Olympic Funding article

Originally posted by 423zero ]I personally think my club should go back to its roots and un-affiliate from RYA, have no committee whatsoever, we are decades long squatters in our building, when a letter needs reading whoever is there will deal with it, if necessary pass it to everyone to have a look, we are only group in our Cathedral sized building that actually pays electric bill, each group has its own meters for their rooms and offices..

Aah delicious anarchy! A man after my own heart.. screw the bureaucracy.

Or you could of course stand as I did and force your own views upon them, no forms got filled in, no health and safety kitchen inspections got permitted, complaints from neighbours got ignored or told firmly they shouldn't have moved here in the first place, we parked on the promenade when the council installed pay for parking meters, ignored licensing hours and generally a good time was had by all. The club became twenty thousand pounds richer, we installed a computerised starting lights and results system, set up a group to report the results to the PY system, improved the winch safety, got a deal from the council for a brand new club and concrete slipway which the Nimby members voted down. So I left and now there are H&S and no parking notices everywhere, all the forms have been filled in and RYA bureaucracy dealt with, but we get no meals on a thursday night and the sailors have pretty much been ignored for the couple of years since.

Moral of the tale if you want stuff, do it yourself and don't complain when someone else does things differently if you're not involved.

Edited by iGRF - 17 Aug 18 at 9:17am

Originally posted by turnturtle Originally posted by Late starter he may have a different view if he's ever a trustee and has personal liability in the event of an incident at his club. This is the primary reason why I have personally never wanted to be on a committee... I certainly wouldn’t want to be a director of a sailing club when / if it declares insolvency through essentially no fault of my own and a case of market forces.  It would have too much potential impact on myself and those closest to me- certainly for now anyway when there are dependents to feed.  I wonder what liability or indemnity cover there is for sailing club officers and the depth of such cover.... someone has to do it after all, I do accept that.

but it would be the end of most local sailing (or at least racing) were that to be the only option.


Why?

All depends on who you are paying; paid caterers or a catering franchise might work for some smaller clubs.

Com/members run club or a pay and play?

I know which I'd prefer but sadly I think the trend is going the other way. I reckon the main problem won't be lack of participants or members, it'll be lack of volunteers.

I'm not likely to volunteer for com work, tried it once and I was lousy at it, I don't have the temperament for com work.

I do volunteer for other stuff around the club. Done OOD and safety boat perhaps a dozen times yearly on average over the last couple of years and perhaps more importantly I don't whinge about exec com decisions, lack of bog roll in the loos, messy changing rooms when the cadets have been about and egos on the exec com. I've got an ego too (as we all have) and I don't see why I or those on the com should always can it.



Edited by Sussex Lad - 19 Aug 18 at 2:28pm