Can anyone help me out with RC clinic prices

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I've been a member of my riding club for 3yrs now, I always turn up and put in the best performance possible for team events, pay my dues and help out when I can.

In return for this I kinda expect to be fairly well respected. Am I out of order then to complain about clinic charges??

How much do you guys pay for a XC clinic (hr group lesson) with a local instructor.

Just so I know whether to 'wind my neck in' or not.

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A local instructor (BHSII) has just done some team training for four juniors (outdoors) for £10 each (£40 per hour). She used her own school & equipment, so that wasn't really a factor in the cost. If facilities & 'jumps have to be paid for as well I would expect to add a further £5 per head for an outdoor school, & £10 per head for indoor.
 
Cool, well that helps.

We are having to pay £12 each for hire then a further £10 for the lesson. I thought that the club would pay a flat rate for the course and that would be divided up between us.

I'll maybe shut up now then
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We pay £20 per hour to hire a local xc course and if we take our instructor she charges £35 per hour - split between say 3 people. She is a BHS1(H) whatever that means, but she trains our Instructors, so I think its good value.
 
Ours charges £28 for 2 hours including instruction and course hire. But that is for a group of 4/5

I have complained to my RC before and it had the desired result. I just sent an email outlining my concerns which were taken seriously. Mine was over group sizes.
 
I did send an email saying that i was just airing my views but i think you're right nothing will change if we all just go along with it.

Just out of interest, how much do you pay towards team competition entries??

Thanks
 
Whenever my RC puts on xc clinics all paticipants are charged at cost and the club makes no money at all. xc courses differ in what they charge but most I have ever come across charge per person rather than a flat rate and £12 per person for the hire of the course is not unreasonable. The instructor charge varies depending on their level of training - our club uses a 4* eventer (Burghley/Badminton rider who has been to the Olympics) and he charges a set amount per person. I dont think your club is charging over the odds.

Team competition entries are set by the area not the club and each member pays the full cost. If there is adqeuate money in the years income the club does pay towards championship entries only.

I'm not sure what you pay for in terms of membership but ours is £25 (discounted to £20 if someone has helped at an event) and £8 of that goes to HQ for affiliation fees. The remaining £17 (£12) per person pays for newsletters, stationary, printing, limited mileage fees for helpers so there is not a lot left to pay for much else unless the club has a pretty good fundraising schedule.
 
I pay £20 for membership and then it costs me £5-10 for each competition we do as a team. Indoor Sj was a fiver where as HT and ODEs are £10.
We are very lucky as have 200 members but its a blessing as well as a curse! Blessing as the RC has money and lots of people rarely do anything and curse because if anything good comes along it gets booked up incredibly quickly.
 
We tend to pay about £25 an hour for XC - but the RC makes no money at all out of that - most courses round here are at least £15 a horse - some up to £25! So that plus say £10 a person for instructor
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Dressage and SJ much cheaper - club subsidises slightly to keep prices at £15 a head, but you get good instuctors for that and always on good surfaces/large schools etc, not grass.
Prices don't sound unreasonable, but then we are in a pricy area!
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