JCRCs bank thousands as welfare and sport spending suffers
An investigation into JCRC accounts revealed that JCRs are saving money rather than ensuring sufficient funding of college sports and welfare issues.
JCRCs have banked £159,649.97 and spent £140,486.43 since October 2008.
The investigation revealed the range between the amount of money spent on events this academic year, £90,359.49, and the amount spent on welfare and sport, £3,164.73 and £1,766.09 respectively.
Very few colleges are offering free or subsidised college sports to students. James JCRC’s accounts only show £28.99 spent on sports, whilst the accounts of Vanbrugh, who claim to offer free college sport, only show £31 spent.
This contrasts with Halifax and Derwent, two colleges who offer more support for sports, who have spent £633.70 and £562.96 respectively. Welfare expenditure includes money spent on improving and enhancing the JCRs.
College income comes mainly from events and merchandise, although some colleges receive sponsorship from local pubs, bars and businesses.
Union grants to the JCRs also vary, with Halifax receiving the most, £2,240.17, and Langwith the least, £1,559.50. James only received £318.50 this year because they did not need extra funds.
James have also spent the least on welfare, only £67.84, more than £150 less than any other college.
The only college to have made noticeable use of the Jane Grenville fund, granted to JCRs for social purposes, is Langwith, who used the money to help finance common room improvements such as sofas and a television.
Pro Vice-Chancellor for Students Grenville stated that “I’m more than a little concerned to hear that a Nouse investigation suggests that much of it remains unspent. If this is true, then may I take this opportunity to remind JCRs that its purpose was to unpick the perverse mechanism of funding college welfare and social provision through ticket sales to alcohol fuelled ‘events’.”
Grenville went on to state: “I can guarantee that in the present budgeting climate, it will be clawed back into the central finances from whence it came.”
James
Balance: £13,331.84
08/09 Income: £21,253.50
08/09 Expenditure: £17,748.53
Profit/loss since October: £3,504.97
Percentage of Grenville social fund spent: 0%
James have saved so much money that college welfare and sports have suffered massively. Their accounts show only £96.83 spent on welfare and sport, only 0.7% of their balance. James claim they’re saving the Jane Grenville fund for Freshers Week, ignoring the fact that it’s not intended for alcoholic events.
Goodricke
Balance: £7,288.07
08/09 Income: £34,863.06
08/09 Expenditure: £32,368.71
Profit/loss since October: £2,494.35
Percentage of Grenville social fund spent: 0%
Goodricke’s recent 40th birthday has left their accounts looking pretty full and their Jane Grenville Fund untouched. When the bills for the event are processed the accounts will look a lot less busy. Goodricke have only spent £109.64 on sport, an unimpressive amount for a college with a proud sporting history.
Halifax
Balance: £6,880.22
08/09 Income: £15,283.39
08/09 Expenditure: £12,839.28
Profit/loss since October: £2,444.11
Percentage of Grenville social fund spent: 9%
Halifax have by far the most impressive dedication to sports, but this may just be a reflection of the size of the college and its proximity to the 22 acres. The colleges merchandise record is a lot less impressive, with a £395.7 loss this academic year alone. Fewer events meant Halifax had less chance of losing money.
Langwith
Balance: £5,669.74
08/09 Income: £15,658.70
08/09 Expenditure: £11,577.97
Profit/loss since October: £4,080.73
Percentage of Grenville social fund spent: 57%
Langwith college has by far the most impressive welfare record. Refurbishments of the JCR meant that Langwith were also able to make significant use of the Jane Grenville fund this year. With a big dedication to sports as well the Langwith JCRC appears to have the highest dedication to students.
Vanbrugh
Balance: £5,281.92
08/09 Income: £27,441.78
08/09 Expenditure: £22,235.47
Profit/loss since October: £5,206.31
Percentage of Grenville social fund spent: 2%
Vanbrugh accounts do not reflect their dedication to free college sports, which have yet to be billed, but they do show their poor use of the Jane Grenville fund. Chair Dani Fill argues that the fund will be used to subsidise the college trip to Scarborough, as well as various charitable donations.
Alcuin
Balance: £2,500.07
08/09 Income: £15,665.76
08/09 Expenditure: £16,412.48
Profit/loss since October: -£746.72
Percentage of Grenville social fund spent: 18%
Alcuin are the only college to have made a loss this academic year. Treasurer Anuj Kotecha blames last year’s JCR for leaving unpaid events which caused a deficit in the accounts. Alcuin dedicate a fair amount of money to sports and welfare, but it is unimpressive compared to the dedication of Langwith and Halifax.
