The SVAS work very hard at discouraging membership.
If you go to the tent by the tower which says something like ‘Camera Club’ somebody will eventually engage in an unequal struggle with an old-style credit card slip machine and part you from your money.
My suggestion, made to a senior luminary a while back, was that a team of attractive young people equipped with modern handheld card terminals, wandering the site at the shows and refunding half the entrance fee the punter had just paid in return for taking out a membership would double the income over a season.
Moggy
This is unfair and disapointing critism Moggy. The “camera club” banner says SVAS Photographic Section, and is run by VOLUNTEERS who give up thier own personal time to raise additional money for the SVAS! There is normally a seperate tent for SVAS membership, but for the last few shows the Photographic section have taken on the task, which I believe is due to lack of personel. They do the best they can with the resource they have. It’s far from perfect, but IF you are a member of the SVAS yourself, have you offered to go around selling memberships to help out? Have you offered to find a way of funding an electronic terminal? This last show, we were over booked on photo tours, and we tried very hard to fit everyone in, but had to turn a few away, and as a result most of us were out doing tours on the flightline. If more peaple offered help, the situation of …your quote “someone will eventually engage”..would improve.
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