Big Bad Botch
Member
Hidden Earth is always a good place to discuss ideas openly with various members of the community. This year's was no different, one of the ideas floated at the CHECC talk being a revival of the Adopt a Club scheme, with each 'adult' club that signed on forming a close link with a student counterpart. The potential benefits of this are obvious: available experience (and kit?) for the students, and a source of new graduate members for the adults.
This obviously works best with nearby clubs (SUSS <> TSG, Cardiff <> SWCC, GUPA <> GSG etc), but there's no reason to tie ourselves fully to geography; if clubs already had ideas of who they'd like to form links with that;d be higher priority.
What are the opinions on this? Would clubs be interested in seeing this happen or is it only a dream? I was not around for the scheme when it was originally set up, so any information on how it worked, what went wrong etc would be greatly appreciated.
NB: I've been told off before for referring to non-student clubs as 'adult clubs'. Is there a preferred terminology?
This obviously works best with nearby clubs (SUSS <> TSG, Cardiff <> SWCC, GUPA <> GSG etc), but there's no reason to tie ourselves fully to geography; if clubs already had ideas of who they'd like to form links with that;d be higher priority.
What are the opinions on this? Would clubs be interested in seeing this happen or is it only a dream? I was not around for the scheme when it was originally set up, so any information on how it worked, what went wrong etc would be greatly appreciated.
NB: I've been told off before for referring to non-student clubs as 'adult clubs'. Is there a preferred terminology?