Derwent
Balance: £2,436.42
08/09 Income: £29,483.78
08/09 Expenditure: £27,303.99
Profit/loss since October: £2,179.79
Percentage of Grenville social fund spent: 24%
Derwent may have the least money at the moment, which shows their willingness to spend money to ensure satisfaction. The total does not include the Big D account that contains nearly £20,000. The JCR spends a fair amount of money on welfare and sport, although it is less than a tenth of their total spending.
How They Spend It
Derwent and Halifax are streets ahead in terms of sport spending, while Langwith set the benchmark for welfare. James are rock-bottom for both. Only three JCRCs made money from merchandise sales, with Derwent in particular losing over £2,500. Alcuin’s merchandise profit offset losses elsewhere.
How They Earn It
While Derwent and Vanbrugh inherited little from 07/08, James began October with almost £10,000. Goodricke leads the way in event profits, thanks to high Freshers’ Week event prices, while both Alcuin and Langwith have failed to turn profit from standard JCRC money-spinners.
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“James claim they’re saving the Jane Grenville fund for Freshers Week, ignoring the fact that it’s not intended for alcoholic events.”
James College actually prides itself on the huge range of non-alcoholic events it provides during Freshers’ week, with the college putting on a non-alcohol focussed activity alongside every more traditional Freshers’ week event.
Perhaps a better criticism is that the Grenville fund is allocated per term, meaning trying to save it for Freshers’ week is … well, a bit meaningless..?
This article is a bit sensationalised. Really only the JCRCs themselves know what their money is being spent on, you can’t tell how a college operates by looking at their bank statements and going through it with a highlighter. Who’s to say that big things aren’t planned for the weeks to come?
Was the intention of this investigation to try and reduce JCRC funding for next year? Its not as if anyone has been embezzling or wasting money. What has this article proved?
JCRCs are not meant to be “money spinners” or “profit makers”. They provide a service, and those who pride their JCRCs on having a bulging bank account should be ashamed – money spent well makes a very big difference in each college whether on entertainment, sport or welfare: there’s a importance in each of them.
I agree with Frank. This article is useless, pointless: JCRCs make hard decisions about where to spend money, and it is not just thrown into events. A certain about of money made FROM events is put back in to create better events, and it is not kept for profit, or to have a bulging bank balance nor a guaranteed profit at the end of the year. Thats not the point.
People should stop criticising JCRCs and appreciate the hard work they do. It’s not easy, and hardly any thanks is given.
How much does nouse wish that York politics was as important as the real thing.
Its not, get over it!
“Very few colleges are offering free or subsidised college sports to students”
Jim, I’m afraid you’re wrong on that one. Last year, we secured sponsorship from the PVC for Students’ discretionary fund, spent on sponsoring training sessions. This money ended up being channelled through the AU, and your investigation should have taken account of that fact. Furthermore, in my humble experience, team captains seldom ask for money for matches or training sessions, even when explicitly invited to do so.
“Alcuin are the only college to have made a loss this academic year”
The relevant JCR financial year is the same as the calendar year, so that’s a dodgy statistic. When we handed over to this year’s JCRC, we were in surplus, with none of our events, with the possible exception of the Winter Ball (which isn’t a “standard JCRC money-spinner”), making a loss.
The fact that the JCR financial year is not the same as the academic year should also be taken into account when assessing expenditure of “Grenville’s money” – colleges have had a term and a half to spend it so far (last year’s JCRCs were operating according to an annual budget which didn’t include Grenville’s money, which was decided upon during the summer 2008), with some of the year’s most expensive events in front of them, including summer balls and Freshers Week.
In general, I think it’s a good idea to investigate the use of funds financed by tuition fees, but you should strive to do so from an appropriate perspective, not driven by sensationalism.
As a member of the James JCR, the author of this article will know that much of it is at best sensationalist and at worst totally untrue! It is the case that James JCR has a solid financial position but what the article doesn’t talk about is the how the JCR has invited all college sports teams to tender for grant aid. Allocation of this funding is currently pending the AU budget but payments will be made in due course. Similarly, he will know that James is likely to be given the current Goodricke JCR in October and so has been saving money in order to buy furniture and a TV to spruce up this frankly shabby space! Lastly, he will know that James put on a totally free event in Quad Dash as well as a highly subsidised Quad Bash last weekend for all of its students.
