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I was discussing with Andy Bloot today and suggested we become organised enough to maybe throw in a $5.00 donation on each group ride. This could be used towards trailer hire or tipping fees when cleaning sites to give us the positive profile we are looking for.
Any comments?
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Could be tricky to organise a reliable way of handling the money. Might work better as a reimbursement system... or even if the people who handle the last cleanup get bought a free lunch or something by the others after a ride.
It might be worth coming up with a list of places that need a cleanup as well.
If you want to do this sort of thing, perhaps it would be best to make things official. You could form a club (an IMBA affiliated one as this trail advocacy seems to be the main aim here) and do things that way.
Although the paperwork involved in official clubs is apparently quite time consuming there may be other benefits. Sporting clubs can apply to the Department of Sport & Rec for grants to fund various activities for example.
Worth a thought?
I think this is a good idea, applying for govt. grants sometimes is a rather good way of getting things done especially if the timing is right( election time, the start of a financial year). Worth a thought anyhow!
Say for example we organise a group ride somewhere
5 people turn up and we all decide it needs a bit of a clean up
We pool our money and man power, choose a day and get it done
Mog and I did this
Cleaned up a trailer load of dumped rubbish and went halves in the tip expense
And ever since, the local people have been a lot more friendly
This is the kind of thing I had in mind when Vin mentioned it, anyway
It seems a pretty simple and cheap way to get some good PR for riders... also seems that no one else ever seems to do any clean-up. If we could make it a bit of a BMORC thing we could get a much better image.
Either way it is a pretty easy way to make an area much more pleasant for a few hours work and few bucks.
If we could find the right place for this we could even make a story for the Blue Mountains Gazette.
I have limited understanding of all the admin ... but I think you need
- a constitution
- tax exemption
- an appropriate ABN (for a club/charity)
with the constitution requiring legal review and setup to ensure you get the tax exemption.
once you've got it then sweet ... the usual record keeping re receipts and inflows etc, which isn't too hard.
Any of you in the legal game ???
Most banks have a community saver type accounts without fees, but few bells and whistles. pretty easy to setup once you have all the above.
In saying all that ... club structures are a little cumbersome, and I personally don't think thats where locals wanna go ... coming from a non-local (can somebody teach me how to get emoticons without having to remember the symbols
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Its easier as a social group of activists ready to RIOT at the drop of a hat/email ... in a passive, non-aggressive, and legal way of course.
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thanks Rob
BOT: I'm happy to do a chip in BTW