No seriously, over the years multiple members have berated us on how our club membership has been simply too cheap! Given the value that we know the club delivers, and compared with many other specialist owners' clubs, it is probably fair to say in terms of membership fee we've sold ourselves short. In fact many of you have very kindly taken the option to donate additionally to the club, over and above your club membership, and we're very grateful for those contributions!
So what are we going to do? From today our annual membership cost will increase to £17.
Jokes about us responding to member feedback apart, there really are many good reasons why we're increasing our membership fee now.
We hope you'd agree that the last few years have seen the club really hitting its stride! Our community has continued to grow and strengthen, both in the UK and internationally too. We've attended numerous events as a club, and our club presence has become even better organized and more "serious". We've also built links with other clubs like Clio V6 Passion in France. Ultimately as the Vee is increasingly recognized as an emerging classic, we've established ourselves as the place for owners, prospective owners, and indeed past owners to share their insights and experiences.
We want to do more, and so what are we going to use the additional membership fees for?
So what are we going to do? From today our annual membership cost will increase to £17.
Jokes about us responding to member feedback apart, there really are many good reasons why we're increasing our membership fee now.
We hope you'd agree that the last few years have seen the club really hitting its stride! Our community has continued to grow and strengthen, both in the UK and internationally too. We've attended numerous events as a club, and our club presence has become even better organized and more "serious". We've also built links with other clubs like Clio V6 Passion in France. Ultimately as the Vee is increasingly recognized as an emerging classic, we've established ourselves as the place for owners, prospective owners, and indeed past owners to share their insights and experiences.
We want to do more, and so what are we going to use the additional membership fees for?
- We going to add more hosting - as our community has grown and with features such as our gallery being a big success, we need to again increase our hosting.
- We're upgrading to a new forum - our additional hosting also supports our planned upgrade to a brand new version of the forum software. As well as various visual changes, it will handle the varied modern devices people use better, introduce more up to date features like notification alerts, and generally will be much faster doing what it does every time you click on things.
- We'll be able to have a fuller club presence at events by funding transport - rather than shoe horning our club stuff into daft impractical cars or begging people to take their other cars, we'll be able to arrange van transport for major events to ensure the club is fully represented with its tent and club equipment.
- We'll be able to add to our club equipment for shows, including tall flags, and maybe even some bunting
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