BUMC Committee 20/21

1st April 2021

 

Participants

Absent

Jonathan Mitchinson (JM) – Chair

Kate Evans (KE) – Secretary

Rob Cook (RC) – Walking Secretary

Will Jones (WJ) – Walking Secretary

Hugh Sanderson (HS) – Postgraduate Secretary

Jonathan White (JW) – Climbing Secretary

Laura Bosomworth (LB) – Welfare and Inclusivity Officer

Kate Callaghan (KC) – Social Secretary

Sebastien Morales Feliu (SMF) – Web Secretary

Bethany Kippin (BK) – Orienteering Secretary

Kai Pheasant (KP) – BUCS Captain

Harley Beattie (HB) – Voting Member

Alex Everest (AE)– Climbing Secretary

Matthew Rochester (MR)- Treasurer

Conor Smith (CS) – Gear Secretary

 

 

  1. Past items

 

Item

Original item date

Brief description of original issue + update

Further action required from

7

20th August

SU Sport membership

 

2 membership lists in semester 1, prospective and full. Prospective members were covered under SU sport membership for £20 and full members needed to pay an additional £5 but were insured and able to access gear and trips etc.

 

Prospective memberships are now starting to expire with the BMC as they are only valid for 3 months as part of their grace period.

 

Prospective and full memberships have been extended. We have kept the 2 separate membership lists to make it easier later in semester.

 

Update

 

Issues with return to sport as original membership offering was prospective and full membership, and BMC insurance gave us 3 month grace period so prospective membership covered this. Now, anyone who got prospective membership in semester 1 wont be covered by insurance so will have an issue in signups, as they wont be able to attend in person events without buying full membership.

 

Deadline for people to buy full memberships set for 23rd March.

 

Update

 

New members uploaded to BMC MSO. Full membership link removed from website so nobody else can buy full memberships.

 

 

13

22nd September

Budget
 

What is left? How are we going to spend it?

 

Currently have plans to spend all of the gear budget (£440 left) which Conor will spend. £200 on maintenance which mostly includes gear. £750 left for insurance. £1040 in our activities budget (-invoice from Ollie Mentz, unsure on amount). No strict allocations but this is roughly what we have left.

 

Update – AGM

 

Ideas for what to spend leftover budget on:

Hike tents, which could be useful with running trips next year, and increasing COVID safety as well if we can’t run any trips

£500-600 worth of kit needing replacing this year that we can replace at the end of the year to reduce costs next year – mostly helmets

Suggestion for slacklines, but we don’t use these very often and we already have 2 so not thought that they are needed, but we could buy more

Set of compasses for use in orienteering and also navigational lessons if we wanted to do those with walking - £300-400 for set of these. Lots of the ones we have do have bubbles in or are very old/used so only ~7 working compasses. Will be useful with COVID as unable to share them in the training session.

Could buy some guidebooks for local area

MR to follow up Ollie Mentz for invoice

 

CS to come up with list of things to spend budget on.

 

 

20

8th October

Inclusivity

 

Identification of need to raise awareness and engagement with resources, starting with committee and then working outwards, so that the environment in the club is welcoming, as history of culture in mountaineering being problematic for those from underprivileged backgrounds.

 

Update from sub-group of committee?

Talks attended in Jan time and LB has created an inclusivity awards action plan.

Action plan formalises what we are already doing and identifies 3 groups to focus on – Black and ethnic minority issues, distance learners and people from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

Black and ethnic minority issues – need to ensure our promotional stuff includes people from different backgrounds, and use social media to educate and organise colour up Bristol collab (if possible)

Distance learners - Weekly S+c sessions, socials on discord and training sessions which can be accessed anywhere

Low socioeconomic backgrounds – using alumni fund to buy climbing shoes that anyone can use to make climbing cheaper, free activities inc. walks and orienteering training. Advertisement of gear hire from the club for free to reduce costs of trips etc.

Committee support ‘equal access for refugees and asylum seekers’ campaign written by the Bath amnesty society which is being put forward to the uni to ask them to provide 2 scholarships for refugees and asylum seekers

Update

Not a huge amount going on due to lockdown

LB and subgroup of committee to implement action plan

 

Ask LB to prepare something/let us know what is going on for the next meeting

23

8th October

Bath City Race - Fundraiser with BOK

Orienteering event in Bathampton down, at the end of February that we could help with in order to increase awareness and raise some funds, providing we go through RAG and provide an on the day team to help out (10-15 people), coordinating welcome, check in, parking etc.

