RE: The times, they are a changin! Say it ain't so Joe?
I think a club can increase membership both new and old, and fire up the current membership, with fun activities that don't require a fee to paticipate. I am blessed to belong to a club that has really strong turn outs on the weekends. We have a full spectrum of planes that show up from the flat foamies to the planes expensive enough to buy a new Honda, we embrace it all, because if it were not for the ARF's or BNF's there would probably be maybe just a handful of people showing up, if any young people at all.