10-03-2014, 01:50 PM
robin moore Wrote:Checked to see how much junior competition entry costs are at present. There seems to be quite significant differences depending on which area of the country you play in and who the organisers are...
Scottish Junior Chess (SJC) CFK event - £7, £6 for other family members, £5 thereafter. £1 surcharge for entries on the day.
North East Junior Chess Association (NEJCA) event - £4, £2 for other family members
Lothian Junior Chess (LJC) - £10 for a team of 4.
Ayr Congress Junior Saturday- Free.
I can't speak for others junior organisations but SJC are run on a sound (and non funded) business model.
Given our pool of highly skilled and experienced arbiters and controllers who don't take expenses and today's typical (for us) venue costs the correct fee really is around £7 a head.
The bank account as it stands allows us to donate equipment to juniors clubs who are just starting up.
Maybe that's altruism, maybe that's long term investment.
A significant number of juniors who started with SJC events are now playing adult events and contributing to Chess Scotland through grading and membership fees. The same is true of NEJCA and the Lothians ans no doubt others on a smaller scale. It would be more logical for Chess Scotland to pay junior organisations for the number of juniors they introduce into the adult game.
It would never happen of course unless, perhaps, Chess Scotland were to acquire substantial grant funding.
That's not part of our business model. Nor was pseudo taxation in the form of 25 pence per person per game grading fees. The official SJC response to the suggestion has not been decided upon.
Some form of advanced warning would would have been customary.
Maybe this concept was discussed at the agm in August? - I'm still waiting to read the minutes