Perennial Membership Fee Increase
Having just received the Jan 2016 Club Mag, we are informed that the Membership Fee is increased yet again from £46 to £48 from 15/12/2015. This is an increase of 4.3%, yet UK inflation for 2015 is forecast to be 0.1%. Over the last 3 years, the Membersip
Fee has increased from £43 to £48, an increase of 11.6%, yet UK inflation was 4.1%. I fail to understand what justification can be made for these excessive and apparently ceaseless increases
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It's called 'what the market will bear' .... or more colloguially 'untill the pips squeak'. If pushed too far the pips DO squeak and overall revenue falls.
Can be a foolish move for purely commercial outfits. Presumably in a 'members club' the members can influence such decisions?
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There is also the fact that inflation is so low due to large reductions in the cost of vehicle fuel and food costs brought about by supermarket competition. Other cost more applicable to running caravan sites such as labour are on the increase, certainly
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Inflation may be at an all time low but the club is spending a lot of money updating toilet blocks, installing hardstandings, WiFi and MH waste points to keep members happy so the money for all these expensive works has to come from somewhere. Kellysmum
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Understand what you mean SteveL, but we have also seen large increases in pitch fees which will surely cover wage increases. I note that at the Club AGM 2015, the Club had a net worth of £123m with £34m cash reserves, so is surely in a sound financial position.
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Its still less than a pound a week, just because it says a club I think we have to remember that its still a business. As stevel says labour costs must be a huge increase for the club. As someone who also runs a business its better to have small increase
to your services each year than a big one every four or five years. If the club didn't increase to absorb costs for a period of time then said it was putting its prices up in one movement by ten pounds very few would say that's ok its been the same price for
x amount of years, look at how there bleating about two pounds!0 -
Don't know the facts on membership figures, but, to look at the increase realisticaly, it's still less than £1 per week for a whole network of CLs, well worth the money for that alone. If you use the members discounts that are available, you will more than
offset the cost of membership. I have done this for the past three years. I'm not saying that I welcome the increase, just that there are ways around it......
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Know what you mean Peedee. Personally, we don't hardly use Club Sites, too expensive and regimented. We prefer CL's in the UK, but mainly keep our membership to access ferry crossings. We go to France twice a year, health permitting, and pay an average of
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The NLW which is to increase year on year is expected ,if i read the AGM report correctly? to put £800,000 on the wage bill across the club this year alone,plus as already mentioned the latest investments to cater for the ever increasing requirements of the modern membership,
Which is not just effecting the cc but right across the leisure industry,gone are the days of do things for ourselves,it now seems that its not for me, its i want ,i want as long as someone else does it for me
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I don't suppose anyone will cheer the increase. But there are significant costs to be borne, labour for one and continuing improvements to sites. If you make frequent use of CC sites and CLs it's not bad - less than half a pint of Doom Bar a week. If you
don't make use of these ( or other benefits) the answer is simple - walk away!0 -
I don't suppose anyone will cheer the increase. But there are significant costs to be borne, labour for one and continuing improvements to sites. If you make frequent use of CC sites and CLs it's not bad - less than half a pint of Doom Bar a week. If you
don't make use of these ( or other benefits) the answer is simple - walk away!Write your comments here...M ,did you know that Doom Bar is no longer brewed in Cornwall? and no longer with UK ingredients
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I’d like to think that site costs were funded from site fees, and that membership fees pay for the central admin. I’d also like to think that fringe activities, such as insurance, are self-funding.
If the accounts were presented with greater clarity, there might be more understanding and sympathy.
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I don't suppose anyone will cheer the increase. But there are significant costs to be borne, labour for one and continuing improvements to sites. If you make frequent use of CC sites and CLs it's not bad - less than half a pint of Doom Bar a week. If you don't make use of these ( or other benefits) the answer is simple - walk away!
Write your comments here...M ,did you know that Doom Bar is no longer brewed in Cornwall? and no longer with UK ingredients
Write your comments here...Ps should read" some" Doom Bar
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The membership fee still represents good value IMO but if i,m paying someones wages i,de be interested too know what salary they paying themselves.
peter.
Very good point
As a general question, what do people think of companies that only pay many of their staff the National Minimum Wage?
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Don't forget to factor in the value of your monthly magazine, peedee!
I saw that they say the magazines value is £40 so I would like to be taken off the mailing list for the mag and have my membership for £8 please...
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Speaking for myself it would depend on the business or company involved but what i do think is that anyone who cant or wont pay the minimum wage should not be allowed too employ anyone.
peter.
It's o.k. Peter, we taxpayers top up low wages through in-work benefits on behalf of companies so that their fat cats and shareholders can get fatter rather than pay decent wages.
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The NLW which is to increase year on year is expected ,if i read the AGM report correctly? to put £800,000 on the wage bill across the club this year alone,plus as already mentioned the latest investments to cater for the ever increasing requirements of
the modern membership,Which is not just effecting the cc but right across the leisure industry,gone are the days of do things for ourselves,it now seems that its not for me, its i want ,i want as long as someone else does it for me
Where are all these employees that will cost £800k more?
at the sharp end (sites) we only get two (sometimes four) lowly paid, staff per site.....
the big numbers must be at HQ running the 'soft' money making side of the business......insurance, ferries etc.....easily able to fund any increses from the profits quoted earlier in this thread....
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I don't suppose anyone will cheer the increase. But there are significant costs to be borne, labour for one and continuing improvements to sites. If you make frequent use of CC sites and CLs it's not bad - less than half a pint of Doom Bar a week. If you
don't make use of these ( or other benefits) the answer is simple - walk away!Write your comments here...M ,did you know that Doom Bar is no longer brewed in Cornwall? and no longer with UK ingredients
Think that's just the bottled stuff isn't it, brewed at Burton on Trent now? But the draught stuff is still brewed down in Rock, Cornwall.
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Yes please membership at £8. Dont really want the crappy mag.which should be self financing as most of it is adverts.
I think you have your answer in what you have written. If the mag is truely self financing the CC cannot afford to reduce your membership by £40, as they would then have to find that £40 from somewhere else.
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Yes please membership at £8. Dont really want the crappy mag.which should be self financing as most of it is adverts.
I think you have your answer in what you have written. If the mag is truely self financing the CC cannot afford to reduce your membership by £40, as they would then have to find that £40 from somewhere else.
the answer is that the club wants the advertising revenue AND our subscriptions....AND way above inflation pitch price rises..
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Yes please membership at £8. Dont really want the crappy mag.which should be self financing as most of it is adverts.
I think you have your answer in what you have written. If the mag is truely self financing the CC cannot afford to reduce your membership by £40, as they would then have to find that £40 from somewhere else.
My thoughts exactly. But, if the magazine could be read from a PC, the Club might save some money by not requiring it in print.
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