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HOW WOULD IT BE RUN?

We have made provision in our budgets (detailed later in this document) for two full—time salaried officials, a Bar Manager, and a Club Secretary, as well as paid bar staff. No decision has yet been taken, however, on the question of staffing, and at present the Constitution only provides for a “Manager”. It does seem likely, however, that one person could not realistically be expected to fill both roles.

The Cay Centre has been run for almost two years now entirely by volunteers. It has been an enormous drain on our resources of spare time and energy, and has not proved 100% satisfactory. The club will be expected to be open regularly to 1 or 2 am, and will require much greater organisation: and control, so it seems to us essential that it should be staffed by paid workers. The Bar Manager would be responsible for bar purchases and equipment, and staffing of the bar. The Club Secretary would administer the roll of club members, deal with general administration including the District Council and licensing authorities, maintenance of the building, booking of live musicians, supervising disco purchases, organising meetings and film shows, etc.

The question of “democratic control” is important, since this is undeniably a good thing that it is easy to have too much of. Policy will be democratically decided, but specific issues will be left to the Branch Committee (as is required by law), advised by the full—time officials, and no doubt there will be a management sub-committee involved too. On a day to day basis, the word of the Bar Manager and Club Secretary would be law — which makes it extremely important to get the right person or people for the

job.

MONEY

We publish detailed figures and projections later on in this document, but many people will probably find them somewhat hard to digest. It seems worthwhile to isolate some salient points at this stage.

The initial loans required would cover:

We expect to get about £20,000 from the brewery and the rest from the bank. We would offer them the following securities in addition to personal financial guarantees:

Unless someone offers us unsecured loans, these figures probably represent the limit to which we could borrow initially. The deficit on the first quarter of operation could be quite considerable, and adequate provision must be made for it. Once things get under way there could well be money available for further improvements, or for repaying some of the loans.