Yorkshire underestimates cost of hosting Tour de France
With Yorkshire hosting ‘Le Grand Depart’ of the Tour de France this year, it seems that organisers have potentially underestimated the costs associated with the event. Specifically, they will need to extend their budget with regards to safety barriers and first aid requirements.
All of these fall under one contract, with Manchester firm WRG being the favourite to get it. However, its bid is £2.3m higher than what had been budgeted.
It seems that the miscalculation came as a result of not considering the need to transport safety equipment and promotional ware to what are often fairly remote rural locations.
TdF Hub 2014 Ltd is a firm created to manage the short stint the world’s biggest annual sporting event will spend in the UK. The organisation has a budget of £27 million derived from central government and local authorities. Despite this recent news, Rodney Walker, the chair of TdF Hub, is convinced that will not be exceeded. He points out that the WRG quote is the ‘worst-case scenario’, and that it will most likely come to something rather less than this.
Walker is also keen to highlight the fact that in the grand scheme of things, Yorkshire is certainly going to get value for money.
Poster printing could help to draw even more people to the event from some of the more populated areas of Yorkshire, such as Leeds and Sheffield.
All of these fall under one contract, with Manchester firm WRG being the favourite to get it. However, its bid is £2.3m higher than what had been budgeted.
It seems that the miscalculation came as a result of not considering the need to transport safety equipment and promotional ware to what are often fairly remote rural locations.
TdF Hub 2014 Ltd is a firm created to manage the short stint the world’s biggest annual sporting event will spend in the UK. The organisation has a budget of £27 million derived from central government and local authorities. Despite this recent news, Rodney Walker, the chair of TdF Hub, is convinced that will not be exceeded. He points out that the WRG quote is the ‘worst-case scenario’, and that it will most likely come to something rather less than this.
Walker is also keen to highlight the fact that in the grand scheme of things, Yorkshire is certainly going to get value for money.
Poster printing could help to draw even more people to the event from some of the more populated areas of Yorkshire, such as Leeds and Sheffield.