Hello everyone,
I am amongst the first to join up and paid the original membership fee happily to keep going and better what used to be in the Yahoo Group. The old Yahoo site and the current forum have been an invaluable source of information and feedback.
As we seem to have several hundred pounds in the kitty with not much in running costs I, would suggest to keep it as is. Let everyone have access to all the material on our site, and let those pay who actually join the Association.
Those who are true believers will pay the modest fee and join; others may choose not to and participate for free. I am sure however that we can tolerate this, in the hope that an open forum will generate more good in raised interest for our CC19 than bad in "exploitation" by free-riders.
As to generating income by any sort of adverts, I would be strongly opposed. I am very happy that our site is free of spam and adverts of any kind.