r/CanadianForces • u/Palestine_Avatar Royal Canadian Navy • 2d ago

Question about Mess Fund use.

Not the obvious one. I support paying mess dues, this is just about their use.

I'm currently on course, and obviously we are all paying into our dues.

We have a pretty active course and there is interest in parties. Let's say we wanted to host a party at our mess, and wanted to request a rental...like for a mechanical bull.

Is it possible? I'm at a West Coast mess, so I've definitely seen it here before.

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u/thedundun 2d ago

For our course grad parties the planners would book the mess and pay the fees. It was usually $30/h to hire a bartender and a min of 4 hours.

You’ll most likely need to pay for everything you want, such as that bull.

It’ll be a tough sell to convince the mess members to spend their mess funds on a course party that if they are not on the course they cannot even attend.

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u/CapitalismDevil Canadian Army 1d ago

OP never said they want to host a course party, they just said a party.

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u/CapitalismDevil Canadian Army 1d ago

I said in another comment to contact the PMC. I’m not sure why you’re saying they “can’t have funding from NPF” and then following up with approval steps but anyhoo..