The same Club, just better...

A Motorhome is also known as a Motor Caravan.

To include everyone, maybe it should have been called the Caravan and Motorhome, camping pod and tent club!

What a waste of our money.

I welcome any initiative to evolve the club and make it more aligned with what its membership wants today, but also to make it sustainable for the future.

I have read the PR and marketing spiel which eludes to us all becoming explorers and focusing on the 'experiences'.

However, what seems to be missing is a plan of how we get from where we are today to the vision of the future. Unfortunately, apart from lots of 'blue sky' statements there seems to be very little that is tangible.

Perhaps as members we are not able to appreciate the finer points of a plan and the mind-blowing detail that may involve.

I do hope this is the case, since a rebranding exercise with nothing tangible to show for it would be a waste of the members investment.

Perhaps I am too impatient and/or cynical?  

Just to have my say, my vote would have been to keep the Caravan Club name and logo.

Some further thoughts....whats next a new website?

caravanandmotorhomeclub.co.uk

(which was registered in July 2016 and is currently owned by a London brand company)

Was all this expense really necessary, for a brand change...I'm sure there would have been better things to spend £££££'s on..

I'm sure that the thousands of motorhome owners that have joined and enjoyed using the Caravan Club never thought it to be inadequately named?

Forget this , its been bugeted for, mumbo jumbo tosh, 

What is the total cost for the full change ? 

Motorhomes have allways been included, and cant see why someone feel this at the HQ feel they were not,  

best thing the club could is is involve in tenters more,

or invest in a better fairer booking system would be good

Or support consumers when they have issues with build quality or damp issues 

@EasyT

As an aside those that you appear to see as Old Farts and DInosaurs (my words - not yours) bring a lot to this club by often using the sites and putting cash into the coffers at times when sites might otherwise be very quiet. Do not discount our value to the club too readily, there's a good chap!

Similarly, with the independent sites I stay at, this isn't exclusive to the CAMC. However, they are providing the extra facilities that are enticing younger generations to join us in our hobby. These families are the future of the club (business). If the CAMC don't work at getting younger members, then there won't be a club (business) in years to come. Old chap. 

 PS. Apologies for the terrible looking "quote" in my post. Hopefully a re-branding of the forum will soon follow.

Recent "own goals" of the Executive.

1. Major waste of capital cost of Alan Rogers business

2. Fiasco of revamp of website which as delivered less than we had previously.

3. Wasteful "rebranding" following a relatively recent revamp of signage to "modernise".

Let us not forget these things when we vote at the AGM.

I am wondering how big a qorum we need for a motion to "tar and feather" those responsible.

Got the letter today out of the blue, thought at first the club had been taken over, still think it's the thin end of the wedge (like the site wifi now out sourced for profit) What next, out sourced tv connection charges?

We received the letter AND 2 stickers today.  No handbook yet though......

We have driven/lived in a motorhome for 24 years & been club members for much longer. You only have to count the motorhomes on site to realise that it's been a club for all sorts for a long time. At last it's acknowledged!  Good stuff!

But sorry/disappointed to receive a damp, soggy new handbook this week!  The first 100+ pages are damp & wavy due to water ingress through the poly wrapping. Not unserviceable, but not the pristine book we look forward to cracking open!  Anyone else experience this?

What a waste of money. You can bet members will still call it the Caravan Club so what's the point. The logo has no significance to either caravans or motorhomes. A logo certainly doesn't improve facilities. I think we are all aware that the club is for caravans and motorhomes!!!