Morning all!
I've just been reading the tally thread, and I notice there's a few comments about people getting confused. I hope Vonz doesn't mind be being pre-emptive, but I thought I'd quickly start a chat thread about the problem, so that no more posts need to be made in the actually tally - I'm hoping this will prevent that from getting any harder to follow!
I do agree the tally can be jolly confusing sometimes, I've done several tallies and I've always taken the view that it's for the nominated charity only. Trying to put all charities in there is a more recent development and I think it's a mistake. But that's just my view.
Another new development seems to be that the organiser is starting the tally. In the past it's always been the person who nominated the charity and is, therefore, the main collector. This means they're ideally placed to coordinate payments and update the tally - I think having anybody else run it makes it unmanageable.
So, those are my two main points to kick-off discussion (and I stress, they're personal views, I'm not at all official):
Tally should be for the nominated charity only. If anybody wants to do a secondary "everything else" tally just for interest, they can.
Tally should be created and managed by the person who nominated the charity and is main payment coordinator.
I'm not suggesting these need to be hard and fast rules, just useful guidelines that the boss could suggest to the winner as part of their announcement. The duties can always be passed on by the winner to another nominee, that's what happened with me: when Borders one a few times she nominated the RNLI as the charity and I did payments and tally duties. Worked just fine.
What does everybody else think?