I have had some useful legal advice from RJW as a CTC member without any legal work for them in the offing. I doubt that is available on a Joe Public phone or email in basis. Its those situations, not the ones with a clear potential claim in the offing for which there are any number of law firms touting for, that is the difference IMO.
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I have had some useful legal advice from RJW as a CTC member without any legal work for them in the offing. I doubt that is available on a Joe Public phone or email in basis. Its those situations, not the ones with a clear potential claim in the offing for which there are any number of law firms touting for, that is the difference IMO.
Riverman
Guru
- Location
- sur de Inglaterra
Count me in dellzeqq, can you pm me the details and I'll send you a cheque. Btw does it run for a whole year or just up to Febuary?
12 months
and for the address - http://fnrttc.blogsp...fridays_06.html
I'm not seeking to persuade people to switch from 'full' membership to 'affiliated' - but, when somebody like YM is looking to cut back on costs, the affiliation option is there. What I can't abide is being told that somehow it's my duty to be a full member.
The odd thing is - that in five years or so from 2006 to 2011 I persuaded something like 75 people to sign up to the full membership. In less than six months The Fridays has signed up over 200 to affiliated membership.
as luck would have it I've just picked up your club shirt. Do you want me to post it, or are you joining us in York? Fridays bunph here http://fnrttc.blogspot.com/p/fridays_06.html by the way, including my address.
by making arrangements you presumably mean sending me twentyfive quid! Size chart here... http://fnrttc.blogspot.com/p/shirt.html although they come up small - especially the long sleeved.
My membership lapsed this year after 30 consecutive. Tandem club members - the whole family - are covered 3rd party for £10pa or £40 for five years plus benefits and I already pay that.
The main gripe has been lack of support for DA/MGs and cycle touring generally which is viewed as anachronistic. The move to charitable status was handled farcically and the lack of impartiality confirmed my worst suspicions about the club. Sad because the CTC was held in sentimental affection but its campaigning victories seem fairly tame for the financial input and recruitment is based more on fear than tangible benefits.
The main gripe has been lack of support for DA/MGs and cycle touring generally which is viewed as anachronistic. The move to charitable status was handled farcically and the lack of impartiality confirmed my worst suspicions about the club. Sad because the CTC was held in sentimental affection but its campaigning victories seem fairly tame for the financial input and recruitment is based more on fear than tangible benefits.
I asked CTC about epetitions. Reply - Thanks for getting in touch. What we’re focusing on at the moment is a campaign against the introduction of longer lorries. You’ll hear more about that soon. We don’t tend to use petitions, although we do work with the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group and others to arrange for MPs to table Early Day Motions (EDMs) on various topics. Also, we have our own online system that allows people to object/support causes and contact the people who have the power to make decisions about them. As such, it’s a more targeted tool, but I’ll discuss your idea with our Campaigns Director, Roger Geffen .
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
http://www.ctc.org.uk/desktopdefault.aspx?tabid=4089
It's £37 according to the website - which may be symptomatic of the problems they're having.
The main benefit of being a full member rather than an affiliate is the glossy magazine. Come March I'll have to decide whether that's worth £25 a year (or, more likely, whether I'll just not get around to deciding and let the DD roll over). For a family of 2, one member plus one affiliate is better value than a family membership.
(And I still haven't paid my or Mrs W's Fridays' sub - and must order a couple of tops.)
posted to you about the time of the July ride to BrightonI may be at fault but I have no recollection of getting a membership card.....
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
what does it look like? worry not, I don't suppose I shall ever need to produce it.
funnymummy
A Dizzy M.A.B.I.L
- Location
- Lancing West Sussex
I've just cancelled, or rather not renewed my CTC membership.
I wanted both my bubs to have CTC membership/insurance & 2 years ago I 'signed then up' , at the time I had been paying the unwaged price of £24 as I was at college.
