Camp for Climate Action 2008 Money

Budget and spending

Total £1,075

The power related stuff was take out of the budget proposal and moved to the power groups budget.

£450 for satellite internet provision

To cover mikes costs of getting the sat truck there, data tarrif etc

£350 for phone stuff

£200 - for media team phones. doubled from last year to take into account actual useage. Hopefully it will actually cost less since we are sorting out cheap outgoing calls, if so, any excess can be shuffled around to cover any overspend elsewhere.

£50 - Purchased two GSM Fixed Cellular Terminals so that the cheap outgoing calls are available from the on site voip phones. This was mostly intended for the reporting lines call back but the media team should use it for press work also to keep down expenditure on credit.

£30 - I've signed up for a Solo contract (1,400 minutes, unlimted texts) which will provide cheap outgoing calls. It has 30 days notice for cancellation which I have done so it ends 26th Aug.

Will need another cheap sim deal for the second line, perhaps the 02 simplicity for a bit of network diversity (add another 25 - 30 quid unless we can borrow a contract SIM off somebody).

£70 - Two PAYG skypephones which (with a bit of offsite windows magic) should be able to be setup up as two concurrent incoming trunks for free call forwarding from the info link.

£100 for media pool

This is to cover storage media for the photo and video pool. Looks like we will get two 500gb drives at £50 each or smaller as really we need enclosures not just bare drives.

£100 for interview travel expenses

Media team sometimes need to travel for interviews. Mostly the media company pay the costs but not always.

£100 for sundries, blank cd/dvds etc

Doubt we will really need this much. If we exceed our data transfer caps we could take any additional PAYG 3G top up from this budget (it's a consumable).