Fundraiser / Running Costs Update

[Zico]

hello

the fundraiser has now closed 

thanks to everyone who donated

we raised £645 from 49 donations

paypal took varying amounts of commision

• each £5 donation, we got £4.55
• each £10 donation, we got £9.41
• a £20 was £19.12
• someone donated £50, we got £48.25

we've now got the ongoing hosting and licence management sorted, and took control of the domain name, the expense paid out for this were:

• £180 per year for the hosting, so covered for next 12 months
• approx £100 ($120) every six months for the licence fee for the forum software, so £200 per year
• £20 for wanderersways.com domain ownership transfer fee

so £300 paid out in total

which leaves £351.20 in the pot (including the £38 that was already in there)

the site costs £380 a year to run

so this time next year, we'll need to raise about £130 to cover the following 12 months

and then £380 a year after that

well played everyone

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Cheers Zico. 

[TrickyTrotter]

Thanks to you guys for sorting and thanks for the update.

[BOWTUN BAKED]

But but but ... the ST says it costs thousands & thousands 🤣 

[jayjayoghani]

Can you build HS2? 

[embankment]

Thankyou to everyone who runs the site now .

Happy we have raised the necessary funds 

[Wullie]

Well worth it, this site helps a lot of people

[Zico]

FYI

the licence for the forum software renews on April 1st for another 6 months

$120 so about £95

and we have £355.22 in the pot

so all covered

[Tonge moor green jacket]

18 minutes ago, Zico said:

FYI

the licence for the forum software renews on April 1st for another 6 months

$120 so about £95

and we have £355.22 in the pot

so all covered

With your recent record, maybe use a small amount for an investment on the nags- we'll all be millionaires! 🤣

[Zico]

I was just having a poke around in the member settings

it was set up so that standard members couldn't view who has liked their comments, and were limited to 2 likes per day, whilst suporter could see and were unlimited

anyway

I've just made it so everyone can see, and can like as much as they want, you may need to log out and then back in again to see this

if you want to make a donation to site running costs after this apparent act of benevloance on my part, go for it

if you don't, no bother

[Zico]

also just to add

the main reason why I did this

Happy set up unlimited likes and being able to view likes, as a supporter benefit, where he added anyone who had donated to the "site supporters" user group

since taking over the running of the site  I've received loads of donations to help pay for everything

but the thing is, I don't know who most of them were from as they were done via paypal and I just saw they were from random names and random emails and didn't know which actual user they were

and therefore of these I had no idea who was and wasn't alreay a supporter

and to be quite honest that's an admin task I cannot be arsed with

so chances are you had donated but had never been upgraded

so fuck it

you can all have the "privlege"

[victor meldrew]

About fucking time , not a patch on neil(Rip)

[Rival Son]

I’m relatively new to this site, so just getting to know what’s what, and who’s who.

Well done @Zico and all involved.

I’ll definitely chuck a few quid in, next time funds need a top-up.

[Zico]

hello

we had £261.55 left in the pot after the last forum licence payment in April

just paid invoice (below) for the next 12 months hosting which came in at £182.52

which leaves us with £79.03

the next forum licence payment is due on 01/10 for £90ish - so I'll chuck in the difference

so then we're covered on all costs until next April, then will have to do some more donations

 

[Big E]

1 hour ago, Zico said:

hello

we had £261.55 left in the pot after the last forum licence payment in April

just paid invoice (below) for the next 12 months hosting which came in at £182.52

which leaves us with £79.03

the next forum licence payment is due on 01/10 for £90ish - so I'll chuck in the difference

so then we're covered on all costs until next April, then will have to do some more donations

 

Should we run a football card. £10 a pop. £200 to the winner £200 to the site? 

[Zico]

forum platform licence paid up to April