It' is always easy to
analyze events with hindsight and say how you would do things differently.
As part of the prep
work for the appeal year the project folders created, which would be
submitted to major players were all the same size and once created on the
secretary's typewriter, copies were made at the Bracknell print room and
looked very professional. £75 paid in printing costs.
We were a bit green at the time thinking that once people had received
them they would supports us. The reality was different, as they were too
long or too complicated to understand, what we were trying to achieve.
Should we have created slim down versions, which might have helped us to
achieve more financial support.
One thing we can be sure of, if it wasn't for the Windsor & Maidenhead
Council, Radio Heatherwood would have ceased broadcasting some years ago.
It was there letter listed across which today still fills us with pride
that they understood what we are about and had the foresight to support
the project.
Listed
below also information we would rather forget from another local council.
The result of this application was to go
along to the public room of the council chamber whilst the council decided
on the application. It was plainly obvious that slim down versions were
handed to council members from our submission but you got the impression
that they had not been read.
This turned into a total put down by almost
all of the council and advised by the chairman to limit the donation so as
not to encourage these type of people to return!.
So We Didn't!
