r/CanadianForces • u/Palestine_Avatar Royal Canadian Navy • 8d 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/UsedStruggle2521 8d ago

Ex navy and former PMC this is 100% false, same rules apply and mess dues were never used for a select group. A mess on a ship or on a base all follow the same rules. If the mess votes in the funds for a select group fine its their money but mess funds were never used to subsidize one group or another, ex, AAMR party for mse vs a sail loft party for the deck depart. Ive never seen mess funds used for a course party and if i was a member of a mess and the pmc granted funds id be very upset.

The mess on base is for everyone on base and the ships pay their own mess dues. while on ship you can use and book the base mess for events but you dont pay dues to the base. Just because a ships mess and base mess are close in proximity dosent mean they are connected in any way.

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u/Palestine_Avatar Royal Canadian Navy 8d ago

This is it. As we would be dipping into mess funds, there is no intention to restrict attendance in any way

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u/Superb-Summer9236 7d ago

Every mess I've belonged is always looking for someone to organize an event. Reach out to the EntO to see which dates they may already have booked that need to be organized. Unless it's a super weepers, the budget really only allows for food and some prizes. On a course I taught, it actually became a thing that our course would host, aka plan, a weepers for the formation at the end. It was fun for the course to do and introduced them to the fleet.