Junior members & their parents

How do you define "full club facilities", and when are they available?

At Burghfield, we have a permanent Club Manager on duty 7 days a week, so the changing rooms and hot showers are available whenever anyone needs them, and someone official is there to help whenever it is needed.

The locked compound (safe storage for boats) is there all the year round, with CCTV coverage.

We have a small safety boat permanently ready for use by members.

But people are rostered to do safety and race duties only on Saturdays (April to October), Sundays (all year) and Wednesday evenings (April to August). The chandlery is only open on Saturdays and Sundays (and sunny Wednesday evenings!).

The other aspect of membership, is how often can you not sail at the club, becuase the club has organised something else that weekend. At Burghfield, we try to fit in around 20 open events during the year, but we only interrupt the normal club racing on 3 occassions.

Yes, fair comment.  I'm just guessing and going on numbers quoted.

You can charge what you like.  You just make it another family membership category with non-sailing parent / guardians.  They can use the club house but can't sail their own boats, (and still have to do their duties   )

I assume you differentiate on the boat stickers and membership card whether it is junior or full membership.

Say £120 for up to 3 sailing juniors plus 2 parents / guardians. 

Last year we re-named our junior membership as junior and guardian membership.  So there is no option to just be a junior member.  For 2 reasons:

1)  We expect all juniors on club grounds to have a guardian on site as well to take responsibility for them.  For liability insurance reasons all people regularly visiting the club should be members or signed in as visitors.  It was easier to make them members.

2)  For the same reason as you're looking for it encouraged the parents feel some ownership of the club and encouraged them to get involved.  Since introducing this we have found a number of the junior memberships ahve been converting to family memberships.

Sounds good to me to. We encouage such people to become full family members from day 1 and don't care whether they sail or not.

It is good to get the parents involved and they are there to supervise their children. It takes some of the responsibility away from the club especially if you insist they stay on site during sailing time.