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Capital asks - not revenue

This campaign tip (no. 18) was published on Friday, 18th January 2019

Consider there two:
a) Can we have Capital funding of £1000 please
b) Can we have £1000 per year of annual support please

Same ask, right?

Wrong! If you campaign / ask for ?1000, that's ?1000 - if you campaign / ask for ?1000 per year for 15 years, that comes in at about ?23,000 with a 5% per annum allowance for inflation / loss of other earning on that money. Revenue is much more expensive "pound for pound" than capital. And note:

* You have nothing to show at for all your revenue spend - nothing to say "here is what we bought"

* Revenue spend is not earning you big political / popularity points as it's largely hidden

* With revenue spend you are seting much more of a precent that's difficult to stop

Let's see the maths ... Python program below into which you can plug your own parameters.

Result ...

Almira:jan19 grahamellis$ python capex 10 1.05 1000.0 "Can we have 1000.00" - Capital 1000.00 or Revenue 13206.79 over 10 years Almira:jan19 grahamellis$

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import sys

# Set initial parameters
try: years = int(sys.argv[1])
except: years = 15

try: growth = float(sys.argv[2])
except: growth = 1.05

try: amount = float(sys.argv[3])
except: amount = 1000.00

# Calculate for given values
revenueSpend = 0
grownTo = 1.0
for k in range(years):
	grownTo *= growth
	revenueSpend += grownTo * amount

# Print results
print ('"Can we have {0:.2f}" - Capital {0:.2f} or Revenue {1:.2f} over {2} years'
	.format(amount,revenueSpend,years))

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