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6 Income and expenditure Overview FEIEA receives income from three main sources. These are the: annual subscription paid by the national member • associations, which very broadly provides two-thirds of FEIEA’s income. This is a per capita fee of just €3 based on the size of national membership. However, collection is sometimes problematic and this can have an impact on cash-flow Grand Prix awards entrance fees, the second-largest income • generator • the sale of press cards, which brings in further income, although on a small scale, normally measured in hundreds of euros. Occasionally, FEIEA also receives sponsorship income in support of special events. FEIEA’s expenditure covers costs in three main areas: travel, accommodation and set-up costs for the • Executive and Council meetings the cost of the • Grand Prix judging weekend – a fairly new and very worthwhile area of spend, given the opportunity it provides to strengthen the pan-European and interactive quality of the judging process the website: • FEIEA pays webmaster, webspace and hosting fees. As a non-profit-making entity, FEIEA aims to balance annual expenditure and income and to produce a small surplus each year. However, the late payment of annual subscriptions by several associations has become a recurrent feature in recent years. This, together with a tolerant attitude towards Grand Prix and Academy entrance fees, has frequently led to a shortfall in income against expenditure. This became acute at the start of 2008, as shown in the table above. The Executive has determined that this needs to change. Please note that the use of the decimal point and comma used in this table reflects standard practice in continental Europe but not UK usage FEIEA The Report 2007-08 2008 €) Actual 2007 (€) (Actual) 2006 (€) (Actual) Making sure it all adds up: FEIEA accounts FEIEA’s areas of expenditure are well-known from the start of each year and the Executive will continue to keep costs under review. However, the financial management priority is now about income. Firstly, it will ensure money due to FEIEA is collected in good time; secondly, it will explore new sources of income. 2005 (€) (Actual) 2004 (€) (Actual) 2003 (€) (Actual) Income 23.389,19 16.193,08 15.000,00 14.416,85 18.429,33 14.839,26 Expenditure 15.591,44 23.190,37 13.000,00 15.400,52 9.957,57 14.999,14 Starting capital 6.520,99 21.851,76 28.849,05 47.354,25 38.882.49 40.042,37
Legal, communications and research FEIEA: Many flags, one federation Legal FEIEA’s legal entity comes under the jurisdiction of Belgian law. It came to light in the latter part of 2006 that, for reasons that remain unclear, FEIEA’s legal registration had become confused with that of the Belgian association. This has now been resolved. However, the Executive has also addressed the best place of domicile for FEIEA. The reasoning took into account the following points: FEIEA has no central office and no staff; it owns no property; its activity is devolved to individual members of the Executive; FEIEA-related activity can take place in any of the FEIEA member countries or even elsewhere, so there is no inherent technical, statutory or practical advantage for FEIEA to be registered in any one country rather than another. Given these facts, Executive members set out to investigate the process required to register FEIEA as an entity in each of the member countries. In 2008, the Executive decided to adopt the ‘two homes’ solution. One ‘home’ is the legal domicile, expected to be Brussels, reflecting FEIEA’s establishment under Belgian law. The other is the office of the current President, which is the effective address for FEIEA during the term of office of each President. When each incumbent’s mandate ends, the incoming President’s address will become FEIEA’s operational address. Communications Apart from the annual report, the website has become FEIEA’s main communication channel. Dortmund-based Michael Kalthoff-Mahnke was commissioned to provide a webmaster service at the start of 2007, the site was re-designed and relaunched in summer 2007. The website address remains the same - www.feiea.com Research In line with the strategic aim of sharing theory, improving practice, FEIEA conducts pan-European internal communication surveys. Known as Delphi Studies, these take place roughly every three years. In 2007, FEIEA invited proposals for the latest Delphi Study, to be conducted in 2008, and commissioned Austria-based research consultancy Attigence. As with the two previous Delphi Studies, Carola Golser-Wamser was the research professional at the heart of the exercise. The results would be presented in 2009. FEIEA The Report 2007-08 7
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