That's just mean-spirited sniping. Grow up.

From where I am (Edinburgh) it's unlikely there will ever be a local chapter of any organization devoted to English music. But for isolated people the existing setup gets most of it right: like it or not, London is the most accessible city in the UK, and a local chapter in Hull or a library in Stoke-on-Trent would be a lot less accessible to me. Their publications are widely available, and if you haven't seen them you haven't been looking.

Here's a comparable organization:

British Bluegrass Federation

They don't say what their membership is (I would guess about 1000). The only way you can contact them physically is by going to their annual festival, held in a town I'd never heard of until five minutes ago. Their tuition system sounds like a good idea until you realize you have to get to said festival to take advantage of it. A category of band membership also sounds like it might be useful, but the link to find out about it fails.

I could have compared the EFDSS point-by-point to the TMSA but that really would be shooting fish in a barrel. The only thing the TMSA gets right is organizing festivals, something which no longer needs a national organization in England.