Page 9 of the March mag - Events

We attended a meeting a Luton a couple of years ago, It was nice to meet people and have an opportunity to ask Club Staff questions. However I would be surprised if there were more than 50 people (given the catchment area) there so quite expensive to organise. There was another in MK last years but unfortunately we were away at the time otherwise we would have gone.

David 

Very few CC customers care about the CC staff admin structure and who does what.  Its all the CC as far as we are concerned. We just want to be treated equally no matter where in the UK we live. 

Dont know if you attended the only MtM at Strathclyde park a few years ago but it was a great success. We have never had the chance to repeat the event. 

K

Have you thought about getting involved Kennine and gathering a group of volunteers to organise something yourselves?  It seems from posts both in the Mag and on here that these events are down to the hard work of a section of  individual members who give up their time.

The fact that events such as open question times etc, are sometimes poorly attended at a cost to all members. The organisers have to justify the expense, so withdraw from organising events and left for volunteers to take over!

Its no good for anyone to just moan about what was when they have no intention of doing something about it apart from moan! Why not contact the CC and offer to help get these events re-established? To help find venues at a good price and arrange to a CC executive officer to attend and answer questions etc???

its beggars belief when people want all but not give any help!

Yes I am happy to get involved. But there is a limit what one single person can do on their own.  There is the health and safety aspect, the risk assessment, the public liability clause ETC which no one person can authorise. It needs the involvement of the CC head office.  And since they would be involved, they may as well use their staff whether paid or unpaid who have  expertise in  those matters and organise the lot.  So my involvement would be to turn up and make the discussions as interesting and lively as possible.  

K

K you could start by volunteering at a cc site and see what's involved ,it might be an experience that will maybe? show you ,that although you seem negative about most club activities,it is quite well run!!

Despite its foubles that tend to affect any large organizations

Yes I am happy to get involved. But there is a limit what one single person can do on their own.  There is the health and safety aspect, the risk assessment, the public liability clause ETC which no one person can authorise. It needs the involvement of the CC head office.  And since they would be involved, they may as well use their staff whether paid or unpaid who have  expertise in  those matters and organise the lot.  So my involvement would be to turn up and make the discussions as interesting and lively as possible.  

K

...Words come easy Kennine.....!  Action takes effort.

K you could start by volunteering at a cc site and see what's involved ,it might be an experience that will maybe? show you ,that although you seem negative about most club activities,it is quite well run!!

Despite its foubles that tend to affect any large organizations

Write your comments here...If that involves free site nights I might consider it. If not - No Way. 

Anyway can we please return to the original subject of the thread which is that under the CC publication on page 9 of the Mag . Scotland only gets an AGM, whereas England gets six Question Times and Seven Meet the Members. along with the obligatory AGM's. Wales thankfully gets one MtM plus an AGM. 

The point throughout this thread that there is not equity or fairness in the way those events have been organised. 

Lets have a bit of equality Chaps and Chapesses. 

Yes I am happy to get involved. But there is a limit what one single person can do on their own.  There is the health and safety aspect, the risk assessment, the public liability clause ETC which no one person can authorise. It needs the involvement of the CC head office.  And since they would be involved, they may as well use their staff whether paid or unpaid who have  expertise in  those matters and organise the lot.  So my involvement would be to turn up and make the discussions as interesting and lively as possible.  

K

But your are still ignoring the point that these events are organised by volunteers NOT CC HQ. The volunteers take care of health and safety, risk assessment etc. The Club' involvement is to provide volunteers from the staff and executive to attend such events to talk to the members. Not organise the event. 

All the numbers you keep quoting show is that there are volunteers willing to put themselves forward to organise the events are you?

Dave

K The English part of the cc has I would think one two more members & centres, that are willing to give up some of their time to help out their fellow members, whether the events are well attended or not is down to apperthy ,that is prevalent in all walks of life,which then comes to the fore when a "problem" is blamed on everything that would if needed, might just have been explained at one of the events

There was one of the meetings at one of the hotels in Strathclyde Park a couple of years ago. Unfortunately I was tied up that day and could not go so do not know if it was well supported but if not that might be the problem.