Hi All
The attendance at the section conference was shocking - there will need to be questions asked about that one..
Re the Main AGM
About 150ish people turned up for that meeting.
Background, there hasn't been an increase for a few years and we made a small loss in 2013, even though membership has ever so slightly increased.
The floor of the meeting were offered Two choices on the Membership format:-
Option 1
Keep the format as it was, but with a £2 per person increase:-
£90 for the Club which includes a Membership for the club itself (which is very important, the Key bit really, as it seperates the Club from it's members in case of anything going pear shaped) and the 4 key officials
£16 per affilaited member
£18 direct.
Or
Option 2
Give the 'Club Membership' away FOC on compleation of a simple form as you do now (though obviously no officials included)
£17 per person, either by the club secretary filling a form in (as you do now) or by joining direct.
The later option walked through the meeting.
This second option was suggested to me by a couple of clubs (in slightly different formats) so after bouncing it around a few more club secretaries and the exec meeting - it was prudent to propose it.
The rationale behind this is that due to some 60%+ of the members now joining, or being joined by their club, Online the existing system had become very messy for clubs to administer and this should be easier.
The paperwork/ online forms are now being worked on to make sure this works well in practice
Other bits of news
We've changed insurance provider to Doodson Sport
Public Liability cover is now £10m (up from £5m)
We've increased the scope of the cover to further protect our officials (sectional and club)
Full details of this will be in the handbook and the new Club Manual coming out early in the new year
So - please make certain your email details are correct as there will be quite a lot happening this coming year.
Lastly
You really need to give the section confrence some serious thought.. ideas welcome..
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