All these extra members must be at our club.
We certainly have more active members than ever before, and also a higher percentage of the club that ARE active.
May I re-inforce what has been said about junior clubs en-bloc fees.
We have approx 30 juniors. At £26 each that would be a lot of pocket money. We set up the official junior club and now pay £70 no matter how many juniors we have. A huge saving. Perhaps it isnt in the original spirit of the thing (exclusive junior club, focused on the needs of the junior?), but really its just a paper exercise, as we all shoot together and share the same committee.
Other advantages are that certain funding streams favour junior clubs and as a junior club plus a senior club we can apply for some funding twice
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On "find a club" I too was dismayed at how few clubs in my county had taken up the option to provide contact details. However, internet searches fail to provide much more about the clubs in my county. If I were a person interested in archery, some clubs are impossible to find. Putting modesty aside for a moment, my own club have a listing on
GNAS, come high in the search engine listings for "Archery" and my town or county name, we are listed in the yellow pages and thompson local, not to mention posters in the local leisure centers, libraries and articles in the local newspapers and I STILL get people who say "I didnt know there was an archery club"
This could be a new thread: "How does your club publicise itself?"
Sorry to have carried a bit off topic