Quite a few people have asked this question, so I wanted to answer it publicly so everyone knows 🙂
Anyone who has organised big events like this would recognise that the ticket price is very reasonable, however, I am being as transparent as possible to ensure all questions are answered.
What’s included in the price?
- Unlimited canapes
- Unlimited beer, wine, and bubbly. Coffee, tea and soft drinks.
- A safe and secure indoor venue for 5.5 hours.
- It’s a beautiful venue too by the way, you’ll be very impressed when you arrive.
- An evening with great new initiatives and networking with like-minded people.
Here is a list of expenses for these events;
- Countless staff and Monica work hours.
- All the designing of website, promotions, getting speakers to come…all takes up A LOT of hours
- Food and drinks
- Event organisation
- Photographers/videographers
- Beautiful Indoor venue for 5.5 hours
- Security
- Staff travel to event
What will RDA do with any profits made?
- Every cent goes back to paying RDA staff and costs.
- RDA is the only organisation that has a phone line, admin staff, and free legal services. All of which cost money. If we manage to cover a few weeks of wages from this event, that is a good outcome.







Responses
Thanks so much for being transparent!
A big ask I know, but you could be even more transparent by listing how much you are paying to each person/payee for how much work of what kind, or, even better, make your frequently updated books publicly accessible online.