Sadly, clubs are dying. The day of the private members' club running their own aeroplanes, or more particularly aeroplanes supplied by individuals or groups of individuals within the clubs, is going - rapidly. Private individuals simply don't have the wherewithal anymore to run gas-guzzling light aeroplanes - unless they're utterly crap, decrepit, run-on-a-shoestring 50 year old heaps burning stupendous amounts of fuel.
So you either go to a school, which does have the resources to run a decent fleet (eg Tayside up here in the People's Free Socialist Republic of Jockistan with those very very nice Grobs) or in my opinion the future which is micro lights or flexwings. How many aircraft designers, airline captains or ex-ETPS tutors are going to be working in that environment then?
The club is dead-and with it the characters and individuals that made it just that-a club.