> If, as I think you're suggesting, people are *stealing money from the
> donation tins*, this is a completely different kettle of fish to people
> helping themselves to some Club Mate or Sugru, and sounds like something we
> need to address

> Would it be worth moving the Hackspace/Beer/Drinks/Club Mate donation box
> back into the main room, where it could remain under the eye of the CCTV
> camera?

> On Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:14:13 UTC, Russ Garrett wrote:

>> On 13 November 2012 17:05, Martin Dittus <dek...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Just to add to that -- as Russ likes to point out (iirc), it's much
>> > easier for us as an organisation to offer items and politely ask for
>> > donations than to outright sell them.

>> This is really only the case for alcohol, which we're not allowed to
>> sell without a license. For items where we make a profit (Club Mate
>> included), we still have to account for it the same way, whether we
>> check how much you're paying or not.

>> I think we need to move to having locked boxes for all of our
>> donations tins, and see how much that improves things.

>> --
>> Russ Garrett
>> ru...@garrett.co.uk