Covid 19 and membership

There are a few on here like that MM

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My pension has been affected due to currency fluctuations, down £100 per month on last year, so I am not feeling particularly charitable at the moment!

I thought that your pensions would be UK based Kj? When the financial crash happened 12 years ago it was just about the time that I retired and was about to start transferring some investments into cash. I probably lost well over £7,000 to £10,000 at a stroke. Talk about laugh! Thankfully I did. 

Financially if we had no pension income we could probably last 30 years but do not have anywhere near that amount of lifetime left even without coronavirus and so blessed from that point at present. 

All businesses have bills to pay ..... most do not expect clients to pay them when they are not able to provide a core service to those clients and would certainly be happy to have membership cash in their accounts at this time even if that meant extended the membership period by an extra 3 months until they started making a proper income.. 

most? opposite with me as many subs are still being paid and they do expect it. But we are not talking about providing a core service are we, we are talking about a membership fee. To me totally different. 

So what core service? An interesting point. There is nothing when joining the club and paying for membership that states any core service will be provided is there?  Especially when circumstances outside of the club's control, would people expect their membership extended when flooding happens you could ask? Or why not a reduced membership price for when more than half the sites are closed over winter

A lot of posters join for other things than using sites we are often told.

But it is all very very easy, either support the club at this time or not, everyone has to make their own mind up based on their own particular situation.

Again we're hopefully talking about 3 months or £12.50, not a great deal, if it's more than that then perhaps?

 And the club is not a charity in return that has to fund your sad downturn in pension is it? Do you think it should?

Sounds very similar to a contribution to me.

And believe me .... I've held back! (as I suspect have others)

I suggest you look up the differences, a fund is not a contribution in my view but fair enough if it' in yours. I stand by my post

I'm sure you have MM, but why? 

So I did ask you of your thoughts if the club should fund/contribute to those members in difficulties, any thoughts? 

Unfortunately not ET.

I have my company pension, paid in £ here, and my less than full GB State Pension, also of course fixed in £s, but then I have my usually quite generous Norwegian State Pension, which goes a good way to making up my reduced U.K. pension, but which has fallen through the floor due to plummeting oil prices affecting the Norwegian krone.  it has never been this low against the £ in my memory.

No they shouldn't but why should the CC members fund/contribute to a club that can't provide the main service they set out to do

then we agree, good

Again what main service, if you mean using a club site no one is paying pitch fees so that is that taken care of, but if my view the membership fee is totally different, as stated above to ET. 

Once again  I am not saying anyone should pay, that is up to them. Personally I want to help the club get through this as I like using club sites and want them there after all this and understand the club has ongoing costs.  

But as I've stated so many times, if one doesn't want to pay then don't. If there is a way to get your membership fee back (is there?) then by all means get it back asap or don't rejoin if your renewal is within the 3 months.