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One of my local GWs got rid of all of it's gaming recently.
It went down to a 1 man store and the manager basically said he wasn't able to run all the campaigns and gaming nights on his own so gaming would stop.
He said he wouldn;t do it until he had made sure that there was enough clubs in the area for people to game at first. He's managed to organise the existing local clubs and help create new ones (including an under 16's) so that there is a place to game every night of the week in that town.

So he gets a store that he can do his job in (introduce new people to the hobby) and everyone else gets a place to play without any of the store's restrictions on time, space etc.

Seems a win win all round to me.

 BryllCream wrote:
Gaming clubs are not "common" in the UK at all. The only gaming club I know of within an hour's drive (and i don't even drive) is...Warhammer World!

http://www.gamingclubnetwork.co.uk/

Click "find a club". You mention GW Derby, there are two clubs in Derbyshire and several in the surrounding counties.
My experience is that for every 1 GCN club in an area, there are another 2 non- GCN aswell.