CRCC News

On the weekend 9th to the 11th October our coaches will be helping at a Scout canoeing weekend at Tatton Park where there will be the opportunity to work towards and take the 1 and 2 star awards. For any members who would like to attend the weekend the cost will be £50 this includes camping fees, food and coaching, should you pass an award there is a payment to the BCU for the certificate. Anyone wishing to attend should book and pay at club this Sunday (4th October)

Next week Sunday 27th September the club will be meeting at 9.00 am at Mile End Mill,
Berwyn Road, Llangollen LL20 8AD.
The 3 star group will be undergoing their assessment
The weir group will paddle the river
The flat water group will paddle across the aquaduct on the canal
This will be a full day club meet and members will need to bring a packed
lunch with them. Cost for the day is £10.
IMPORTANT

all members wishing to go and use club equipment MUST let coaches
know at this Sundays session (20/09/15) what equipment they need
transporting for them

Club update

Following the consultation meeting, discussion with coaches, the committee and the newly re formed junior committee the club has decided to implement the following  new ideas to try and make Sunday sessions run more smoothly.

However this will only happen if supporters of the young people are prepared to step forward and assist.

1. A rota of coaches to take responsibility for opening up the club sorting the coaches and young people into suitable groups, taking responsibility for the session and finally locking up at the end. Ian has said he will do this every other week until Christmas and then review how often he wishes to do it.

2. A rota of a committee member to be responsible for collecting money in, doing the register and dealing with any administration i.e bookings for events new members on the day. They will then be asked to cash up in a form the treasurer can understand.

3. Two supporters per week. One to sort drinks and biscuits and ensure that the centre is left how we would hope to find it and the other to help in the end bay with getting equipment in and out in a safe and orderly manner.

Lists will be available on Sunday morning for people to sign up for the roles above and then the names for each task will be put on the club diary for that week.

The club are in the process of introducing the paddle power award so that members can work towards this before gaining the star awards. Ian is working on the admin side of this now and it is hoped to run it in the next couple of weeks.

Ian McMullen is moving to a new role within the club, Life Long President of the club ( this role doesn’t set a precedent). This will enable Ian to focus on special projects rather than the day to day running of the club, but still be able to support with his vast knowledge.

Ian has resigned from his role as Chair to take up this new role. The position of Chair will remain vacant until the AGM early next year, in the interim the vice chair will cover the role. Full job description and how to be nominated will be distributed prior to the AGM as for all the other vacant positions.

The committee and members would like to thank Ian for all the work he has done for the club to date as chair and for all the work he is still doing in his new role.

The club are working extremely hard to arrange more river trips and events for the members, please watch the website for more information – 3 star assessment September, weekend away October, bank based FSRT October.

Following the weekend at Bala the club has been asked to facilitate a bank based foundation safety and rescue training session, for parents, and none paddling helpers.

Chester Riverside Canoe Club has come a long way since becoming a voluntary club nearly three years ago. Gaining charitable status,becoming self funding, increasing its fleet of boats, developing a great coaching team and most importantly growing its membership to 100.

This has all happened in a very short space of time with a lot of hard work from a committed band of members but without a structured long term development plan. For the club to continue to grow and prosper it is felt necessary by the committee to develop a long term plan.

However the committee feel that if this plan was developed purely by the committee it would be an opportunity missed for new ideas and initiatives. Therefore CRCC would like to invite as many parents, guardians and club members to attend a meeting with the Chair and Vice Chair on Sunday 9th August 2015 at the boat house whilst the young people are on the water to discuss the long term plans for the club.

We do appreciate that due to holidays not all will be available but we feel this needs to be addressed, perhaps those not able to attend may be able to email ideas to be aired at the discussion. We really would welcome the comments of all the members even the ones that have only recently joined. As always the kettle will be on!

Please do contact me if you have any questions or require any other information.

Many thanks and best regards

Ian & Paul