Status: Consultation draft
Purpose: To explain the proposed Rulebook in plain English and invite feedback.
Explains how membership works in practice, what the £30 subscription represents, and why member participation is essential to the Club’s future.
£30 does not fund the running of the Club. It does not cover:
The subscription is simply the legal requirement to be a member of a registered society.
The Club survives because members use the bar, attend events, and volunteers give their time.
The £30 is not a season ticket — it is the minimum contribution that allows the Club to exist legally.
The Club is not a private business operating for profit. It is a members’ society run for mutual benefit.
Hiring staff:
If the Club paid people to run events, most activities would become significantly more expensive.
The environment has changed:
The old model — where the Committee organises everything and members simply attend — is no longer sustainable.
Events reduce.
Volunteer burnout increases.
Costs rise.
Membership declines.
The Club risks becoming just a building with a bar, rather than a community.
No.
The Club already runs events and activities. The proposed approach simply:
The aim is sustainability, not commercialisation.
No.
The Club will continue to support and organise major events.
The change is a shift from:
“The Committee entertains members”
to:
“Members and Committee together create the Club”
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