Why do we have a Club Chaplain?

 Apparently she was judging the cakes / handicrafts at the start of the BBC 2 prog the other night. See  C of E web site here.

Probably why she doesn't post on here

Judging cakes eh?

I've not come up with much more. A service at a National I think so that's probably a regular item. 

I'd like to be ambivalent but I'm afraid I'm not  

Oh dear. Gets worse dunnit. 

No disrespect intended to the lady but is that a necessary function within CC? Surely anyone could judge cakes.

Oh dear. Gets worse dunnit. 

For me, yes it does. 

This may well be the final straw 

Was she judging hot cross buns perhaps - needs a vicar for them ? 

No disrespect intended to the lady but is that a necessary function within CC? Surely anyone could judge cakes.

Is cake judging a necessary function?

I think it's time the CC separated the business side from the club side of things like the RAC did. Then those of us who just want the services could become associate members 

notwithstanding the judging of cakes on important programs like COTY, would her 'serious duties' be pertinent to CC staff, its customers, both or (as it might seem) neither?

It depends if this is an honourary position, perhaps when the club was founded in 1907 (?) it was the done thing to have one and it might be a condition of the founding of the club and still carried on to this day. I hope it's honourary and unpaid as I haven't really noticed any input and didn't even know we had one till today.