Dear Wardens and Friends responsible for Hiring/Hirees of our Meeting Houses, Please see if feel you can let me know what you expect your hire charges to be in 2025? I would also be helped if you have a hiring policy, currently we have terms/conditions, I wouldn't say its a policy. At Wilmslow, SK9 4BW, not far from Stockport and 12 miles south of Manchester centre, we have a building that is let to "sole hirers". A main room is about 8m by 6m high ceiling , entrance hall, small kitchen, upstairs family room, usual toilets. Its a 19th C building converted in early 1990s from a former pony and trap stable, with an upstairs School Room, now a lofty Meeting Room with "modernish" facilties and a little parking. For security of the building and safeguarding of the hirers its best hired to one user at a time. Our 2024 rate is £17.35 an hour. Each year I take the annual rate of inflation and apply that to the hire rate. This year I am puzzled as the Consumer Price Index 12 months September 2023-24 is 2.6%. But energy prices to October 2024 Gas is up 14% and Electricity up 10%. Instinct is telling me go somewhere in the middle e.g. increase by 6% for 2025 eg @£18.40 per hour? Our hirers will squeak! May be I am not realistic? I will look at the projected income using our 2024 rate and see how that matches to expected increases in our outgoings. Thank you to those who feel they can respond, I am sure many of you are very busy people! In Friendship, Gavin Wilmslow Quaker Meeting Premises Committee Quaker Meeting House, 1a Bourne Street, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5HD Gavin Mendham: gavinmendham@gmail.com (Home Address)112 Lacey Green, Wilmslow, Cheshire .SK9 4BW mobile : 07769713734