Opportunity knocks for the right candidates

I have a suspicion that with the increase in the number of "up-market" CLs, such as Skybarn - and many others, the Club is now seeing them as a threat to their core business when to me, and I suspect many others, CLs are the very essence of what the Club should be about. I would certainly cancel my membership if we ever had a Club without the CL network.

The Club Council have a variety of functions, including: advisory, to act as a sounding board for the Executive Committee, to bring forward ideas/ suggestions etc., to receive reports and question from employed directors.  In essence, the Executive Committee are the main decision making forum, but things seem to work very much hand in hand. 

The Club generally tends not to make snap decisions, therefore big propositions from the floor are not usually appropriate - they are often taken back for further discussion and scrutiny by the appropriate department or committee before reporting back. 

Of recent years, the Council have spent sometime in smaller 'breakout' groups and have discussed a variety of issues such as: 'To what extent should the Club diversify', 'What more can the Club do to grow membership', 'What can the Club learn from other  other leading UK/Overseas sites in terms of, for example, experience, service and facilities?' etc.

As a Club Council Nominated member, in the past I have asked the Club to consider allowing members to be able to book specific pitch types (hardstanding, grass).  This helped the Club to decide to trial this on several sites. Unfortunately, there was a amixed response resulting in the trial being dropped. (...but my quest still goes on - I keep plugging away.. ).  I also bought up the subject of the difficulty of parking with a caravan at some service stations.  This was referred to the appropriate committee who contacted the appropriate body who organised a survey (which many filled in) - we are awaiting feedback from this.  Other members have asked a variety of different questions/ suggestions.

This is just to give folk some flavour of what the Club Council is like.  It would be good to welcome others...

David

Thanks for your comments everyone.  Hopefully, as Brue says, by reading peoples posts on here and on other social media 'outlets' it is possible to get a sense of people's views.  Sometimes one tries to read between the lines - there is sometimes a difference between reading the words and understand the real issues.  We all get it wrong - we are just human - but we try our best.  One thing I have learnt being on the Club Council (and on other committees and groups) is that there are some really committed and hard working folk around who may not always agree with me, but are equally as passionate about things for the good of the Club.  

The Club Council only meet two times a year - in the spring (usually April in London) and in tbe autumn after the Club AGM (usually in October at different locations - this year at York racecourse), so things do move slowly, but there is the option of going to the Regional meetings too - I usually go to the Central region meeting at Kegworth.  The regions give you a flavour of what Centres get up to - rallies, how the National is organised,  the Meet the Members events which are held on selected CAMC sites, organisation of the regional 'Question Time' events etc.  It is really useful to get a complete overview of different aspects of the Club.  

My own view is that the Executive Committee is a really time consuming job and I'm not surprised that the majority of them are retired.  However they would have time to hold down a full time job, heaven only knows!  As Rowena pointed out, no-one gets paid to do these things other than travel expenses.  The only folk who are paid are those employed by the Club at East Grinstead and those that run the sites 'on the ground'.  The Club Council is only twice a year, so if anyone wishes to consider doing this, please get in touch with the Club.

Hope this has helped.

David