Cycling UK Forum

I’ve been a member of CTC for the last 20 years and like a lot of others I’ve been happy enough to endorse the broad thesis of supporting and campaigning for cycling without becoming too involved with any other aspects of how the organisation is managed. Now, since I’ve been asked to vote again, I decided to probe more deeply into the arguments both for and against.........The debate had my eyes glazed over and my mental processes in danger of being atrophied. I’m not a lawyer or an accountant much less an expert on charitable status. But one thing, after many years in management, I have learnt is, if you face a major decision , get advice. Ensure you know who the experts are, ask (employ) those experts.....and take their advice.
This is what Council have done . So I read in some detail the CASS report on the CTC website and guess what? That independent body thoroughly researched the organisation, delivered recommendations and constructive criticisms and made a number or conclusions. Among their recommendations:
2.31 The CTC adopts a practicable timetable to debate and agree at its 2010 AGM a suitable form of unification
5.2 We agree with the broad assessment of benefits by interviewees and the workshop that unification would bring.
5.2 While we acknowledge that it is possible to maintain the current structure of
CTC, i.e. the non charitable membership organisation, and CTC Charitable
Trust, we consider that this is neither necessary nor likely to deliver the
greatest benefit either to CTC’s members or the wider cycling public that CTC
serves.

The 30 page document makes a number of other points in favour of the change but the last paragraph encapsulates it well enough for me... (and presumably others who have neither the time or the inclination to work out the nuances )
The Council have also received advice from charity and voluntary experts http://www.russell-cooke.co.uk/serv_c&o_intro.htm and commissioned a detailed review by Sayer Vincent, a specialist firm of consultants and auditors for the charity sector. http://www.sayervincent.co.uk/render.as ... 1&navIDs=1.
Having perused the correspondence on the threads I’ve found nothing to convince me that the experts have got it wrong. Am I missing something?