Section challenge.

[Forumadmin]

A comment was made the exec that you wanted a map so people could see which section to join. What a great idea! In the late seventies I put every member on a map and drew boundaries of where sections might be. I did this because although in the Southern Section, I attended more Midland and East Anglian meetings than my section meetings because London was between me and my alloted section meeting.

It also helped when I organised the frequent North of the River meetings as I contacted all within 50 miles.

Well that is not the challenge! Please can all forum users contact their section committee, decide on their parish boundaries and post a map in their forum of what they think is their patch. Turf wars will no doubt ensue!

Whilst you are discussing this please appoint someone to receive email from the website directed to your section and post the JowettTalk username of the person in reply to this post. I can then correct or add to the requests page and forum contact (who currently is the secretary).

You may also discuss how you want to present your section. Please provide a webpage with all the static details (those that change infrequently) you want to market your section. This can just be a post in JowettTalk as we can pretty it up. We can create a webpage for each section on the website. If you want any artwork then email. Dynamic content such as events is best reported in JowettTalk.

Over to you. Who is going to be first and last?

[Alastair Gregg]

Keith, a quick poll of NW activists gives the following polite consensus

There is no need to draw any boundaries as our North West criteria signifies that we operate in the NW of England and North Wales so any member can assign themselves to whatever autonomous area they so wish. If you start to draw lines it will lead to trouble; just treat it as a company that has regional offices and "customers" can deal with the one that suits them best. I would not like to think that the NW section is restricted from arranging meetings anywhere it likes in the UK; for example our weekends away happen in other so called territories .
The JCC has a member in Pembrokeshire who chooses to affiliate with the Scottish Section!!

Please use Alastair Gregg as receiver of e-mail and I will send it to our secretary or Chairperson etc as appropriate. But please leave Doris as Secretary as that is what she is, however she is not a member of the Forum and cannot easily respond on the Forum.

[Peter Holden]

Alastair Iagree - I am a member of the Jowett Car Club NOT a section - I personally object to any line to define section boundaries - Sections are for the benefit of the members to meet, exchange information about local events and to organise social events within an area where a group of members within the local area can meet - the section meeting point and centre will change as the mebbership core moves - subsequently any boundary will be fluid and therefore not necessary - new groups of members should be free to set themselves up as the membership define - if I lived south of Hadrains Wall and a Scotish meeting was nearer than a North East meeting then I would go to the Scottish meeting - I am still a Jowett Car club Member

[Alastair Gregg]

Peter you would be welcome, as would anyone else wanting to come to a NW section meeting.

[Peter Holden]

we talk thew same language!

[Forumadmin]

So you see the dilemma of a webmaster asked to create a map to show where the sections are!

Peter is correct in that it depends where the centre or centres of activity are. Those in Cumbria may well go to Scottish or North East meetings, which is what I said was my dilemma living where I do.

Sections are there to help organise groups of Jowett Club Members. Individuals can only do so much. You do have the choice to be agnostic and have no section affiliation. But you will be missing out on part of the club perhaps.

However, more detail in the definition of the scope of a section's activities would be useful to help new members on the boundaries to have section members encourage them to join in. Some section secs target new members in this way.

I was membership sec for about 10 years and was often asked where the newly formed Severnside section covered. Some Welsh people even joined the Scottish section. I think that was something to do with Nationality though!