The paid membership of the club has now ceased (I do not know if there are intentions to start membership again?),
It looks like there is not really much of a club left if there is no way to pay up and join!
Who is running the club now that Chris L's attention is focused on other things?!? :evil:
As I understand it a car club with a membership fee by law is a legal entity that has to have the following:
A chairman
A committee
A treasurer
A secretary
A constitution
An annual AGM
Insurance for meetings and events
It should also keep accounts and submit a return.
With non of the above and no way to pay membership, if this forum becomes members only then there will only be a few people left posting and they will diminish as they get locked out of the members forum as their 'impossible to renew' subscriptions run out.
I would think that moving to a free forum and ceasing to be a 'club' in the legal sense would be the best thing in the long term unless a chair and committee can be found to run the club properly.
I am not and have never been a paid up member of the forum, £16.00 is not much but I belong to three other clubs and the combined subscriptions add up to quite a lot of money, I don't even have a 126, I have however enjoyed being a part of the forum and have been happy to share my knowledge of tuning the 500/126 engine.
But if my input is not needed because I'm not a paid-up member then I shall spend my time elsewhere.