Starting your own 4x4 club ?

An idea of the location your in would be a start to giving advice on existing 4x4 clubs. To set up your own and to get the privileges you seek, the club would have to be affiliated with your states 4x4 association and have a constitution and rules etc etc. It's not a simple task at all

hi boc
advice a bit hard to give as you hav'nt indicated where you are.
a basic affiliation/ insurance for a small cub would be at least $500 after you were recognised and accepted.
contact the secretary of your state association for their requirements.

regards peter

And in NSW anyway registered with Dept Fair Trading which requires constitution.
Annual reports to Fair Trading are required, with minutes of Annual general meeting.
Insurance for committee members who are considered Directors, for liability purposes eg if some ahole crashes on a trip , then decides its all somebody else's fault..
Bank account with directors as signatories.
Regards Philip A

Find the club scene a bit tricky, and first question
would be "what is the motivation" for joining a club.

The bottom line here in Victoria is that there is not much
if you already have a group of friends you drive with.
In which case loose associations via groups like this
is often enough.

Different if you are new, have no experience etc.

Am in a small vic club (Alexandra) myself which is
only just viable with about 10 members and charges
$50 bucks a year which just covers Vic association fees
and insurance.
We may even disaffiliate as fees to high and still run club.

Meetings just at friends houses infrequently and only take 5-10
minutes to follow right practise and keep minutes.

While there is not much need in Vic today, I think it important for
every single person to be in a club, even nominally as its really
in the end a numbers game re-keeping tracks open.

The club name does have some advantages and disadvantages, for example
in Vic we have some management only tracks with a theoretical access for some clubs.

In practise the system is effectively de-funct as I put it to the test.

Fun to watch officals trying to find out how to do something they had
never done but which there guidlines said they could do.

Bottom line was that we were left to our own devices and legally got to
go onto some tracks normally off limits.

Disadvantages include many clubs try to stick to legal forms placed apon them
by beaucrats, and become beaucratic over time themselves.

An example of this was recent need to Vic to clear up tracks following storms.

Cutting this short - I have literally cut down in excess of a thousand trees
blocking roads due to work etc over a long time in bush, but was unable
to help with clean up due to lack of current "chainsaw training" by those
who quite frankly had never had ,and admitted to such, the necessary experience.

So there's pluses and minuses.

Robin Miller

Starting a club for the reasons you mention is very expensive, and there are 100's of clubs already...

Why not join one that is already there?