Why are deposits not returned until October?
This allows us 8 weeks to: 1. Recover from the mad month that is August and catch up with everything in the office (1 week). 2. Collate all feedback from supervisors and managers post the year’s season (2 weeks). 3. Calculate the individual returns. This involves well over a thousand volunteers, thus a lot of payments from varying sources (PayPal, Cheque, BACS). Also numerous factors contribute to final figures e.g. loss or damage of equipment or uniform, missing shifts, not turning up at all, various percentage deductions depending on initial payment method – this is no simple task (2 weeks). 4. The bank prints the cheques for us (1.5 weeks). 5. Printing the comp slips, addresses, popping all into envelopes and posting (1.5 weeks).
