Commissioned · Cotswold Morris (Border-adjacent)
Help Enid Remove One Baldric
Enid has danced with the same side for thirty-one years. She wears a white shirt, a black waistcoat, breeches, bell-pads, a neckerchief and two crossed baldrics in the side's colours. She has agreed, in principle, to remove one baldric. The difficulty is that the baldrics are the side's registered kit, lodged with the Federation in 1974 and amended twice. Any alteration requires a two-thirds vote of dancing members at the AGM, which is held in February, after the Squire's report and before the raffle. Last February the vote was deferred pending a written opinion from the Bagman, who is also the treasurer, and who was away. Your donation funds the opinion.
“I have no objection to the baldric coming off. I have an objection to doing it before the minutes are approved.”— Enid and the Baldric Question
The Modesty Meter
Every gift brings us closer to nothing at all.
- $20Funds one hour of the Bagman's time drafting the written opinion on kit variation.
- $75Pays for the AGM room hire, including the hatch for teas, at the village hall.
- $200Prints and posts the amended kit schedule to all seventeen dancing members.
- $900Commissions a second opinion from a neighbouring side's Squire, for comparison.
- $4,000Endows a standing Kit Sub-Committee, which will meet annually and report to the AGM.
Institutional assurances
- Fund designation
- Enid Baldric Variation Fund
- Verified impact
- 0 baldrics removed. 1 written opinion commissioned. 1 raffle held.
- Measurement basis
- Modesty Standard v1.0
This appeal was commissioned by a visitor and written on demand. It was not drawn up by us, it is not one of the 22 standing appeals, and it is every bit as unlikely to succeed.
Specifications
- Scripture
- Side Constitution, cl. 4(b): 'Kit shall not be varied save by resolution of the dancing…
- Coverage
- 100%
- Layers
- Six, of which one is under discussion.
- Garments removed to date
- 0
- Represented by
- Marjorie Padstowe, Bagman and Acting Treasurer
- Takes offence at
- Nothing in particular
- Status
- Deferred to February AGM (second deferral)