Club Memberships

[Jim Webster]

During a check of my club's membership status in preparation for the AGM I now have some concerns which I find disturbing.

As of today's date, the list of member clubs has only 8 clubs listed.  Last year the number of clubs was 35 and this is a shortfall of 27 clubs and with projected an income loss of £1215. This should surely be a matter of concern. 

It is extremely disappointing that so many clubs have, to date, not renewed their club membership for the current season.

It should also be pointed out that any club now renewing their membership, and their designated delegate, are now excluded for voting at the upcoming AGM under article 5.3 (i) of the constitution.

Have clubs been individually notified or has the notice post on the website, dated 6 October, been the sole source of notification?

[Ianbrownlee]

yes this is quite disturbing and possibly we can get some clarification at the AGM. I am aware of some communication issues between member clubs and Chess Scotland. I know of some cases where clubs have changed officials as well so maybe we should look at better forms of communications and/or some good PR work to re-establish or imporve communication

[Robert Lothian]

I checked with Bon Accord's treasurer and he informs me that we have paid and the cheque has been cashed.
We are not one of the 8 clubs listed as members, so something has gone wrong somewhere.

[David Deary]

The level of disinformation on here is staggering. Nothing has gone wrong.

I refer you to this article:
https://www.chessscotland.com/news/chess...processing

The Membership Secretary hasn't been in the country and only returned on Sunday.
The website will be updateed in due course.

Find something else to be outraged about.

Edit to add:
23 Clubs have renewed from what I can see. Others may well have done so if they have sent a cheque to the Membership Secretary.
All current members clubs were contacted by email and invoiced via Stripe. It was also advertised on the website. If an individual club is concerned wrt. their status they can contact myself or the membership secretary as per standard practice.

[Robert Lothian]

Thank you for the clarification, David. I was fairly sure that the thing that had 'gone wrong' was simply that the web page wasn't up to date, but it's good to know that there hasn't been a mass defection of clubs from the association.