In reply to GridNorth:
Put yourself in my position for a bit.
You are in a perfectly good climbing club which organises meets in North Wales.
Unfortunately most of your fellow members seem obsessed with CC membership and will only make the weekend if they can book one of the huts in the Pass or Ogwen.
Would you
1.) absent yourself from the meeting and stay at home on principle
b.) accept their invitation to stay at a CC place while still holding some reservations about their membership procedures.
I'm thankful that most clubs don't have an entry qualification about competence or experience,(or spelling, for that matter) otherwise they would generally be regarded as elitist, whatever you might think.