Being sanctioned as a Home Host means you're insured directly by COA
Not only can COA insure private landowners for Hosting campers on their property and be totally insured and indemnified for having people camp, drive and participate in related activities on their land, it can also insure COA members that permit fellow members to short stay on their property.
Some call it driveway surfing, others call it moochdocking, we just call it COA Camp Home!
Being a COA Home Host means you have a space on your property, whether located in the burbs or the bush, such as driveway, front yard, side strip or back yard where fellow members can park for FREE, but ONLY with their self-contained RV and just for a night or two. A COA Home Host stay is for COA Hospes Members that seek a safe place to stop over as they travel to get to their intended destination. Both campers and property owners, must be COA Hospes Members to ensure both parties are insured with public liability insurance, ie. the property owner is insured should a camper be injured or their property damaged by the property owner and the same with the camper is insured should the property owner be injured or their property damaged by the camper. Hospes means both guest and host.
As a COA Home Host, the property owner becomes the "Official" of COA's activities, which also provides the benefit of ‘Official's Liability' insurance. This insurance cover includes indemnity against ‘wrongful acts' committed by ‘individuals' acting on behalf of an activity held under the auspices of COA. ‘Wrongful act' means any actual or alleged breach of trust, breach of duty, neglect, error, misstatement, misleading statement, omission, breach of warranty of authority or other act wrongfully committed or attempted by the COA Official in the course of performing his/ her duties as an Official. Volunteers do not always understand that in undertaking their duties as an Official, that they also assume personal liabilities. That is why it is so imperative that the COA provides this cover for its volunteers. The membership process requires the property owner to complete a questionnaire about their property.
A request to stay at a COA Home Host can only be done online, through the COA online booking system. The booking system will only show the suburb/ town of a COA Home Host location. A booking request is sent directly to the property owner and if acceptable, the property owner will be in touch usually by email to confirm the booking. To join the growing community of COA Home Hosts, either as an owner, as a camper, or as both, first requires COA Home Hospes Membership. Once you are a member you are then registered and insured to permit fellow members to short stay on your property.
