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The business of football (soccer to my American friends) is fascinating, exhilarating and often precarious. I’ve been on the board of Lancaster City FC (one of the world’s oldest football clubs, established 1911) for almost two years now. Lancaster is a small northern city on the west coast of the UK. Manchester is the nearest big footballing name, about an hour away down the M6 motorway. I went to University in Lancaster almost 30 years ago, which is how I got involved in the club again. We’re in the Northern Premier League, seven leagues down from the Premiership, and three leagues below the Hollywood fairytale of Wrexham. But the realities of non-league football for most clubs don’t end with Ryan Reynolds buying your club. Every week is a constant battle to keep the financial wolf from the door. Our sponsorship, gate and diner revenue is all up 30% over the last two years, and yet we still struggle to make ends meet with a multi-thousand pound defecif to manage due to rising energy costs, business rates, ground maintenance and player wages. And we’re one of the buoyant ones! Marske FC, peers in the Northern Premier League, have recently taken drastic action to recoup costs, effectively demoting themselves to the league below to give them a hope of surviving financially (cheaper players, less league-mandated ground upgrades required etc). That’s no surprise to me. Balancing fan expectations, overspending managers, player ambitions and financial realities is a real eye-opener in terms of what it takes to keep a non-league football club afloat. And their importance goes well beyond sport. These are institutions at the heart of communities - they keep people together and give neighbourhoods a collective purpose through good times and bad. They create social cohesion among strangers, combatting loneliness, forging friendships and building support networks that translate into huge social benefits that often go unacknowledged by local councils and politicians. This season alone, Lancaster has engaged hundreds of schoolchildren, refugees and vulnerable groups, to give them a sense of belonging, aspiration, support, and purpose beyond the daily grind. And it’s all done by volunteers - there are no fat cats creaming off the profits here. In fact, there are no profits at all - only debts! It’s a precarious situation that local councils should be more attune to and supportive of. These local sporting institutions, central to the community, give back so much and yet are constantly on a knife-edge, drawing on the good will of volunteers and donations to keep them afloat - whether that’s the board members, the lady on the gate, or the unseen hours of the people digging the pitch or cleaning the diner oven. So thank you to the volunteers, the part-timers and the giver-uppers. Without you, these local football clubs would be knocked down and replaced with your next out of town multi-story car park. 👇

Sometimes we can lose sight of the fact that institutions are not just a pool of assets but organizations that have an end beneficiary, whether that is a retiree, a student or a grantee. Elmer Huh of the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust does a great job of reminding us of that in this five questions feature. Check out his story and other great insights below!

The valuation of specialist assets for financial accounts can typically include a variety or properties from schools, leisure centres, museums, hospitals, police stations, and fire stations to name just a few. These are usually owned and operated by public sector authorities, or charitable operators under various contractual arrangements. The valuation of specialist assets are therefore often required for financial accounts, which is a complex and specialised task that requires the application of appropriate methods and assumptions, taking into account the physical, functional, and economic characteristics of each property. John Tyas has written an informative article on the valuation of specialist assets, which can be found in full on our website. https://lnkd.in/eBbUSUsP

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[Update] Its been awhile - hope you all are doing well. Here is what I've been up to since the update. 1: Looking for Business Grant(s) - not loans - to upgrade hardware, and home business area. 2: Project 01 with Error 4444 is 1990s Run And Kill and will be released soon. 3: Project 03 with Error 4444 is 1990s Red To Kill and will be completed within 2 weeks. This is the first film where I have done artifact/damage cleanup plus color restoration. Before and After samples will be shared once we get permission to do so. Private Non Commercial Projects: 1: 16mm ABC tv's Beatles at Shea Stadium including commercial breaks. (Black and White copy print) - it is rumored that a few songs were replaced with studio tracks due to technical difficulties. If this is found true, we hope to restore the original live line feed to marry the performance with the audio (which we have already in house). 2: 16mm Italian Produced 1978s animated Pinocchio (Full color) - researching copyrights in the US for this one and if the cleanup goes well may pursue marketing this restoration. Being Veterans Day weekend, if you are in the New England area please consider donating to the Home Base project. Link here:

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The valuation of specialist assets for financial accounts can typically include a variety or properties from schools, leisure centres, museums, hospitals, police stations, and fire stations to name just a few. These are usually owned and operated by public sector authorities, or charitable operators under various contractual arrangements. The valuation of specialist assets are therefore often required for financial accounts, which is a complex and specialised task that requires the application of appropriate methods and assumptions, taking into account the physical, functional, and economic characteristics of each property. My colleague John Tyas has written an informative article on the valuation of specialist assets, of which can be found in full on the Vickery Holman website, here: - https://lnkd.in/e4UiwPTS #VickeryHolman #Valuation #SouthWest