The Davidson Kinette Club is suffering from a lack of membership and if numbers don’t improve they may have to fold.

Brenna Siroski, vice-president of the Davidson Kinettes for the 2012-2013 year, said the club only has seven members right now. She said the long-standing town club held their wrap-up meeting last week and could barely fill their executive positions for next year.

“This is my third year now as a Kinette and the numbers have been getting increasingly smaller,” said Siroski. “The club has been right around that six, seven, eight, nine (and) 10 mark for quite a few years now.

“We have enough members to run our executive next year, so we’ll be able to run one more year. The concern is that we might have to fold if we don’t start attracting new members soon.”

The Davidson Kinette Club is a branch of Kin Canada, which encompasses 500 Kinsmen, Kinette and Kin clubs and 6,500 members across Canada. The 93-year-old association is dedicated to “serving the community’s greatest need” while bettering their surroundings, enhancing the wellbeing of others and improving the environment.

Kinettes have been a fixture in Davidson since 1964 and have completed many projects in the community including giving Christmas gifts to residents with no family, beginning the Arnold Park renovation project in the late 1980s and supporting the Telemiracle Foundation. The club almost folded once before in 1998 due to declining membership, but was able to rebound the next year.

Siroski said in an effort to drum up some support this time the club plans to become more visible in the community and invite new people moving into town to come out and give their club a try. She said the club “isn’t just for 20 and 30 year olds,” so they also hope to attract former members of the Kinettes to come back into the fold.

“One of the fun things that we do is we built a rapport with the Watrous Kinettes, so last year we went for a visit to Watrous and we got to see what they do at their meetings and make some connections with them,” she said. “Last month the Watrous Kinettes actually came to our meeting and we got to have some fun and see what they’re doing in other clubs and build some relationships with some other Kin clubs.”

There is no first-year membership fee to join the Kinettes, said Siroski, but there is a fee of $100 come the second year. The only commitment of a Kinette is attending their once-a-month meeting at the Kinsmen Club, which starts off with a potluck supper and ends with socializing among the members.

Siroski said members are also asked to participate in the events they plan during the year, but attendance at the events is not mandatory.