Advertisement
Message Forums |
|
 Topic: UKCS Club?
|
Page: 1 2 3 4
  |
| Discounted Insurance Quotes for UKCampsite.co.uk visitors! Up to 12.5% off! |
|
|
|
05/2/2013 at 7:27pm
Location: None Entered
Outfit: Coachman Pastiche
View Profile
Reply
Quote
|
Joined: 30/7/2011 Platinum Member 
Forum Posts: 1247
| Site Reviews Total: | 0 |
|
| Site Reviews 2024: | 0  |
| Site Reviews 2023: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2022: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2021: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2020: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2019: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2018: | 0 |
|
| Site Nights 2024: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2023: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2022: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2021: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2020: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2019: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2018: | 0 |
|
In fairness to the clubs, you will always get some dissatisfaction. The reality is that the clubs plough a lot of money back into new sites and upgrading the existing ones. Whether you describe this as "profit" is debatable as while they are increasing their assets, they are doing this for the benefit of the members.
The only people a new club would be likely to poach from the other clubs would be the dissatisfied members. Given that the new club would not have the resources or the facilities of the existing clubs then the members they managed to poach would be even less satisfied with the new club than they were with the existing clubs and as such would be complaining to the organisers a lot, necessitating someone to be paid to handle these complaints and ultimately at the end of the year, not renewing their membership.
To start a new one, would involve a LOT of work and a LOT of money. Given the club would not have the facilities of the established ones, this would have to be reflected in the membership fees. It would take a huge number of members, even at the same fee the existing clubs charge in order to build a club up to any where near the established clubs and as such would need to be started by someone who was prepared to give the new club a sizeable loan (I am thinking in the tens of millions if not more) and also be prepared to risk never getting the loan repaid if the venture did not work.
Even if I had the millions of pounds it would take to start such a venture and the time to spend in doing it, the risk is insurmountable. The chances of ever seeing your money ever getting returned are remote.
I think there was an opportunity a couple of years ago for a club to be established that could get an exemption certificate and run solely as a rally club, but with many club centres cancelling rallies now due to poor attendance, those days are over, at least for the time being.
I am also unsure about how many exemption certificates would be required. I know that each of the English Caravan Club Centres has their own (issued by the Environment Agency IIRC), and that the Welsh Centres each have their own issued by the Welsh Assembly. If a club could get one exemption certificate to cover them nationally or even one for England, one for Wales, and one for Scotland then I would have thought the Caravan Club would do that rather than having each of the Centres applying for their own.
|
|
|
7685 Visitors online !
Free UKCampsite.co.uk Window Sticker - Recommend to Friend - Add a Missing Campsite
[Message Forums]
[Caravan Sites & Camping]
[Company Listings]
[Features / Advice]
[Virtual Brochure]
[Shop!]
[Reception]
[Competitions]
[Caravans & Motorhomes For Sale]
[Event Diary]
[Contact Us]
[Tent Reviews]
Please note we are not responsible for the content of external sites & any reviews represent the author's personal view only. Please report any error here. You may view our privacy and cookie policy and terms and conditions here. All copyrights & other intellectual property rights in the design and content of this web site are reserved to the UKCampsite.co.uk © 1999 - 2024 |
Advertisement
|
|
Advertisement
|
