Is it worth renewing
Our membership is up for renewal soon I just cannot see the point in doing it at this point in time. The last time we were away on a site was September and at this time we do not know when the next time will be.Any one got any thoughts on this ?
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there's another thread running that comments on this .... there are those that think the club need supporting with our subs even though we are very limited in the sites we can use and others that have cancelled or just not renewed and feel the subs are best left in their own pocket.
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I haven't used a club since 2019 (with a caravan) so I could say that this year's membership has been wasted but when all this is over I want to return to using club sites and if that costs £1 a week then so be it. In reality membership has cost me nothing over the years anyway.
It's really up to everyone to decide what is best for them.
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Depends on how many members choose to remain in the UK or venture further afield. If it’s the former, then based on this years experience, there is insufficient capacity to meet the expectations of many members. However, in a ‘normal’ year that’s less of a problem.
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Just take a break🤷♀️ See how things go, you can renew whenever you want with a simple phone call. We had four months break, had been Members for 27 consecutive years. The sky hasn’t fallen in, the Club is still here. All depends how valuable your Membership is to you. We rejoined September to use CLs.
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Firstly you need to consider whether you have any Club services like insurance which may come up for renewal any time soon which you wish to keep running. Not being a member means that you can't book any sites. If those two things are not a determining factor then what is to stop you. All I would say is that if the gap in membership is only going to be a few months and you want to rejoin you have all the hassle of setting up a new membership for the sake of a few pounds saving? Obviously none of us know when things will get back to normal and the way things are going currently it could be well into 2021 before there are signs of that.
David
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Maybe so but it really depends on what the OPs plans are.
If he/she wants to holiday from Summer into Autumn and likes club sites then they won't be able to prebook if a non member. After all the vaccine should have been administered to most of those tgat want it by early Summer.
So does he/she need to make plans now or just wing it later?
Anyway I wouldn't ask anyone out there to make a financial decision of this small magnitude for me. I haven't had anything from National Trust or RSPB or CADW or Norfolk Wildlife Trust etc this year. No visits but I'll renew them all. It's a personal choice.
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Have you forgotten you became the invisible man?👻
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But one had to apply so not an automatic blanket extension. And it was aimed at those where struggling. Different to what is being asked of the club?
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You just didn't give all the details, like having to fill in an application form or who it was aimed at and why, so I gave a fuller picture.
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Actually they didn't make an offer as it was the National Trust of Scotland as that was where I was going. Hoping to go back this year so will renew but as I said previously it's my personal choice whether I do or don't. Merely used it as an example, along with several others, that didn't offer any recompense for this awful year and I didn't expect any.
Only the OP can truly decide if he wants to spend £54 or not on membership.
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Luckily my membership renewal fell at the end of march so I was able to cancel straight away. I can't see a point in paying out ( regardless of cost ) money for a service you won't receive, and when its all over just rejoin easy.
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The club is like all other businesses, looking out for themselves, so why should we worry about them. If when it comes to going away again they are no longer around I am sure there will be plenty of other options to choose from
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If things are as bad as that, and if the Club is relying on subscriptions to stay afloat, and if it's in danger of going under ...then 2021 might be the year for the two big Clubs to merge, or for one to take over the other. There would be considerable financial savings with just one head office instead of two, and one single management team.
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Yes, we could achieve the synergy of the worst of both worlds rather than taking the best of them.
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I’ll be interested if you’re organising an investor group👍🏻
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The problem is that one person's best bits are someone else's worst bits and vice versa.
Best to keep them separate as they do, I think, cater for two differing types of camper?
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