Section challenge.

[Forumadmin]

A comment was made the exec that you wanted a map so people could see which section to join. What a great idea! In the late seventies I put every member on a map and drew boundaries of where sections might be. I did this because although in the Southern Section, I attended more Midland and East Anglian meetings than my section meetings because London was between me and my alloted section meeting.

It also helped when I organised the frequent North of the River meetings as I contacted all within 50 miles.

Well that is not the challenge! Please can all forum users contact their section committee, decide on their parish boundaries and post a map in their forum of what they think is their patch. Turf wars will no doubt ensue!

Whilst you are discussing this please appoint someone to receive email from the website directed to your section and post the JowettTalk username of the person in reply to this post. I can then correct or add to the requests page and forum contact (who currently is the secretary).

You may also discuss how you want to present your section. Please provide a webpage with all the static details (those that change infrequently) you want to market your section. This can just be a post in JowettTalk as we can pretty it up. We can create a webpage for each section on the website. If you want any artwork then email. Dynamic content such as events is best reported in JowettTalk.

Over to you. Who is going to be first and last?

[Peter Holden]

I am a member of the Jowett Car Club NOT[/u] a section - I personally object to any line to define section boundaries - Sections are for the benefit of the members to meet, exchange information about local events and to organise social events within an area where a group of members within the local area can meet - the section meeting point and centre will change as the mebbership core moves - subsequently any boundary will be fluid and therefore not necessary - new groups of members should be free to set themselves up as the membership define - if I lived south of Hadrains Wall and a Scotish meeting was nearer than a North East meeting then I would go to the Scottish meeting - I am still a Jowett Car club Member

[craig ainge]

Keith, the reference to a map indicating the sections, this was aimed to be for the benefit of potential Jowett Car Club Members to help them determine / choose their nearest location for Jowett activities / meetings. For example someone living in Lincolnshire could be nearer the Northern section than the Midland section, but choose to be affiliated with the group with whom they feel an affinity. There is a risk that drawing 'boundaries' could be misconstrued as 'barriers' which is against the ethos of the Jowett Car Club. For instance, the geographical extent of the Midlands does not correspond to any particular administrative area and as such the JCC Midland section area is quite 'fluid' and 'flexible'. I certainly would not want to see nor encourage any 'Turf Wars'.

We will discuss the contact and contents issues at our April 7th section meeting at The Axe & Compass

Regards
Craig Ainge

[Forumadmin]

Glad to see the stimulus is uncovering the reasons we have sections. I was of course making fun and not trying to start a war! Loosen up guys.

Perhaps we should discuss a mission statement for sections!

You highlight the important thing- to identify where the action is. So let us put that on the map rather than have borders.

The section sec should be the second point of contact after the membership sec for new members. Both should welcome them into the club and show them the ropes.

The probem is, which section sec does it in the week after an enquiry? Those new members on 'borders' or more than 50 miles from any 'centre' should be contacted by all applicable sections.

JowettTalk should allow many more centres of activity to start up. Whether they become 'sections' is then another political debate!