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