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Another club bites the dust
It seems almost certain now that the University of Liverpool Circus Society will be no more at the end of this academic year. Despite having a committed core of non-student members, we will not have the three student members required to form the committee, as required by the university.
We've looked at getting peoples housemates etc. to sign the paperwork, but ultimately a student will need to be a point of contact with the university, and the only student member we will have next year doesn't fell that they will have the time to commit to running the society.
The club is succeeded by a few informal meetups and a local firespinning troupe, but the loss of the only regular juggling club is a shame for the city. The last meeting of the club will be on the 2nd June in the dance studio of the Guild of Students at 8PM.
That sounds very much like how the club was hanging on to life about ten years ago! We'd regularly go through the 'shit, who knows a student?' rigmarole until it finally just couldn't keep going. Then it came back when Jubb and a few others brought it back unwittingly almost identical to its old form!
It was always so hard to recruit, especially when newbies spotted the hungry look in the eyes of the people who wanted to lump all the guild related stuff on them! Here's hoping it'll rise from the ashes again!
One other thing: I'm pretty sure that a bank account and some kit went AWOL last time the club died. Maybe make sure stuff like that is suitably emptied!
I've already brought this up, but the committee are apparently much more honest than I am.
This is sad news, I have heard of a few other student clubs in the same situation this year. Is there an affordable community venue outwith the university that the non-students could base the club at instead? It wouldn't be as cheap, but would be cheaper than having to go to Northwich for a regular indoor juggle.
Another possibility might be for the other members to minimise the work the student member has to do, but that might only be a short term solution.
We've got outdoor juggling throughout the summer, so hopefully we can sort out something regular.
You would of course be very welcome at Northwich! The more people who come, the cheaper it gets. Sadly we can do nothing about the fuel cost or travel time but we make a cracking brew! Check in on the Northwich Juggling Club page for the occasional closure.
Richard Loxley - - Parent #
Something similar happened to the Bristol University circus society about 15 years ago.
We coped by getting a student who used to come to the club to sign the paperwork and be the official committee member, on condition that we would actually do all the work for him.
We then ran the stall at freshers fair, and in fact signed up a record number of new members (over 100 I seem to remember). We were very motivated, very outgoing, and had some good club passers demonstrating next to our stall.
Then for the first term we ran beginners workshops for different props every week, timetabled in advance. (We'd handed out the timetable at freshers fair so members saw what they were getting for their money.) That got about 30 people attending each week. At the end of the term we had a core of 8 or 10 people who'd been every week, and we then approached them to see if any wanted to be committee members going forward. Thankfully a couple said yes, and the club survived :-)
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