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Lager:
Our club is starting to grow and we are thinking about starting dues. I was wondering if anyone who is part of an established club would be willing to answer a few questions
Does your club have Dues?
How much are they?
Is it mandatory?
Do you have an option for those who don’t want to pay dues but want to participate occasionally in club events? Such as paying per meeting or activity.
What do you do if someone who was a paying member doesn’t pay after a few reminders?
What if they end up showing up at your meetings or events, are they asked to leave?
Thank you in advance

denny:

--- Quote from: Lager on February 14, 2013, 10:56:29 AM ---Our club is starting to grow and we are thinking about starting dues. I was wondering if anyone who is part of an established club would be willing to answer a few questions
Does your club have Dues?
How much are they?
Is it mandatory?
Do you have an option for those who don’t want to pay dues but want to participate occasionally in club events? Such as paying per meeting or activity.
What do you do if someone who was a paying member doesn’t pay after a few reminders?
What if they end up showing up at your meetings or events, are they asked to leave?
Thank you in advance

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Our club dues are $20/person, $25/family.  We'll let people come and check out a meeting or 2, but after that they have to pay dues.  If they don't pay, they are dropped from the mailing list of club activities.

mtnrockhopper:
Our dues are $1 per person/meeting.  It is mandatory and we send somebody around at the beginning of the meeting (before we start tasting) to collect. We don't really ever have problems with it.

smkranz:
Our dues are $15/$25.  That money gets spent on things like our web domain, the large annual events we host including Big Brew, our annual Brew-Ha-Ha, BrewCamp, an annual beer festival and competition, and our holiday party.  About every other year, we also order T-shirts and engraved tasting mugs for new members who don't have them or who want to add to their collection, and the dues subsidize a portion of those costs as well.  In years past, the club also used its treasury to help offset the cost of shipping our beers to the NHC.

Our dues are payable every January.  New members who join during the year pay a pro-rated amount based on when they join, then all renewal invoices (PayPal makes this easy) go out to the entire membership in December.  By late February/early March, if someone has not paid their dues we'll start sending reminders.  PayPal makes that easy, too.  We'll give folks at least one more heads-up after that, before dropping them from the club's roster and email list (and revoking their Members Only access to our web site).

We do not have a fixed meeting place, but rather have tastings at members' homes where lots of good food is provided by the host.  For these tastings, we collect a $5/head tasting fee which covers at least portion of the host's costs for food, paper/plastic, etc.

garc_mall:
Ours are $20/$30. They go to setting up for competitions, paying for food at meetings, and occasionally paying for beer (either as a commercial calibration, or to support the brewery we meet at). If you join after June, we only charge $10. it's pretty simple, and kept it only homebrewers who show up.

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