When the Society had almost 10000 members (early 1980s) the entertainment at the AGM was only available to members and if (ritual) dance teams were invited to perform they all had to be members too.

Most teams got round this problem by becoming affilliated clubs but even that was frowned upon by some of the diehards on the NEC. Fortunately they (the diehards) were in the minority.

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