Review of semester 1 and plans for semester 2
What went well
Orienteering has done well with good engagement in events, especially as we have been able to maintain events throughout lockdown.
Walking has gone well as provision of walks each week have been successful and in person walks have been well engaged with, and enabled connection with members. Potentially could have advertised on SU social media and on other sites but have overall been good.
TCA taster sessions have been beneficial to get people climbing and engage with newer climbers however harder with current restrictions i.e. having to stick in groups of 6 etc.
Bigger and in person socials e.g. cocktail night and bar crawl have gone well and been well engaged with, as able to have larger numbers overall splitting into smaller groups as didn’t need to have anyone overseeing them so we were able to send people off doing things.
When advertisement improved about the Tuesday sessions with Ollie Mentz talks, then more and more people engaged following that.
Alumni fund was successful for climbing shoes, and gear spreadsheets and logs are now up to date, and gear store is now organised.
Good engagement and good provision of services compared to other sports and other committees.
How to improve
Across the board we want to improve engagement with older members, however we are unsure of why (what we are offering, people being busier, doing what they normally do so not engaging outside of that etc.)
Want to improve building relationships with first years so need good ratio of leaders/committee members to our normal members to facilitate interaction. Harder with COVID restrictions but needed for retention of members and for committee next year. Potential improvement with more regular faces in second semester but we want to improve on this. Need to ensure more of the older members and more of committee going to socials to encourage more of the other members to go, as people will only go to events if there are other people there, so if we don’t go to socials then nobody will go.
Inclusivity plans to be built upon – colour up Bristol, funding for climbing shoes, surveys to go out about what we could do better etc. as these came to a halt with lockdown.
Lack of climbing – harder to offer with weather, lockdown and COVID restrictions but would be good to get some more climbing events running. Potentially need to be more flexible e.g. sign-ups closer to the day, different days due to the weather etc.
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