4.1.10.3 Finances: Club Dues
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This article is from the Table Tennis (Ping Pong) FAQ, by ttennis@bu.edu with numerous contributions by others.
4.1.10.3 Finances: Club Dues
Membership dues are an economic necessity to most clubs. If your club is
fully sponsored and doesn't need the money, dues should still be required
for membership. When a person pays for something, he pays attention to it.
This brings up the area of free tournaments and coaching clinics - DON'T.
Always charge something, even if no more than a token fee.
To facilitate bookkeeping, the membership fee should be due once a year.
New memberships can be pro-rated. This means that the fee should be easily
divisible by 12. Some clubs collect dues semi-annually. More frequent
collection becomes a bookkeeping nightmare.
The individual membership fee for many clubs falls between $12 and $24 per
year. Family memberships are usually twice the fee for individuals.
Junior membership (usually for kids 17 years old and younger) is often
one-half the annual fee for individuals.
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