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James R Gordon

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  1. Members who post without photo - like Jackie Ow- are well aware of the rules of this forum. I am fed up with such flouting of our rules. Such members will no longer have the right to post. They should contact me when they have attached a true image of themselves and I will return their posting rights. James Gordon Owner of Site
  2. AS of now I will be responsible for all new applicants. Anyone who wishes to join the forum must have been verified by me. James Gordon Owner of site
  3. I support Sandys fundraising drive. One thing experience has taught me is the EF needs is reliable fundraising. The quicker members begin to raise funds for the EF the better. I urge members to ignore my donation system in preferencce to Sandy's. His system is now the EF future donation system. The EF needs funds to exist and I urge members to start donating at Education Forum Fundraiser James
  4. Sandy, I did contact Invision today about your system They responded as follows. As mentioned in previous correspondance, we do not provide direct banking payments. We provide only the facility to pay via card at the present time. You would add your new card to 'My Details>Cards' within your client area, and remove any that are already present. Any payments required would automatically be taken from that card I believe that your system does not offer a debit card and therefore is not acceptable to Invision. James.
  5. Sandy, I have had a look at your link. I have no problems with your system - which has big advantages over mine - picking up at the end of November. How are you making payment to Invision. The EF will go black if Invision do not receive their payment by December 4th. 2022. I have lost your bank details. Please send me them again and I will forward them to Invision for their approval. James.
  6. The donations so far raised see the EF funded though to the end of November. After November we do not have sufficient money to pay the EF subscription. I understood that Sandy was creating a separate system that had the distinct advantage of not requiring the cost to transfer funds from $ into £. This is a significant advantage in Sandy’s system because there would not be a loss of funds transferring $ into £ as well as the weakness of the £ in the UK. Although the subscription to Invision is $70 it now cost me $82 to pay the subscription from the UK. I am happy to continue to make the Invision subscription but because of the economic conditions in the UK it is now more expensive if I am to do it. A rough calculation suggests that from December 2022 to December 2023 would require us to raise around $1.000. It is up to members. If members want me to continue making the payments until December next year it will require a donation of $1, 000. There is $20 still remaining in the donation fund. James.
  7. At present we have sufficient funds to see us through to November. We will need a donation drive to get us through December and later. Kathy suggested that we might want to begin that drive around October so that this time we get ourselves ahead of the game. I think that is a good idea. One issue I believe the forum needs to be aware of is that though Invision only charge us $70 it is now costing us around $90 to pay the $70 bill. That is due to the fall in the value of the £. The more the £ falls the more expensive that $70 cost is. James
  8. Bill, Your name has been brought to my attention a number of times before. Best not to insult researchers of the quality of Vince. James
  9. Unless I have ,made an error:- 25 members donated. That means aside from those 4 who did not donate $5 - 21 members donated $5. James.
  10. Chris, Total of $353: 99 donated One member donated $50 One member donated $10 Two members donated $100 Everyone else donated $5 James.
  11. Nick, It is not clear to me what new link Ron is referring to but there already is a link for donations. Post this link above and it ought to take you to where you can donate - if you are happy to do so. https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/clients/donations/ Alternatively hover your mouse over the tab STORE and you will quickly reveal "Donations" I can assure you the link works because we have already taken considerable donations thid psdy week. Thank you for your interest. James
  12. Thanks Sandy that is very interesting. The admin team are already thinking this way. That said the present system appears to work. Through the present donation drive we have collected just under $300. Twenty seven people have participated and two members donated $100 each. Had it not been stipulated that donations be $5 the sum might well have been larger. Essentially I read this to suggest that we already have a working model and maybe we should stay with that - at least for the present. James.
  13. Jonathan, That is correct. Further I and the admin tean have the sole contract with Invision for the EF. While that is the case no other individual/s would be able to create an agreement with Invision regarding the EF while we have the contract with Invision. Only the admin team have the contract with Invision. James.
  14. On August 1st I initiated this thread. The burden of being responsible to Invision had got me down. I was asked by Ty Carpenter did my statement mean I was open to someone else taking ownership of the forum. I answered Yes and pointed out the financial obligations that would result. As well as being exhausted and depressed at that point, I also misunderstood Ty’s question. If my answer on the 1st - as well as subsequent comments - have allowed members to believe that new ownership of the EF is now a possibility I have to make clear that is not going to happen. I have no intention of resigning and I bitterly regret that my responses have given rise to such speculation. The ownership of the EF will remain with the present admin team. James
  15. Ron, I have agreed to keep to myself the findings of the donations to date. I have agreed I will make that public on Thursday. Your gestimate about the sum collected so far is in the right neck of the woods. You astutely commented on the on the impact of the $100 donations. They do impact on the total so far. Again you highlight the issue of the number of members donating. That is my overriding concern. In 2019 [ the year of the last major donation drive ] we had a much larger active membership. The August 2022 active membership is much reduced and that has an impact on the total of monies that can be raised and what is needed from the present membership to raise the requirement not just for the coming year - but for every year after that. That - in my mind Ron - was your most astute and troubling current issue raised. James.
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