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.