| "This club is full!"
Round this way, we are finding more and more clubs not taking any new members (See, eg, the thread elsewhere about Dearne Valley). We also have an endless demand for Beginners' courses, and consequent new membership. Made me think.
a) What determines the size of a club? Is it the profile of members (if the ratio of "novices" to experienced archers is too large)? Size of field/ indoor facilities? Number of willing volunteers? Availability of coaches or others willing to help novices develop? Or even that the storage available is not enough to accommodate enough bosses to cater for more members?
b) Is the answer to form new clubs? Or get the volunteers better organised?
c) Should we just not put on courses (and lose public interest)? Or put them on then say sorry but no club will have you. Or put them on, take the members, then have over-stretched facilities? |