Return of Measures, 2025

RETURN OF MEASURES, 2025 REP/2025/06

Standing rule of 1996: no figure is reported as growth without the

burden it creates being reported beside it. A number that only rises

is not being measured; it is being advertised.

Meals served, all houses 41,208 (+6% on 2024)

Burden: kitchen rota hours 9,940, up 11%. Two houses have

reduced meal days because they cannot staff them.

Repair hours recorded 18,760

Burden: of 214 jobs opened, 91 remain open at year end.

Obligations carried on the rotas 11,402

Rota turns unfilled 847 (7.4%)

The unfilled figure is the one the stewardship watches.

First attendances 1,036 (+14%)

Burden: 1,036 first attendances against 38 circles and ten

houses is roughly two new people per convener per month, and

four conveners have said in writing that they cannot receive

them properly. Growth at this rate is a failure of capacity

and is reported as such.

Separations recorded 118

Returns recorded 41

Books reconciled 47 of 51

Discrepancies unresolved at year end 3

Correspondence received 4,118

Correspondence answered 3,902 (94.8%)

Median days to answer 19

Letters unanswered beyond 90 days 61

Accessibility work completed 14 items

Accessibility items recommended, not done 39 items

Oldest outstanding: River House rear step, first recommended

1994.

Public-work hours given 27,540

Records withheld on application 22

Records corrected 9

Buildings opened 0

Buildings closed for the season 1 (South)

Buildings lost 0

NOT MEASURED, AND NOT TO BE: attendance as a trend line, retention,

conversion, anybody's progress, anybody's state of mind, and the

proportion of first attenders who return. The last of these was

measured from 1988 to 1993 and the practice was stopped because

houses began behaving differently toward people who might not.