[Bness]

I am a Dreammaker working at The Villages Grown and am 55 years old. Am I eligible to join in the social clubs? Specifically the deep sea fishing club.
I love fishing and relocated from the west coast this year. Need help getting to know the techniques used here.
Tight lines everyone.

[villagetinker]

OP, do you live in the villages and have a villager ID, then IMHO you should be able to join any club. If on the other hand you do not live in the villages, your options will be limited as you need the village ID card to gain entry to the rec centers.

[Mrs.Guy]

Should be asking your H.R. Dept. maybe.

[thelegges]

Originally Posted by Mrs.Guy

Should be asking your H.R. Dept. maybe.

HR won’t have any idea, of what clubs require resident ID. We belong to 13 clubs. 7 do not hold meetings at any developer owned property. So no ID required.

OP I would look at all the clubs you are interested in, one can either email, or some provide phone numbers. Contact them, then you will get the correct answer to your questions.

[retiredguy123]

Technically, you need to have a Villages ID or a Guest ID to participate in club activities as a member.

[thelegges]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

Technically, you need to have a Villages ID or a Guest ID to participate in club activities as a member.

Only if meetings are held at a facility that requires ID to enter. For us 2 car, 2 cooking, 2 wine, 1 park club meetings do not involve any TV facility.
When we joined in 2010, our address was out of state, with a email address for contact. There are couples who live in Leesburg, and Wildwood, who were members long before us

[Kenswing]

I would contact the club you’re interested in joining and see what their requirements are.

[Mrs.Guy]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

Technically, you need to have a Villages ID or a Guest ID to participate in club activities as a member.

All spelled out right here:

https://www.districtgov.org/images/R...nes.pdf?v=1808

Page 3 Section lll

[Mrs.Guy]

Originally Posted by thelegges

HR won’t have any idea, of what clubs require resident ID. We belong to 13 clubs. 7 do not hold meetings at any developer owned property. So no ID required.

OP I would look at all the clubs you are interested in, one can either email, or some provide phone numbers. Contact them, then you will get the correct answer to your questions.

Sorry but I still think they should get any benefit information from their H.R. not here. And I'm sure you meant DISTRICT owned property.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by thelegges

Only if meetings are held at a facility that requires ID to enter. For us 2 car, 2 cooking, 2 wine, 1 park club meetings do not involve any TV facility.
When we joined in 2010, our address was out of state, with a email address for contact. There are couples who live in Leesburg, and Wildwood, who were members long before us

As such they are not Villages Resident clubs. Right?

[thelegges]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

As such they are not Villages Resident clubs. Right?

Found clubs in the Thursday rec news. Yes we hold resident ID card, some owning more than one home, A few members have relocated, but continue to remain a member.
You might consider them inappropriate meetings of Residents because of lack of use of facilities, in TV, especially the park venues club. Don’t think sea world will bring aquatic life to Seabreeze, but it would cut down on drive time, or the car club who does monthly out of the bubble day or overnight trips. Kind of boring holding that meeting in at Eisenhower.

There are times a meeting is held at one of the regional centers, but usually for a vote on next year’s venues. All clubs are full.

One seems upset that not all clubs use regional centers monthly. But will bring up your concern at the next meetings, that we should include monthly meetings just for shi*s and giggles back at regional centers.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by thelegges

Found clubs in the Thursday rec news. Yes we hold resident ID card, some owning more than one home, A few members have relocated, but continue to remain a member.
You might consider them inappropriate meetings of Residents because of lack of use of facilities, in TV, especially the park venues club. Don’t think sea world will bring aquatic life to Seabreeze, but it would cut down on drive time, or the car club who does monthly out of the bubble day or overnight trips. Kind of boring holding that meeting in at Eisenhower.

There are times a meeting is held at one of the regional centers, but usually for a vote on next year’s venues. All clubs are full.

One seems upset that not all clubs use regional centers monthly. But will bring up your concern at the next meetings, that we should include monthly meetings just for shi*s and giggles back at regional centers.

No. You can have any club you want…but if not a resident lifestyle club…..it is not a villages club! Not inappropriate in any way. I am not up set with your club……
Kinda like a group of guys getting together to play poker once a month at their homes.
Could call it a club not a Resident Lifestyle club.


Here are the Resident Lifestyle Clubs that most likely the OP is asking about.
https://www.districtgov.org/images/d...bs-Listing.pdf

[SIRE1]

Actually, some clubs do not require you to be a resident to join. We belong to the MSU Alumni Club and even though the majority of the members are Villagers, it is open to anyone, and includes some from StoneCrest and Del Webb. But because we have some non Villagers as members, our club has to pay for the use of the Rec Centers where we hold our meetings. So part of our annual dues goes to the rental of Rec Center facilities. To answer your question whether you HAVE to be a Villages Resident, it depends on the club. I do suspect, however, that the majority of the clubs advertised are Residents Only. That way they can reserve and use the Rec Center facilities for free and they can control the size of their membership. My recommendation is to contact the club(s) you are interested in and find out from them whether you are eligible to join and participate.

[Bness]

Thank you all for the info. I guess I'll try to contact the club. Unfortunately I have to go to a meeting at a recent center to see if I can get in to join. Thank you all again.

[LAFwUs]

Originally Posted by Bness

Thank you all for the info. I guess I'll try to contact the club. Unfortunately I have to go to a meeting at a recent center to see if I can get in to join. Thank you all again.

If your prospective clubs do allow you in as an employee OP,
be sure to then ask if they are either "full" or have a "wait list".
(learned this lesson)
There are certain clubs here that have substantially long wait list...like the wood shop/club for example, where prospective members have waited 7, 8, 9 + years and never moved up on the "list" enough to ever get in, within their remaining lifetime.
This small yet important detail isn't exactly advertised in the nice color brochure however.