Olympics costs spiral - as predicted
Over a year and a half ago I pointed out that this would happen (with advice from a few seers - see the original blog entry) and things have actually got worse than expected.
There's talk of the Big Lottery Fund being raided because the initial estimate of £2.38bn has now catapulted to almost £10bn. Despite building plans being downsized.
And charities will suffer. Like I said. More at the Intelligentgiving blog.
posted by David Pitchford @ 7:02 pm
17 Comments:
Somedays don't you wish you were wrong ...
Where did it go so wrong? As a fundraiser I've always tried to make sure that bids take into account inflation, VAT (don't even go there with me on that), and have emphasised to project managers that whatever we don't account for in the propose budget, we might not get and won't get. You can't just add on later. Or so I thought ....
Don't be ridiculous. The Big Lottery Fund is not going to be raided. It has nothing to do with the spiraling costs of the Olympics - it will just hand money out to the athletes who will compete at the games. The BLF haven't even launched an Olympics grant programme yet. You guys are idiots.
Amazed man, that's very interesting. Where do you get your information about handing money out to the athletes?
As a fundraiser I've always tried to make sure that bids take into account inflation. Armand Rousso
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I seriously think every olympics budget in history is over shot!
Whats the point of doing a budget if they know they will over shoot it
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