Plans for trips/semester activities?
Outdoor climbing?
Potential to get bus to Sally in the woods, with personal cars taking boulder pads. Issue with weather and planning anything in advance. Potential with the rocks behind campus and Avon. Maybe try to plan something for w/c 19th October to allow time to organise and advertise? Need to consider daylight hours.
Learn to belay
Offer from TCA – 4 hour learn to belay course for £40 and months membership included in it (£39 by itself). Offer from Redpoint – 3 hour learn to belay course for £30. TCA seems to be best deal however, the only issue is that the people have to be from the same household.
Learn to belay on campus, however there are weather issues and nowhere to go to test skills, so it will get forgotten as cant run a trip somewhere to test it.
May be worth just trying it and could always teach to some extent on campus if it proves a real issue.
Follow up on organisation of learn to belay
Currently asked for 12 spaces initially so waiting for reply. Need to find someone that you want to learn with and run 6 signups as TCA have said that you need to live with the person that you learn with – hopefully weekly climbing thread will help with meeting people. Will be run on Wednesday afternoon, but more info needed from TCA re: committee members escorting them etc.
Follow up about organisation of outdoor climbing?
2 possible lines around the back of campus so could try to arrange for 31st Saturday morning with rotating groups of 4 there for an hour (with half an hour either side to get there and back) with AE and JW belaying as intro to outdoor climbing. Limitations of kit as can’t clean it; it has to be quarantined.
Increasing walk capacity
Potential to increase walk capacity but risk of public perception of us, especially if the groups are bigger than 6. Ideally still have 4 groups as harder to run more groups on same route, and limits on number of leaders available. Need for more volunteers to run walks.
Discussion re: trial running a slightly larger walk (8-10), with regulations and club kit on to show that we are in line with rules, however it is hard to maintain social distancing etc. in groups of more than 6, and public may still perceive us poorly.
Instead, could give a printout of map and some signposting pictures of the route so that people can go off and do walks of their own accord. Could organise groups of 6 to go out and be on campus seeing them off, and then give out phone number of a walking sec or another committee member so that if they get really stuck, they can ring us.
Activities rota?
Plan to set up a table that we can enter our names in to for events that we are happy to assist with so that there is always enough leaders for things. Need to ensure competency and that we have read risk assessment for the activities.
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