Forming a group and organizing events...

[mccoy_j2]

I re-posting this here from a thread I started on another forum and I hope this is in the right area. I was creating this thread based on a user's recent post as well as some of my experiences or lack there of. My issue is that there don't seem to be any legitimate young adult nudist clubs in my area and all the landed clubs are 1.5 hours or more away from where I live. That and there are no nudist events that I can find in my area. Accepting of single males or otherwise. I was talking with a member of this forum via yahoo and made an off-hand remark about forming my own young adult nudist group and organizing events. I noted that I doubt I would be able to come up with the money to fund such a thing. Though I am sure with enough members of the non-landed club and actual paying attendees to events that would solve itself. My issues are that well... first I have never been to any social nudist event non-landed club, landed club, beach, or otherwise. And second how would one approach venues to schedule events at them. And how would you drive membership. Never the less, I am giving it some serious thought and I believe I would call it the Young Adult Nudists of Central Indiana (YANCI for short). The events and meetings would most likely allow guests so long as they are vetted by a member when it comes to the meetings and preregistered and fitting any special conditions of the events. Special conditions being that if we were to set up a couples swim they would have to bring a partner (date?). I would personally want the group to be singles friendly but I understand that limiting of single males is there for a reason I would take consensus of the female members to ensure their comfort and so long as they saw no issue then single men are allowed. It would be age locked to an extent. Ages 18-36 to be a member or guest. However, I would extend (happily I might add) an invite to the leadership of other nudist groups of any age group to at least a few meetings and/or events for their input. I would allow visitors from other young adult nudist groups from around the world to attend so long as their group is affiliated with a trusted nudist/naturist organization (INYO, YNAI, Vita Nuda, etc.). I would defenitely seek affiliation of some sort with AANR and TNS as they are trustworthy nudist organizations and from what I understand being a member with one or both of them (especially AANR in the USA) can go a long way to prove that you are a true nudist and understand what it is really about. As far as same sex couples (the reason why I mentioned the other user's post as he spoke of a situation involving this) I would consider them the same as a heterosexual couple. The couples form would have male/female check boxes on both sides. A guy and his partner could join the same as a guy and his girlfriend. I say that not just because it would be VERY hypocritical of me to not allow homosexuals in the organization but even if I weren't gay I wouldn't see any issues with the allowing of gay couples in the group. So all in all I am not really pulling the trigger on forming a club or organizing an event but I am giving it some definite considerations whether next year, next month, or never I don't know yet but any input others have would really help.

[mccoy_j2]

Changed my mind about the name. I think either Young Naturists of Central Indiana or Young Adult Naturists of Central Indiana. I would use nudists but unfortunately there is a bad stigma attached to that name and I decided that it would be easier to use naturist. Plus I kind of like Stéphane Deschênes's terms but I may go into those in another thread.

[mccoy_j2]

I think I am going to set up a blogger site for YANCI or YNCI but I can't decide on the official name.

[mccoy_j2]

So I take it no one has an opinion or advice :(. Not trying to be whiny but I kind of feel like I am talking to myself here. I am getting more and more certain that I want to try to do this and any advice can help.

[ComputationJason]

My advice is to first of all just be patient and accept that things will be slow going at the start.  Stick with it, though.

I'd say your best bet is to try to network with people and establish a core group to support your efforts.  You can get the message out that you'd like to start such a group, and then if people show interest, you can meet them for coffee and make sure they are true nudists and people who would help your cause.  You can also find out what kind of events they'd be interested.  Make sure you have a solid core established before scheduling any events, because if things go badly the first time, everyone will be disheartened.

Your core group is also important because eventually they will help cover your responsibilities if you're ill, on vacation, etc.  You can't do everything all the time.

I don't have any experience with nudist organizations, so I can't tell you much else.  Your basic plan seems like it makes sense.

[Storm29]

Yeah, this forum has been pretty dead lately....used to be much more lively.

Well first thing I'd say is GO to a nudist resort or nudist travel club activity!! That's an experience you must get under your belt first. You've never seen an auto mechanic that's never driven a car or a sommelier that's never tasted wine, right? I know, getting to the nearest resort may be a hike for you, but it will be totally worth it. The experience you'll get will be invaluable, you may meet some people knowledgeable of travel clubs, and your passion for starting your own club will strengthen.

I know of one non-landed club in the New York area called "Young Naturists and Nudists America", have you heard of it? I think I first came across it on this forum. Anyway, from what I gather, it's a club started by a young 20-something naturist, and has parties and events every couple months or so in NYC. Perhaps you can look to this site for info or maybe even contact the owner on tips on how to get your own club started. But I think a big advantage of this club and a contributor to its success is the huge population and generally liberal attitudes found in NYC. I don't know much about Indiana, but I'd guess that it doesn't have this advantage. But I'd guess Indiana also has much more wide open remote spaces, which is also a big plus.

But get out there and talk to as many people as you can, go to as many (nudist) places as you can and you'll soon find like minded people to make your dream a reality.

[Storm29]

Something else I just thought of - going to nudist clubs will be beneficial too because you'll likely meet people from all over. Not everyone that goes to the club will be from that area (I know from experience) and you may meet people from closer to where you live. But the downer about clubs (from my experience) is that most people there are 40+, which goes against the "young" you're trying to organize, but you never know, there's handfulls of everyone at most nudist clubs.