17-08-2014, 06:12 PM
This debate is extremely interesting, and I have little to add to it. Other, that is, than to point to an event which overtook Glasgow Montrose Chess Club a few years back. The club had been in the RAFA Club venue for many years and was very happy, but, one day the RAFA Club in Glasgow was told it had to close. The reason was that it was not able to accommodate disabled members due to the very steep stairs leading to its front door. The cost of changing to accommodate the disabled was prohibitive, so it had to close and the chess club had to find an alternative venue, whilst the RAFA membership, all of them, lost their club. It is what it is.