A Step In The Right Direction
Angling Trust to publish competitions expenditure.
The Angling Trust has today announced that it will publish a full breakdown of its income and expenditure for all the matches that it runs.
The announcement comes on the back of an ‘Agent X’ article in Match Fishing magazine, and a thread on the Angling Answers forum, which has seen numerous anglers question where the ‘administration’ money that taken out of the pot actually goes.
Trust Member, and DHP Digital News Editor Tom Scholey commented: “I am delighted that the Trust have finally decided to co operate and publish how their administration fees are used.
It has been suggested that these fees seem disproportionately high, leading to all sorts of speculation from the anglers taking part. When the balance sheets are published, it will allow anglers to make an informed decision about whether the Trusts matches provide good value for money. The more transparent the Angling Trust can be, the more credible they are as a governing body. This is a definite step in the right direction.”
The Angling Trust’s Chief Executive, Mark Lloyd said: “Following the article in Match Fishing magazine, which came to our attention some time after publication, we decided to put together a full breakdown of the income and expenditure for all the matches run by the Trust. Various staff key to the preparation of this document are on holiday in August, but we will provide the information by the beginning of September.
In the meantime, I would like to reassure all our members who fish in Angling Trust matches that we make every effort to keep the cost of entry as affordable as possible and that we do not make a profit from matches; in fact every year we fail to recoup the full cost of employing our competitions team who work long hours administering national and international competitions and delivering the talent pathway initiative.
The only reason we can run competitions at all is because of the support of a team of committed volunteers who give their time for nothing at weekends throughout the year. Membership subscriptions from match anglers help support the work that the Angling Trust and Fish Legal do fighting to protect fish stocks from cormorants, pollution, fish disease and a wide range of other threats, as well as protecting access to fishing and our rights to fish.”
To read the forum debate in full, including Mark Lloyd’s full statement, click here.
The Angling Trust has today announced that it will publish a full breakdown of its income and expenditure for all the matches that it runs.
The announcement comes on the back of an ‘Agent X’ article in Match Fishing magazine, and a thread on the Angling Answers forum, which has seen numerous anglers question where the ‘administration’ money that taken out of the pot actually goes.
Trust Member, and DHP Digital News Editor Tom Scholey commented: “I am delighted that the Trust have finally decided to co operate and publish how their administration fees are used.
It has been suggested that these fees seem disproportionately high, leading to all sorts of speculation from the anglers taking part. When the balance sheets are published, it will allow anglers to make an informed decision about whether the Trusts matches provide good value for money. The more transparent the Angling Trust can be, the more credible they are as a governing body. This is a definite step in the right direction.”
The Angling Trust’s Chief Executive, Mark Lloyd said: “Following the article in Match Fishing magazine, which came to our attention some time after publication, we decided to put together a full breakdown of the income and expenditure for all the matches run by the Trust. Various staff key to the preparation of this document are on holiday in August, but we will provide the information by the beginning of September.
In the meantime, I would like to reassure all our members who fish in Angling Trust matches that we make every effort to keep the cost of entry as affordable as possible and that we do not make a profit from matches; in fact every year we fail to recoup the full cost of employing our competitions team who work long hours administering national and international competitions and delivering the talent pathway initiative.
The only reason we can run competitions at all is because of the support of a team of committed volunteers who give their time for nothing at weekends throughout the year. Membership subscriptions from match anglers help support the work that the Angling Trust and Fish Legal do fighting to protect fish stocks from cormorants, pollution, fish disease and a wide range of other threats, as well as protecting access to fishing and our rights to fish.”
To read the forum debate in full, including Mark Lloyd’s full statement, click here.
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