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I'd still like to support the club. As I understand it, general forum donations are kept separate? At the moment you can buy a jersey, or you can register for (free) club membership. Is there any mileage in being able to buy the club-income cost of the jersey, without having to buy the jersey? Or being able to choose the amount on the currently £0 product in the shop?
We aren't taking donations directly into the club at the moment. I'm a little hesitant as I haven't fully researched how to handle that given that the club is a CIC (Community Interest Company) and we haven't completed the CASC stuff. i.e. I don't know about the Gift Aid claim-back stuff, and how to account for donations prior to CASC registration, etc.
LFGSS donations are currently ring-fenced for server costs, and do not go the club. They just sit in a PayPal account and I have a PayPal debit card that then pays the bills. This was it just avoids me altogether. There's currently £360 in that account, and that's fine as the costs are much lower nowadays (Microcosm did deliver a reduction in costs).
Eventually this stuff should be merged... but right now it hasn't been. Selling stuff is easy, taking donations has a bit more complexity to it.
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I'm one of the people that put my name down and hasn't ordered. I'm hesitant about posting, because I don't want to complain. I don't think I am complaining?
But I suspect these reasons are common - the list was a while ago and I have less disposable cash than I did. The payday ordering window is greatly appreciated, but given it was the January payday, my bank account is still less healthy than usual. I'm (never say) never going to race - I liked the idea of having an lfgss jersey, and of supporting the club. As it happens to have turned out, the design is too similar to my existing forum-identifiable jersey (Ladies, 2012) to usefully fill a niche for me. So, I regret that I will not be ordering one (at least not this time).
Here's possibly the constructive bit: I'd still like to support the club. As I understand it, general forum donations are kept separate? At the moment you can buy a jersey, or you can register for (free) club membership. Is there any mileage in being able to buy the club-income cost of the jersey, without having to buy the jersey? Or being able to choose the amount on the currently £0 product in the shop? Is there a principle against this, (or not worth it because of low demand).