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Some good questions Stoowert!
I joined BMMC just before my first day of marshalling - to get my discounted AWS price, not any further subsidy back then.
I regard BMMC as being the marshals' "union" - no circuit or club related axes to grind and theoretically independent enough to stand up to any club or circuit who abuse the orange army.
At times the wealth of experience can blur a little with the tales of "the good old days", but can be a great help in avoiding repeats of previous problems. Do we have a sufficiently modern outlook to keep attracting / supporting our younger members? Anybody from the iphone generation care to give feedback . . .
The insurance may be a comfort, but is a quite ludicrous process. In one of my other hobbies we have a similar cover for travel to / from as well as during the activity - you're a member, so you're covered, no daft requirement to register every trip. I wonder whether our insurers have been asked to justify the need for the current process, or been challenged more forcefully over this?
Get togethers, newsletters etc are great for building teamwork and friendships, but we (quite rightly) don't lock that down to exclude non-members. I fail to see the logic of each BMMC regional site replicating Julian's volunteering system - especially if we get to dump the insurance registration silliness.
Various folk have written / compiled a variety of documents & guides, but I don't think our web site would be regarded as a great source of education to new / retraining marshals. Whilst still on the web site - why do all the pdf files have such silly numbers instead of sensible descriptive titles - helpful when storing downloads & also more likely to get matched by google searches from potential recruits to the club.
Me - I'll keep on paying my subs and doing what I can to promote the club to marshals new & old, it would be a poorer place without BMMC. The website still comes out at the top of the list for most marshal related "wannabe" searches, which is good - shame that the marshalspost site comes up near the top and seems rather viagra hijacked to casual browsers - I know it's a hard job, but ......
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