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Good Morning All,

I hope that I have come to the right Forum for this question.

I am a club board member and our club has hit a bit of stumbling stone, our club isn't getting any more new players and a lot of our players from last year aren't renewing their membership. Our club is in a small city and venues for our weekly gatherings (40k, fantasy, magic etc) are limited and our club has been "labelled" as being part of the shop that we currently gather at which some people are not fond of. so I'm asking you guys, how do we get more people on board and to grow the club? what type of incentives should we offer to get people involved etc.

Cheers

Captain Bloody Fists

I've got no idea. I try to stay out of store clubs for that very reason. I don't have anything against the local games store - but I just prefer NOT to game there.

Both of the clubs I'm involved with are located in outside-of-store venues. Most of the clubs I've played in over the last 25 years were like this.

Yes, I'm aware that cliques form in store environments - one of my previous clubs was formed AFTER their local store closed down, and ALWAYS had a difference between those who went to the store and those who didn't mesh with that group.

When a new store opened up in that area (a Good Games) those disenfranchised (NOT the 'former store mob') moved to and set up their own store clique.

We don't have issues attracting gamers either of my current clubs. We have people turn up and if they like us, they stay for a while (there's a lot of employment rotation in the area between the mines and the local Military base).

When I joined my main club, it was a "creche" (junior high school kids) and I became the second ADULT member. I made it my goal to attract some of the local adult gamers BACK to the club. It took me a while, but it did eventually pay off.

I'm not a club president or anything, but it sounds like the shop is a problem. It would be for me. I don't like playing in shops, even as part of a club, due to the environment. Is there any chance you could move somewhere else? A sports hall/church hall/School or some other local venue? Perhaps even a bar or hotel might have a conference room they would be happy for you to use for cheap/free if it was on a mid week evening and it was bringing in people who would eat and drink there.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/583141.page

lets keep the discussion there.

Best of luck with it all anyway