Club annual membership fees

[Rockhopper]

We pay £50 a year then £2 range fee (including full bore days). We've got over 250 members.

[Hrun]

£240 Pa (20 quid a month SO), 80 or so members

20 yard sporting, 25 yard prone/bench, 10 yard air. Indoor heated with social area and canteen, club guns and member storage.

Open, Monday (beginners course, new intake every 3 minths and a waiting list) Tues, thurs, fri, 2 suns a month.

We are profitable, but had issues a few years ago.

[Blackstuff]

A bit more information about your club would help in deciding whether your fee is good value or not.

Is your club open all year round or only during the winter?

How many firing points on each of the ranges?

Electronic targets?

Club Scatt?

Good club kit for novices?

I definitely wouldn't join THAT club

[Dorset_shooter]

Not a easy question to answer, the poll should outline what your club offers and how much someone would be willing to pay to use it. Your answer would be more accurate.

The better the facility's the more it's worth surely?

Somewhere that is open all year / indoor has to be the biggest advantage.

I am happy to pay £300 plus a year and I do, this provides better than most ranges though....

[Les]

Both of the clubs I go to are £60 p.a. One charges £2/visit range fees, and the other one doesn't.

If your club is running at a loss, then you'll need to find out where the main costs are e.g., heating etc, and see if you can reduce them.

[kevinww]

Small Bore club open 6 days per week
£100 / year plus £2 per visit.
Approx 250 members
Large clubhouse
6 lane indoor range
16 lanes 25yd, 50yd or 50M
4 lanes 100yd
10 lanes gallery
Turning target range
Black powder range
Field target air range
2 Mini McQueens

Full bore club £100 / year
large clubhouse
4 lane 600yd range with FP at 100,200,300,500 and 600yds
electronic targets.
shoots every other Sunday.

[TattooedGun]

Our club was in a pretty bad financial state around 4 years ago and we've completely turned it around since then with a new secretary and new treasurer.

Our outgoings have been massively reduced. Where we had a landline for our alarm system, the system has been updated and now no longer requires this saving us close on £30 per month on the crappy line rental charges we were faced with. We've also re-negotiated all of our costs, water, electricity, insurance etc. And slashed the prices of our outgoings.

We renovated the backstop and butts area of our 25 yard range as well as painted the entire range, installed new carpet and underlay on the firing point, painted the clubhouse and recently installed new "kitchen" cabinets for storage in the club house to create more room inside our armoury which was being used for additional storage.

We've done all this and we've still been up, year on year for the past 3 years.

We also got on top of our gift-aid payments and the treasurer went through all the paperwork to claim for back-pay which had not been sorted.

All-in-all very successful for the books.

So with all that said, we have around 80 members. Membership is £65 if I recall correctly, £30 for over 65's and joint membership for couples is £45 per person.

We have a clubhouse (heated), with male and female toilets, and we use space heaters on the range in winter.

Subscription fee's are £3 per visit. And we are a registered Charity (Hence the gift aid) and CASC.

We are currently open Mon-Sat Evenings from 7:30 to 11ish (earlier when everyone is done shooting or its late enough to call it a night).

We are seriously looking to expand our current range and in talks with architects to enable us to increase the number of people shooting at any one time, which would hopefully allow us to accept more members as we can currently take no more without overcrowding and diminishing the atmosphere of the club. We're 1 in, 1 out at the moment for membership.

[Tomo]

We pay £197.00pa with £2.00 range fee but we're a massive club compared to others (300+ members) and offer a wide range of indoor and outdoor shooting, including trips down to Bisley and (hopefully soon) our own outdoor full bore 200yd range.

[NoEntry]

I pay £156 p/a. no range fees. 6 days per week access. 50yd and 25yd ranges. Clubrooms, Armoury, toilets, heated ranges with laminar airflow extraction.

Excellent facilities.

[Nelly2014]

Is there somewhere a list of clubs with all preceding info?
If there is where is it and if not there should be. Why all the secrecy? Just on this thread there are clubs I have never heard of and probably would like to visit.