Hello, It is my understanding that the travel sponsorship committee met on Saturday 17th and that it was provisionally decided which 65% of applicants would get travel sponsorship, subject to sufficient sponsorship money coming through. If that is the case, do we have any idea when we can say to the 65% (or whatever smaller fraction) of people that they definitely have sponsorship? In the meantime, would it be possible to disclose the 35% to myself or another member of the accommodation team? I am specifically interested in how many people applied for travel and accommodation sponsorship, so that I can figure out how many will drop out of accommodation in the absence of travel. (that way, if it is not possible to disclose names, then the number in the intersection would do. I then need to write a pro-forma mail to see if they still want accommodation sponsorship). This would be very useful because I need to get in touch with the hostels sharp-ish to discuss handling bookings for people we *aren't* sponsoring: off the top of my head, about 40 people. If we had 40 drop-outs, say, my job would be a lot easier :) Finally, what is the intended approach for informing people that they are / are not successful in applying for travel sponsorship? I would suggest that requiring people who are successful to confirm that they are still interested with a reasonable time-out is a good idea, that way we can re-assign places quickly for those who go AWOL. -- Jon Dowland
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