Slow and steady wins the race

After many months of struggling with different authorities, numerable revisions and signatures, we finally made it: the interest group Hetairoi has become the registered society Hetairoi e.V.

Over the last few years we have always been pondering the possibility to create an official society. However, the legal ramifications of such an undertaking always discouraged us from going through with it. The decision to found a society now was mainly based on legal concerns. Many museums have told us that they need an official legal entity as a contract partner for an event, whereas an interest group can only make contracts with each individual member. The same goes for insurance companies. The last point would be the website, which was operated by me as an individual up until now.

All these points named above are now a lot easier for us as a registered society. However, there is also the other side of the medal. There are a lot of legal ramifications we have to be aware of. I don't want to list them all here, but the most important one is that we had to go through our member list and decide who would be a full member, and who would prefer not to be a member. However, the changes are purely cosmetic as we intend to treat everyone on our event as before, regardless of their official status. The official members on the board of directors of the society are Kallimachos, Phrynios and Sparates.