2 junior memberships are £15 each, but i was charged £39..? I queeried the £9, was told that family membership was £63 so £39 was the differnce on what i'd already paid to make my membership up to the family rate? I did ask if i could just join my bubs as individuals but was told no because of their age they I had to do it as a family.
We were about to go off on a little tour, I really wanted them to be covered by insurance & tbh at that exact moment I couldn't be bothered to argue over £9.
My membership ran Oct to Oct, I joined them in August, expecting they'd get a full year..Nope!
Come Oct I get my renewel reminder - As we were now all on one membership I had to renew us as a whole.. I was quite annoyed by this, I had paid £39 out less then 2 months earlier, they now wanted another £63, and I was still at college so technically entitled to £24 individual price.
Several phone calls where made, This really bothered me, I felt like i'd been ripped off, why should I have paid £39 for 2 months membership, when 2 individual memberships would have only cost £30 and lasted a whole year?? But I got nowhere, I spoke to at lesat 4 different people, but go nowhere. I was a case of pay up or leave.. I wanted us to be insured, I wanted th support of a big organisation just in case the worse should happen, so grudgingly I renewed. But it left a sour taste in my mouth, £102 in mebership fees in less then 2 months..a sum I really couldn't afford, but felt was vital we had, I had this horrible image that if I did cancel it would be sods law the very next day we'd have some sort of accident.incident!
So to this year.. #3 joined a cycling club in the summer, his years membership to that was £15 & this incluces BC membership & a race license, i've since joined that club too second family member cost was £10 & completed my BC/Breeze Leaders L1 course.
So that's both of us covered for £25, less then half the price of the CTC - I appreciate that CTC do a great job, but their admin side could do with a bit of a tweak & show a bit more understanding, flexibility & compassion
I wanted both my bubs to have CTC membership/insurance & 2 years ago I 'signed then up' , at the time I had been paying the unwaged price of £24 as I was at college.
2 junior memberships are £15 each, but i was charged £39..? I queeried the £9, was told that family membership was £63 so £39 was the differnce on what i'd already paid to make my membership up to the family rate? I did ask if i could just join my bubs as individuals but was told no because of their age they I had to do it as a family.
We were about to go off on a little tour, I really wanted them to be covered by insurance & tbh at that exact moment I couldn't be bothered to argue over £9.
My membership ran Oct to Oct, I joined them in August, expecting they'd get a full year..Nope!
Come Oct I get my renewel reminder - As we were now all on one membership I had to renew us as a whole.. I was quite annoyed by this, I had paid £39 out less then 2 months earlier, they now wanted another £63, and I was still at college so technically entitled to £24 individual price.
Several phone calls where made, This really bothered me, I felt like i'd been ripped off, why should I have paid £39 for 2 months membership, when 2 individual memberships would have only cost £30 and lasted a whole year?? But I got nowhere, I spoke to at lesat 4 different people, but go nowhere. I was a case of pay up or leave.. I wanted us to be insured, I wanted th support of a big organisation just in case the worse should happen, so grudgingly I renewed. But it left a sour taste in my mouth, £102 in mebership fees in less then 2 months..a sum I really couldn't afford, but felt was vital we had, I had this horrible image that if I did cancel it would be sods law the very next day we'd have some sort of accident.incident!
So to this year.. #3 joined a cycling club in the summer, his years membership to that was £15 & this incluces BC membership & a race license, i've since joined that club too second family member cost was £10 & completed my BC/Breeze Leaders L1 course.
So that's both of us covered for £25, less then half the price of the CTC - I appreciate that CTC do a great job, but their admin side could do with a bit of a tweak & show a bit more understanding, flexibility & compassion
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Oh dear, that was a big fat waste of time and money too then - I'm glad I voted for the bloke in the cycling gear and the knee bandage and not the suit.
Anyway I'm a card-carrying Friday now - I just never get to do the rides, well not this year, hopefully next when the dust has settled. The shirts are nicer too, had my blue star beauty on this morning.
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