STRATEGIC
PLANNING PERIOD 1991/1992
PLANNING
19 93/19 94
RETURN
IN CONFIDENCE
1. Representation
Hong Kong
Offices
The British Council
255 Hennessy Road Wanchai
Hong Kong
Staffing
Budget
1990/1991
£'000
FUNDING
Government grants
FCO agency
2,284
69
ODA agency
400
Other agency
540
Local
revenue
3,065
UK revenue
303
Total
6,661
EXPENDITURE
Local budget
4,071
UK support
1,580
London staff:
2
Agency
1,010
C
Local staff
64
Total
6,661
DTE staff
111
2. Objectives for the planning period (in order of priority)
1. Open new Kowloon centre.
2.
Raise proportion of exchanges work in support of long-term institutional links to 50%.
3. Raise proportion of co-funding for exchanges programmes to 50%.
4.
New premises for main office and teaching centre to be sufficiently advanced to open in 1995.
Council's on-going status to be decided and secured.
5.
To double by 1993/94
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3.
Resources
Identify (i) any significant adjustments to your resources
resources required to enable you to meet your current objectives & improve results (ii) cuts that could be made with least damage to your objectives, noting the related impact on results, if it were necessary to reduce your local budget (excluding DTE) by 5%. Indicate priority order, staffing changes and financial years for implementation.
1. The objectives are manageable within resources currently allocated except for number 5
The cost of this is unknown and will depend upon whether Britain is able to arrange a
'friendship' deal with the H K Government over sale of a site. However, we should, if possible, allocate £2m in the capital programme for fitting-out, furniture and equipme
2. A 5% reduction in costs (£37,000) could best be made either:
2.1 by reducing the time spent by the ELO on outreach work (largely in abeyance since September 1989) but 35% in the DTFR giving a possible saving of £38,000 OR
2.2
2.3
by administering operational funds less intensively, e.g. giving funds to institutions rather than individuals (cut planned Grade III post, £9,200) some reductions in operational funds (£27,800)
AND