LostAgain wrote:It all depends on what the purpose is of the surcharge!!
Considering this Forum is inundated with posts discussing the dwindling membership and attendance I would have thought the last thing we need to do is discourage attendance with an excessive surcharge.
I agree. Factor in that it is likely to be newcomers who are most likely to wait to see a weather forecast before deciding whether or not to attend (who if very new are likely to already be paying a 'surcharge' for non-BOF membership and/or card hire), and you risk choking off new recruits before you've even sparked their interest. Each of these surcharges make sense in isolation, but add them all together and it looks silly.