Once a Marine always a Marine

Hello and welcome to my blog.
My name is Chris and I took over the running of the Wolverhampton Branch of the RMA a few years back as it was on a free fall into obscurity. I wanted the branch to succeed for a range of reasons all of which I think are the right ones.

Who wants to join the Wolverhampton Branch of the Royal Marines Association? I continually asked myself. The answer was painfully obvious; no one.

It was always a one foot in the past club with no plan for the future. After much talking, reading and experimenting I had a plan to shake things up and rebooted into a newer format.

The RMA was always a unique club for all people connected to the Royal Marines in any way but it needed modernising in the way it looked, what it did and how it recruited new members.

Like all associations, you get out of it what you put in and as much as the few members enjoyed the experience it did not have the diversity to meet the need for which it is set up.

At Wolverhampton we are developing a one stop shop style of branch which caters for anyone eligible to join. The one stop shop approach is to enable the branch to deliver everything from social and welfare activities to fundraising, outdoor, health and sports, links with Cadets and the serving Corps all done with fun and humour. We have literally brought the Commando ethos into the branch.

We decided that only meeting once a month was not enough contact so a virtual branch on facebook was put in place to maintain communication between members and raise our visibility.

More later, but please get in touch with me anytime and I will give you details of membership, or look on our website or the royalmarinesassociation.co.uk website.


Thursday 15 July 2010

Fund Raising

I've now done two events to raise funds for the RMA and also get people to notice us with a view to joining.  It was a lot of effort for little return especially the Wolverhampton Show, I think most charities there had a moan and quite right too. 

The council organisers need to understand that fundraising for the community needs, helps tremendously, please don't abandon us to an area far removed from the public.  I'm sure the money raised by the business stalls helped some way to filling the much impoverished council coffers but give us a chance next year and integrate us a bit more.
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