tidworth 4x4 club - starting and need website help

tidworth 4x4 club - starting and need website help

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61JASON61

Original Poster:

59 posts

199 months

Tuesday 17th February 2009
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any help and advice on contect, pictures you send me will get posted. looking to start a local club for legal safe greenlaning.

could extend the areas eventually, but looking for local members and areas to 4x4 in.

add your pennys worth and advise me what i should put in my new site.

thanks jason

www.tidworth4x4.piczo.com

RE STARTING SITE DUE TO NAME CHANGE. ITS NOT A CLUB. ITS A GROUP SITE THAT I WILL MANAGE!!

Edited by 61JASON61 on Tuesday 17th February 20:48

61JASON61

Original Poster:

59 posts

199 months

Tuesday 17th February 2009
quotequote all
any help and advice on contect, pictures you send me will get posted. looking to start a local club for legal safe greenlaning.

could extend the areas eventually, but looking for local members and areas to 4x4 in.

add your pennys worth and advise me what i should put in my new site.

thanks jason

www.tidworth4x4.piczo.com

RE STARTING SITE DUE TO NAME CHANGE. ITS NOT A CLUB. ITS A GROUP SITE THAT I WILL MANAGE!!

Edited by 61JASON61 on Tuesday 17th February 21:17

normalbloke

7,712 posts

226 months

Tuesday 17th February 2009
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Insurance?

61JASON61

Original Poster:

59 posts

199 months

Tuesday 17th February 2009
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not sure what your're getting at normal bloke, what companies that do 4x4 insurance??

as far as the plain goes its like a normal road. to use byways the vehicle has to have tax insurance mot and licence for the vehicle type.

comes under HIGHWAYS and byways act. any vehicle off road has to carry the same legal requirements of any vehicle used for public roads!!

I'm sure you knew that though.

normalbloke

7,712 posts

226 months

Tuesday 17th February 2009
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I appreciate the requirements for using the Highway(inc BOATS/UCRs etc). What I was suggesting(and I'm sure have probably got it covered)is that if you are starting a club and organising outings, you may be exposing yourself to liability in certain areas.It's a can of worms I'd not want to go near,but good luck all the same.

61JASON61

Original Poster:

59 posts

199 months

Tuesday 17th February 2009
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ooooh, yes, well thought that man. Will look into it.

right, any one possibly wishing to join a club local? LOL

john2443

6,393 posts

218 months

Wednesday 18th February 2009
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FWIW I've had a quick look at your site. I'm not a 4x4er and am not in your area, so I'm not going to be looking normally, but if I was, I think I would be put off very quickly by the bl***y adverts popping up everywhere!

Also, viewing it on my laptop I have to scroll left, right, up, down all the time as it's too big for a laptop size screen.

Good luck though, hope you find people to go out and play with!

John

100SRV

2,179 posts

249 months

Wednesday 18th February 2009
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Hi,
nice idea but I think this is one of the problems with the UK 4x4 scene - years ago there were the ARC (now ALRC) regional clubs, NORC and the AWDC. Now we seem to have regional clubs for most marques whilst membership of AWDC and similar drops. Why is this? Is it because "the regional club doesn't cater for my needs"? If so join it and help it to evolve - why not join GLASS or the AWDC and get in touch with the local rep? you benefit by being a member of a large club and they benefit with more members.

If the UK club 4x4 scene continues to fragment like this there will be no large groups to pursue our rights to use green lanes in the same manner as GLEAM and the Ramblers Association do.

There is strength in numbers!

just my 2p...
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