Give me your top tips for being on a club committee

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I've been a member of this club for nearly 2 decades.

I was on the committee for almost 10 years and left for a variety of reasons. The one I told everyone was that I was too busy with young children and a new full on job (which was true), but I was also disillusioned with members who complained about everything but didn't want to do anything and a committee that had lots of ideas but rarely made them happen. Also a couple of strong characters who dominated every meeting.

The committee membership has changed, I've got more time and I can feel myself weakening and tempted to go back. They still have the issue that meetings happen md ideas are discussed without agreed actions, but I think I and one other person who is already on the committee, but struggling with the inaction could sort that out.

What are your best tips for making these things run well. Or is it just don't?

From your thread title, before I had read the OP, my top tip was going to be to make sure that all 'Action' are minuted clearly with someone owning them.
Then that the minutes are circulated within a few days of the meeting, (to check for accuracy) and a couple of weeks before the next meeting, so whoever is doing something from that point on the agenda, is there, named, and either reminded so they crack on and do it, or "shamed" and if it is a pattern, it becomes apparent they are not helping by offering to do things.
It is - as you say - so frustrating to give your time to something and find nothing really moves on.