Who owns the 'club'

The companies are for exec and non exec directors.

this is what happens when accountants rule the roost.

The CMC controls quite a big system of accounts so I'm not surprised to see more than one company.

There are many reasons for setting up a dormant limited company to run alongside an active limited company. It's not a tax fiddle and there's nothing dark about it. This happens a lot and it has many advantages.

One of the reasons for doing this, particularly in the past before companies could be set up online (before online, setting up a company with paper and snail mail was very slow) is that a dormant company can be used to trade immediately. This has happened here. The accounts have not yet been made up for the company trading as Caravan Club Limited so what has happened to enable the rebrand, is the dormant company has had a trading name change to the Caravan and Motorhome Club Limited and trading under this name can begin immediately, without the need to first audit Caravan Club Ltd.

So what is different to what has happened to the caravan club and what went on at the CMSA that a previos post suggests 

I can't speak for what the directors intend to do with Caravan Club Ltd, none of us will be privy to that information, until something changes at Companies House

When the RAC was sold, each full member received £34K. 

Full members being those that paid over £600 a year and had use of the Pall Mall facilities. Ordinary roadside breakdown and recovery members received a grand total of nothing 

Unsurprisingly, almost all of the 12000 full members voted in favour of the sale.

Not a bad return if you had only been a full member for a year or two eh?

I was afraid something like this could happen, as there are a lot of "accountants" in charge?

Must be very tempting for Chairmen, CEO's, et al of a club to hive down all the millions of assets into a separate company which they can do without membership agreement, and then sell the assets, which would of course include the membership. A chosen few are then left with a sizeable amount to distribute as happened with the RAC (were you ever offered the opportunity to join the RAC elite?) and apparently the CSMA according to contributors to this site.

Is the CMC or whatever we are called now being groomed the same way? I wonder or perhaps EG could let us have a view on this.   

As a motorhome owner I have nothing against the new name as such. My only concern is that as a club member  I would have expected to have been consulted on such an important issue such as this.

There seems to be a lot of censoring on the club website though.