Post by Hoovie on Dec 27, 2019 21:55:36 GMT
Coming into 2025, we will be continuing the same Club Supporter programme as in the last few years.
RAV4 Drivers Club
Supporter Programme
For 2025, All Club and Premium Supporters will stay as Supporters with no renewal required. This will be automatic and no donation is required
For standard Members who wish to upgrade the membership, the same program and details as previous years are running e.g. £12 will upgrade you to a Club Supporter and £18 will make you a Premium Supporter.
Please note that the "suggested" values in the Donation Box are preset and I cannot adjust them, so simply click on the 'Other' box and enter the amount you want to pay.
How to become a Club or Premium Supporter
To join the Supporter Program, please visit the Club Donation Page -
To join the Supporter Program, please visit the Club Donation Page -
Click HERE to Donate (Please note the Payee Name is "wildebus", but any donations are for the Forum expenses)
Why you should become a Club Supporter
The payment method above is paypal but you do not need to have a paypal account to use it. If you would like to become a Supporter but do not want to use the paypal system, then please message Hoovie or email admin@rav4driversclub.com for alternative payment options
Subscription or Donation?
When you go to the Paypal page to become a Club Supporter you will see you will now be offered a one-off Donation Payment. (this did not used to be possible but recent changes by Paypal now allows this option).
When you go to the Paypal page to become a Club Supporter you will see you will now be offered a one-off Donation Payment. (this did not used to be possible but recent changes by Paypal now allows this option).
If you have an existing subscription, it is easy to cancel it once started to avoid an automatic payment being taken out the following year.
Supporter Memberships taken out are currently life-time memberships, so it doesn't matter when you become a Supporter, this will last for the duration of your membership of the Forum. (this is potentially subject to change should there be a dramatic and unexpected change in the cost to run the forum, but there is nothing on the horizon I am aware of).
At the end of day, all we ask is you feel happy with whatever donation you have made to help with the financial running of your club.
Please PM Hoovie after taking out a Club Supporter Membership with the Paypal reference so I can make sure you have the right group status shown under your user name on the forum.
Why you should become a Club Supporter
Forum Hosting
We need to have enough money through donations and subscriptions in order for us to be able to host the forum, pay for an advert free service, reserve and use our chosen names on the internet, plus the Website (running on a shared host) and domain name registrations.
Premium Supporters - To become a Premium Supporter would be at a suggested cost of £18.
No one actually gets paid to run or moderate the forum, and all money from Donations goes to the forum expenses and to future competitions
To make it fair on the membership as a whole, those who support the Community by being Supporters or Donators will have an advert-free experience (as well as other benefits noted further below) to reflect their financial contribution, whilst those who chose to remain as free Club Members will still have the same level of access as before and can continue to use the forum at no cost, but may be presented with adverts to help defray the cost of running the Community.
Forum Direction
This group started as the RAV4 Drivers Club, and was a home for drivers of the Toyota RAV4 to find information and help for their car. As time as gone on, the remit of the club has expanded, and many owners of RAV4 SUVs are now running other vehicles. But even though this has happened, those people have stayed as Club Members, which is fantastic and a credit to the Community we have built here.
When you look at the count of topics and posts in both this and also the previous iteration of the Forum, the Motoring and Non-Motoring sections are quite evenly split. To reflect this, as well as being the RAV4 Drivers Club, we are also the RAV4 Internet Community, with like-minded folk talking about everything and everything (except Politics and Religion!) but still with a focus on Motoring and SUVs, and still RAV4s primarily, thus recognising and building on the other areas where Club Members both look for, trust, and provide advice on all sorts of topics and subjects, as well as general discussion and chat.
What does this mean to you?
While the forum will remain open to all and free to use, we think it is only fair that the people who have contributed to the running and continued existance of the Community benefit from their assistance, so the Club Support Program has been updated and revised to reflect the increased costs of running our Internet Community
Premium Supporters - To become a Premium Supporter would be at a suggested cost of £18.
As a Premium Supporter you will have:
The exact details of what benefits are included within the Club Supporter and Premium Supporter Programme is subject to change dependant on the features are available on the Forum, but will substantially be of the same overall benefit.
- unlimited access to the entire public forum;
- ability to advertise your personal items and buy and sell as well as the right to advertise your own personal business if you are a sole or small trader as part of your signature (please note there are some restrictions on what you advertise - see here);
- No Adverts;
- Rights to use the Inclusive Storage for Picture Hosting;
- Free Entry to Club Competitions and Enhanced Posting Ability including Poll Creation;
- Plus a Set of Shiny Gold Stars against your name to show your Support
Club Supporters - To be a Club Supporter the suggested subscription is just £12. - Club Supporters have all the following benefits:
- unlimited access to the entire public forum;
- ability to advertise your personal items and buy and sell;
- No Adverts;
- Rights to use the Inclusive Storage for Picture Hosting;
- Free Entry to Club Competitions and Enhanced Posting Ability including Poll Creation;
- Plus a Set of Shiny Silver Stars against your name to show your Support
Club Member - A RAV4 Drivers Club and Internet Community Member has: - Access to the majority of the Forum at no cost.
- Within this access, features include ability to create Topics, Post new messages and reply to others; send & receive PMs and download files; All this is at no cost.
- Some areas have restricted access and it is neccessary to upgrade to be a Club Supporter for full posting and Features rights.
- Club Members may be presented with Adverts
Guest -
A Guest is simply a Club Member who has not yet logged in, or someone browsing the forum who has not yet registered. Guests can view some of the forum, and are able to read topics and posts from selected forums, but cannot make posts themselves except in a very limited area (this is subject to review depending on any abuse), send PMs or download files. Guests may be presented with Adverts
The exact details of what benefits are included within the Club Supporter and Premium Supporter Programme is subject to change dependant on the features are available on the Forum, but will substantially be of the same overall benefit.
