Hello Northumbria Area Meeting increased it's charges for its one active hiring meeting house at the end of March this year and plan to review again for the end of 2025. The basic increase for the rooms was: From £35 to £40 for the initial two and a half hours and from £14 to £15 for each additional hour for the smaller room and From £45 to £50 for the initial two and a half hours and from £16 to £17 for each additional hour for the larger room The increases are based upon covering our overall costs (which include known and unknown maintenance) but also considering the impact on existing hirers - so guided sticking a finger in the air. We are also still in a potential growth situation, so we consider the amounts we need with an eye to having more hirers and so more income and at this point, more hirers does not equate to more running costs because more hirers means both rooms being used at the same time. When we get to our potential maximum use, increases might need to be higher to cover increasing costs. The principle we work to is cost neutral for running the building. At the moment this includes Quaker use and Quaker contribution toward this. Quaker contribution involves Friends time and energy as well as financial support for having the building. In Friendship Matt Matt Moore: Northumbria Area Quaker Meeting Resources Manager Mobile: 07982 743 615 "Take heed, dear Friends, to the promptings of love and truth in your hearts" Quaker Faith & Practice: Advices and Queries: 1.02/1 ________________________________ From: Edinburgh Quaker Meeting House <office@equaker.org.uk> Sent: 30 September 2023 13:14 To: Quaker Wardenship Support <wardenship@lists.quaker.eu.org> Subject: [wardenship] 2024 price increases? Hello, Are any of you planning to put up your room hire charges in 2024? What data will you use to guide this increase? Consumer price inflation index? Bank of England interest rates? Standing charges for electricity increase? Or the not very scientific method of "stick a finger in the air and guess which way the wind might blow"? Many thanks, Miranda Girdlestone Edinburgh Quaker Meeting House -- Quaker Meeting House Tel: 0131 225 4825 7 Victoria Terrace Email: office@equaker.org.uk Edinburgh EH1 2JL what3words.com/cloud.renew.sport Scottish Charity No. SCO19165 Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain: South East Scotland Area Meeting _______________________________________________ wardenship mailing list -- wardenship@lists.quaker.eu.org To unsubscribe send an email to wardenship-leave@lists.quaker.eu.org