I’m afraid that this is opportunist, sensationalist tabloid journalism at its worst and I ask; is this something we should come to expect from Nouse?
Apologies *A contributor
Forget Nouse’s sensationalism, that is a fantastic picture of Olly Hutchings! Loving the wave hair.
Main article: “Very few colleges are offering free or subsidised college sports to students… the accounts of Vanbrugh, who claim to offer free college sport, only show £31 spent.”
Wow, what an absolute scandal, Vanbrugh JCRC are knowingly conning their college sport participants into believing they’re receiving a free service, drawing them them hitting them in the pocket, contributing to their £5k hoard in the bank account… But wait a minute…
Vanbrugh box: Vanbrugh accounts do not reflect their dedication to free college sports, which have yet to be billed…
Thus the article grossly misrepresents the actions of what is actually a very hardworking Vanbrugh JCR (by the standards of their predecessors, at least). I’m sure there are many readers who won’t venture beyond the fourth paragraph and study the detail, but one would expect the article writer to make that effort, no?
“Goodricke’s recent 40th birthday has left their accounts looking pretty full and their Jane Grenville Fund untouched.When the bills for the event are processed the accounts will look a lot less busy. ”
Interesting statement. I know Nouse was informed by our treasurer that the Fund is being used to subsidize the 40th Ball ticket to allow all students who wanted to to attend. We just haven’t been billed yet. The above statement fails to make that clear.
Little or no mention is made in relation to certain college’s changing circumstances. For example I’m sure James JCRC is aware of the cost of expanding into old Goodricke space, and prhaps in this way are certainly not “ignoring the fact that [the Jane Grenville Fund] is not intended for alcoholic events”. Goodricke JCRC has had to be aware of our upcoming move to Hes east, ensuring we have enough money to fund a freshers week with double the number of students. Also no mention is made of Alcuin’s extensive campaign to keep B-Henry’s open?
Perhaps more input from JCRC treasurers, instead of a simple demand from Nouse to hand over our accounts, would have given this article more weight than a simple, slightly sensationalist snapshot of the accounts.
I totally agree with my fellow JCR member above.
James College had a fantastic Quad Bash/Dash this year which was budgeted to make a big loss for the benefit of the James College students. The Grenville fund will be used to account for that loss.
Further, nearly all our money is currently held in our Fresher’s Account. That money will be spend on an activity packed week and also on improving the Goodricke space we will inherit for the benefit of all James College students.
James College does not have a large balance because we are being stingy. We will be spending a large part of it in the near future.
Don’t worry Dan, apparently according to this bastion of student journalism you could go to Halifax Porter’s lodge and get up to 400 pounds that I give out willy-nilly.
That’s a fair contribution to a new laptop!!!
On a serious note:
This article lacks the depth of research to make it’s bold claims. It doesn’t factor in future activities or fresher’s weeks subsidisations at all.
It then tries to charge Colleges with not spending J Grenville money, but if anyone is to remember the last issue when I tried to do such a thing I was called an embezzler!!!!
Great things once again from our most favourite piece of york student media.
I’m sure more research went into Foy’s self-indulgent full spread…
Oh Roberto – or Robert, isn’t it? – pipe down about yourself. Surely you’ve realised now that mouthing off all the time doesn’t get you very far. In fact, I’m not sure you were called an embezzler… wasn’t the article about YUSU looking into your money, not Nouse?
And let’s face it, YOU don’t give out the £400 (or whatever amount it is), do you, it’s the democratic HCSA, right? Yes? Good.
I don’t see why JCRCs are jumping on here with a soapbox and and point to prove. As far as I see it, it’s informative rather than analytic – I see no-one has actually criticised the FIGURES, only Mr Bulley’s 40 or so words on each college. It seems like he’s ruffled a few feathers, anyway.
Well done Nouse for compiling what should be public information, I say.
“The investigation revealed the range between the amount of money spent on events this academic year, £90,359.49, and the amount spent on welfare and sport, £3,164.73 and £1,766.09 respectively.”
Did it not occur to the investigators that money ‘spent’ on events is usually recouped by said event… a more useful figure would have been the profit/loss from events vs sport and welfare expenditure (which make, due to their nature, zero profit). The comparison drawn in the article is pretty pointless in my opinion.
