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I believe that these people were elected onto the committee by the AGM attendees at Vapefest 2011;

Chair: Sam Munro
Vice Chair: Dave Hook (Westcoast2 - no longer active)
Secretary: Chris Price (Rolygate)
Treasurer: Tim Boniface (tim21080 - no longer in the post)

Forum Reps;
AAE-C: Jemima
ECR: Fiona
UKV1: AcousticVillage
ECF: Wasn't filled at the time, various people have come and gone.

I hope this helps.

Russell

Where else can the funding come from then?

The Consumer Association has a robust constitution that will be acted upon by the elected officials. That is what makes it a Consumer Association - where the funding comes from is irrelevant. Even if it is funded by vendors, it is not a trade association as it is acting in the interests of consumers.

Over a year's worth of asking for donations from consumers netted ECCA the grand total of £67 - you cannot even get 5000 leaflets printed with that sort of backing, never mind pay for other projects of importance to the consumer.



Russell

The small achievable goals should be set by the committee and broadcast to the wider community via the forums and elsewhere for people to volunteer their time like you have suggested Gordy.

Unfortunately, there doesn't even seem to be any committee meetings anymore

Perhaps Sam or Rolygate will read this and let us know

Cheers everyone and Gordy, I will try to clarify things.

My main concern is ECCA.

I believe that we need to properly establish a Consumer Association that is 'real' in the sense that it has funding and a voice in the wider electronic cigarette using public.

I was part of the 'steering committee' and we laid down a solid constitution.

Unfortunately, there has been no financial backing and ECCA has just become a blog on a website. The AGM was poorly attended when it was officially launched at last year's Vapefest and was cancelled this year.

ECCA is 'inactive' because it has no support from the online vaping community apart from a handful of people who used to attend the regular meetings, and has no way of gaining the financial backing to achieve its aims. Sam Munro and Rolygate dare not even post about ECCA on the forums anymore because they get shot down in flames for not doing anything

This is a very young industry and the people who take on roles such as committee members of ECCA, do it voluntarily BUT for it to be recognised 'on the street' as a body to represent the users of electronic cigarettes, it needs funding.

Unfortunately, there is no benevolent vaping millionaire willing to do that at the moment and no Government or EU grants!, so where should the money come from?

Where does the MONEY come from to support the other initiatives?

In the case of CAM-VIP, it mainly comes from my pocket. VTTV? - the VTTV crew's pocket. RY4Radio - Tony's pocket. UKVapefest is now too big for an individual/small group to fund.

We can live without all of them except ECCA. We NEED a Consumer Association - how can we fund it?

Cheers!

Russell

AAE-C is a gem in the ecig world.

Go4Smoke is just a vendor,

Where do my loyalties lie?

Thinking about it, perhaps ECCA could take up the mantle this year? Then it would be a cross-forum celebration and vote

I was the instigator of the 'UKV Awards' Brian. They started not long after it was set up in 2009 and ran for 3 years. The categories were decided and then nominations were given and finally a vote. I thought it worked really well as a tool to help the vaping community and encourage participation.

With the demise of UKV.com, I see no reason why a similar idea couldn't be carried forward on AAE-C Chrissie I certainly do not mind and I'm almost certain that Jackie wouldn't either.

Russell