Membership?

[townerboy]

should I have received a membership card or soemthing? I got one 06-7, but haven't had anything since. In fact not had any communication fromt he club for a while....

[The Invisible Man]

I have raised this query more than once in the past. No, there is no membership card or anything.

 

In our formation season, members got a share certificate, but nothing since. Sometimes there is a very small form included on a newsletter sometime in the summer or early season, but bizarrely there is no renewal form/letter/reminder sent to all members. In fact when I queried whetherI was still a member I was contacted (informally, by someone whose job it wasn't but was decent enough to do it) and told that I was but the address was wrong.

 

I would imagine that a lot of members simply forget to renew. I know I haven't renewed yet, but to be honest don't really feel much rush to do so with so little apparent interest in my membership.

[townerboy]

i have one form the 06 season thoughj?

 

[bdave]

All current members were sent a reminder in May. So far 140 members have renewed their membership (73%). Membership forms will be available tonight and at future games in the club shop.

A share certificate was issued in 2006 and the club are looking to either issue a certificate to members who have joined since then and/or issue an annual membership card.

 

[Enfield United]

Hey matey, we need positiveness amongst us fans to back our board as well as players.

 

If you wanna be a member then do so in your own time, but the way forward is not what your club can do for you but what you can do for your club then everything else will fall into place.

[townerboy]

i am backign the board. jsut sayign its strange to get ni recognition for sending in my money to renew my membership

[Enfield United]

I'm not getting at you, I just think that our club are stepping into a new era (hopefully a positive and successful one) with the new management.

 

However as fans we need to be their 12th man on and off the field.

 

In fact it would be a great idea if ETFC ditched the number 12 shirt and recognise the fans as the 12th man and no one player as a little bit of spritual support?????????

 

opinions on a post card please

[lovely stuff]

I would personally like to see a proper membership card with an expiry date on it.(that remains the same every season).So everyone knows when to renew by,and new members know when to sign up..

[The Invisible Man]

Exactly. I do not recall receiving a reminder in May. I received nothing in the post, and I have checked my email inbox and there is nothing there - but I did get the fixture list. Therefore I don't know if I was overlooked or if I was a member the previous year - I renewed but there is no way of knowing if your form and cheque were received. As I say, at one time they had onfused me with my son and put me down at an his previous address. As I said a couple of years ago this uncertainty would be avoided if membership cards or some sort of acknowledgement was sent out.

 

If an existing member does not renew by a given date, rather than shrugging the shoulders and deleting them from the database, why not send a second reminder? This is all basic stuff.

 

[Enfield United]

I would agree with you and LS strongly if we were a corporate organisation and I do accept that standards need to be kept high in all set ups.

 

Sounds like all we need to set up is a continuos direct debit scheme where our membership fees are debited on the first day of say July each year.

 

In my view again, a membership card would create additional expenditure which could pay for a talented player, so i'm happy if I did not get a card.

 

Therefore I'll just renew when I pop into the first home game i'll be attending for the season.

[bdave]

Anyone who was a member as recently as 2006 would have received several renewal notices over the last two years and with the last one sent out in May members were given the opportunity to pay by standing order.

 

Additionally if you go to the ETFC home page you can access the forms and the standing order mandate form from there. Hope that helps!

 

It would be good to push the membership back over the 200 mark this season.

 

[lovely stuff]

Can you confirm what date the yearly membership starts from.And is this the same date every season?? cheers

[bdave]

Technically membership is from 1 June to 31 May to cover the season eg for 2008/9 membership beacame due on 1 June 2008 and will expire on 31 May 2009.

 

 

[lovely stuff]

cheers.