[meteorite-list] BIMS donations- Re: British and Irish Meteorite Society (BIMS)

From: Martin Goff <msgmeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 15:12:22 +0100
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Hi all,

I just wanted to publicly thank Gary Fujihara for his donation to the
British and Irish Meteorite Society (BIMS) following my post to the
list the other day. All funds raised will go towards assisting us in
being able to continue to put on outreach events and displays in the
future. I am constantly surprised by the kindness and generosity of
those in this meteorite community of ours :-)

Maholo Gary! Very very much appreciated :-)

Cheers

Martin


On 31 May 2014 21:38, Martin Goff <msgmeteorites at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> The British and Irish Meteorite Society has come on in leaps and
> bounds over the last few years. We have a great website and a new
> forum which is working well. We are also attending more and more
> outreach/educational events which we have had excellent feedback from.
> The more events we attend the more we get asked to do and we have a
> number of such events planned for 2014. To ensure that we can continue
> in this vein and improve even more, we as a society have decided that
> instead of charging a membership fee, we will instead ask for
> donations from members on a yearly basis. This then leaves it up to
> individual members whether to donate or not. The more we grow as a
> society and the more outreach/educational events that we attend the
> greater grow our costs. At the moment our website and associated fees
> are paid by a single member. Our display boards and lighting again
> have been paid for by another member and the cost of printing posters
> have been borne by someone else etc. etc. Some of these costs are one
> off purchases and we get continued use out of those investments,
> however others are ongoing costs and it really shouldn't be the case
> that these are continually paid for by the same individual members.
>
> We currently have 150+ people in BIMS although we have a core active
> membership of less than 20. So far we have managed to raise ?145 in
> donations this year from members.This has enabled us to get a large
> outdoor banner printed to use at outreach events and some more posters
> etc. We have an upcoming event at the prestigious Cheltenham Science
> Fair in June and this has raised an issue of public liability
> insurance. At all previous events we have attended we have been
> covered by an umbrella policy from the organisers but this time we
> need our own policy. This raises issues for us as an organisation and
> unless we can sort this out for this event and for others it may
> prevent us from doing as many outreach events as we have been doing.
>
> We are a UK based organisation and i understand that all of our
> outreach events do not benefit people in the meteorite community
> abroad, however i am sending this message out on the off chance that
> people may consider donating a few pounds to assist us to continue to
> put on our meteorite outreach displays over the coming years. We have
> a BIMS paypal account and any and all donations however small will
> really help us to grow and to continue in the same vein. I understand
> completely that this may not be felt to relevant to many but if anyone
> feels otherwise then we appreciate every little bit of assistance :-)
>
> The Paypal email to donate to is britishmeteorite at gmail.com and all
> donations will be anonymous (other than to the chairman and treasurer
> of BIMS) thank you in advance for any donations made :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
> --
> Martin Goff
> www.msg-meteorites.co.uk
> IMCA #3387

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Martin Goff
www.msg-meteorites.co.uk
IMCA #3387

Received on Thu 05 Jun 2014 10:12:22 AM PDT