Good point Dan. I know last year as alcuin ents we spend a lot of money on events… including two balls, a fete, and eight late licenses. Expenditure was high, but we made the money back in most, if not all of the events we put on in order to have a profit at the end of the year, ready for the JCRC to put back into welfare, sports, and events.
All those Derwent Mugs will sell eventually though, then there will be no problems. is 108 enough though?
An informative article, but one which misses a few major points, especially in terms of the cycle of JCR funding. It would however be interesting to see what effect it would have if these sorts of figures were published termly on each JCRC.
I’m not going to comment on the use of funds in other colleges, because I don’t know enough about their circumstances, and it’s none of my business to tell other JCRCs what to do, but a few points on Halifax.
“Union grants to the JCRs also vary, with Halifax receiving the most”
Yes, well done. This is because the majority of grants are awarded on the basis of how many students, and kitchens there are in the colleges, and on both measures Halifax are the largest.
Halifax 08/09 P&L £2444.11, Balance £6880.22
When I first joined the HCSA we were in a poor financial position, this has improved by sucessive HCSAs making a modest profit. The policy we set down 4 years ago was that the HCSA should hold in reserve no less than sufficient funds to cover 2 terms of expenditure without any turnover, which working on Nouses figures would be £9876.37. Thus Halifax should continue to aim to make a small profit, aiming towards a level of reserves which would provide fiscal stability.
“Fewer events meant Halifax had less chance of losing money.”
Fewer than when? The low point for running HCSA events was 2007, which coincidentally was the last full year of having a bar. This was due to too much concentration on the three a term on-campus events, despite the fact they were losing money hand-over-fist. Since 2008 the HCSA has run a larger number, and wider range of events both on campus and off, making a profit, something which should be applauded.
Halifax spent £633.70 on sports 08/09.
Yes, but as Erik O’Connor points out this isn’t for the lack of trying. The Halifax sports budget for 2008 was £1500. Unfortunatly sports captains often either find it easier to charge the players who turn up to practices (rather than go through the paperwork to get HCSA funds), or not run practices at all.
“Derwent may have the least money at the moment, which shows their willingness to spend money to ensure satisfaction.”
I said I wouldn’t comment on other colleges, but this is an implied dig at the rest of us. In reality Derwent has never had any money, because year on year they blow their finances on Big D rather than putting some aside. I hardly see why this kind of risk taking is viewed by Nouse as a good policy. If Derwent were to implement the policy of the HCSA (holding 2 terms expenditure in reserve) this would amount to £21,000.
It seems bizarre that this article criticises James for building up reserves in readiness for the large future costs of taking over the Goodricke JCR, and praises Derwent for operating with insufficient reserves to cover the equivalent of 3 weeks of expenditure.
JCRCs don’t get to take home any extra profit. There are no shareholders. Profits at the end of a JCRC financial year, go to ensure the future sustainability of the JCR budgets. As such each JCRC should set a target level of reserves, which would allow their JCR to continue as normal in strained circumstances.
Kit Dixon
HCSA VP 2006
HCSA Treasurer 2008
Although there are a lot of criticisms regarding Jim’s blurb on each college, which certainly has ‘ruffled a few feathers’, the main flaw of the article has to be that JCRC terms run from >> January to December <<, and therefore an analytical piece looking at how current JCRC’s have spent their money should surely NOT include expenditure and income from before they were in office, as this article has.
By doing this for example, it would be clearly evident that Derwent JCRC has spent NO money this year on merchandise – contrary to the apparent £2500 it was claimed we have lost.
Aside from this major error, I’m happy with DC’s accounts – after all, we are living in this time of thrift as Cameron likes to say!
Kit Dixon – hyprocrite extraordinaire!
“I said I wouldn’t comment on other colleges” – well then don’t, or don’t say the above!
“In reality Derwent has never had any money, because year on year they blow their finances on Big D rather than putting some aside. I hardly see why this kind of risk taking is viewed by Nouse as a good policy. If Derwent were to implement the policy of the HCSA (holding 2 terms expenditure in reserve) this would amount to £21,000″
I think the following quote from Kit best clarifies up the above statement (rubbish being another word):
“I don’t know enough about their circumstances (to pass comment), and it’s none of my business to tell other JCRCs what to do”
It’s no wonder student politics and the student media get laughed at and criticised so much when people involved take themselves so bloody seriously.
