I had an insurance quote for my lightly modified V8 110 and they offered 10% off if I was in a club.

So I plan to join a club, but really LandyZone does everything I need I was wondering if it constitutes a club already (mutual support, meet-ups, advice, etc) and if not what would it take to make it so.

Some sort of paid membership I suppose, perhaps £fiver/yr would do it, paid to club funds and cover the cost of the forum website. There could be a member-only area of the website although its already excellent I would not want to lock down what is already public.

Yes its a club as far as flux are concerned

And you can always donate to landyzone

Interesting post this - if LandyZone was accepted by specialist insurers in general it could be beneficial to members & a scource of revenue for LZ. As I'm unhappy with my membership of a certain one-make club, I would far rather donate to LZ in the future.

Anyone want to take on looking into this?

I suspect you need seperate accounts available to audit, membership lists with records of dues/donatons made, named club officers etc like a charity, basically an official company structure

Flux took it as a club and gave a discount even before they were sponsers on here. Does a club need to be structured to qualify?

goonarmy said:

Flux took it as a club and gave a discount even before they were sponsers on here. Does a club need to be structured to qualify?

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That was Flux's choice. Some others may accept if we push it but I suspect for most that offer 'club discounts' they will want a properly registered club

Doesn't feel very LZish tbh

I forgot about the donate facility.

If it's any help, the best definition I can find is this:

An organization composed of people who voluntarily meet on a regular basis for a mutual purpose other than educational, religious, charitable, or financial pursuits. A club is any kind of group that has members who meet for a social, literary, or political purpose, such as health clubs, country clubs, book clubs, and women's associations. The term club is not a legal term per se, but a group that organizes itself as a club must comply with any laws governing its organization and otherwise be cognizant of the legal ramifications in undertaking to organize itself in this manner.

Clubs can be 'incorporated' 'proprietary' or 'unincorporated'. In both of the first two senses there is an indication that there is some form of ownership of property (either commonly, amongst the members, in the first case, or with a proprietor, in the second). In the case of an 'unincorporated club' which is what I think you would probably (?) want Landyzone to be, all you would need would be a (very simple) set of rules which everyone signed up to (probably when signing up to the website). These would include (probably) something about maintaining a common interest in Landrovers as a marque, and ripping the **** out of any newbie who dares to put their head above the parapet

To be honest, I don't think you would find it very challenging to set up (but you will probably want to avoid too much in the sense of 'common funds' as then you would need to become incorporated, set up with the Charity Commission and lodge annual accounts etc) but, as far as I can tell there is no legal definition that could challenge a group of like-minded cantankerous individuals naming themselves as a club.

Hope that helps.

It's not a club, it's a baseball bat.

Fight Club?

If it looks like a club, acts like a club and smells like a club (I've been to some excellently drunken meets) then it is a club ..

.. or not, perhaps?



It's someone's forum that acts exactly as a club does, forms a focus point for meetings, arguments, drivel and dross and absolutely awesome people who have a massive wealth of knowledge. Many people love it, some hate it, it seems almost like a family to me, it's so much more than a mere club!

I'm going to pitch it as a club when my 110 V8 is ready for the road and see what they say. I reckon it will be fine.

As for the fight club, let's not talk about it.