What do you want out or a club?

[BCReefer]

OK after E Mailing a few people and checking out some web sites I have found the following hints and recommendations:

Below is an E Mail from a person working at Vancouver Economic Development Commission.

You can go as far as you want in terms of the formality of your club or society structure. If you're going to do fundraising, set up club-sponsored events - anything that has to do with significant sums of money – for taxation and even liability purposes, you will probably have to consider incorporating. Basically, the government doesn't care if you want to get together - they just care that if you make any money, they know about it.

If you're going to collect dues and have a formal voting structure, you might want to draw up a society constitution, but unless it's formally incorporated, it has no legal status. For example, if you don't formally incorporate but collect dues, and then your treasurer runs off with the money, you don't really have any recourse, although you could try for small claims court. The only difference between a club and a non-profit is pretty much the scope of your activities.


I went to Toronto’s web site and I found some really good information that we could use as a guide to a set of bylaws and a constitution that we could adopt with any required changes.

Here is a link.

Toronto

Hope this information helps and I hope no one minds me posting this information so quick but once I get burr under my saddle I like to get things done ASAP. I really am excited about this club and I look forward to the exciting times coming up.

Patrick