Well, if you don't want to go all the way to Redcar, why don't you find a venue near you and organise your own club/session? Or is it just that you would prefer someone else to do all the stuff like that? I mean, does someone pay the organisers to do this, or do they do it out of their own good will? If you can't be bothered to do it and it's someone else's good will that does, then I don't think you have much place to complain. Chris