Hi ,

September, the leaves are starting to turn, any time for climbing? Read on:

 

Contents

1. Events Diary for September and October 
2. Tickets to talk by Dave McLeod, the "New Traditionalist", September 7th
3. "Learn to Lead" course, September 9th
4. Club Dinner
5. QM Articles Wanted
6. Under 18's Policy
7. Costa Blanca February '08
8. The Boring Bit at the End - The AGM - Is It Your Club?

1. Events Diary for The next two months

Here's the full list for September and October:

 

	September	2007			October	2007
	Venue	Leader / Pub			Venue	Leader / Pub
				01
				02
				03	Shaftoe	Highlander, nr Belsay
				04
	North			05
01	Wales	John Mountain		06
02	hut			07
03				08
04				09
05	Drakestone	Turk's Head, Rothbury		10	Burnside Wall	Shiremoor Farm
06				11
07	Eskdale -			12
08	camping	Carolyn Horrocks	Kalymnos	13	Club Dinner	Peter Bennett
09				14	Borrowdale
10				15
11				16
12	E. Woodburn / Wolf	Highlander, nr Belsay		17	Burnside Wall	Shiremoor Farm
13				18
14				19
15				20	MTB Meet	Steve Nagy
16	Highcliffe Nab	Cleveland		21	Peak Scar	North Yorkshire
17				22
18				23
19	Corbys	Angler's Arms, Weldon Bridge		24	Burnside Wall	Shiremoor Farm
20				25
21	Bowderstone			26
22	BBQ &	Bill Blyth		27
23	working meet			28
24				29
25				30
26	Rothley	Dyke Neuk, nr Meldon		31	Burnside Wall	Shiremoor Farm
27
28
29
30	Caley, Nth Yorkshire, new members / members	Steve Orrell

 

 

 

2. Tickets to talk by Dave McLeod, the "New Traditionalist", September 7th Introduction to Leading Course

Coming soon to a venue near you (this Friday in fact) from the man who recently had "the scariest day of my [his] life"

"'ll be showing images and video of recent climbs To Hell and Back E10 on Cairngorm, Ring of Steall 8c+ and other climbs and projects. I'll talk a lot about my motivation for climbing and especially for doing dangerous climbs.

Venue: Percy Hedley School, Hampeth Lodge, Station Road, Forest Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE12 8YY. Time: 7pm (There will be a climbing display by the club courtesy of RockIt Mobile Climbing wall at 6.30pm, presentations 8.15pm). Tickets: £7.50 (Concessions £5) Available from Wildtrak and Sunderland Wall. Or phone Jane Newman (01833 627120) or Mary Walton (01388 662377) to reserve tickets in advance"

 

3. "Learn to Lead" course, September 9th

As I mentioned before, the second "Introduction to Leading" course that Richard Pow pulled together was over-subscribed and Richard is organising the second of these to run this coming Sunday 9th September. There's every chance this is over-subscribed as well but there's no harm in dropping Richard an e-mail if you're interested This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

If this course is full then be the first on the list for the next one!! (Gawd, what have we started? ;-)

 

4. Club Dinner Re-arranged.

Following postponement of the club dinner due to the small number bookings, the revised date is 13th October. The Bowderstone hut is reserved for members that weekend. The dinner will be at the Borrowdale Hotel as usual where the 6 course table d'hote menu is £24.45 per person.

Bookings to Peter Bennett. e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

5. Quarterly Magazine (QM) Articles Wanted

Pete Flegg puts a lot of effort into the QM and the next edition is due by the end of September. Anyone with any articles should get them to him as soon as possible - This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

6. NMC Under-18 Policy

After a lot of work by various members of the Committee trying to come to a conclusion that get's the best for everyone, the club has now agreed and published an "Under-18's". The gist of the policy is :

Under-18s may join the club and attend meets provided

(a)    They are accompanied by their parent who is a member of the club

Or

(b)    They are accompanied by an adult member of the club who is in loco parentis for the specific child

    In case (b), the parent of the child should have a proper understanding of the

    activities to be undertaken.  A declaration to that effect signed by both the member

    and the parent should be lodged with the club secretary before the child attends

    a club meet. In the event that more than one club member is to act in loco parentis  

    for the same child, separate forms should be submitted for each member.

The full policy is on two pages - one is the info, the other the form. Anyone who is interested can download it from  >> this page << on the club's web site.

 

 

7. Costa Blanca Feb '08

Still in the early stages. If anyone has any suggestions/questions is interested then please get in touch.

 

8. The Boring Bit at the End - The AGM - Is It Your Club?

The club's AGM isn't for months yet, isn't it?
Anyway, I'm not interested

The club's AGM is in January. Right now people are making decisions about whether to stand-down and, at the moment, there are two current members standing down at the turn of the year. Others are considering standing for re-election.

- The club's committee is following the club rules by "nominating" members for vacant positions.
- There is always the option for additional nominations to be made at the AGM.
- In fact every year there are quite a few positions that are vacant, it's just that in some years these are uncontested.

Interested? Got a few ideas and want to take your club forward?

Get in touch with Peter Bennett, get in touch with Malcolm Rowe or get in touch with me - *now* please ;-)

 

Happy grimping!!

 

Steve