A Survey of Woodturning Clubs
Our turning club would like to know more about other groups and how they operate. We figure this sort of information will help everyone find out what works best and give us clues where to seek out advice and ideas. Please take a minute to answer the questions below.
What is the name of your organization?
Where are you located?
Is your club affiliated with AAW? Or, another organization?
How often do you meet?
Where do you meet?
Do you have a mentoring program for novice turners?
How many paid members do you have? How many people show up meetings?
Do you have a website? Printed newsletter? Electronic newsletter?
What are your annual dues?
Do you have other means of raising funds?
What is your annual budget?
(Please feel free to add additional comments about your club or about woodturning clubs in general, either within this thread or via personal message.)
Admin Edit: Please include a link to your Turning Club's web site. This will make it easier for new members to find your organization.
Chippewa Valley Woodturner's Guild
The name of our organization is Chippewa Valley Woodturner's Guild. We are located in Eau Claire WI on 1125 Starr Avenue. We are an AAW affiliated organization with meetings on the first Wednesday of every month, from 7pm until about 9. We also meet on the second Saturday of the month for "Coffee and Chips" at the club house. Talk, trade advice, or use one of our lathes to work on a project.
We have a number of mentors for a variety of wood turning concepts, as well as introductory wood turning courses. We also teach wood turning to the boys and girls club.
We have about 85 paid members, and the turn out is seasonal. It's lower for the few weeks of nice weather we (sometimes) get during the summer. During the fall and winter we get about 50 or 60 members turning up.
We have a website: www.cvwg.org
We have a newsletter, it's available at the website. We print them out for the few members who don't have internet access.
Our annual dues are a bargain at $25.00 per year.
We hold an expo every year, the website is at www.expressionsinwood.net.
This is the first year we're holding it together with the wood turners. It's a
significant component of our operating budget.