Campsites closing at the end of the 2024 season

It is and it does. But the club also has to comply with legal and regulatory requirements as it registered as a company on Companies House.

None of those legal and regulatory requirements prevent or discourage it from sharing its business information with its members.  

It is clearly not practical for members to have a say in every decision made by the Club. The structure should be robust enough for the right decisions to be made and to stand up to scrutiny. However communication from the management seems to be based on providing  the minimal amount of information. As ET says we should have more information. Closing sites, whether justified or not, is always going to be controversial. The Club could of approached the way they announced this  differently. It may have meant that this thread had 20 relies rather than 200! All they needed to do was the say something like the following. "We have monitored these sites over a number of years. Unfortunately year on year results of decreasing occupancy. We did investigate ways we might encourage more to stay but that has not worked. Unfortunately the option to improve and upgrade the sites was not available to us as they are all held on lease and the lease holders have indicated an unwillingness to extend the lease for a meaningful period so that we could spread the cost over a number of years in order to get a return on investment. So it was with real sadness the Club have decided there is no option but to close the sites listed." You can add or subtract what may or may not apply. It would hardly be commercially sensitive to publish such information. 

David

The issue that would raise if the club did publish that type of information to it's membership is if a member didn't agree with a decision it would  be posted on CT and other social media sites within minutes and therefore putting that information into the public domain. The Club could issue minutes etc but they would need to be heavily redacted and not worth reading.

Just my thoughts but I can't think of a club or a scheme that I'm a member of that publishes minutes of meetings etc apart from those required for legal and regulatory purposes.

Surly Rowena's post spells it out quite clearly. And unsustainable is pretty clear too.

I asked you before PD and you may have answered and I missed it, did you use any of these sites recently?

And a club one has to pay a fairly substantial fee and then pay again if one wants to use club sites. So if it's run not to your liking why pay on membership, ok that might be for none site use, but then why pay to use club sites? Or if like you have found sites much cheaper (with bar and entertainment)what does it matter to you?

People paying in the largest indicator of elected members doing their job right in my view.

I don't care if it's a club or business as a long as it provides what I want 

SP here again full by the way with MHs too. I counted three empty pitches on driving round to the SP area, so the people who made the decisions for this site really got it correct.

So if it's run not to your liking why pay on membership,

That is something you come up with time and time again and it is something I increasingly think about. I am in my 36th year of continuous membership and wondering if there is any point in seeing it out for my final years of touring, after all, unlike the C&CC, there is no incentive to remain a continuous member. I could give up membership this year and only rejoin if I need to. I would miss the CLs though.

peedee

Nor sure what my repeating it has to do with anything. I have stated that I really cannot understand how anyone remains in the club, any club, that does not give them what they want or like. 

Yes there are other valid advantages besides club sites but if there are so many things not to one's liking then why remain.

I'm often seen as a loyal club user and supporter but I have also stated that once the club doesn't offer me what I require then I'm out. Now of course I've been saying that for years and the club continues in the way I like it.

I'm glad I've helped you with your thoughts but it appears you're more loyal than I am, and that's a compliment by the way.

I have stated that I really cannot understand how anyone remains in the club, any club, that does not give them what they want or like.

You cannot change anything from the outside, better to be on the inside and voice your views which if your passionate enough about, take them to a higher authority. The Club does provide the conduits.

peedee