An Encouraging Meeting
We met with Richard Tiplady, the Director of ECM UK, tonight, over fajitas and nachos. Among other things we talked about what needed to happen to meet our target of a departure date in January. We looked across the support levels, and reckoned we were about 2/3 of the way to the support target for the first year. If this was reaches 80% by the end of October then we should set a departure date for the end of January. If not then, because the fund is continuing to increase from monthly giving, we would be ready to go by the end of March. We also set a couple of possible dates for a commissioning service recognising that the service is not necessarily a send-off, but a sending out, so can be done several weeks or even a few months before we actually go. The preferred date is Jan 13th. Still to be confirmed though.
