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Funding will accelerate the process
We have had some good news this month - the activities behind the scenes at Bookham Vision HQ are now able to continue at a faster pace thanks to some new funding we have received. . .
We had originally said that we would have our preliminary findings from the household surveys to you by March. This will not now happen.
Whilst we have been analyzing a sample of the 3326 surveys returned at the end of last year - we have processed about 1300 so far as a result of a body of 25 volunteers inputting the data into an online system - we haven’t until now been able to carry out a detailed collation of every response in every survey. If you remember, at an average of 2 respondents per household, we estimated there are around 752,400 individual answers that need inputting, collating, comparing and cross-referring. That’s a huge and frankly, specialized, task.
Such a task requires a consistent approach to the data input and then a lot of thinking and computing power for the analysis so that we can use it to produce a plan that properly represents the tremendous input we had. We always felt that the first part of the work – to do the initial data input – should be outsourced to a professional organisation, which of course needs funding, and that was where the delay has occurred.
We had hoped to get a decision on a funding application we made to the Thomas Flack Foundation last November, but it just took longer than we expected. But, now, thanks to contributions from the Thomas Flack Foundation and the Bookham Residents Association and Mole Valley District Council, we have recently been able to send all those survey forms off to a professional organisation for formal data input. This financial support, a total of £4,000 is greatly appreciated.
The delay however means our schedule is put back by about three to four months. We hope now to have our preliminary report available for presentation and validation around June, hopefully in time for Village Day.
In the mean time we launched the survey of local businesses in March, most of which should have been returned by the time you read this. If you are a local business owner and you haven’t received one please get in touch with us either via the website www.bookhamvision.org or contact Trevor Sokell (452052)
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or Nick Applegarth (458456)
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