The budget is the most critical part... lots of arts organisations end up being completely unsustainable due to that. I just read one very slick looking group saying that they need donations to stay afloat as their ticket sales cover only 15 percent of their expenses! Just for contrast, we have been deliberately running our ensemble differently, and ticket sales and contracts make up 85 percent of our expenses!

... and part of that is doing all of this ourselves... it is a lot of work, but really satisfying when it is your own passion project! And this time, we did manage to pay ourselves a bit for all of that org work!