Ponteland Runners – Committee Meeting 05 March 2017 19:00

Ponteland Runners – Committee Meeting 05 March 2017 19:00

Present: D Buffham. P Holborrow, S Heppell, C Heppell, N Renton

Apologies: None

Membership Subscriptions: Subs will increase this year as EA subs have increased from £13 to £14 per year and club membership to increase from £10 to £11 per year. Therefore, social membership will be £11 and full membership £25 for the 2017/18 season. Subs will be collected online using the EA portal.

Membership Form: Needs updating – action Chris

Open Evening 29th March: Event was discussed. As many leaders as possible to attend. David to email leaders. Event to be created on facebook – Action Sue. Email local schools – Action Nikki

LiRF: Abby and Caroline have registered with TBSF and are booked on to the LiRF in Morpeth. DBS checks have been completed. David L is booked onto course in May.

Session schedule: The session schedule was discussed, in particular Monday 20:00hrs vs 19:00hrs and the Friday 19:00hrs session. Poll members – Action Chris. Track sessions to be incorporated into the schedule for the summer

Use of Facebook: The privacy of club members was discussed as currently member names and photos are available on the public facebook page. Ideally this should be in a private way to protect people’s privacy. A closed group for members only to be created so that this can be used to ‘chat’ without private data being seen by the public. Club photos etc should be shared on this page rather than the public page.

Finance: Update provided by Paul

Clothing: Issue with club vests and Viga in general. Several mix up with orders and issues not being rectified. Although ladies like new vests, not all men like the new vests. Situation to be monitored and new provider to be investigated.

AOB:

Go Tri: Dates set for 2017. These will be on May 24th, June 7th, June 28th and July 12th.

Junior Tri Section: Junior tri taster sessions have been organised and will be on Saturday 29th April, 6th  May and 13th May with the format  training, duathlon and finally triathlon. Cost will be £10 for the set of 3 dates and will be for 9-13year olds.

NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING DATE:  2nd May 2017

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