String Courses and BOF levy

[AndyC]

My wife was doing the accounts for Sunday (some of you know she's the club treasurer) and was working out the BOF levy, she then notices that the levy form on the BOF website has a box for "string/other" surely they can't be charging levy on string courses??
We generally don't charge for string courses seeing them as a way of drawing the young ones into the sport (as well as occupying the slightly bigger ones a bit while parents run) and make a controlled loss because of map printing and the "sweeties" we give out at the end but now we are being asked to give BOF 33p for each child??
Surely a string course is an "activity" within an event isn't it?

[Paul Frost]

http://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/page/organisers

6. Although they will be included within the participation numbers declared to British Orienteering, participants on string (or similar, subject to agreement with the Events Manager) courses shall not be included in the levy calculations. Consequently, they are not to be included in the member or non-member participation numbers; they are to be included under “string and other”.

[AndyC]

Thanks Paul I was hoping I'd missed something like that

[babs f]

Presumably this is to up the participation numbers for Sport England.

[Glucosamine]

Given that maps are 2-D, forests are 3-D but string theory is 11-D, then there must be scope for bamboozling the Sport England bureaucrats ...

[AndyC]

remembering a Star Trek TNG episode can't a string appear one dimensional in this universe? That makes it even more confusing

[SeanC]

Clubs should charge for string courses, especially if it would encourage them to put more on. Having children costs a fortune and even if string courses were around the £5 each mark it would still be cheap compared to the standards of most other activities (so charging the levy should be fine).

[mharky]

Clubs should charge for string courses, especially if it would encourage them to put more on. Having children costs a fortune and even if string courses were around the £5 each mark it would still be cheap compared to the standards of most other activities (so charging the levy should be fine).

The worst thing I've read on here this decade.