CL - A survey.....update?

Ah, yes, I remember. Wasn’t it biased towards providing more facilities at higher costs?

That was the impression I got too.

Then……silence.

It’s difficult to take these things seriously when they’re handled in such a half hearted way. 

31st Aug. Posted by Cholsey Grange wanting members to help out cl owners who are members of the Cl Owners Group. It did say results would be notified.

Maybe the didn't like some of the replies so forgot about it.

That's what I was wondering too. harryb.

It's like every survey, Nellie. Nothing is ever heard again.

Results for those taking part in the survey on parking spaces at Service Stations? Nothing! Build Quality survey? Same thing.

If they are not careful members will become disillusioned with survey requests.

Perhaps those  cl owners on here who are part of the cl owners private group could give some kind of explanation. 

A survey was indeed carried out last September on behalf of the CL Owners self-support group.  Over 900 CL visitors responded.

I agreed to share these results both with the Club and with the participants in due course.

As you may know, I was a 'Nominated Member' of Club Council with the specific remit to represent both CL Visitors and CL Owners.  However, late last year I was deselected.

In place of my representation of CLs via Club Council, the club offered in September 2018 to set up an Advisory Group of CL owners. 

I welcome this initiative as I believe the Club need all the advice it can get to arrest the decline in the number of CL sites and learn from CL owners the issues they face.

I felt that the proposed Advisory Group would be a good place to review the survey results, hence the delay. 

Rather than having a face-to-face Advisory group meeting (as I hoped), the club is now suggesting an on-line forum.  The forum has not yet been opened, although I am told it is testing phase.

Meantime, you are welcome to interpret the survey results as you wish.  And I'm sure you will :)   

Click this link to access the results document.

A forum! Good luck with that one😕.

i understand the rules actually prohibit you from being a Council Member, Ted, so the advisory group is the way forward. 

I shall peruse the survey results now but it would have been nice to have been kept in the loop without prompting. 

Regarding the 'rules', in case someone thinks I 'broke' them, that was not the case.  What happened was that the Club chose to interpret the rule differently.   

I was invited onto the Council four years ago in full knowledge that I was a CL owner.  In fact, at the time the Club actively wanted a CL owner on the Council. 

However, in 2018 the club chose to interpret the Bye Law to exclude CL owners on the grounds of 'material interest'.

Club Bye Law: 2.3 A person who is materially interested, directly or indirectly, in the caravan trade is not excluded from being a member but is not eligible for any Executive Position or for membership of the Club Council. The Executive Committee is the sole arbiter of what constitutes a material interest in the trade for the purposes of this Bye-Law.