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I am not the average RC member. I am the first to admit this but I do feel like I face an uphill battle all the time. I am just intrigued to know what other RC are like.

Could RC members answer the following Qs for me please?

1) Does your RC pay all your entry for area stuff or just the qualifying fee?

2) If entering big events (such as Blenheim RC Challenge) does your RC pay the fee or do you?

3) Is your RC competitive or not at all interested?

4) What percentage of your RC competes? Ours is 4% out of 225 members.
 
1) Pays half the fees
2) As above
3) Dressage yes, anything else not really - which doesn't help me as I'm into eenting and sj
4) Not sure but I'd say about 5-10%
 
i belong to a great riding club, run good competitions and clinics. They dont pay for the area qualifiers but do pay for championships (they paid when our horse trials team qualified for offchurch)
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We have good competitive teams but equally anyone who wants a go at competing in teams is very welcome to have a go
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Not sure what percentage of the riding club competes though...
 
We paid for everything.
They do have teams but they tend to be made up of the chosen few regardless of results at club compeitions - unless they were desperate
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This is why we are no longer in the riding club
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1) We pay all entry fees but get the Stoneleigh fee refunded in cash after the event.
2) We don't do big events so can't answer that!
3) We're quite competitive but equally anyone who wants a go can have a go.
4) I wouldn't know what % but we usually manage 1 open team, 1-2 intermediate and 2-3 novice teams. We have had a significant reduction in membership this year though so probably won't get this many this summer.
 
Just joined my riding club:
1) Had to pay £25 of the £40 for area horse trials
2) Don't know not sure they enter stuff like that
3) Not very competitive- all the novice team got eliminated at are horse trials and I was their only representative in the intermediate as an individual and was placed. Didn't get asked just rang up team manager and said can I do area horse trials- they said yes and that was that! I think they are somewhat more competitive at dressage, luckily this would be my least favoured discipline!
4) Seems to be the same people which make up every team i.e dressage horse doing novice jumping teams in the hope they can make it over! Think they wondered what they had entered to area HT when i got a 43 dressage- they seemed to forget there was two rounds of jumping afterwards and unless you complete them a 30 dressage isn't much good lol!
 
I was planning on doing Area Horses Trials this year, before horse went lame, and we had to pay £30. I don't know what the actual entry fee is though. The only other big RC comp is the Caledonian Championships and again I think entries are subsidies a bit. The club also offered weekly subsided training for area competitors.

The club is quiet competitive with a number competing at low level eventing (plus one 4 star eventer)

I think percentage wise at least 50% competes, even if it is just RC comps. But then I don't ever see the people who don't compete.
 
Could RC members answer the following Qs for me please?

1) Does your RC pay all your entry for area stuff or just the qualifying fee?

Both pay prelim entry to HQ then one makes members pay all entry fee, second one pays half of entry fee

2) If entering big events (such as Blenheim RC Challenge) does your RC pay the fee or do you?

as per above

3) Is your RC competitive or not at all interested?

O yes indeed - both are

4) What percentage of your RC competes? Ours is 4% out of 225 members.

about 20% with average membership of about 140ish - i think... and selection process held for teams by quaiifed instructors
 
1) Does your RC pay all your entry for area stuff or just the qualifying fee?
<font color="purple">Ours used too until they blew all their cash and now you pay everything - example they want £59 for Horse trials and £19 for area dressage. This annoys me as I'd rather go affiliated than do RC stuff as its cheaper! </font>
2) If entering big events (such as Blenheim RC Challenge) does your RC pay the fee or do you?
<font color="purple">They used to pay, I think they still do, but fairly selective on who participates </font>
3) Is your RC competitive or not at all interested?
<font color="purple"> Most people are non-competitive, was fairly demoralising trying to organise the show jumping teams </font>
4) What percentage of your RC competes? Ours is 4% out of 225 members. <font color="purple"> Probably around that </font>
 
1) Does your RC pay all your entry for area stuff or just the qualifying fee?

Yes pays prelim entry and qualfier entry

2) If entering big events (such as Blenheim RC Challenge) does your RC pay the fee or do you?

Yes and have paid contribution towards fuel for teams travelling to Lincoln.

