Midsummer Celebration Croft Hill Wednesday 29th June

Hi all, if the weather stays OK we are planning to meet at Croft Hill for a short walk and then go to the top of the Hill and have a picnic there on Wednesday 29th June.

Meet at the bottom of the Hill about 7 p.m. The best place to park is on the road coming out of Huncote (in South West direction) opposite a set of metal gates (GRID REF 513973). There‘s limited space to pull off here or park in Huncote itself. We‘ll then walk around the bottom of the hill, probably back to the cars, get whatever food people have brought and then aim to get to the top of Croft Hill for 8 p.m. Bring you own food and drinks.

Afterwards we can go for a drink in the Heathcote Arms or Andy Root has kindly offered to have people back to his place.

It‘s all supposed to be very informal. But I’m sure you can find us on the top of the hill at 8 p.m.

Because, the weather is looking a bit iffy on Wednesday we will give the GO/NO GO, or just to go the pub instead!

Link to streetmap location:http://streetmap.co.uk/map?X=451565&Y=295591&A=Y&Z=120

Website membership reset

Our website was setup to publicise information about the club and to allow only members to access groups for communication and some pages private to club members. Due to the way the club website was initially setup we had people accessing these groups who were not actually club members.

This has now been resolved with access to groups and certain pages being restricted to genuine club members (including prospective members). In the process of doing this we have removed all site member accounts where the account is not linked to an email address recorded in the club member list.

Due to people potentially using different email addresses we may have inadvertently removed some club members access. We're asking all club members to check they can still access the website members area and if not then please signup again and we will grant you access.

NB: From now on access to the members only areas of the website will require approval from the website administrators and we will only grant access to club members (including prospective club members) based on the details held on the club members list administered by the membership secretary.

New committee and new fees

Last night's AGM went smoothly although only once we had enough members join for the meeting to be quorate. We passed on thanks on behalf of everyone in the club to our outgoing committee members Ali Tempest and Mike Jones. And we elected some new committee members with Chris Brumby joining as vice-chair, John Morgan joining as an ordinary committee member. Andy Potter has been elected as meets secretary. Other members of the committee were re-elected to their roles meaning the committee for the coming year is:

• Chair - Zoe Pickering

• Vice-chair - Chris Brumby

• Secretary - Haydn Williams

• Treasurer - Andy Railton

• Membership secretary - Tony Bishopp

• Hut secretary - Ian Robinson

• Meets secretary - Andy Potter

• Ordinary committee members - John Morgan, Randal Jackson, Bob Jones, Pete Bottrill

• NB: Bob Jones also holds the role of treasurers assistant.

The AGM also approved the changes to the membership and hut fees which had been proposed by the committee. The changed fees are as follows (all other fees remain as before):

• Membership

  • Under 18 membership - £20

  • Vet single membership - £30

  • Vet joint membership - £55

• Hut

  • Member per night - £6

  • Members guest per night - £8