[swamos]

Can I say that the BMW club up here met us with open arms too. As did the old MINI club.

However, neither of those solutions are perfect for new MINI owners. They are not going to offer MINI only drives, MINI only events, etc.

Anyway, that's all irrelevant, as it's not what MINI/BMW want. They have paid a vast amount of dollars to set up a seperate entity, and I think they are keen on the new MINI's having their own association.

So, in QLD we have decided to set up our own club. We have a number of keen people that get on well, and don't mind doing the work.

We can have the best of all worlds I think. We can get dedicated support from MINI, and have all our own events. We can also get access to certain events and stuff from our associations with the BMW and old mini clubs (both of whom have been keen to set up alliances in QLD).

We would have loved to keep going on drives as just a little group, but in reality, it was too risky. Whoever starts a thread on MINI2 and organises a run is sticking their neck out. If someone has a prang, and hurts someone else, it is possible that one of the injured parties will look for somewhere to point the finger. Even defending yorself against one of those suits can cost you your house, even if you're not guilty. None of the new MINIers up here want to continue that way

[Boo]

Well said

[cityclinic]

It is clear from the discussions held so far that BMW would prefer an independant entity for MINI Clubs.

We are setting up a meeting with Mini Garage Sydney to discuss possible involvement in organising an independant Mini club in Sydney.

Boo, it might be good if you could be available for that meet. Likely to be sometime next week. Post a yah or na if you can make it.

We'll post minutes on the discussions following the meeting.

Regards

cityclinic

[swamos]

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Originally posted by cityclinic
It is clear from the discussions held so far that BMW would prefer an independant entity for MINI Clubs.

We are setting up a meeting with Mini Garage Sydney to discuss possible involvement in organising an independant Mini club in Sydney.

Boo, it might be good if you could be available for that meet. Likely to be sometime next week. Post a yah or na if you can make it.

We'll post minutes on the discussions following the meeting.

Regards

cityclinic

Cityclinic,

May I suggest you make a new post in the main area of the forum for discussions about the NSW club stuff I'll make it sticky for you

[cityclinic]

Hi Steve,
Will do forum - Mini CLub NSW.
Hoping the meet next week is productive and look forward to posting details in new thread (as above).
When and if we get under way we should look forward to forming relationships with other state Mini Clubs and in the long term a national body. However, as they say in the classics, lets sart with a crawl first.

Best regards

cityclinic

[brett]

Hi I'm a member of the Mini owners club of Qld. I have seen the rules of the Brisbane Bmw Club. About the size of the Bible!! The Mini Owners club are great. They are having a major Mini Meet on the 8th June. last year couple of hundred mini's were there!! Heaven! There will be a class for the Bmw Mini's. (came 2nd last year). The club is also really cheap to be in with monthly runs.

[AussieMini]

Hi Brett, A few of us Brisbane-based new MINI owners have been on a run with the MOC and met some great people. The run however, was not as we like to run ours. Not to say we didn't have a good time, but climbing the Gold Coast hinterlands at 20 to 30 k's an hour was a bit frustrating. We as the new "new" MINI club, aptly named clubMINI welcome Classic MINI owners along on any of our runs as John "Hess" has welcomed us to yours. The new MINI owners in the fledging club are dead keen to have involvment with the MOC on track days etc as well.

John mentioned the MOC meet in Cleveland on the 8th and I am sure there will be a few of us that'll come on down for a look as we love the Classic MINI's as well.

Can we "show" our MINIs as non members of the MOC?


Danny

[brett]

I'm possitive you can. set up is around 7am visit their web site for more info, My mate has a classic Cooper S in stanard spec and I was bearly able to keep up around the hills, but yeah the MOC club just crusies along

See you at the event maybe we should have a display???

[AussieMini]

I think a display of new MINIs would be a great idea and quite easy to put together. I'm sure many of the new owners involved in clubMINI would be as keen to show their cars as many classic owners are.

[cityclinic]

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Hi there Queensland MINI owners.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

We have made some real progress with BMW/MINI with regard to MINI Club activity in Australia in the last 24 hours. We have also had an opportunity to meet with swamos and eltel last night to discuss these opportunities. Your patience, comments and enthusiasm has assisted greatly in the negotiations with BMW/MINI and with your continuing support we are very confident that all expectations will be met.

Your feedback now is very important for the clubs in Australia to move forward. We have started to build a national gateway page (see www.mini2.com.au) which will then link to the respective state clubs. The NSW club is now seeking nominations for committee and the club website (www.mini2.com.au/nsw) will launch in August (if not before).

The first step for you is to elect a Qld committee and nominate a representative for Qld to the National Executive. These steps are important for the clubs to move forward. In NSW we are not relying on funding from BMW/MINI to form the NSW CLUB. Effectively we are funding this ourselves and looking forward to MINI/AUS participating once the Club is fully operational.

We can assist you initially by building a 'coming soon' page for Qld with limited information to start ( similar to NSW). With your feedback the site will progress to a point where we will provide the club with site maintenance tools which will allow your club representatives to update information on a regular basis.

Incorporating the clubs is not necessary in the initial stages. Once the committee has been elected and a national representative for Qld is nominated incorporation can follow shortly after.

At this point you will need to discuss what the joining and annual membership fees should be for Qld members.

NSW is currently writing a business plan which will help us determine what our joining and membership fees should be and the direction the club will take over the next 12 to 18 months to achieve it's objectives.

We look forward to continuing dialogue and assisting Qld MINI owners achieve their objectives.

Please don't hesitate to contact me by pm to answer any questions you may have.

Best regards

cityclinic