Get your head down, concentrate on your own College, be competent and worry about your own goals. Above all, remember it’s about making some relatively humble student services possible.
p.s. Big D is going be f@cking brilliant thanks Kit! Jealous much?
Final 100 tickets on sale tonight, from 8pm in Derwent bar!
roberto, the unfortunate thing about your witty little comment is that you’re the only person more self-indulgent than Foy
Joe, my remarks were more a comment on Nouses apparent view that running a JCR on low reserves is a good policy, which is different to my own opinion. If you’d quoted my entire sentence you’d have added the
“but this is an implied dig at the rest of us” bit, which explains why I’ve commented on a section not connected solely to my college.
It isn’t my business to tell other JCRCs what to do, but I have had to listen to Treasurers despairing at trying to run JCRs and societies on low reserves, and find it incomprehensible that Derwent college, with their preferencial treatment from YUSU ents, are so consistently poor.
JCRCs are about “making some relatively humble student services possible”, but we should be looking to expand and improve those services, and none of this can be done if we constrain ourselves financially.
Five words: lies, damn lies and statistics.
You can get more spin out of numbers than the revolving door on your mum’s bedroom.
I LOVE JCRS! THEY ARE MY FAVOURITE!
ps roberto enjoy the clap!
As a Goodricke student, I have somewhat surprised myself (in regards to college banter) to find that I am in total agreement with the comments made by ‘James Student’ above.
This is a most informative article, and by the majority of comments from those who are currently serving, or have previously served on the JCR’s in question, who, might I add are pathetically trying to defend themselves, an accurate one too.
“This article is a bit sensationalised” This article is nothing more than providing factual information on College expenditure to which should be accessible to students at all times. To suggest that it is ‘sensationalised’ does nothing more than show how out of touch JCR’s are with its students and is precisely the reason they are constantly hit by heavy criticism.
As one commentator put “People should stop criticising JCRCs and appreciate the hard work they do. It’s not easy, and hardly any thanks is given.” If JCRC’s are simply to expect appreciation, then they are fighting a lost cause. JCRC’s have to earn such respect and appreciation from its students by investing in them, and the majority of the time financially investing in students to provide a good service is the way to do that, and allow students to see the results. The article clearly demonstrates such failure to invest and therefore those in question have rightly been exposed.
It is, I believe, this article that will give those responsible for finances on all College JCR’s to make it clear to students in the future how income on all fronts will be spent, how much, and will after today, allow students to question our JCRC’s and have greater say in how College finances are spent.
An article of deep research and in my opinion a piece of informative as opposed to sensationalised journalism.
im very interested to know where jim bully aquired his acountancy skills,
“An article of deep research” would not have ignored or mis-stated comments made by JCRC treasurers.
As a member of Goodricke college you’re of course welcome to question our expenditure (you’re constituonally entitled to see our accounts). I’ll even ‘pathetically try to defend myself’ to you over a pint if you wish, and talk you through where we’re allocating our funds. I’ll assure you we’re not at all ‘out of touch with students’. If you doubt that feel free to sit in on one of our committee meetings (Thursdays 6-30 SCR).
I heartily second Dan Walkers comments above.
Any James student is welcome to contact the JCR for information.
Lissie Spencer
Services Vice Chair
You guys are correct that this article is informative, and I have no problem in it as an piece of journalism.
My only worry is that we may now lose this funding which is crucial because an artical insinuates that it is under used (please note I am not noting that it is or isn’t).
I dont want to give an opinion, only state what I believe will happen and that is that our higher ups will have to think twice about funding projects that on the most part are to help on “welfare issues”.
Can I also note that there is no law in how this fund is spent. It is not a “Welfare Budget” or a “Jane Grenville Fund” that comes straight from the PVCs pocket. It is money that has to make economic sense to the University like any other, and it is attempting to break the mould of events that encourage students to get together and get pissed.
Welfare and sports are the most practical way to encourage college spirit and participation, breaking this mould.
Also just to note that Jim Bulley did try to contact me all Sunday, no doubt to talk about the article. It is just a Nouse article like any other, and we jump to conclusions to attack or defend it.
JCRC’s and finance. It’s a familiar story that appears every year.
