On 6/2/2013 10:57 AM, Margaret Tank wrote: > > Bel, very well put. Thank you. > > Dammo, there is no bar to using SCA funds for 4th Company activities, > as long as the products are available to everyone (same as any SCA > usage). The 4th Company Fund is part of the Kingdom account. However, > income, as for any Kingdom fund, is what we all give them. I plan to > buy some raffle tickets for the fundraiser myself. > > Fourth Company has always been donation-funded, but through the kingdom account. None of its money comes out of the "general fund". I should also point out that, unless something has changed in the last few years, half the gas money to get the kingdom trailer to foreign wars comes out of Fourth Company's funds. That's a fairly big expense twice a year (used to be thrice a year, but since Estrella has pretty much died, only twice now). The last big raffle, about five years ago, generated enough money to keep us going for awhile (along with smaller donations that come in, and a couple of smaller fundraisers people have done), but now it's pretty well gone. Elasait