StAUCC Committee Minutes

StAUCC Committee Minutes

Date: 24.1.17

Time: 1715

Location: The Rule

Present: KHad, SL, CJ, BP, AH, RC, CP, AT, CD, JM, GK, CS, BA

Apologies: AP

Former glories

• Winter trip - v good

• Mini-preseason

• Great success

• Coach v good - use again?

Upcoming dates

• Burns Night

• Polo

• Dundee

• Glasgow

Finance Update/ Treasurer fun

• Officially handed over!

• Looking good at the moment

• Find out who owes club money - name and shame!

Big Ideas

Big Ideas!

• BP: WWSR, AWWSR - real boost to numbers needed!

• Will be a training weekend post Easter; WWSR, something-star training...

• CD/AH: Clear yard, change shed filing, convert/clean up changing shed

• Keep Khad posted

• Next week?

• Don't forget to entertain the new freshers too!

• SL: Weekend Out West w/ other adrenaline clubs

• Coaching weekend after Spring Break??

• Easter Trip??

• AT/CP: Easter Social Trip - Aviemore?

• Multiple options - kayaking, hiking...

• Tie in w/ SL's idea - other clubs?

• Clash w/ Leve 1? :(

• Plan for next meeting!

• CS: World Record?!

• Alternately: Edinburgh Half Marathon, or Mt Keen?

• GK: Girls' Trip?

• Water Park??

• RC: Fundraiser idea

• Also: Incentive for debt payment - e.g. charge added after certain period?

• JM: Series of promotional videos

• CJ: 100 members!

• Videos - People of Canoe Club :D

• BA: Video in the works

• Also: Raft Race event???

Agenda

• Charity money

• CP/AT - £291 raised Adrenaline Ball

• Burns Night

• Holy Trinity Church

• Not enough plates/cutlery - go plastic

• BA, GK, CS spending Wed Afternoon decorating

• Speeches & Poems sorted

• Lift for food?

• BYOB

• CD: Ceilidh

• Wk5 or 8?

• Wk8? First week back after spr. break

Agenda

• Charity money

• CP/AT - £291 raised Adrenaline Ball

• Burns Night

• Holy Trinity Church

• Not enough plates/cutlery - go plastic

• BA, GK, CS spending Wed Afternoon decorating

• Speeches & Poems sorted

• Lift for food?

• BYOB

• CD: Ceilidh

• Wk5 or 8?

• Wk8? First week back after spr. break

• Alps

• Slovenia question?

• Khad advises against - bad compromise for Freshers/older members

• Much more driving, less paddling.

• Discussion regarding difficulty for new members vs expense and time

• Question to just leave it this year?

• Consensus agrees – some feel that they could do with another year to get better

• Potential for a domestic trip instead?

• To be looked into

• Gear stuff

• A lot of boats to be looked at - RIP the Karnarli

• More spraydecks!!

• Easter Trip

• Discussed

• Integration of Freshers

• Club a v tight-knit group - mustn't let inside jokes and current closeness exclude new Freshers

• Work extra hard at socials - 3-legged crawls ect.

• Publicity - keep at it!

• As much as possible, keep it ticking over

• Videos, posts, emails

• First Aid Course

• Booked for 18th

• BP - get sign-ups

• Weekly Email

• Sea Sessions

• 2 groups again, beginning next week

• Khad get it sorted!!

• As little swapping as possible pls!

• Cambo - on a Wednesday some time

• SL - races; TBC

• Dundee Polo - 8 people going, all sorted

• SUS Glasgow - 17 people also sorted

• Stress Alcohol Waiver

• 0800 start!!

• BUCS - entries done, accommodation sorted, ~29 people coming

• BUCS POLO - has moved this year, Nottingham now.

• NSR

• 9 people signed up so far - find more drivers!

• KHad - driving tests!

• Aqua Ball - planning going well, other clubs contacted (more than usual this year)

• AT/CP - get DJ, security etc. sorted soon

• Khad to message alumni

• Playerlayer kit

• GK to check up

• Canoe Trip

• CJ to chase up AP

• Refreshers Fayre - Sunday

• All committee to be there at some point!

• JM to sort rota - work w/ CJ

• Bring laptops, kit, posters and flyers

• BASE

• CS - plan to change day; soon to be in touch w/ managers

• Keep Khad posted

• Train new volunteers :)

• Sinners - next week

• SL's house??

• Kitty???

AOB

• SL - river trip!!

• Weekend after BUCS, 18th-19th?

• Beginner/intermediate split?

• ETIVE?????

• Clash w/ First Aid - possibly only one trip?

• Focus on beginners?

Meeting ended: 1825

Next meeting: 7.2.17, 1715 @ The Rule