3) Is your RC competitive or not at all interested?

Yes at dressage, but hard to get eventers and showjumpers.

4) What percentage of your RC competes?

60 members with 35% competing.
 
1.We pay a contribution..and if team qualifies for champs...entry fee is paid. Last year our RC had teams qualified in all sections of the Horse Trials champs... they sought sponsorship from a horse feed company to help out with costs.
2.Our RC does the Quadrille teams...and I believe Rc contributes to costs incurred
3.Mixed...some are very competitive, some just enjoy the pleasure rides organised.
4.Estimate 50% at our own shows...prob 15% at Area level.
Our Riding Club is designed to offer something for everyone...pleasure rides, low level Dressage &amp; SJ/XC...through to Championship level.
We adopt a strict ' give and take' policy. All members are expected to help out, at least one event per year. Team members are expected to make a valuable contribution to helping out at events.
Lec, if you are finding it difficult at your RC I would suggest... either find a club that is more competitive...they do exist...or maybe offer to help out a bit more at your club and drum up a bit of support for your competitive endeavours. RC's are run by volunteers, and it is only right that the good of the whole club is put first, above single members.
It is a shame that you feel this way about your club... just as an aside, one of our members won the Intermediate at LD this weekend, against strong opposition. She has received So many texts from members, as we are all extremely proud of her.... competitive clubs DO exist!!!
 
1) Does your RC pay all your entry for area stuff or just the qualifying fee?
<font color="blue"> ours pay the affiliation fees to the BRC and we have to pay the competition entry fees </font>
2) If entering big events (such as Blenheim RC Challenge) does your RC pay the fee or do you?
<font color="blue"> as above </font>
3) Is your RC competitive or not at all interested?
<font color="blue"> Very, last year we qualified for Lincoln in everything Junior and Senior (and had a few placings at the finals), we won the Hickstead Team SJ challenge and this year qualified and was placed at Hartpury and Aston Le Walls </font>
4) What percentage of your RC competes? Ours is 4% out of 225 members.
<font color="blue"> Probably have just over 100 members and I would say at least 60% compete </font>
 
i am currently not in a RC, due my previous experience when i was in 1 (which i only joined as i won the trophy and they made me)
i thought as i was providing consistenly good results at there comps i would be considered for teams, but it was the same people every time (who were all friends and the commitee members) things turned sour and people left for this reason , i just never renewed my membership so i can understand totaly where u are coming from , and its a shame cos RC's can be valuable resources
 
Though in an area with a fair few RC none are any more competitive particularly at the level I am at - Open. I would like to do more teams but that is where we struggle. We get plenty for dressage but dressage just does not do it for me!

I am on the committee so do keep my fingers in the pie so to speak but I am in the minority regards to competing. We have just come up with an incredibly fair system where by if you volunteer you get free lessons (£7) so instead that will get taken from my entry fees as I do not really attend the lessons. So I am providing 2 helpers for Area 12 on Saturday and so will get £14 off entries.
 
That sounds like such a good idea. I really feel for you...being in a non-competitive area. There are good opportunities in RC for more advanced riders...and they are very under-used I think.
It takes peolpe like you, to get on the committee and raise the profile of your club...and promote interest. I hope your hard work pays off...could you perhaps try and persuade some of your BE friends to get involved...the Open team Champs at Offchurch are a good challenge and should suit most Novice standard BE riders.
I do hope you are able to get more and more out of your club. Good luck with it.
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Maybe we should form specialist eventing clubs like they have "blah de blah dressage group" Is this what happens in old age everyone turns to dressage because in Pony club you have the opposite problem in that everyone wants to SJ/event and have to be bribed to do dressage areas lol!? Then these specialised eventing clubs can have subsidised event training from good coaches, as in essence riding club is a great idea in that you have cheaper group training and meet like minded people but it doesn't always seem that way in practice because the few people who like to event/SJ at more than 2ft 6in are spread out at 1 or 2 per club.
 
It would be great to set up regional eventing clubs/groups. It could be used to push training, have regional competitions incorporated into BE events and also introduce people to eventing but in a friendly way where they can meet people at the same level. Maybe even get some 3 day camps going as well. Maybe this would be a happy half way house for people like me who are amateurs but ambitious in that I want to improve and go as far as I am capable of.

