Club Membership Fee - What's yours ?

[Womble]

flippin eck, dont know if I would want to cough up that much, dont even like the idea of paying each time to shoot to be honest

club Im at is £60 for the year, open when you want, 3 ranges, free targets at competitions ( competition EVERY sunday of the year)

[Gold]

£2 a week at the greyhound gun club,shoot as often as you like and when you like within reasonable hours,tea and coffee included with 60 yard plinking range and 18+ FT competition lanes out to 55 yards....organised by airgunners for airgunners.

And the rest !!!!

Top place and in the grounds of a pub

[cookie]

£2 a week at the greyhound gun club,shoot as often as you like and when you like within reasonable hours,tea and coffee included with 60 yard plinking range and 18+ FT competition lanes out to 55 yards....organised by airgunners for airgunners.

Fantastic Club, friendly members and like Gold said in the grounds of Pub, you wont find better for the money.

My Club MTSC £75 per year £2 Range fee's. 10m Indoor Pistol Range, 100 yrd and a 50 yrd Outdoor Ranges, Heated club house and toilets. Visitor fee's £5, and well worth a visit.

Jason

[purl]

£2 a week at the greyhound gun club,shoot as often as you like and when you like within reasonable hours,tea and coffee included with 60 yard plinking range and 18+ FT competition lanes out to 55 yards....organised by airgunners for airgunners.

update £10 per annum membership,members £3 per week,visitors £3 a visit.
perminant "60 target course" to shoot at your leisure

[markjohns2006]

£95 per year, no attendance fee £5 fee for full bore shoots and 50p tea or coffee

Great value, 6 lanes to shoot on and a range of targets and positions

[Iain D]

a member of 3 clubs Airgun, Smallbore and Clays. On there own they are not to bad but when you add them all together it's a fair bit of money

Airgun HFT £80 per year
Smallbore £120 per year 12 lane 25yd indoor, 30 lane 50yd and 30 lane 100yd outdoor plus 4 lane 10m air pistol/rifle
Clays £75 per year plus cost of clays 4.75/25

I'm going to try and cut back a bit as I can't do justice to all the diciplines, but it seemed a good idea at the time

Iain D

[JackieM]

Small Bore Club £130.00 a year all in.
This includes 25 yard indoor range, an airpistol range and both 50 and 100 outdoor range.

[steveP07]

25m outdoor, 50m, 100 yrds (but daylight only for the long ranges). Covered and cosy firing points, massive room. 10m air range

£100 per year, plus £1 per visit. £60 if you only want to shoot air.

we sell ammo, but only make about 10p profit per box.

open 3 evenings a week (and another evening specifically for beginners), and Sunday am.

S

[thejokerman]

Just interested what others pay for their club membership per year / 6 months etc.

One of my club's just increased their rate from £120 - £150 per annum.

Hi All,
Is there a forum here were we can list our Club ? Or a Club list

[Hemmers]

£125pa. No per-visit range fees.
25yd (14 lanes) & 10m (4 lanes) indoor
50m & 100yd outdoor. Gehmann boxes for ISSF style 50m shooting coming soon.

Large, well appointed clubroom, kitchen area, pool table, disabled access, good stock of club guns and oodles of 1-2 gun cabinets in the armoury that members can be assigned for their own personal firearms.

.22 Target, Lightweight Sporting Rifle, 10m Air Rifle, 10m Air Pistol, LBP

Concessions for juniors, and for air-only shooters (about £85 for the air-only I think).

As has been said, membership rates can be misleading. Depends on where the club's priorities are and how they spend their money. Plus, some clubs save money for capital investment from fees, others make more efficient use of funding sources such as Awards for All, meaning they don't need to rely on membership fees to fund capital projects, so costs to members are lower as a result.

[target_master]

£258?

http://glevumtsc.co.uk/Membership.aspx

[Coney2]

£258?

http://glevumtsc.co.uk/Membership.aspx

yup...

[pennineway.fswo]

My club have superb indoor and outdoor facilities for air and rimfire
Annual membership cost is £120 with no other fees to pay except targets and ammo.The club is open on 5 days a week.

This is dirt cheap and those members who are switched on to the true running costs would pay double if they had to.
Just compare membership costs with golf for example

In fact, if it was not for the massive efforts of just a handful of members who give up many, many hours of their time each week to run and maintain the club buildings and grounds then we would have to pay a groundsman and contractors at least £10000 a year to do this work.
Membership fees would then have to at least double

Some club members have no idea as to the efforts necessary to manage/run and maintain/insure a shooting club These same members are often the ones who sprint a mile in record time, whenever the words 'working party' 'grass cutting', 'painting,''cleaning' etc are mentioned.

We have had members in our club in the past, who complained that £120/year was too expensive and yet they are buying and selling very expensive shooting kit on a regular basis (usually buying).
It would appear that club membership was not high on their list of priorities. Thankfully and fortunately they don't stay with us for long and disappear to burden others with their flawed attitudes and laziness.

Sorry to go on fellas, but shooting clubs are closing down on a regular basis and sometimes this is due to lack of adequate funding and complacency among members.

Hopefully we will never get to the stage where air guns have to be licenced (and so membership of a club is mandatory for most of us), but if that happens then £285 will not sound like a lot of money to continue in our splendid hobby/sport.
ATB
John

[doctordoom]

£258?

http://glevumtsc.co.uk/Membership.aspx

Note the £ 258 but also special deal for OAPS only £ 64.50!!

but you have to renew after 3 months, worth it if you anticipate severely reduced life expectancy Safe shooting, look after your club, ATB John

[OldybutGoody]

As an active member of the above club in question let me enlighten some of you on here that we are not money grabbers. None of the committee who run the club get paid it is all free and grattis. As to the costs, we have a committment to maintain the outside facilities to a standard set by another shooting fraternity outside of our own club. These standards are strict and set out in a legally binding contract signed many many years ago. The cost's of maintaining these facilities would be virtually nothing if we could get more than half a dozen members out of over 100 to turn up and do the work needed, but since we cannot then we are left with having to pay a contractor to do the work. You just get sick and tired of the same people winging about the costs, but are more than willing to sit back and let everyone else do the work.