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A location for our PPE (face visor, and other?) help during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Funding - how to receive and how to generate? #10

Closed ajlennon closed 4 years ago

ajlennon commented 4 years ago

My thinking is along these lines

So it seems timely to start thinking about how we pay for the things we need to pay for.

That seems to require some kind of setup to receive money and do appropriate accounting things to ensure everything is transparent and we can't be criticised for misusing funds etc.

How would we do this? Who can take pole on this?

afroleft commented 4 years ago

@ajlennon reaching out to a friend who’s former Ernst & Young accounting who maybe able to run the checks and balances.

Will follow up

JackiePease commented 4 years ago

intubationbox.com site has a way of donating money, we could do this and / or crowd funder of some type, or PayPal?

ajlennon commented 4 years ago

Also relates to #1

afroleft commented 4 years ago

@ajlennon reaching out to a friend who’s former Ernst & Young accounting who maybe able to run the checks and balances.

@ajlennon he's happy to help 👍🏼

What's the best way forward? Set him up on here? In Slack etc?

ajlennon commented 4 years ago

Wonderful. Can you give him my email and number. If you can give me his email I'll get him on our Covid19 local Slack channel (unless you want to!)

ajlennon commented 4 years ago

I've reluctantly returned to Facebook. It is asking me if I want to setup a fundraiser. That seems a good idea. Can your finance guy have a think about that @afroleft ?

https://www.facebook.com/DoESLiverpool/posts/2413707958729672?notif_id=1585503828912208&notif_t=story_reshare

amcewen commented 4 years ago

I think as well as cash for materials we should also be looking to pay the Living Wage (or similar?) to the people we end up enlisting to run laser-cutters, box up kit, do deliveries, etc. Lots of the people who'll offer help and whose laser-cutters we'll be enlisting to scale up are freelancers rather than institutions with existing funding.

afroleft commented 4 years ago

Shooting in the dark but want to get this funding ball rolling, please guide me.

We know that we want around:

£2000 for a palette’s worth of materials, PETG in particular Link //cc @KarlDunkerley

Guessing £500 for consumables.

How many people do we think we’ll need?

Some ideas, based on:

2 laser cutting Assistants £2,796.80

1 person Goods Out for boxing / cleaning / printing stickers / dispatching / delivery coordination £1,398.40

1 person full time deliveries—can support Goods Out in Down time £1,398.40

Round about

Materials = ~£2500.00 Labour = £5,593.60 Buffer = £500.00

Total = £ 8,593.60

We could have a crack at Crowd Funding £8000.00 to get the ball rolling.

Other quick options:

  1. High net worths
  2. Quick release grants
  3. ... bank?

Linking with Procurement

Once we have a supply to hand, my hope is that we link directly with hospital procurement teams who will be able to draw us up a Purchase Order to cover our costs.

Have been linked with UCLH procurement and East Lancs, so will try and add some clarity here.

Please add thoughts, want to get this to a conclusion asap.

KarlDunkerley commented 4 years ago

Does this help? using Acetate not PetG. PETG pallet load give 28,000 masks but needs cutting down to A4.

On Monday, 30 March 2020, 18:00:27 BST, Tom Darlow <notifications@github.com> wrote:

Shooting in the dark but want to get this funding ball rolling, please guide me.

We know that we want around:

£2000 for a palette’s worth of materials, PETG in particular Link //cc @KarlDunkerley

Guessing £500 for consumables.

How many people do we think we’ll need?

Some ideas, based on:

2 laser cutting Assistants £2,796.80

1 person Goods Out for boxing / cleaning / printing stickers / dispatching / delivery coordination £1,398.40

1 person full time deliveries—can support Goods Out in Down time £1,398.40

Round about

Materials = ~£2500.00 Labour = £5,593.60 Buffer = £500.00

Total = £ 8,593.60

We could have a crack at Crowd Funding £8000.00 to get the ball rolling.

Other quick options:

Linking with Procurement

Once we have a supply to hand, my hope is that we link directly with hospital procurement teams who will be able to draw us up a Purchase Order to cover our costs.

Have been linked with UCLH procurement and East Lancs, so will try and add some clarity here.

Please add thoughts, want to get this to a conclusion asap.

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KarlDunkerley commented 4 years ago

MK III Costings

KarlDunkerley commented 4 years ago

Alex, Ade, I have someone in Bootle who can cut the rolls down for me.

Am meeting him at 4.30 tomorrow.

Is there anyone who can bring other roll over and meet me there to get it cut down as well?

Cheers.

DoESsean commented 4 years ago

It wouldn't be a huge amount in the grand scheme of things, but is Awesome Liverpool still running? A £500 grant would certainly be a decent start.

afroleft commented 4 years ago

A £500 grant would certainly be a decent start.

@DoESsean lovely!

KarlDunkerley commented 4 years ago

I've already spent that out of my own pocket. can make over a thousand but would appreciate support for future amounts. any thoughts? Also need volunteers to ramp up production. BTW Warrington Fablab now delivering to Warrington NHS.... Fab Lab Warrington

ajlennon commented 4 years ago

I've just bought 5 x 3D printers. I'm not necessarily expecting to get that back but on the off-chance the money is recoverable I think we should make sure that expense receipts are sent onto @mjamjoum

mjamjoum commented 4 years ago

My contact info is mazen.jamjoum@hotmail.com for all finance related things.

KarlDunkerley commented 4 years ago

I should have the materials and equipment for over 1,000-2,000 visors by weekend.  Can someone advise on how we productionise this? Keen to get started. Five people could start a production chain for efficiency. Thoughts anyone?

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I've just bought 5 x 3D printers. I'm not necessarily expecting to get that back but on the off-chance the money is recoverable I think we should make sure that expense receipts are sent onto @mjamjoum

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ajlennon commented 4 years ago

Had this through. Slightly tangential to the PPE effort but worth considering. @afroleft

Hi Alex,

This may be of some use to you.

Requests for Business Intelligence and Assistance

New technology challenge to support people who are isolating

£500,000 of funding is available for technology companies who come up with digital support solutions for people who need to stay at home because of coronavirus. Funding of up to £25,000 per company is available. For more information on the programme and how to apply, visit techforce19.uk.

Kind regards

Kath

epsaul commented 4 years ago

Hi all, been watching your progress from Lock-down in the Wirral. Have you seen this grant? It should be available to you through the Innovate UK route: https://www.ukri.org/funding/funding-opportunities/ukri-open-call-for-research-and-innovation-ideas-to-address-covid-19/ All the best. Ed.

ajlennon commented 4 years ago

Thanks @epsaul will pursue that grant angle

martimorta commented 4 years ago

Hi, I have seen this other grant from the government

https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/583/overview

You can claim 100% of your project costs up to the maximum of £50,000. These will be paid in advance of the project start date.

I hope it helps, cheers. Martí