It would also be an excellent way to improve standards in a friendly way with maybe talks and demos as well.

EHOA is very prohibitive for me as nothing in this area. I also hate the title and if I was coming into the sport would not feel it would apply to me as a one horse amateur.
 
my RC pays entries for team stuff but for eg for the DTM qualifier i have had to pay £17 pre-entry fee and the £12 class entry fee which works out bloody expensive for one class that i'm not even sure we have a chance of qualifying in.

they are a very competitive club and i'm considering myself priveledged to be on all the teams this summer in my first year in the club.

no idea what percentage competes - probably most of them.
 

1) Does your RC pay all your entry for area stuff or just the qualifying fee?
<font color="blue"> </font> we are a new club so cant afford to pay for all events, so each discipline can do fund raising under the club name and then use the money to pay entry fees plus training if any money is left over (our show jumping team have done this, this year I think it has been quite successful)

2) If entering big events (such as Blenheim RC Challenge) does your RC pay the fee or do you? <font color="blue"> </font> same as above

3) Is your RC competitive or not at all interested? <font color="blue"> </font> very at SJ and quadrille/DTM a bit less at dressage and we dont do trec and horse trials yet.

4) What percentage of your RC competes? <font color="blue"> </font> dont know but its always the same people on the teams as only a few people put their name down and turn up to events
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I am not the average RC member. I am the first to admit this but I do feel like I face an uphill battle all the time. I am just intrigued to know what other RC are like.

Could RC members answer the following Qs for me please?

1) Does your RC pay all your entry for area stuff or just the qualifying fee?

2) If entering big events (such as Blenheim RC Challenge) does your RC pay the fee or do you?

3) Is your RC competitive or not at all interested?

4) What percentage of your RC competes? Ours is 4% out of 225 members.

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1. In our Rc the members pay all of the entry fee for the qualifiers. If they qualify for the Champs, the club pays their entry fee plus 1 night stabling if needed. If they want more than 1 night they have to pay themselves.

2. Blenheim Challenge--as for area events. Members pay themselves.

3.Competitive in the sense we like to have a go at the qualifiers and encourage all members to try.

4. Percentage not known but as above in that any memebr who wants to do the area qualifiers is put into a team. we do all the disciplines including DTM and quadrille.
 
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I am not the average RC member. I am the first to admit this but I do feel like I face an uphill battle all the time. I am just intrigued to know what other RC are like.

Could RC members answer the following Qs for me please?

1) Does your RC pay all your entry for area stuff or just the qualifying fee?

Our riding club has done in the past but instead provides excellent training for members who are entered for area competitions.

2) If entering big events (such as Blenheim RC Challenge) does your RC pay the fee or do you?

Our area (22) only has 2 major interbranch competitions HT &amp; DR/SJ etc. Normally members pay their own entries as generally we have a large number who choose to compete at these competitions and the cost would be rather expensive.

3) Is your RC competitive or not at all interested?

Our riding club is very compeitive and very much supports each and every member to do the best that they can from the top level compititors to those doing their first competition.

4) What percentage of your RC competes? Ours is 4% out of 225 members.

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We have just over half the number yours does and probably as much as 80-90% of these members compete.
 
v interested you have posted this, are you having committee issues!?

if we go non-qual we pay half.
if go qual the qual fee is paid.
I had to fight a little for this although we are not a 'poor club'

So far this year 20% of our 50ish members have competed at area champs. It tends to revolve so as people come up through our members days and improve then they feel confident enough to go. and as new members join, it is not the same people year on year.

We don't select teams just put them together, everyone who wants to go is welcome. I will not nag people to go as I have had people put off when they get there as team pressure is diff to normal.

We are not particularly competitive, have only had 1 person make it to nationals and she couldn't go. but we enjoy going when we can and doing well if we do.

It is a difficult one cos on one hand you have people competing for you and spending their diesel money to get there but it is 'members' funds that many work hard for (inc those competing) and they are not all benefitting hence I think half is a compromise.
 
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