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Naturists UK
hits the ground running
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Naturist subscribers receiving their February 2007 copy this week - I
got mine today - will be reading the latest news Naturists UK hits the ground running
Naturists UK hits the ground running
Within hours of our report on the new national organisation Naturists
UK appearing in last month’s issue, members were signing up well before
the official launch date.
Annual membership fees have been set at £20 for individuals, £33.50
for joint, and £40 for families, with concessions available for young
people and single-parent families. With similarly low fees for swim
clubs and walking groups set at £20, and sited clubs paying just £40, a
number of clubs have also expressed an interest in joining the new
organisation. A particular attraction of group membership is that
Naturists UK is offering to host a full web page of both text and
images for each club. Entries will be under the control of the clubs
themselves, and as well as promoting facilities, will enable them to
announce events, and provide a contact point for members. The one-off
web site set-up fee (equivalent to the annual rate) is being waived
until the end of February.
Naturists UK is also determined to promote the naturist life-style
to the public at large. As just one of a series of initiatives
designed to raise awareness, the new organisation is planning a
promotional presence at an event that always attracts wide media
coverage - the world-famous Glastonbury Festival in June. For more
information: www.naturists-uk.org or call Richard Collins on 01954 212502.
Bob Janes
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And
they're still signing up...
With so
much happening and to do over the past couple of weeks - interest in our plans, what our
members would like to see, benefits including insurance for clubs, carrying advertising, INF
membership/affiliation - there's not been time to write it all up and report,
but much is now becoming ready for publication over the next few days here, on our brand
new website which is officially launched today for 'beta testers' and you to
have a sneak preview!
The
software AutositePHP which makes our site work is all new
and is being developed specifically for our needs. It is still under development, and
will be for weeks and months to come, while we discover what else we can offer.
Content is all new or republished/updated from our previous temporary site, so please
bare with us while we iron out any bugs we find, develop the best
ways to present information consistently, and build our archive of useful
resources. Our archive will contain much proprietary information, some of which
has not been published before and some which is no longer available elsewhere.
Later
today, and over the coming days and weeks, you will see it develop and move to our
official domain http://naturists-uk.org
And with
over 50 members signed up by 7th January - the end of our pre-launch offer - our first
'member club' joined and more taking an interest today, our public launch is still
on target before January end. Watch this space!
Brief Updates:
Tuesday 23rd January
As you
can see, Naturists UK is now in its new official home at http://naturists-uk.org
Please
check back regularly for updates and new content. Much has been generated over
the past couple of months and will appear as soon as possible. We will try to
bring time sensitive information first and share with you items appearing in the naturists press the day they appear.
For
completeness, and anyone visiting Naturists
UK for the first time, all our earlier ‘updates' posted in various fora have
been/are being transferred here. They're worth a look, even if you've read them
before, as they contain much detail about what we have planned and using the
Search you can focus on key words like ‘event(s)', ‘beach(es)', ‘walk(s)', etc.
When searching, you can enter an ‘*' - a ‘wild card' - like this "beach*" and
the search will return: beach and beaches. Try it.
N.B. Currently there is a bug with the 'Live Search' and wild card searches are not highlighted. These should both be fixed soon.
Have fun!
Thursday 25th January
We are currently negotiating a special deal with a leading insurance broker specialising in landed naturist and swim club insurance. Provisional rates for Swim Club Public Liability Insurance - £2 million cover - is just £145 pa. With Naturists UK club membership at only £20 for a whole year, that's a combined total of £165. A similar policy from BN would cost £150 plus £50 annual BN membership plus around £35 regional levy (based on 35p per head) for a club with 100 members - over £70 more! And with Naturists UK, clubs get a full 'web presence' included.
If the insurance scheme interests you, please call now on 01954 212502 as we need to find 6 clubs to meet the minimum policy start up fee of £750. More details to follow soon...
Thursday 1st February
Today Shabden members will be receiving their copy of Naturist Life magazine. Now full colour throughout, with even more news and pages of interest for naturists, and announcing Shabden's 20th Birthday Celebration this month, it includes an article about our new organisation. You can see the complete article here:
Naturist Life: Naturists UK - A new beginning... but why not take out a subscription to Naturist Life yourself? At only £20, minimum annual subscription - additional contributions are always welcome - it's excellent value! And combined with Naturists UK membership, you'll be well informed!
There's been more developments this week, with more members joining daily, and news to report on more clubs taking an interest in joining and advertising with us. Tuesday we were contacted by a holiday company who are keen to work with us and provide even more benefits for our members! They'll be a full news update once we are able to give details.
With all the interest we've been generating and the various leads to pursue, our expected 'official' launch and press release to the media has been put off a few days while we get more content on to the site and iron out the last few bugs - there's always teething troubles with any new system and these have delayed us publishing more news and content but more will start to appear soon.
Monday 19th February
Time certainly flies when you're having fun!
Developments are gaining pace with even more great news appearing in H&E about our first member club Soleil signing up - we hope to bring an exclusive report of their newest venue 'Aquasplash' at Hemel Hempstead - and we've just finalised details of swim club insurance - we just need to have the wording agreed with the brokers before publication, so please check back in a couple of days for that.
You'll see we've added a 'Latest News' finder (top right), which lists (in reverse date order) the top 5 stories from our news section, and our 'What's new?' now reports the 5 newest items from elsewhere on Naturists UK. These will shortly be extended to provide 'Prev | Next' options to find more new content quickly and add the many new features that are being worked on. We'll then be in a position to publish 'Your Letters' - we've had an encouraging postbag - and start to build our databases of clubs, beaches and events. If you have any suggestions, ideas or want to write an article of interest to UK naturists for publication, please get in touch.
We're still busy arranging deals behind the scenes and there's a lot more to come very soon once we've finalised a few more things - not long to wait now. 2007 certainly promises to be an exciting year for naturists!
Richard
Collins
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