The Gathering 2014

**Jock Scot** · 21st December 11, 10:17 AM

Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I rather think that I will endevour to be far,far away from Stirling then! I hasten to add, not to avoid our many visitors who are planning to attend the event, but the last event of this kind, left a nasty and lasting taste in the mouths of some Scots.

**BCAC** · 21st December 11, 10:30 AM

It's a relatively long time in the future but I'm thinking of going.

What went wrong last time?

**Burly Brute** · 21st December 11, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by BCAC

It's a relatively long time in the future but I'm thinking of going.

What went wrong last time?

You're opening a can of worms friend!

**Jock Scot** · 21st December 11, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by Burly Brute

You're opening a can of worms friend!

A fair question though.

Broadly speaking the organisers neglected to include the locals in the party and after the event when the loss making accounts were produced it was the local contractors etc.,who did not get paid for the services that they provided and Scots taxpayers ended up with the bill to boot.

**BCAC** · 21st December 11, 11:07 AM

Thanks, Jock.

I'll probably still come over for it and stay a bit longer (make a holiday of it), that way I can "do my bit" to help the locals!

Let's hope that the organisers get it right this time.

**creagdhubh** · 21st December 11, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

A fair question though.

Broadly speaking the organisers neglected to include the locals in the party and after the event when the loss making accounts were produced it was the local contractors etc.,who did not get paid for the services that they provided and Scots taxpayers ended up with the bill to boot.

Didn't this happen in 2009 as well?

**Jock Scot** · 21st December 11, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by creagdhubh

Didn't this happen in 2009 as well?

I was talking specifically of the "Home Coming" thing in 2009 and I assume we are talking about a similar event at Stirling in 2014. If. If I am talking at cross purposes, then I apologise unreservedly and will withdraw from the conversation forthwith.

**mookien** · 21st December 11, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

A fair question though.

Broadly speaking the organisers neglected to include the locals in the party and after the event when the loss making accounts were produced it was the local contractors etc.,who did not get paid for the services that they provided and Scots taxpayers ended up with the bill to boot.

The authorities who sanction the Clan Gathering 2014 should require the organizers to be bonded. This will obviate the need for local contractors to worry about getting completely stiffed. Hopefully, they learned their lesson from the 2009 games.

**Burly Brute** · 21st December 11, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I rather think that I will endevour to be far,far away from Stirling then! I hasten to add, not to avoid our many visitors who are planning to attend the event, but the last event of this kind, left a nasty and lasting taste in the mouths of some Scots.

Then I s'pose we will have to bring the party to your house, Jock!

**cessna152towser** · 7th March 12, 04:56 AM

It has been announced that Scotland's 2014 Homecoming Year is to receive Scottish Government funding of up to £3 million.
You will recall that the 2009 Edinburgh Gathering went bust leaving performers and those who set up and dismantled the marquees etc. unpaid, despite the organisers receiving £670,000 of taxpayers' money.
However the benefit to the overall economy far outweighed the cost of staging the 2009 Homecoming Year and specifically the Edinburgh Gathering generated a £10 million boost.
Let us hope that with more public cash going in this time there will be sufficient money available to pay the workers and performers who make the Gathering possible for us all to enjoy.
2014 should be a great year to visit Scotland with the Commonwealth Games happening in Glasgow, also the golf Ryder Cup coming to Scotland, the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Hornshole and the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...itics-17272150

A budget of £3m will be made available for Scotland's second Homecoming extravaganza in two years time.

The 2014 event will take place in the year of the Commonwealth Games, the Ryder Cup, and the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn.

The first Homecoming in 2009 was said to have generated £53.7m for the Scottish economy.

But the showpiece of that event, The Gathering 2009 Ltd, went bust after receiving £670,500 in taxpayers' cash.

The government said it was right to plough in public money because the Edinburgh clan gathering resulted in a £10m business boost.