Punch Up Birmingham (a member of coop Brum) is hosting an inter club with Punch Up Bristol on the 14/6/25.
There is a plan to higher a mini bus for members to travel in from Birmingham. I propose that Coop Brum should front the cost for this and members contribute to the cost of the hire based on there judgement of how much they can afford. As many of our members will not be able to afford travel otherwise.
Heya, this wasn’t a vote. It’s too late now but I think it’s problematic that there wasn’t a vote taken on this as it’s quite a significant spend.
In practice, Punch Up folks are making donations so maybe it doesn’t matter too much. Considering Punch Up doesn’t have it’s own OpenCollective sub project, significant spending should require a vote from the wider membership.
yeah exactly. it’s also problematic that Punch Up effectively doesn’t have its own funds to be able to pay for such things even though it’s the co-op brum affiliate/group (as yet poorly defined sub-group thing) that most (?) contributes to regular upkeep of finances and has to put financial decisions to a vote among people not necessarily involved in punch up. currently this issue is smoothed over by the fact that there’s considerable overlap between PU and co-op brum organisers, but were the model/system to scale, or the membership to shift, then this crack in the model would widen and cause big issues.
I think it’s at the stage where Athletic Community Action Birmingham ought to fully function as an autonomous division in the sense of having its own budget. This wasn’t a practical idea before but now many new people are involved and CB is also running other separate things. This would practically mean that Punch Up members only would vote on PU expenditure (also covering other sports/recreation things we wanted to do in future).
I would propose that Punch Up session attendance is a benefit of all CB members, so everyone should continue to subscribe to CB centrally (as opposed to how
Equaliser works, which has direct subscribers to get membership benefits), and then CB gives the ACAB pot a monthly grant. This should exceed running costs so we can save and put on events, but not exceed membership income so that Punch Up can subsidise future as yet unknown CB projects.
But yes I do think we made a mistake with how we funded this event which is excusable considering the fact that PU is our sole moneymaking scheme for the central CB pot and that there is total overlap in organisers, but we shouldn’t do it in future