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
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