Covid 19 and membership

CS, the fact the Club has bills to pay, does not mean that members should feel obliged to keep paying membership fees while receiving nothing in return, the other club is extending membership while sites are closed.

Prudent people, with enough income, and organisations, will have reserves they can call on in such situations, but not everyone is in a good situation.  

Personally, we have enough reserves to tide us over, but £100 per month is £1200 per annum, and not to be taken lightly should it continue for some time.

But surely other posts have shown that the club will loose some members. Or are you saying that the club doesn't fear the loss of those members, who may well join another club.

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 were it not for the fact that we have CAMC caravan  cover, which requires membership, 

That's not anything we had even considered .... Are you sure one is a requirement of the other? 🤔

There is one thing that the club has been required to do and that is close to most members  our sites and storage compounds    ,as far as i am aware all the other services   ,that membership fees are paying towards are still available

It'd already been established that the CC is not a charity. Though it's not the CC's fault that they can't give the service that we paid ours dues for neither is it ours.

And as for the comments to Kjel re his reduced pension and when the CC should make a contribution ..... I'll bite my lip!!!!! 

Some of the services !!"we pay our dues for",and at the moment because of the lock down that is affecting very large portions of the population , £12,50 is less than a night away on even CLs ,and at this time,apart from those members still on sites,   we are not paying any site fees

CS, the fact the Club has bills to pay, does not mean that members should feel obliged to keep paying membership fees while receiving nothing in return

I really think it is up to members to decide that for themselves and i have nowhere told people what they should do or feel obliged to do, unlike perhaps yourself. I have merely stated that I wish the club to be here when all this over, it has bills it need paying, and asking for a refund or extended membership worth £12.50 is incongruous with that but you feel otherwise and that is fine. When the times comes do not rejoin.

And again you keep mentioning this nothing in return yet you would expect, god forbid, if you had to call on the cover you have with the club that that cover would be dealt with effectively. Yet those staff who are on hand to deal with your case, and others need paying, or are they doing it for nothing? Until you leave the club's cover you need those staff don't you?

You post on CT and perhaps do a booking? Again do you consider (no matter how much you think little of this site) that to use this to costs nothing? it has to be maintained? you want your booking to go through? Again the magazine, does that cost nothing? The advice lines that you might need? Again staff are working for free?

but not everyone is in a good situation.

I have stated numerous times that if anyone is in hardship they should not carry on, without question, but the club is not a charity you would wish it to be. Sad but true.

MM you must really not make stuff up, I did not mention a contribution at his reduced pension at all. There is a difference in what I said and you said I said

But I am interested do you think the club should 'help' someone out because they have money troubles or having trouble with their pension? I mean we're talking £12.50 here for the moment.

And I didn't realise you typed with your lips, or even were the sort to hold back? 

 

David I have gone back pages and nowhere has any non member posted anything about using CT and not paying for it in line with your reply in quotes below:

Until you asked that question it wasn't something I'd considered, but actually I do feel there is a moral obligation to contribute to a service I'm using.

Put it this way if the Club was to announce that due to limited funding (because of Covid 19) they were closing this forum for the next few months I'd be devastated!!!
 
' I tend to agree too however it's not occurred to some non members to view it that way '

 

Have you confused posters again? No need to reply unless you feel the need, I tried asking politely but you took it the wrong way so I'll leave it there on this matter.