Last year we chairs argued about how much we got from the grant (http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/05/13/view-from-the-colleges/)
Then we argued if we needed more money (http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/05/13/colleges-divided-as-yusu-begins-governance-consultation-process/)
Even within my college Derwent we got a bit confused what money we had and where it was! (http://www.nouse.co.uk/2007/12/18/derwent-financial-confusion-prompts-yusu-investigation/)
I think the third anonymous comment hit the nail on the head. JCRCs are not meant to be money-making organisations or businesses. Instead, they should focus on providing welfare, sports and events (wet and dry) to all students.
One last point, Rankin is right – it was when I was a chair that we spent £2,500 on merchandise not his.
Unlike other colleges, Derwent bulk buys merchandise then sells it on at face value (at least in my year) and has done so for years. Unlike other colleges, who take pre-orders for merchandise, Derwent’s bulk buying enables there to be a fortnightly merch sale, gets more of the stuff sold (when people see it in front of them they are more likely to buy it) and ultimately, helps build college spirit. I was lucky enough to be handed over a ton of merchandise which provided a steady income throughout the year and only in my last term needed to reorder some. I’m also proud to have introduced DCUK boxers, DCUK knickers and DCUK mugs, a first for York Uni!
Derwent had a low inheritance because I wholeheartedly refused to make money out of our students. Many thing’s we sold at face value (merchandise, college photo) while some we even made a loss because at the time we could afford to (Rave D was only £3, the cheapest club D in the last four years). JCRC’s can easily make a few grand by charging an extra £2 on an event or the Fresher’s week tickets but I for one am proud that I didn’t. I wasn’t one of the “College Conman” (Vision, 2008).
This year Derwent has performed brilliantly. Inherited hardly anything (which is also far more than I inherited when I became Chair), spent the Grenville account wisely and provided a lot of sport and welfare.
Oliver – the third, anonymous comment to which you refer completely missed the point of the word “money-spinners”as used in the article. It was labeling college events “money-spinners”, NOT stating that a JCRC’s mandate is to turn a profit. “Both Alcuin and Langwith have failed to turn profit from standard JCRC money-spinners” ie Alcuin and Langwith made a loss on their events
Roberto – seriously, who the fuck adds an “o” to their name when they come to uni to try and look cool..?!
I love that olly hutchings
he seems such a character, a real zany guy.
his oversize specs, his hilarious hats, tight short shorts and big shoes.
What a crazy character
this uni needs more zanyness and people of his ilk!
Goodricke Student: “JCRC’s have to earn such respect and appreciation from its students by investing in them, and the majority of the time financially investing in students to provide a good service is the way to do that, and allow students to see the results. The article clearly demonstrates such failure to invest and therefore those in question have rightly been exposed.”
JCRCs do so much for the colleges and deserve respect for any time that they do invest. If you didn’t have a JCRC then you wouldn’t have had a freshers week. You wouldn’t have had anybody to help you move in when you first arrived at the uni. You wouldn’t have had a 40th Birthday Celebration because I’m sure the JCRC put in as much effort for that as the college itself.
It’s up to the average student to invest in the college to get the most out of it. Your JCRC might make a loss on an event, but its only because the students don’t go to it. Or it might make a loss on merchandise, but only because the students don’t buy it.
College finances depend on every single student in that college and treasurers, chairs and so on shouldn’t be criticised for any small mistakes. The time they all give to the colleges deserves to be praised and they DO deserve respect.
Well said Vanbrugh student…JCRCs work extremely hard.
Also, Kit Dixon.. “Derwent college, with their preferencial treatment from YUSU ents”. ..???
In what way? Every college is treated the same!
From sitting on Ents Committe last year and this year, no college, or college event receives any preferential treatment from YUSU Ents, Ents Committee, or YUSU – nor should they. If you’d care to attend Ents Committee you’d see that each college has an equal say, each college is treated the same, has the same rights to, and the same oppurtunities to put on events as any other college.
I would just like to point out that Vanbrugh JCRC has spent allot more money on sport than is indicated by this report.
Last term the most of the college teams were provided with free training through the AU College Recreation initiative.
This term, although slow to get off the mark all training sessions are now being paid for and all previous session costs have been reimbursed.
The reason this article doesn’t show this is that currently all the funds have come out of my personal account and I have not yet recieved the money back.
Josh X
Whilst not neccesarily criticising anyone, I can state that the previous comment of ‘J. Whittingham vanbrugh college sports rep’ is false. Our training sessions are not all payed for by the jcr. The players all contribute out of their own pocket.