About the venue, cost and sponsorship

Hi, guys

Me and kim went to a few venues today, and found one might be suitable for our event as back-up idea, "The elephant and Wheelbarrow" at the corner of Exhibition and Bourke st. Their second floor (click for detaled map)has a stage area, with lightiing where we think should be good for a comedy show or for the MC and guest speaker to stand on. We've got their catering menu as well, click for the function menu. The platters they've got seems good for share, and cost little, the staff there suggessted us 8 platters should be fine for 100 people, which would be app.$320-400, depends on what platter we want.

In this way, it only cost about 4 dollars per head for finger food, and they don't have minimium charge, we don't have to worry how many people we need to get, just try to get as many as we can, aiming to the initial taarget around 100 people. And it can lower our entry ticket price as well, and we will be able to continue our raffling for the fantastic prizes we've got. The entry ticket and the raffle ticket should be enough to cover our extra cost, such as the blank DVd, and the food and drinks for the perfomers, MC, guest speakers, friends come to help out..etc.

This place is not as fancy as Red scooter, but we have more choice on the finger food, more control and less pressure of the budget. There are three car parks around that bar, so parking should be fine, people can park for flate rate which is about $6 or $7 for the whole nigh. Anyway, it's is just a back up venue we found for our event anyway.

For the sponsorship and the venue, i suggest that we might need to set a date to decide the venue within this week. I do understand it takes time to get the sponsorship, because I've triyng on getting sponsorship since beginning of this month, and only a few of them replied. Justine, I know you are very confident with the sponsorship, and I really appreciate that you have done for our project, but until now(25th of Sept, it's about 3 weeks away from our event), we haven't send out the invites and settle down the venue, so I'm worry that we don't have many more time to wait. But if everyone are keen to go with red scooter and happy to wait for the sponsors, that's fine with me also, it's our (six of us) project, so feel free to post back.


sorry for the lonnnnnngggg post


cheers

Joy