I belong to an incredibly frustrating flying club (Compton Abbas) that won't let you take their rental planes across the channel. They just drag their feet giving one crap excuse after another. I'm at the stage (past it, really) where 1.5 hour journeys to other airfields in the south of the UK don't sound quite as exciting as a proper channel crossing and experimenting with another country.
I was under the impression you didn't save _that_ much money by flying in a syndicate as opposed to renting, but this thread suggests otherwise. Thing is, I would hope to join a syndicate for a plane rather better than the rental spamcans I've been accustomed to flying at CA. Obviously, since that is my local airfield the plane would need to be based there too.