The following has come via Pete Foster. I enquired as to what benefits the club get - aside from introducing people to the club.
Without going into detailed amounts, the Club is benefiting from the CSH project as follows:
- 80 year lease on the ground. Difficult to provide a £ benefit to this however it does make investment easier to justify and to fund.
- Refurbished changing rooms. We believe that this enabled us to retain the MUFC deal which we expected we would lose, with double the revenue. Also increased hire out of the ground for other games (e.g. A behind closed doors international friendly next week)
- Significant increase in bar revenue. e.g. Last weekend we had a match and two events and bar takings (not profit) were over £5k. However profit isn’t as high. Beer costs, vat, and expenses for bar staff have to come out of that, although we do benefit from some volunteers (Chairman and family, Steve, etc) on both match days and functions
- New sponsorship deal from brewery as a result of increased spend with them
- Big club events are more profitable as our costs (e.g. Room and food) are much lower than the Cresta (and that doesn’t take into account the bar takings which are the clubs)
- An additional function room – what was the Noel White bar – is available for hire, use on match days etc. We don’t yet make enough use of this I suspect.
- Not resulting from the CSH project, but the Club do benefit from use of its facilities by the CSC, who pay for usage of the pitch for Fun Weeks, Ladies match at Beer Festival, for example.
- Another ‘not resulting from the CSH’ but you may not be aware that the Reserve team doesn’t cost the Club as its largely financed by the CSC.
- Organising events - i.e. judy and stacey's time as they are CSH/CSC employees - is covered by CSH income
- Kit costs for Supporters and poss Ladies teams - plus pitch hire for the supporters and poss ladies team (I say poss because I know the supporters team do, and under the title of 'recreational' which the ladies also fall under)
The CSC (Community Sports Co.) rent areas of the ground for fundays etc. generating more income (Approx 5k) - That was mention at the MTM/MTB evening