By Herbert Purdy: I was delighted to be approached to be a speaker at the
2nd International Conference on Men’s Issues (ICMI16), to be held in
London on 8010 July 2016, and was equally delighted to accept.
Pre-registrations are now being invited so the organisers – J4MB and AVfM
– can assess numbers and venue needs, and I urge anyone who might be
interested to strike while the iron is hot and express interest. There
is a lot to be done between now and the conference, and they need to
have a good idea of numbers as soon as possible, which is why they are
very sensibly asking potential delegates to pay a small pre-registration fee of £22.00 to show good faith.
Tickets for the three-day conference will cost £265.00, and there will be a four-month easy payment option, at no extra charge. An Early Bird Discount price of £225 will be also be available for a short time, which will bring the cost down to a round £75 per day – a small sum when you see the list of far greater names than I who will be there. In the event that a conference on the scale envisaged proves to be unviable, or a smaller conference is planned, the pre-registration fee will be refunded in full. Otherwise, it will be credited against the full conference ticket price.
Click here to pre-register and let us show Britain and the world that men’s issues are important, and the fight back against feminism and a return to justice for everyone is now well underway.
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J4MB: We’re experiencing a good demand for pre-registrations for ICMI16, and I would remind you that it’s important people pay the pre-registration fees of £22, to provide a stronger steer on likely delegate numbers. This will enable us to select an appropriately-sized venue. More details can be found in the event announcement.
We’ve noticed some slight misunderstanding about the various payment options for conference tickets. Early Bird Discount tickets will cost £225, otherwise the normal delegate fee of £265 will apply up to and including payment at the door during the conference. Other than Early Bird Discounts, the ticket cost can be made easier by paying in four instalments with no premium.
We decided to offer this method of easy payment after listening to feedback from friends after the Detroit conference in 2014, and knowing the ticket price is always an important factor in people’s minds. This leads me to an explanation of how we decided on the ticket prices, which is directly related to an initial estimate of delegate numbers, based on the numbers at the ICMI14 conference in Detroit.
The quality venues in the locations we wish to hold the conference, able to accommodate that number of people, will cost in the region of £30,000 – some of them a lot more – to which will have to be added our covering some or all of the travel, accommodation, and subsistence costs for some of the speakers, the cost of A/V hire, registration, and other services during the entire three days, including of course, security for our delegates.
We thought long and hard about the pricing of tickets, and used a very sharp pencil to keep them as affordable to as many as possible. However, the financial analysis forced us to conclude that if we charged a lower price, we couldn’t make the project work. Conference venue hire costs rise sharply in proportion to delegate numbers, so apart from a lower ticket price making it impossible to cover the costs, really large delegate numbers, encouraged by a lower price, would force us to relocate to a bigger, more expensive venue, and send the project into a spiral of loss.
ICMI16 will be a three-day conference. It had to be like that to make it worthwhile for those people who will be travelling from across the world to attend, and with ticket prices from £75 per day, admission to ICMI16 is comparable to the average cost of most conferences. I hope anyone who is perhaps tentative about booking at present will see it as excellent value for the chance to meet and make international connections with others of a like mind – and, of course to meet and befriend the stellar lineup of speakers who are probably already so familiar already that they seem like friends to most of us. Without exception, all of them accepted our invitation to speak with enthusiasm.
I know that the Detroit ICMI14 cemented those who attended into a bond of friendship and mutual understanding, and I know London 2016 will do the same, and more! It will be a wonderful get-together for all of us concerned about men’s and boys’ issues across the world. Certainly, I can’t wait to see old friends again and to making new ones, and I believe everyone who attends will look back on it and remember its value, not its cost.
We must make this conference pay its way, and if there is a surplus, that will go into the J4MB ‘war chest’ to fund our campaigning, not least that relating to the 2020 general election here in the UK, where we plan to field 20 candidates, challenging the Conservative party in its most marginal constituencies.
In the last two weeks we’ve seen a major breakthrough for men’s and boys’ human rights in the British Parliament, after a particularly vicious radical feminist MP, Jess Phillips, who had blocked an application by Philip Davies MP for a debate on men’s issues on International Men’s Day, was over-ruled by her committee. The debate will go ahead on Thursday, 19 November. We’ll be protesting against MGM in Parliament Square that day.
