support?
It is unclear what "Membership Support Costs" are and why including "the costs of the insurance programme" this would amount to £1.148M. What is money actually being spent on?
Why does the insurance programme not simply have a listed cost. Similarly why does the travel insurance incur "Trading Support Costs". If the insurance sections of the BMC are operating at a loss then could we simply be clear and quantify this.
A clear itemised breakdown of expenditure would go a long way to helping us all understand what on earth is going on.
30% - £1.305M - Administration Costs including governance Costs, AGM and Area meeting support.
26% - £1.148M - Membership Support Costs including the costs of the insurance programme.
2% - £93K - Trading support Costs to enable travel insurance sales.
The limited itemisation here is weird and rather random.
Could we have a more regular itemisation of Administraion Costs? eg. Wages, Buildings, Utilities, Legal, Travel.
That way we would be able to consider if these seemed reasonable for an organisation of
the BMC's size. How much are governance costs seeing as they are specifically mentioned? Likewise AGM and Area meeting support?
It is unclear what "Membership Support Costs" are and why including "the costs of the insurance programme" this would amount to £1.148M. What is money actually being spent on?
Why does the insurance programme not simply have a listed cost. Similarly why does the travel insurance incur "Trading Support Costs". If the insurance sections of the BMC are operating at a loss then could we simply be clear and quantify this.
A clear itemised breakdown of expenditure would go a long way to helping us all understand what on earth is going on.