As posted elsewhere:

There are funds that need to be raised for the plaque (£100) and forum hosting charges (approx £150 per year) Alfie and I will act as joint auditors on this. I'll use an old unused account of mine for the time being and email statements to Alfie for financial summaries to be checked and posted. I would suggest £10 from members who wish to donate to get the fund started.

If anyone wants to make a donation then please PM me and I'll let you have sort code and account number.

[edit] or PayPal to chris(dot)saville(at)outlook(dot)com

Please do put your forum ID as reference.

Donations received from
22/06 £10 Chris_Sav
22/06 £10 Nasher
22/06 £10 Sprocket.
23/06 £10 Captain
25/06 £10 H2pots
25/06 £10 BSA499
25/06 £10 Dommyman
26/06 £20 Sam Pato
26/06 £10 Ian H.
27/07 £20 Cloudboy
30/06 £10 A. S.
21/08 £20 BSA499
21/08 £20 Milestone 11
22/08 £20 Chrisp955
22/08 £10 Splashdown
22/08 £17 Sam Pato


Balance in fund £217.

BRILLIANT: Plaque £100, hosting £94.95 (paid  22/08) and domain name £22 are now funded thanks.

Thanks to all who have donated and to those who had also made offers so I know we are safe.

That will take us through to next March and give me time to find out what the new owner plans for the forum and Malcolm's news site the forum hangs from.

March 2024 Fund
23/08 £10 Ian333
23/08 £10 Splashdown
24/08 £20 D. W. thanks
31/08 £20 Alfie
Plaque £100 paid out
Balance in fund £82.05 (£22 Domain name has been paid by the owner)

23/09 £10 rednine thanks
29/10 £20 Scaramanga thanks

Balance £112.05 as at 30/10/23

Are you doing paypal transfer Chris or Alfie?

That's my usual method of transferring money. Pm me.

Much to my surprise I still have a Paypal account now, have not used it since FleaBay divorced them.

chris(dot)saville(at)outlook(dot)com

Looks like I will not be charged fees.

Donate away as I don't use the account for anything else.

Please use your forum name as reference for auditing

Done through paypal Chris 👍

Chroist that was quick through the speed trap!!

Tenner received thanks

(25-06-2023, 09:19 AM)Chris_Sav Wrote: Chroist that was quick through the speed trap!!

Tenner received thanks

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£10 donated via PayPal. Many, many thanks for all your efforts Chris.

(25-06-2023, 09:40 AM)bsa499 Wrote: £10 donated via PayPal. Many, many thanks for all your efforts Chris.

Received thanks, seems to be working fine!

And of course non members who enjoy this forum can also donate via PayPal

Alfie has paid the plaque bill for £100 and I have renewed the forum hosting for £95. We have another bill for £22 to pay for the domain.

We are thus a bit in deficit at the moment, so donations appreciated/

£20 donated via PayPal. Once again many, many thanks for all your efforts Chris.

(21-08-2023, 04:52 PM)bsa499 Wrote: £20 donated via PayPal. Once again many, many thanks for all your efforts Chris.

Received thanks

Small donation sent.

(21-08-2023, 08:22 PM)milestone 11 Wrote: Small donation sent.

Gratefully received thanks

£20 sent via PayPal. Hope iv done it right

(22-08-2023, 10:35 AM)Chrisp955 Wrote: £20 sent via PayPal. Hope iv done it right

Received yours thanks and also Splashdown and Sam Pato's donation.

Many thanks everyone the crisis is over and funding until next March secured.

Hosting paid as attached and I have seen the donation made to the hospice on behalf of the memorial. The domain name will be paid as soon as I receive the invoice. Everybody who has made a donation should see it acknowledged in the first post, post publicly if anything is missing by all means, as we need to remain fully accountable.

I'll take it easier for a few days so as not to strain my eye which is recovering well and then try and get the new owner to indicate his intentions. There are also software difficulties to overcome as it is a very long time since either the forum software or Malcolm's news site software were updated. There is a risk of going out of support in the not too distant future. Attempting to update the software has failed thus far by both myself and the 'experts'.

The hosting was actually due for renewal last march so thanks to YNH Ltd for not pulling the plug for four months and then only as they could not make contact. All admin is now fully understood and properly set up. Just as well I could not go to the Manx!!

In about a month I hope to instigate discussion with financial options on the future.

You're a diamond Chris - I have no idea how to even start to understand this stuff.

I/we are very fortunate you stepped up.

'The last stand of the TTwebsite forum' - I'll be telling my grandchildren I was there :-)

Cheers,

Sam

Thanks Sam, but it's all the members on this forum who are the diamonds. Seems hard to appreciate Malcolm was on the verge of closing it eight years ago due to trolls.

What a team we have thrown together by a love of road racing!!

Thanks again Chris, 
Sorry I am a bit hit & miss at the mo', 
a lot going on family wise & then there's the matter of 2 visits to the Isle of man in a week!! 
I don't know where I am! 

Sent a further remuneration Chris. Sorry, I wasn't being mean!!