Come and join us at ICMI16 in London, be inspired, enjoy the fellowship, and together we’ll make a difference.
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Tickets for the three-day conference will cost £265.00, and there will be a four-month easy payment option, at no extra charge. An Early Bird Discount price of £225 will be also be available for a short time, which will bring the cost down to a round £75 per day – a small sum when you see the list of far greater names than I who will be there. In the event that a conference on the scale envisaged proves to be unviable, or a smaller conference is planned, the pre-registration fee will be refunded in full. Otherwise, it will be credited against the full conference ticket price.
I attended the first ever ICMI in Detroit in June 2014 and it was an enormous boost, both to morale, and to the increasing network of men and women who are drawing a line in the sand against the spreading hegemony of feminism worldwide.I’m looking forward to seeing many of my old friends from ICMI14 in July next year, and to making new friends.
Click here to pre-register and let us show Britain and the world that men’s issues are important, and the fight back against feminism and a return to justice for everyone is now well underway.
Source
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J4MB: We’re experiencing a good demand for pre-registrations for ICMI16, and I would remind you that it’s important people pay the pre-registration fees of £22, to provide a stronger steer on likely delegate numbers. This will enable us to select an appropriately-sized venue. More details can be found in the event announcement.
We’ve noticed some slight misunderstanding about the various payment options for conference tickets. Early Bird Discount tickets will cost £225, otherwise the normal delegate fee of £265 will apply up to and including payment at the door during the conference. Other than Early Bird Discounts, the ticket cost can be made easier by paying in four instalments with no premium.
We decided to offer this method of easy payment after listening to feedback from friends after the Detroit conference in 2014, and knowing the ticket price is always an important factor in people’s minds. This leads me to an explanation of how we decided on the ticket prices, which is directly related to an initial estimate of delegate numbers, based on the numbers at the ICMI14 conference in Detroit.
The quality venues in the locations we wish to hold the conference, able to accommodate that number of people, will cost in the region of £30,000 – some of them a lot more – to which will have to be added our covering some or all of the travel, accommodation, and subsistence costs for some of the speakers, the cost of A/V hire, registration, and other services during the entire three days, including of course, security for our delegates.
We thought long and hard about the pricing of tickets, and used a very sharp pencil to keep them as affordable to as many as possible. However, the financial analysis forced us to conclude that if we charged a lower price, we couldn’t make the project work. Conference venue hire costs rise sharply in proportion to delegate numbers, so apart from a lower ticket price making it impossible to cover the costs, really large delegate numbers, encouraged by a lower price, would force us to relocate to a bigger, more expensive venue, and send the project into a spiral of loss.
ICMI16 will be a three-day conference. It had to be like that to make it worthwhile for those people who will be travelling from across the world to attend, and with ticket prices from £75 per day, admission to ICMI16 is comparable to the average cost of most conferences. I hope anyone who is perhaps tentative about booking at present will see it as excellent value for the chance to meet and make international connections with others of a like mind – and, of course to meet and befriend the stellar lineup of speakers who are probably already so familiar already that they seem like friends to most of us. Without exception, all of them accepted our invitation to speak with enthusiasm.
I know that the Detroit ICMI14 cemented those who attended into a bond of friendship and mutual understanding, and I know London 2016 will do the same, and more! It will be a wonderful get-together for all of us concerned about men’s and boys’ issues across the world. Certainly, I can’t wait to see old friends again and to making new ones, and I believe everyone who attends will look back on it and remember its value, not its cost.
We must make this conference pay its way, and if there is a surplus, that will go into the J4MB ‘war chest’ to fund our campaigning, not least that relating to the 2020 general election here in the UK, where we plan to field 20 candidates, challenging the Conservative party in its most marginal constituencies.
In the last two weeks we’ve seen a major breakthrough for men’s and boys’ human rights in the British Parliament, after a particularly vicious radical feminist MP, Jess Phillips, who had blocked an application by Philip Davies MP for a debate on men’s issues on International Men’s Day, was over-ruled by her committee. The debate will go ahead on Thursday, 19 November. We’ll be protesting against MGM in Parliament Square that day.
Come and join us at ICMI16 in London, be inspired, enjoy the fellowship, and together we’ll make a difference.
Source
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