Adrienne Campbell started the Baked Bean club in September 2006 with four friends in Lewes, East Sussex, as an informal car club. The club started because they all needed a car at the same time. The car is a little Daewoo Matiz (called the Baked Bean, for obvious reasons) that was owned by one of the group.

Reproduced with kind permission of City Car Club, 0845 330 1234,

Setting up and running an informal Car Club isn't that complicated and shouldn't involve much more work than goes into being an individual car owner. After all, informal Car Clubs already exist within many families that have several drivers who share the use of one or more cars. The only difference is that money may not change hands.