Society Days

[Dave1980]

Does anyone on here organise society days?

One society I belong to has been going about 5 years and we try and have 4/5 days a year with weekend away somewhere as well, but up until now it has been one guy organising them all. I am trying to think of a way we can split the jobs down to make it more manageable/enjoyable for all and was just interested how any societies on here are organised?

Thanks in advance for any comments

Cheers

 

[CliveW]

The winner organises the next outing. Easy!

 

[medwayjon]

The society I was in used to have a little committee.

I used to do the majority of bookings as I am pretty sound at negotiating a decent deal for people.

We would then have a treasurer and a handicap man within the society.

Worked very well as there were 28 or so on a quiet one and over 50 on a busy outing.

The hardest thing is getting people to part with deposits and that on time we always found but that wasnt my problem fortunately.

 

[Fyldewhite]

Our work society has a committee..... and the secretary does all the work !! Seriously, the secretary books everything early in the year and deals with all the payments from members, prizes on the day and the treasurer looks after the books and signs the cheques. It helps a lot if someone else does the scorecards etc on the day but it's basically split secretary 80%, Treasurer 10%, everyone else 10%.

 

[heronsghyll]

Invite Smiffy to join your society - he organises everything, he is awesome.

 

[viscount17]

We have a committee, fairly large for the numbers involved but since it's based at work there are often people away so we can cover for their absence.

Some of these posts are a requirement as we allied to, and come under the umbrella of, the company sports and social club. as we get some funding from them (and some from the company) we have to have a 'formal' organisation. In truth it's closer to being a homeless club than a society.

We have a Captain, who gets to choose the venues, and vice-captain, Secretary, Treasurer, Competition secretary (for the singles and doubles comps), Handicap secretary, an 'International' Competition secretary (he organises the annual 'away' trip (France/Belgium/Ireland/Scotland etc) and three or four 'general duties' members.

 

[Smiffy]

Invite Smiffy to join your society - he organises everything, he is awesome.

Thanks but no thanks Dave!!
I had 10 years of organising the RMI regional Society. Biggest event I did was East Sussex National for the Millenium meet. All the old members who hadn't been for years crept out of the woodwork for that one, had over 110 people playing in it, had to have a two tee start to fit them all in. 36 holes went like clockwork.
I don't mind organising a day out for a dozen or so nowadays but Society stuff for me ain't worth the agro.
Good luck with it

 

[Dave1980]

Thanks for the comments guys,

We have tried the winner sorts out the next one, but unfortunately, some of the older members seem incapable of doing this and the days get missed.

I think the idea of a committee sounds the way forward, we have just booked our christmas outing, so may wait until a few people have has a couple of drinks before approaching them!!!

It's been far too long with one person doing all of the work and the majority turning up and getting nice and drunk whilst other are trawling through the cards!!!

 

[HawkeyeMS]

We have a committe of 5 or 6 - a chairman, a treasurer and 3 or 4 others who do the event organising. We play 6 o 7 times a year, a 4 day weekend down at the Ashbury Hotel and a singles matchplay. We even have an AGM!

As societies go, it's probably about as well run as it gets.

If you can get 5 or 6 people committed to it you'll definately see the benefits.