This cracks me up; we seem to have this type of discussion after every AGM, in the old days it was by phone  😀As Alex rightly points out the Register depends on the few who are willing to do some work. There will always be those who just pay a membership and expect that things will just hum along nicely forever. There are people that arrive at the AGM every year with their own little agendas and nine times out of ten it'll be the only time you see them. It disappoints me though that there are two people who have posted here saying they will not be going back to another AGM after this experience.Malcolm makes the point that there are those who have held positions in the club before and they, along with many others, have been instrumental in guiding the club to it's present situation.  Of course they (and I count myself as one of them) have a long-lasting and keen interest in the Register and want to see it prosper and grow.First off people need to decide that the Register is the right place to be before going off half cocked and slamming the executive or wanting to make changes that perhaps don't sit within the aims and objectives of the Register.  Note the use of the word "Register" here and not "club".Back in 1998/99 Noel and I, and the other members of the Executive of the day, spent a significant amount of time and effort, voluntary as you well know, determining a strategy that would enable us to continue the good work of the previous exec teams. Part of this strategy involved business planning sessions with members from all regions (including specific meetings with Area Reps) to determine just what it was that the Register would provide to its members and how best to structure the register to deliver this. All this work, and work that was done previously, led to the incorporation of the Register in July 1999.Just for the record, an Incorporated Society is defined as an "institution and culture of a distinct self-perpetuating group, organisation or association of persons engaged in a common profession, activity, or interest where a legal state of existence signifies that the entity has been recognized". That is, a legal entity has been authorized by a state or other political authority to operate according to the entity's approved articles of incorporation or charter.Our business plan of the day identified as the key aims and objectives of the executive the following: 1) to link together in a sense of friendship, all persons with a common interest in BMW motorcycles;2) to arrange "Register" runs and discussion evening to encourage and stimulate a common interest; and3) to establish correspondence with other interested Members throughout New Zealand and abroadThese objectives fit well with the decision to incorporate the Register and are actually set out in the Constitution.I'm not knocking the Exec teams post 2002, especially the Exec 2005/06. There's been some good innovation that fits within the current aims and objectives of the Register, this website been a great example of what can be achieved. What I will say though is that I've gone a year or so now without feeling that I, as a Member of the organisation, have any idea about the direction in which the Exec wanted to move the organisation. There's no sense that there is a current business plan nor has there been much consultation with the wider membership base on ideas put forward by Members. In the most recent newsletter John Wutts has put forward an idea to change the Exec and Committee structure required to make decisions though the year and I've also heard murmurings about changes to constitutional rules and the like. I have no problem with any of this stuff - it's called progress - but the Exec team need to deal with it and deal with it within the current rules of the Register. Otherwise - you do tend to get ambushed at AGMs.Adv Theron - let's hear your ideas on "how the meeting can really be jacket(sic) up to attract more people to the meeting and to be more interesting to members". Did you put your hand up for an Exec spot?Nuff said - nice down down here, think I'll go for a ride  😀