The same Club, just better...
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I can't believe you counted them! Life's too short.
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Well the biggest news for me with this re-brand is the exciting development and inspirational options afforded.
I can now use the club sites and go off fishing, exploring or even playing golf - wonderful and I only wish they had told me earlier. If I had known that what a difference it would have made to my caravanning with the club over the last 35 years.
I must have missed out on so much!
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I have not been caravanning very long, only 15 years. Over that period I think the Club has changed a great deal. I am not sure it is a club any more, but more and more a pseudo-commercial operation.
The sites are excellent, the wardens are superb and fellow members are great company, whatever set-up they have. But I see a leadership rather semi-detached from the membership and life on site. This re-branding exercise is a fine example. Of all the things that members would like to happen I guess re-branding was not high on the list.
In the real business world it is fatal to become detached from one's customers. Whist there is a very good case for running the Club in a business-like manner, there is no case for becoming detached from one's customers - the beating heart if the Club - its members.
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It features in three of the four values and as such makes me feel that I'm not the sort of explorer the club is after.
I feel no connection with the new values.
However if they don't ruin the sites, sort this website out and reconsider the issue of booking HS I may put my disconnection aside and stick around. I have until July to decide
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You are correct an individual cannot do much on their own. This is a members club therefore with lots of voices. Lots of voices can cause change ( Unlike in this case where no-one had the opportunity). In your words 'what is done is done'. By the reaction here this may not be the case.
Also where do you get the idea that we have never welcomed motor 'caravanners' with open arms?
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Trawl through the posts and you will find some anti motorcaravan Comments.
I do not try to stir things up, or offend anyone, I just say what I see.
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There are many anti-MH posts earlier in this thread, DR. Some are quite awful and have displayed a division I never knew existed.
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What investment?
Thought it was us, the members, who invested, ie, a caravan. What about folding campers being included. I used to have one, and some sites didn't want tents or didn't want caravans, so what were we classed as, as folding campers are half and half.0 -
Don't let it get to you, TW. They are small minded people and prejudice stalks every walk of life. I even had MH's turn their nose up at us when we arrived on a site in France as we were a small 2 berth caravan.
As Mrs.WN quite rightly put it, it's them that have the problem not us.
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Cheers, WN. It won't get to me or change the way I use my MH or the sites I stay on. It has, though, opened my eyes to prejudices I hadn't previously realised existed within the membership of the club. It seems the rebranding has brought this to the fore which is somewhat counter productive.
As you said, small minded people.
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When we started caravanning a long way back, we joined the C&CC (please excuse the unpleasant language!). Later, we also joined the C.C., but eventually decided that being in both was a waste of money. So we chose to stay with one, and that happened to be the C.C. At that time, the reason was that we insure our caravan with the C.C., and are members of Green Flag double journey cover.
Regardless of the logo, new and many existing members will chose/stay with a Club depending on what it offers. If a new Club should happen to be formed and offer a better deal, then the drift would begin. Put simply - most members care about what they get for their hard earned cash. Rather than put great store in the logo, more pressing attention should be given to the expressed dissatisfaction, and addressed as a matter of urgency. This is where the Club's future lays.
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I wrote a long piece this morning but it isn't appearing! Perhaps it hurt too much! However in short, I think it is a total waste of the MEMBERS money. The logo is rubbish and meaningless. The cost must be enormous and I must have blinked when I was asked my opinion by a committee member! Give us back our old logo and in particular the RED PENNANT and stick to what you do best...............lovely sites!
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I am absolutely livid at the way this unnecessary change has been imposed on us. The committee obviously felt they didn't need to consult the Owners/members of the club before they decided to waste thousands of our pounds effecting this totally unacceptable change. As for the Logo what can I say but support the statement that a child of 4 could do better and it bears no relationship to anything caravan or motor-home associated.
For over 100 years the name and logo have been fine WHY WHY WHY change it now!!
I feel very strongly the Chairman and his Team should resign
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Tinwheeler you are very welcome to pitch next to me, if you are up this way.
Here people often say, "We're all Jock Tamson's Bairns", which means, "we're all the same". It is often used to break down prejudice of one kind and another.
Moreover the popularity of the North Coast 500 run around Scotland is bringing more Motor Caravans of every shape to the Highlands and sites are prospering which benefits us here. You will feel at home. The roads are like rural Cornwall.
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Thankyou, Dave. I've visited many a time and covered most of Scotland. We will be back in June to break the journey at Scone and other places en route to Orkney and Shetland.
I would argue that your roads are better than those in Cornwall. You have dedicated passing places and lower hedges making visibility better.
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