Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2016 16:01:21 GMT
Potential Conversion to Affiliated Club
Introduction
At the clubs AGM on 3rd November 2015 it was agreed that the club undertake a root and branch review to ensure that it is delivering maximum opportunities and benefits for its members.
The findings of the review have been presented to members and are available on the club web site.
Results of the review process
Q What are the benefits of becoming an independent Cycling Club affiliated to CTC?
The main benefits are; that being an affiliated club would provide more flexibility in membership to assist in the clubs growth, would retain the same level of insurance cover for both ride leaders and organisers, would enable the club to retain all funds raised and to spend such funds in any way it wished and would remove the other restrictions imposed by the policy handbook. Individuals’ CTC membership and the benefits this brings would be unaffected.
Q What would we lose by not being a CTC Member Group?
Other than the potential loss of some club funds we would lose nothing by becoming an affiliated group.
Q Should we run an Independent Club in parallel to a CTC Member Group?
We concluded that we should not, as we do not want to split the club into two separate entities. In addition it would take twice the administration resource for little additional benefit and would potentially cause some confusion with members and local riders.
Q What about rider and organiser liability insurance?
We agreed that Liability Insurance was very important and would be insisted upon. We concluded we would affiliate to CTC in order to obtain Organisers Liability Insurance which covers our ride leaders and event organisers in the event of a claim from a third party.
The new Independent Club, would on its membership application form, ask members to provide:- “Their personal liability insurance details” to cover cycling. This could be through membership of an organisation that includes liability insurance within its member benefits, e.g. CTC, Tandem Club, British Cycling, London Cycle Campaign, League of Veteran Racing Cyclists - or through specialist cycle insurers like ‘CycleGuard’ or ‘CyclePlan’ - or having cover under their own household insurance.
Q What should we do about the club funds?
Our current club cash balance would be donated to the Cyclists Defence Fund, other local cycle related charities and be given as ‘seed funding’ to the new affiliated cycling club we are going to set up. Other minor assets would be transferred to the new affiliated club.
Q How would we fund the new Independent Club?
We would charge a nominal Membership Fee of just £1 per year. The remainder of our funding will come from the successful Jumble Sale and Audax events that we organise each year.
Q How will the new Independent Club be managed?
A constitution has been drawn up for the new club and this will be shared with members once it has been agreed by the committee.
Q How will this affect me?
You will see no change in the way the club operates on a day to day basis.
You can still be a member of CTC at your current level of membership.
You could perhaps reduce your costs by becoming a CTC Affiliated Member.
You could perhaps reduce your costs by changing your Insurance cover.
We will still run the club as before, with the same events and weekly rides.
We will be able to attract more riders from the wider local cycling community.
We will try to expand the rides program to offer more interest and variety.
We will introduce new technologies to improve communication with members.