Annual accounts report

The branch receives 5% of members’ subscriptions to fund running costs and activities. So if you work for the Argus, say, and pay subs of about £140 a year, then £7 will come back to the branch during the course of a year. Due to fluctuating numbers of members from one quarter to the next we get different amounts paid into our bank account each quarter. This year we received £1,404.75

In a nutshell, we started the year (Oct 1, 2004) with £1,265.10 in the bank, received £1,404.75 from head office and spent £1,133.50. That left us, on October 1, 2005 with £1,536.35 – a healthy position and the most we have had in our account since the branch was re-formed in 1998. With about 250 members, the branch has expanded hugely – we had fewer than 100 members back when we re-established.

We have been able to keep running costs at a reasonable level due to the fact that we don’t pay for room hire for monthly meetings. And the decision of members – currently about 75 – to receive newsletters via email also helps. This has allowed us in the last 12 months to make a series of donations to various causes, detailed below. More info on these causes is available from the branch website www.nujbrighton.org.uk

INCOME

Four payments from NUJ - £1,404.75

EXPENDITURE

BRANCH RUNNING COSTS
A Colley - £20
Jemima Kiss £8.49, £20.45 (photocopying) = £28.94
Stamps £315
Cost of website £6.09

Total = £370.03

BRANCH AFFILIATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
Trade Union Friends of Searchlight affiliation £50
Manchester NUJ fighting fund on behalf of Mansoor Hassan, facing deportation to Pakistan - £25
Justice for Colombia donation - £25
Donation to appeal for cash to help re-establish Indonesian newspaper after Asian tsunami - £75
Justice For Colombia reaffiliation fee - £50
Working Class Movement Library donation - £50
Subscription to UK-based paper The Zimbabwean - £42
Donation to Grenada 17 appeal costs - £50
Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom subs 2004/05 £25
Donation to Coventry NUJ fighting fund for striking workers - £50

Total = £442

BRANCH ENTERTAINMENTS
June barbecue costs – J Kiss £62.27 (food), A Colley £44 (booze). Total = £106.27
Christmas party booze bill - £215.20 – cheque to A Colley who paid bill on his debit card.

Total = £321.47

Branch total expenditure for period October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2005 = £1,133.50

A Colley, treasurer