If you meaningfully lower the number of events due to the new fiscal climate, it’s reasonable to think the option with the high fixed expenses will look less good than it did before. There’s also the optics issue, especially given the EVF UK is still under statutory inquiry last time I checked.
My understanding was that the financial implications were somewhat close: <We had various calculations about costings, which made it look somewhere between “moderately money-saving” and “mildly money-spending” vs renting venues for events that would happen anyway, depending on various assumptions e.g. about usage that we couldn’t get great data on before running the experiment.>
If you meaningfully lower the number of events due to the new fiscal climate, it’s reasonable to think the option with the high fixed expenses will look less good than it did before. There’s also the optics issue, especially given the EVF UK is still under statutory inquiry last time I checked.