What is our membership fee for?

A free magazine worth £40 a year!!!

How much does the cc make out of advertising, cancel magazine and deduct 40 pounds of membership fees. 

We recently bought some stuff from cotswold outdoor shop, using our cc card we got 15% discount which nearly recouped the fee.

You get access to the CC network, advice, other discounts, magazine,  site network, travel service, insurance services, a body to lobby parliament on issues affecting our hobby.

Weather that is worth £48 a year I don't know and of course you may use none or all of the services offered but that's a choice you make but Ian if you are so against the club and everything it offers (or doesn't ) why join, if the grass is greener elsewhere move on.

I am not in any particular camp but can see the pros and cons of the club and choose to stay. We belong to the other club also and find their booking service and pricing for club sites atrocious, deposits cannot amend on line, hidden pricing but we choose to stay for other things.

I pay a sub. to the National Trust and they let me into their sites free. I pay a sub. to the Royal Horticutural Society and they let me into their gardens free.  That's the difference. 

I am starting to wonder if it is worth being a member, not bothered about the mag and find I have difficulties getting on sites without planning well in advance when they are open to non members. Also many of the good comercial sites have free good quality wi fi. I get my insurence through the club but they are unable to answer questions on it. So yes what am I paying for.

There have been a number of threads running about the cost of Club sites and the fact that they seem to struggle to offer prices as low as commercial sites, particularly out of season.

I would have thought that, being a 'member' would confer some sort of discount.....but it appears not.

So what does our membership fee actually cover?

Given that there are about 400,000 memberships the fee must bring in close to £20 million!

If we don't see a reduction in site fees compared to other, similar sites, what do we actually get?

(Yes, I know we don't have to pay a non-member fee on sites, but that's just extra to a allready high price and is just there to push non-members into joining).

I assume (hope!) that when the CC sets up a department to sell insurance, european holidays etc that they are required to cover their own costs and show a profit and not be subsidised by members' fees?

Are we paying for a bloated Head office set up, perhaps?

Write your comments here...Being a CC member is your personal choice  , no one forces membership on you & likewise you aren't pressured to renew said membership when it lapse .

The choice is but a simple & easy one , perhaps people could start their own club ! sounds OK then you could be the sole member , chairman , office staff & any other title you care to mention .

I for one , are 100% happy with the CC  & would welcome people to leave if the CC wasn't for them .

Think of all that extra availability for the contented members 

Oh yes I see your point the club has changed so much over the years and now seems only intent on making large profits . In my view the magazine is now not worth the paper it is writen on it must pay for itself due to all the adds.  i think the main problem is the supply of toilet blocks these are supposed to be the. be and end all . I fail to understand WHY you would have a caravan with all mod cons and then walk in the rain to a toilet block . I would like to see the sites which have no facilities but have wonderful views and short grass and neat tidy emptying points . The cost of maintaing this type of site would be far less than the current ones and you would be carravaning. BUT hey ho I'm old school and will have to put up with the Morden population or leave, thank god for the cl 

Apart from staying on CL's I don't see any benefit in being a member.  As Ian said, insurance and all other services should be stand alone profit centres, or at the very least cover their costs.  

All the publicity states there are about 1 million members so closer to £48 million

Refer to thread entitled A Big thanks to CC and P&O. Maybe that will explain the purpose of belonging to CC.

A free magazine worth £40 a year!!!

Each copy is for sale at £1.50 so I make that £18 p.a.

I think Ian raises a very valid point worthy of discussion and comment from the Club after all you can get insurance and travel services without paying a fee from many other organisations. In fact it pays to shop around.  I don't think I get my money's worth these days but I probably did in the early years of membership. If there was a really good Motorhome Club offering dedicated facilities for motorhomes (not just rallies) then I would leave the Club quicker than you can type "off"

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