I have this year taken over as club secretary of my club. Today I have received the membership renewal package from
GNAS which clearly states that according to law 12a "only a member of the Society or a person who is a member of a national Society affiliated to FITA may shoot or officiate at any ....... Associated Club" .
The pack also asks me to sign a slip saying " all shooting members of the above club have paid their
GNAS subscription fee" .
I can't sign this slip as this is not the case...in fact most of our members are not in
GNAS or any other affiliated body. We shoot at a rugby club and are all members of the rugby club, and we have our own public liability insurance, ie, not through
GNAS.
I have just rung
GNAS to check whether my membership could be affected by the club not following this rule. They say not, but did point out that being effectively double insured could lead to both sets of insurance being invalidated for the few of us who are in
GNAS.
So my difficulty is: do I try to get the rest of the membership to join?...impossible.
Do I join
GNAS through another, "proper" archery club? Wouldn't this still mean I was double insured and therefore uninsured when shooting at my home club?
It seems to me that we need to be either all in or all out.
Is anyone else in a similar situation who can shed some light on the proper way forward?