The Change Agenda: Money

Funding is a sore point for me. Either there isn't any, or securing funding requires a long lead time (eg. the new CF.com website - planned out in detail, but getting it to this stage has taken almost 14 months)

A few points RE funding:

• EITHER, the NME must be given control of a modest discretionary budget
  OR, the NME must address finding its own funding for the purposes of keeping a fighting fund, to contribute towards expenses
• In general branches and areas must be self-sufficient, this also applies to funding
  Training and sharing of best practice, will be provided by the NME to ensure that branch and area chairs can do this. Better fundraising techniques will be a constantly updated source of info from the exec.
• Central funding towards larger projects on a regional level will be determined, in the style of the 'fresher's packs' for students, aimed at giving CF a standard level of professionalism across the regions.