Promoting the club
The time is near for the AGM, this will be my third year attending and hopefully it will go ahead unless Covid 19 persists with its rampage.
I've written this not as a gripe, but as an observation, the first year, (2018) on arriving at the museum, a smile appeared when I saw the large OLC banner pinned upon the high fencing on the road side, promoting the club, and no doubt bringing in more visitors to the museum for the added items on display, last year the banner was on the main field within the museum where the meeting and club members congragate, how can this be promoting the club if the only people seeing it are club members and visitors already at the museum. Maybe the weather has something to do with it but there was a definite decline in foot traffic through the display.
I'm sure more can be done to promote the display at the museum, bringing in more like minded enthusiasts who would generally be unaware that the club visits the museum every year.
Has the club thought about advertising the display through media outlets across Milton Keynes,, social media, local radio, Milton Keynes citizen etc, even outlets across Buckinghamshire, obviously advertising isn't cheap. Just a thought. Lee.
Lee
Lee
The main purpose of the event is as the main rally for members although I take your points about publicity.
For many years we did actively promote the event in the local media. The reaction, while almost always positive, was that the local media - including TV and radio on a number of occasions - wanted to come on the day or conduct live interviews over the phone. For me personally, as the founder of the club and organiser of the rally, that was very disruptive and indeed achieved almost nothing in terms of increased footfall. So we stopped doing it. In fact, over many years we have found that any amount of pre-publicity has very little effect on the number of visitors.
What we want to achieve is more members attending the club's only dedicated event of the year (all the others we hold are part of another organisation's event). We can all help here by encouraging the other members we know to come along.
Please also read the section on the website about this year's annual rally. Given that the museum is now closed until further notice there is almost no chance of the event going ahead. For the time being - after consulting with the committee earlier this week - we are holding back from a definitive "cancel" until a bit nearer the time. This is on the basis that cancelling now would make little material difference as we can cancel at relatively short notice. We will ultimately be guided by advice from the museum.
Thanks.
Keith
Thank you both for your
Thank you both for your responses,
I have my fingers crossed the AGM goes ahead, but understand given the situation, that this may not be the case.
The misses came with me last year, I was bent double when I mentioned the meeting may not be going ahead, her reply was
"I'd imagine it will be on, it's not like a mass gathering"
Don't think she enjoyed it last year, but having the support of the spouse for anything I do is very unusual. I've learnt not to ask if I can drive for 3 hours to collect a rare mower.
Stay well everyone, hope to see you all in May if AGM goes ahead, Clive I haven't forgot about the mower, I'll get to you as soon as I can.
Take care all.
Hello Lee
Hello Lee
I think perhaps a valid question to be put forward at the next committee meeting & I am happy to do this on your behalf.
I admire your optimism about this year, I feel that with the majority of events of varying sizes all over the country up to July having been cancelled, postponed or suspended it would appear the AGM is unlikely to proceed, especially with the MK museum now being closed until further notice.
Members will be advised as & when a decision is made.
All the best for now.
Clive