I am a member and also the newsletter editor. Our guild has about 175 members, but only about 50 are active and regular attenders.
We have both a day group and a nite group. the day group is larger and a little more formal in that one of the two scheduled meetings per month is specifically for the business meeting for the guild. The second meeting for the day group is a program meeting where speakers come in, we have demos, etc. Both groups always have show and tell which is fun. The nite group has programs or activities at all meetings. In addition to the described meetings, on every fourth Thursday we have a day for smaller interest groups to meet and "do their thing" at a central location. These smaller groups also meet separately on their own schedules for their special interests; one is an applique group, one does all kinds of different art quilt techniques, another...well, there are about6 different groups of special interests. In addition, we have guild projects that we work on...our comfort quilts group has a regular sew-in on every fifth Thursday plus on other scheduled days through out the year.
The guild has major outreach activities - the comfort quilts I mentioned, members make small quilts to go with stuffed animals and once a year local groups who work with children come in for a Teddy Bear Tea and pick up stock in these "pairs" to have for giving to children in crisis. The police department takes some to hand out to children they enounter in emergency situations, etc. Recently we have received a special request for adult bibs for a local senior citizen home so one of the programs for the meeting was a sew-in to make these.
We have an annual quilt show and we also bring in well known quilters during the year for classes and lectures. This year Sharon Shamber, last year Larkin Van Horn, next year Vicki Pignatelli, etc.
It's a very active group and quilters can find something to fit their area of interest and level of activity. Like anything, the individual needs to take the first step in attending and choosing their own level of involvement.