• Historically members were required to sign up for three duties, four for family members if they wished to receive the 'duty discount' on the annual membership fee.

• There is also a requirement that all members attend at least one working party irrespective of whether they have taken advantage of the Duty Discount.

• .Many members do undertake considerably more than the minimum duties and working parties, and clearly some duties are a lot more demanding than others, for instance a Wednesday evening duty is likely to be around three hours whereas a duty all day on a Sunday will be around 7 hours.

• .It is also evident that not all members are able to attend working parties in March but can make duties at a different time of the year..

• The way forward agreed for 2012 is that different duties  & working parties are allocated points, the number of points will appear in brackets after the name of the duty on the 'Dutyman' system where members can select from the range of duties not yet allocated.

• Working Party  undertaken on a Saturday or Sunday between 9.30 -12.30 will 'earn' 2 points
• Working Party  undertaken on a Saturday or Sunday between 13.00  -16.00 will 'earn' 2 points
• so anyone signing up and attending for the whole day would 'earn' 4 points in total,
• both of these will appear in Dutyman as 'Working Party (2)'
• Race officer in April & October will earn 3 points; in June/July/August when there may be an afternoon race they will earn 4 points.

• As the season progresses we will monitor points earned and allocate unfilled duties accordingly.
• Events cancelled in advance will not earn points or if cancelled after members have reported will earn half points.
• Anyone not fulfilling their points target may be required to proportionally repay the duty discount.