STACC Membership Matters

Yes it does matter - the more members we have, the more influence we can exert.
When declaring our membership, we only state the number of committed paid-up members (unlike some organisations which claim to represent some wider community or people on a mailing list).

Membership stats over a number of years show a reasonable but not consistent growth.
Members can do their bit by introducing friends and neighbours to STACC activities, so they may be attracted to joining.

REPORT AT END OF	2006	2005	2004	2003	2001	2000
HOUSEHOLDS PAID	188	177	161	146	157	152
MEMBERS IN PAID HOUSEHOLDS	479	455	est 413	369	382	372
HOUSEHOLDS NOT PAID	32	33	40

As you see, a number of households don't get around to paying each year (not necessarily the same set). If all paid up we would have a total of 220 households and 644 members. We continue to hope that we can win them back sometime, but of course we can't count them when quoting membership figures.

2007
As at the date of this post...
Email or Postal subs requests have been sent to all households. A trickle of payments is being received.
Households paid so far 153 (not yet paid 66)
Membership cards have been issued to all who paid by 23 Jan (133 households, 352 members)
More membership cards will be produced when a batch of worthy size builds up.
Subs payments are not generally acknowledged other than by sending membership cards.

More and more members are electing to pay for several years in advance - many for 4 years. This saves a great deal of work.
More than 63% of payments have been by Standing Order - which also saves a great deal of work.

I will update this info by adding comments from time to time.