At the January 2021 club night, on Tuesday, we discussed ways to recognise the current pandemic and the effect on our events, club activities and our members.
There were a few options discussed but it was eventually decided that, for membership renewals, we should extend the membership length from 1 year to 2 years for a limited period of time. It will be backdated to September 2020.
This serves both to give an "amnesty" for those that didn't renew as normal last year and an additional year for those that did.
So, if your renewal was due in April 2020 and has lapsed, renewing now will mean your new membership would run until April 2022. If you did renew last year then your next renewal would run until April 2023.
We will be working on a new facility to allow members to view their current membership status when they are logged into the club shop. This will also allow membership cards to be downloaded and printed. We will also look at providing an online membership card facility for use at other club's events.
We're hoping that the above will remove the need for the majority of printed membership cards, streamlining the membership process substantially. For club events we haven't used printed membership cards for members for a long time for those that book online as current membership status is included in the booking details we receive.