Hi, just interested if anybody has experienced this?
I'm a voluntary chair person of a small travelling theatre company, the committee who run it are all volunteers. This year they all seem to have dropped it without actually saying so. Don't come to rehearsals, ignore committee chat messages, don't do anything.
As I've been left to do everything it's been a very heavy job and I'm determined to step down at the next AGM (August) and take a complete break. The other committee members will also leave.
The rest of the members (about 25 in total) know this but nobody is showing any interest in taking over the committee. I think they all assume that if they stay quiet for long enough I will just carry on doing it but I'm determined because it's really dragged me down this year.
The thing is, the group is quite comfortably off, we have about £7000 in the bank and if the group folded because nobody was prepared to run it then it would have no outgoings. So would that money just sort of sit there in the bank until somebody chose to pick things up again or would there have to be some sort of process where we officially closed the group and divided up the money?
I've also thought that perhaps we could continue by paying somebody to run it but then there would be a recruitment process and tax returns to do and things 🧐
Has anybody experienced anything similar and/or got any good ideas? I'm losing sleep worrying.
Thanks!