In attendance: Pat, Teresa, Ken, Victor
Apologies: Ross, Brett
Xmas do
- To be held at Jaflong, Weds 10/12/2014.
- Pat to confirm with Colin and draft email.
- There will be no pool session that
evening.
- Committee to consider appropriate 2014
awards for presentation at xmas do.
Next year’s committee
- Some club members (who have not been on
committee before) have expressed an interest.
- New posts can be created to help spread
the work of the committee, such as Membership Secretary, Website
Maintainer, Recruitment Officer, Assistant Training Officer and Assistant
Diving Officer. These could be co-opted by the next committee, and need
not necessarily be subject to elections at the AGM.
AGM
- To be held Weds 04/02/2014, at Cherry
Garden School.
- There will be no pool session that
evening.
- Elections to be held for Chair, Diving
Officer, Treasurer, Secretary, Equipment Officer and Training Officer.
- Motions and nominations to be invited in
the new year.
- Committee will not be proposing motions to
discontinue the club’s joint membership discount, or to change the £45 per
diver cost of dives to match actual cost.
Diving
- Agreed to add 2 Shoreham dives to the 2015
dive calendar. Pat to speak to skipper.
- 2015 dive list needs to go online.
Reminder email also needed, as take-up has been slow so far.
- Email needs to be drafted, explaining how
individual dive days will be organised. Club members will need to inform
the club they are joining these dives.
- Agreed joint trips may be run with other
clubs next year. 2015 dive list will be shared with other clubs once
Bermondsey members have had longer to sign up.
- Ken’s Red Sea trip may not happen next
year, due to a ruptured appendix (not Ken’s). Jane is gauging interest in
a Gozo trip. Lee has proposed a Dieppe trip.
- Mevagissey trip may yet be added to the
2015 dive list in the new year.
Recruitment and membership
- Victor to design flyer.
- Club to run stalls at county shows and
other events next year (Southwark Park, Goose Green, Burgess Park etc),
subject to dates and cost.
Training
- Completion of Ocean Diver training is key
to retaining members. This will be prioritised.
- Suggested that drysuit use should be
allowed earlier on in training, again to help keep members interested in
cold water diving. Wraysbury and Vobster Quay offer drysuit hire.
- Victor to look into club’s capacity for
snorkel training, and reply to recent emails.
- Agreed training record needs to be
updated, but it doesn’t need to be online.
- Noted that club has lost instructors this
year, which has reduced capacity for training.
Barry Award
- The 2015 recipient will be [to be revealed at xmas do].
Website and blog
- A decent number of blog entries have been
posted this year, albeit mostly written by a small number of people.
- Pieces are expected from Jane (St Abbs)
and Brett (cenotes). Ken to write about whale sharks.
- Agreed calendar should be taken off
website – better to have no calendar, than one that makes it look like the
club is inactive.
Club accounts
- Ken reported that the club accounts are
looking OK. Members will be chased for outstanding money. Pool has been
paid for until the end of the year.
- Eastbourne trip (06/09/2014) was costly to
the club.
- Agreed to resume charging for
post-training club kit hire.
Socials
- Agreed to run a winter social – bowling at
Surrey Quays in February (avoiding half term).
- Summer barbecue will be held at Teresa’s
on 04/07/2015.
- Teresa to look into Lee Valley white water
rafting.
Pool
- Pool activities to be organised over
winter, including skills practice.
- Weekly emails to remind members that club
kit is available for students wanting to practice skills, subject to
availability and supervision.
Club’s 60th anniversary
- Agreed to organise dives at 60 sites
during the year (2016).
Twenty divers and partners gathered on a windy Wednesday evening for the club's annual xmas meal and social. Another three joined us later on. This year we returned to Jaflong on Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, where we'd had our xmas do two years ago.
