Hi Gavin, In Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, we charge £7.50 for a side room (counselling) and £11 for the main meeting room (groups like AA). There are discounts for non-profits. These will remain unchanged for now. We do let rooms simultaneously, so that helps income. In Friendship Oliver Oliver Müller Warden Nailsworth Quaker Meeting 0770 883 1000 01453 832396 https://nailsworthquakers.org.uk On 04/11/2024 17:41, Gavin Mendham wrote:
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 it’s 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.
It’s 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
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