Re: Re: The future of the TOC and this forum

To Admin.
Here is a idea why not start by offering new members a mentor for the first year? Someone who knows the way the club works and a name and face the new member associates with from the start?

Open up the whole club to the internet, how are we ever going to get new younger members when the club hides away? When I was looking for information on the internet before getting my car the TOC did not appear at all, I had many hits for clubs abroad but none for the UK. I was lucky I had a friend on FB who I remembered had a Traction so I contacted her and her husband. Without that contact I would have been stuck.

Revamp FP it is it seems every issue full of info on meetings held with scarce mention of what was actually discussed. The Presidents ponderings in the last issue were frankly insulting to some of us. A story about a damaged screen took over half a page because it was in a massive font and double spaced. It went on about the trials and tribulations of the disaster but failed to mention a visit to a glass shop with the frame and a new screen could have been cut from laminated glass in a matter of minutes. Then we have full pages of adverts for the next bash which to be honest after the experience of trying to go on the birthday bash and the comments made by the said President and others makes me less inclined to even attempt to attend.

Make our stand at shows a bit more interesting and have people on it that actually want to talk to new members asking for help or promote the club. Not sit at a table having a party and dismissing questions with as few words as possible. Also get the stand out a many more smaller shows around the country by asking members to make use of it in their local area.

It seems we have lost the only few members who actually were of any use to me and some others. Ian Wright went and sorted a car in France for a new member his reward for being a great contributor and a massive help to others was to be forced off the forum and out of the club. Mick Popka a member for years and who used to run this forum has left for what reasons I do not fully understand but he obviously felt he was undermined and treated badly. Speaking to other long term members there are a few who do not like the way things are and how they see them going either so will we see them leaving too?

I am not leaving yet because I feel it is possible to make the club more appealing to others and I am willing to help even though a few of the old school may not want that.