Smoking ban continues to stub out sports and social clubs
INSOLVENCY experts at Cranfield Business Recovery warn how the smoking ban continues to threaten sports and social clubs across the UK four years on, with membership to the leading union for this sector continuing to decline.The Working Men’s Club and Institute Union (WMCIU) is the largest non-profit making social entertainment and leisure organisation in the UK, and has seen membership slashed from a healthy 4,100 members to the more recent figure of just over 2,100. The Union became a partner in a national campaign earlier this year called ‘Save our Pubs and Clubs’ which believes that