CoTech Retreat 2017
Aaron Hirtenstein
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Hi everyone,
I've been in touch with Wortley Hall to see if we can use the venue again for this year's event and we have a provisional booking for 3 nights and 2 days 27-29 November for 49 rooms plus the ballroom and Henry Collins lecture room - same as last year.
The rates are as follows:
£102 pp single occupancy
£87.00pp sharing in bedrooms
£35.00pp day delegate rate
£57.00pp dinner and day delegate rate
We will need to pay a 25% deposit to confirm the booking.
I will start a proposal for 1 week on this so that i can get back to Wortley with confirmation or declination.
As an aside to this, given that costs were difficult for some, we could ask Solid Fund to help with costs for those that are not a financial position to cover the costs.
rowan powell
Tue 28 Feb 2017 4:10PM
Seems expensive and it would be great for more members of Calverts to be able to attend...
Matt Kendon
Tue 28 Feb 2017 6:34PM
It was a wonderful place and a great size for the number of people who went with space to grow that number. If people are worried about the cost, Cotech could Cobudget some free tickets for people who might otherwise not be able to go.
Pete Burden
Tue 28 Feb 2017 7:16PM
Matt Kendon's suggestion swayed me.
Finn Lewis (Agile Collective)
Tue 28 Feb 2017 10:07PM
It sounded like a great place. If the abstentions are mainly around cost of the venue and therefore attendance, then perhaps we can find ways to support tech coops with less cash to come. Solidarity Fund?
Chris Croome (Webarchitects Co-operative) Wed 22 Feb 2017 9:28PM
Good idea about asking Solid Fund to help, also it might be worth clarifying the figures -- I assume these are per day / night and not the total for two days / three nights?
John Atherton Thu 23 Feb 2017 10:56AM
Hi All, Just flagging up that Co-operatives UK Practitioners forums is on the Thurs 16th Nov I know this affected attendance last year so if you could do it a week earlier I'd appreciate it and I;m sure your Secretaries, accounts and comms people would as well.
Aaron Hirtenstein Thu 23 Feb 2017 11:39AM
Hi @johnatherton thanks for sharing! The other dates offered in November were 27-29. I went for the earlier ones as it felt a bit too close to Christmas but I'm not even sure that matters! I'd be happy to ask for a date in October but that is usually a mental month (in our experience).
Perhaps 27-29 is fine?
Chris Croome (Webarchitects Co-operative) Fri 24 Feb 2017 8:45AM
27-29th November 2017 is fine for me since it is so far ahead, on the other hand if we are leaving Wortley Hall in the morning / lunch time on 15th November I'm not quite clear why that is an issue for an event on 16th November, the problem is having two events in a row? Or people need time to prepare for the other event? Sorry if these are daft questions...
Aaron Hirtenstein Mon 27 Feb 2017 10:35AM
thanks to everyone who has voted so far. A quick update: I've changed the date to 27-29 on the thread topic to make it easier for people to go to the Coop Practitioners Forum. We still have both dates til the end of the week.
We will also need to pay a 25% deposit by next week. Will have confirmation on the amount today, I suspect.
Andrew Croft · Wed 22 Feb 2017 2:29PM
I'd say yes!