CLARIFICATION OF NEW CLUB INSURANCE

THE OLD PASSPORT SYSTEM IS NO LONGER REQUIRED

In 2006 after much investigation and debate into the how we could best provide insurance protection for you as members, the committee and the club on Play Day events, we introduced the Vehicle Passport system.  It’s aim was to ensure that everyone on site at Playday’s had a level of individual vehicle Insurance that covered them during the event.  This ensured we could protect you and the club should the unthinkable happen and we had a serious accident on site. 

We all acknowledged that this was not a perfect solution with some members having trouble obtaining the level of cover required for many reasons.  From the committee’s point of view, managing the system including collecting the information, storing it updating records ensuring it is up to date at each event and producing the passports is a huge extra job which takes away time that could be better spent.  The system also creates a potential barrier to people joining the club or being able to participate in our events which is not good for the club. 

We have continued to look for a better solution to providing this cover and have found an Insurance company that specialises in insurance cover for motor sport clubs such as ours`.  They have a policy specifically designed for non-competitive clubs that are not affiliated with a governing body (such as the MSA).  This policy will provide the club with £5,000,000 liability insurance for all of our events.  The committee have discussed this at length, and have had to put a number of risk assessments and procedures in place so we can take advantage of the new insurance policy.   This means that we can now close the Vehicle Passport system.

0CTOBER 2008