My understanding is that brevet cards, being that a perm or a calendar event need to be paid in advance by the organiser. So, realistically, unless one closes the registration early, one needs to fork out for the maximum capacity of the event. So if I decide to cap at 100 entrants, that is 100 cards, which I believe is 100 quid (perm cards are a quid each... is it the same for events cards?).
Apart from the fact that it is quite a steep fee AUK charges organisers to print some cards, it would obviously be helpful if AUK paid for the cards in advance and then retained a pound for each card actually sold.
Even worse for perms... should I invest in 100 cards and maybe nobody will ever ride it, or should I pay for 10 and then I'd be out of cards... or maybe just not bother with cards at all and just do GPS validation
Then of course hiring of the venues... in an ideal world I would propose a calendar event with a breakdown of the costs, AUK would accept it or bin it. If they accept it, then they should contribute with an advance payment to cover the bigger expenses (hiring of a venue, brevet cards) and retain part of the entry fees to cover for that. The organiser would then have some extra money as entries roll in to buy some food or else. Basically sharing the risk. As events get more established, the risk becomes zero.
Even if taking some risk meant losing a couple of thousand pounds per year in hopeless events, with 300k in the bank (losing 10k worth of inflation per year) who cares?