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From: "Adam Batchelor" <adam.batchelor@virgin.net>
To: "Steve Henderson" <HendersonS@Cityphone.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: membership fees and other questions
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:16:44 -0000
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Ummm...
AGM - yes that was a forum.
Discussed on britdisc... Well it was advertised and a site dedicated to it.
Were we elected democratically... yes
Do you read your e-mails?
Adam Batchelor
Director UKUA
PS Your sums don't work!
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Henderson <HendersonS@Cityphone.co.uk>
To: <administrator@ukultimate.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 11:04 AM
Subject: membership fees and other questions
> To the UK Ultimate Association
>
> I do not know if these have been asked / answered on Britdisc or anywhere
> else, but now that you have collected around twenty thousand pounds in
> membership fees, where is this money going?
> What benefits am I getting this year as a fully paid-up member compared to
> the last eight years? Medical insurance? etc
>
> Am I correct in that the membership fees are required only for the tour
and
> the indoor/outdoor nationals - ie seven tournaments.
> If there is any medical insurance for members (or any other membership
> benefits), is it only for these seven tournaments?
>
> If the fees are in part to be used for "Promotion of the Game" and to make
> events more professional, why was there not a single advert in Bradford
for
> the National Indoor Championship Finals; no party for the evening; not
even
> a couple of bits of paper stuck on a wall somewhere to show
rosters/results.
>
> While we are talking professionalism here, is ukultimate.com the official
> website for the Association?
> If so, why where are there no details about the Tour venues for this year
> (...and the indoor finals were shown as being in Leeds)
>
>
> Apologies if I am missing the point here, but if this is an association -
> i.e. a body of people with a common purpose - how do the members
> needs/wants/requirements get debated/answered/resolved.
> You could just say: "Use britdisc" - as that is where everything is
debated
> and questioned.
> But if that is the case, why was something so fundamental as THE FORMATION
> OF THE ASSOCIATION and all of the details surrounding this event not
> discussed on Britdisc BEFORE the event.
>
> I am now being told by people who I don't know to pay fees to an
association
> that I have no visibility into, no control over, and no opportunity to
> debate about association goals, or vote for committee members... just to
> play a game I have been happily playing for nine years.
> What is the deal here? Am I missing something obvious??
>
> Thanks. (and minor apologies for the almost-rant with little thought or
> structure)
>
> Steve Henderson
> (Bonkers)
> (Stonkers)
> (Geordie Whore)
>
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