Ricky Tomlinson Evening: Even Better Than We Thought!

The Ricky Tomlinson fundraiser brought in even more than was originally thought for the Fred Keenor Statue Fund. The club has told us today that it raised a whopping £9,383 which brings the fund’s total in money collected and pledged to £34,733. Thanks for everyone’s support.

great amount and great work by the club

Do we know how much the statue costs though?

Must be nearly there!

I think I read between 75 and 100k but that seems a lot to me

Fantastic News

cost is around £85,000 according to Trust website...

cost is around £85,000 according to Trust website...

Plus Vat, takes it to about £96,000

cost is around £85,000 according to Trust website...

Plus Vat, takes it to about £96,000

Why not give the mney to the club who can buy it and claim the VAT back -only need £85k then...

cost is around £85,000 according to Trust website...

Plus Vat, takes it to about £96,000

Why not give the mney to the club who can buy it and claim the VAT back -only need £85k then...

Superb idea Tim

Why not give the mney to the club who can buy it and claim the VAT back -only need £85k then...

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Only if you trust the people at the club not to spend it on fish

cost is around £85,000 according to Trust website...

Plus Vat, takes it to about £96,000

Why not give the mney to the club who can buy it and claim the VAT back -only need £85k then...

the vat man would love that

cost is around £85,000 according to Trust website...

Plus Vat, takes it to about £96,000

Hate to point this out boss, but if the statue is commissioned after January 1st 2011 (which is highly likely) VAT rises to 20% making the total cost £102,000.

The blame for that clearly lies with all those who voted Conservative

cost is around £85,000 according to Trust website...

Plus Vat, takes it to about £96,000

Hate to point this out boss, but if the statue is commissioned after January 1st 2011 (which is highly likely) VAT rises to 20% making the total cost £102,000.

The blame for that clearly lies with all those who voted Conservative

wasnt that Labour's plan anyway to raise VAT in 2011 , how come the statue costs so much then ?

Why not give the mney to the club who can buy it and claim the VAT back -only need £85k then...

Superb idea Tim

It is a great idea up to a point, however when you consider yesterday's newspaper headlines of a crackdown on tax avoidance by the coalition Government and a desire to send all those who deliberately avoid paying tax to prision.

It sought of raises the question on how Whitchruch Blue and TG would get on sharing a prision cell and who would be who's bitch

wasnt that Labour's plan anyway to raise VAT in 2011 , how come the statue costs so much then ?

Martyn I think you are getting confused with the reversal of the VAT rate from 15% back to 17.5% on January 1st this year. Labour has never made any pledge to rise VAT to 20%, although they didn't rule it out during the election campaign.

That said whatever the circumstances I still blame the Coalition Government

wasnt that Labour's plan anyway to raise VAT in 2011 , how come the statue costs so much then ?

Martyn I think you are getting confused with the reversal of the VAT rate from 15% back to 17.5% on January 1st this year. Labour has never made any pledge to rise VAT to 20%, although they didn't rule it out during the election campaign.

That said whatever the circumstances I still blame the Coalition Government

always somebody to blame Tony so why does it cost so much for the statue then ?

wasnt that Labour's plan anyway to raise VAT in 2011 , how come the statue costs so much then ?

Martyn I think you are getting confused with the reversal of the VAT rate from 15% back to 17.5% on January 1st this year. Labour has never made any pledge to rise VAT to 20%, although they didn't rule it out during the election campaign.

That said whatever the circumstances I still blame the Coalition Government

always somebody to blame Tony so why does it cost so much for the statue then ?

The Fred Keenor committee are commissioning a sculpturer from up the valley's somewhere, he apparently did the Tasker Watkins one for the WRU.

I think its made of solid bronze and of course it will involve a lot of work. The TW statue cost around the same.

cost is around £85,000 according to Trust website...

Plus Vat, takes it to about £96,000

Why not give the mney to the club who can buy it and claim the VAT back -only need £85k then...

Good job that had already been thought of then Tim

For the benefit of posters on here that may not know:-

As the club is v.a.t. registered they can reclaim the v.a.t on expenditure for what will be an asset located at their stadium for the benefit of the club.

Several invoices have already been dealt with this way to date to recover the v.a,t. e.g they have made a stage payment to the sculptor.