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I posted this on BCF and MG Experience. I know there are a few wedge owners nearby, maybe some more lurking, so I'm posting it here too:

A group of guys are getting together next Friday evening in Charleston to start the wheels rolling for an All British Car Club in this region of West Virginia.
I am posting this on here for two reasons. First, if there is anyone reading this list near Charleston that would like to participate, or knows of someone near here that would be interested, let me know and I will fill you in on the time, location, etc.
Secondly, I would like to ask the rest of you for recommendations. Many of you have ideas on how it should be structured, what works best from a standpoint of scheduling, meeting venues and events, etc. I don't expect the group we have to be too interested in formalities, but you never know.
Again, the meeting is scheduled for Friday, April 17 in Charleston, WV.

Thanks,

Dan

Our Old English Car Club is a registered as a non profect society with chapters throughout the province in Victoria, Nanaimo, Comomx, Vancouver, Kamloops, Prince George. It was started by one man (who owns a Triumph van (very rare here). It is rather formally run with the usual officers, Charman, Vice Chair (outgoing Chair), Treasurer, Membership Officer, Events Co-ordinator, Secretary, Webmaster, Newsletter Editor, as might be expected from a mature now rather large organization but you have to start somewhere. Our Nanaimo chapter started with about 12 people and now has about 108. We meet once a month in a restaurant who donates their banquet room to us for free(usually 33 to 65 show up) . We moved two or three times as we grew. We have one club event per month (usually the sunday following the meeting) often more than once in the summer time. Any one can organize an event usually a run on interesting roads and views (no shortage here) with a stop at a pub or restaurant for lunch. We have organized runs to other chapters car shows to give them our support. While the meetings are run according to Roberts Rules of Order there is plenty of jocularity, introduction of new members, past business, present business, future business, web master report, events report (past and future), report on British Auto manufacturing, (who owns it and what they are doing with it) anything else anyone wants to bring up, a technical presentation if anyone wants to do one, I do a "Car of the Month" where I pick a car and give clues and they try to guess the car. I stump them about twice a year (with hundreds of British car manufacturers you get some idea of the collective knowledge.) There is a 50-50 draw (tickets a buck each and winner gets half the pot the rest goes into club coffers).
Club website:
http://www.oecc.ca/cib/

This might give you some ideas what you want to incorporate into your club.


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Some great ideas in there! Of course many of them can't happen until it gets going pretty well, but certainly worth noting. Thanks for the feedback!!