Value of the RPRA Regions -

[willie reynolds]

I noticed this elsewhere - In the AGM report the Finance and General-Purpose Committee are going to ask their accountants advice in relation to regional accounts, could this be the first step in the centre calling in the monies held by the regions. Any one seen the summary of cash reserves stated in the regions annual accounts? if you have please feel free to share. Now what’s the Regions worth? just a quick look at the monies raised from membership fee’s last year may help give an idea as to the raised interest of this committee in the regions worth.

Region-----------------------------Fee's Income

CUMBRIA, I of M & Scotland---------£3,718
DERBYSHIRE & SOUTH YORKSHIRE--£6,103
DEVON & CORNWALL-----------------£1,971
EAST MIDLAND-------------------------£9,341
IRISH------------------------------------£6,996
LONDON--------------------------------£7,733
NORTH EAST-------------------------£10,018
NORTH WEST--------------------------£5,420
SOUTHERN-----------------------------£5,402
SOUTH WEST--------------------------£4,916
WELSH----------------------------------£1,665
WESTERN-------------------------------£8,090
WEST MIDLAND-----------------------£10,192

Totals----------------------------------£81,565

The Centre's income was about £146,000

They the committee may be asking what’s the added value of the regions monies/wealth? What is it doing for the members and the union? There is now a chief executive office and others that want to try new projects and make changes which will come at a cost. Now if the centre hasn’t got the fund’s why not call on the wealth of the regions after all who does that money belong to if not the whole of the union. What is the ambitions of the finance and general-purpose committee and its interest In your regions monies. The RPRA’s own rules (No 7) prescribe that income shall be applied solely towards the objects of the Association, these objects being in part the future of the Association.