StAUCC Committee Minutes
Agenda
25th April 2017
5:15pm- The Rule
Former Triumphs
Sinners
Glitter carnage in Lottie and Alice’s house
People seemed to have a good time
Chloe J to give £2 back from sold ticket - source the other £4
Nesk River Race
One boat broken
Great time was had
Sam broke himself
Would do again with more people
Do as a club trip next time and camp the night before so can do laps before
Canoe give it a go and BBQ
Went really well!!!
Good turnout of new people
Had majority of boats out
Used all sausages apart from 8
Lots of crisps left
Do more of them
Aqua Ball
£300 pounds in debt
Cards on table were good
Try and do with other clubs next year to share profits/ losses
Promote within other clubs more left time
Stanley Trip
Glorious
Betty’s take away dreams came true
Lots of faff but good weather
Upcoming Dates
Revision Trip 27/04/17
Plan is for the Etive
Unless something disastrous happens
Post on Scottish Whitewater to check level as not on SEPA gauge
Back up river is Tummel if the river is too high
Cars are booked from 9pm Wednesday night for 24 hours so can pack the night before
Leave at 8am
Rory and Sarah get the email sent out TONIGHT about Netive!
Poker Night
Happening at Andrew’s
Facebook event is up
Post as Canoe page rather than as private event from now on
P in the Loch
Check on surf for sea session tomorrow- if not polo skills
Rory bring cheque book
Waiting on details from person organising (Lydia)
Maybe going to Ian Vosser’s house afterwards to look at kit (Stirling)
Have found an alumni team (via James M)
They will borrow our kit except when we play them
We will be in the ‘normal’ competition
May Dip
Tilt will be up tonight- booze/ snack kitty for night and breakfast kitty for the morning
Tilt go to canoe club and Jake buy food
Shopping on the Sunday- Chloe P to give lift to ALDI
Sam and Stratts, C-Shells, Phoebe’s, Dip, Paddy and Annie’s
Check they’re still good for it
Bonfire
WE HAVE LOTS OF PALLETS!
More organised to be collected- find cars to pick them up
Make a Facebook event
Invite Dundee and Strathclyde- message them!
Have a beach fun day before hand?
Summer Trip
Carys has messaged In Your Element in Inverness to hire canoes
Hire canoes and deliver them to start and finish so don’t have trailer issues
Very expensive option potentially not viable
Nick- in contact with people Furbush (?) from Edinburgh Uni
Have contacted Stirling and Strathclyde
Have sent personal Facebook messages to admins of Facebook groups asking for canoes
Rory also has a canoe at home!
Alasdair have two uncles with canoes! 1 in Oban and 1 in Inverness
Carys has a neighbour with canoes
Get to Mike Spencer
Betty could ask her parents to borrow her canoes from home- she has 2!
Start organising pretty soon- get sign ups going
Finance Update
£4766.45 in the bank
Before pay for Aqua Ball (approx. £1700?)
Some payments potentially still to go out
Approx. £3500 members owe the club
(Have started private messaging members)
Set up a Tilt
Standing Items
Blog posts
People need to finish them!
Betty promises to do it tonight!
Drivers
She needs to reply
Forms need resending
Charity money
Hasn’t been done yet
Alps
Good news- Sam will come and bring his car so we only need 1 AU car
Bad news- Eleanor dropped out and only two drivers signed up which isn’t feasible
Need minimum 4 drivers
Numbers low
Not looking great right now
Asking for more deposits tomorrow
Club Photo
Needs printing
Get them done before people start leaving
Promise Auction
Not many things
Maybe save for next year
Club Safety Kit
Ordered yesterday
Playboat in the pool
Not allowed if it’s been in outside water before
Use castle sands pool for practicing play boat tricks
Agenda
Preseason
Looking at about £2000
We’re going to get less money than last money and Ben’s plan requires less money
Send plan to Pete to organise getting money
Club re-affiliation
Needs doing
Organise which committee member is doing which section
Needs doing by the 7th of May
Look at email
New Boats
Lots of boats have been broken
Some ones might need buying
Save it for next semester
Post on committee page before buying interest but post interest it
Beach Clean
In contact with Transition
5th May
11am
Potential meditation- exam stress relief
Castle Sands
Event is up- invite people to it and make it more co-hosted
Waterproof Stickers
Haven’t been ordered in about 4 years
Jamie looking into it- have messaged Claire
Been given website that they were given off last
Large and small sizes
Use standard logo (black and white canoe with pier in background)
Jamie post on group to express interest- set up tilt when ordered
May dip kitty
Picnic
Not planned yet
Middle of second week?
Set up a poll on the Facebook page to pick most popular date
Potluck style
Set up a poll so don’t get too much of one thing
DEBT
Set up a tilt
AOB
Chloe J- Someone to be at the shed tomorrow to let project managers in for Albany redevelopment
Nick to email Pete back to say he’ll be there at 12 noon
Sarah- People do bios for website
Alycia- procrastibake? Find people that are set around bored at see what happens
Jamie
Said would do Nesk if higher than 0.4- do we still go to the Etive? Leave it till Wednesday evening
Make the Nesk our new back up river
Lots of leaders at pool tonight
Alasdair- need to buy air bags
Nick
A canoe has magically turned up that nobody new about- Chloe P to email them back
Get bazooka out of Harwell’s garage
Betty- Stanley was almost all committee trip
Have committee bonding river trip
Chloe P- did very well at sports awards
KHad and Dre got lots of awards and got some club awards
Shortlisted for Club of the Year!
Green Award not yet announced
Get people onto volunteering portal and get people to sign up and add hours so more people can get awards
Next meeting:9th May 5:15pm The Rule