Money is less of an issue at the moment, but should increase involvement in the club and growth of orienteering in this year and future years.

Good in terms of location as it is near uni so good to increase numbers and raise awareness about orienteering and no travel involved. Potential alternative to a trip as well.

Given the go ahead so plan is to send out some feeders to see who would be willing to volunteer. Need to liaise with the SU and start organising.

Update

CANCELLED – need to see what happens with regards to that and future dates.

Update

With roadmap out of lockdown, need to get back in contact but they have lots of events planned later in the year so may not replan this event anytime soon.

BK to get in contact with BOK

24

8th October

First aid training

Vicky is going back to running first aid courses. 3 hours in person course and then you are given a link for online training. Limits on 12 people as it is an educational course. Ideal to be groups of 6 to be manageable. Happy to pay for Vicky to do a couple of sessions (£6.50 for actual qualification cost + PPE requirements). Considerably cheaper than doing it individually (£80) or through the SU (£40).

 

Need to get first aid done ASAP due to plan for in person events and activities. Don’t need all of us to do it ASAP, may be worth getting enough people done so we can run our in person activities, and prioritise younger members of club so they can make use of it in future years. HB to organise with Vicky and find venue, current options either through SU or at hall in Bradford on Avon.

 

Update

 

Hall in Bradford on Avon being booked for 16th April – currently got 11 people signed up so got 1 space left. Not much point swapping out members of this years committee for next years committee as will need to run another session in September anyway. Could invite 1 member of next years committee. Sessions for 10-1 or 2-5 (go to 3 hours in person and then 3 hours online) £10 (inc hut and PPE) but can subsidise some of this out of club budget. Can’t share lifts according to current SU policy.

 

HB to finalise details of First Aid

31

3rd December

 

Plans for semester 2

 

Update

 

Jesse Dufton talk booked for the 15th. No news from Karen and no other talks planned but not a huge issue as we do have the return to in person sports.

BK to organise Karen Dark talk

 

 

35

24th Feb

Return to organised sports plans

 

Rule of 6 and return of formalised sport returns from the 29th March. 12th April gyms and indoor sports should reopen but no indoor organised sports?

 

Could encourage people to take their LFD testing on campus to ensure safety of events

 

Update

 

JW and AE have gone and put lots of climbing stuff into calendar ready for return to organised sport. Depends on group leaders and first aiders as to what we can run.

 

Need to restart group leader list and ensure that they have read the necessary parts of the risk assessment etc. and mark up which bits they are allowed to lead.

 

Need to reinstate signups and send details over to the SU. New event planning form also in place – details for sorting sign ups, who you need to email, dates etc. in the appendix of this.

 

Night Hike planned to be 10-11th April.

 

Sunday walks to restart once a fortnight starting next week.

 

Plan to bring back in person orienteering on 11th or 18th

 

Car shares not recommended under current government guidance.

RC and WJ to finalise and publicise night hike.

44

10th March

Gear store size

 

Currently share store with archery, but they seem to have other storage because some stuff seems to have gone, so we could ask them if we could ask the SU to move the archery store somewhere else slightly smaller so we can grow a bit and have more space, especially if we want to buy more kit.

 

Haven’t been able to discuss with archery, so will probably ask SU first, to open up conversation first.

 

Update

 

Can get shelving if we want it but we don’t really need them at the minute, getting some more big storage containers would be more useful.

 

Need to wait until the end of the year to discuss with archery about more gear store space.

 

 

 

 

 

  1. New items

 

Item

Discussion/Description

Action required from

45

Bi-elections

 

Climbing sec, voting member and postgraduate secretary needed.

Got someone who can apply for climbing sec. We also have someone applying for voting member. Postgraduate secretary needs to be filled but not a huge issue as 2 other postgraduates on committee.

 

46

Transport update

 

No car sharing this year within government guidelines.

 

Plan for next year

 

Discussion with windsurfing and canoeing who both rely on transport. Rowing also not happy with current arrangement so plan to all go to SU with specification of what previous SU transport system achieved, and hopefully the SU will respond with what they can provide for us e.g. subsidising an MPV. Unlikely to get our own SU MPV. More likely to have to hire in vehicles so may be more complicated, or we may be on private cars. Canoeing chair taking the lead on this but RC to follow this up.

 

Caution with private cars and safety. May be able to get the SU to do something about the other plan is unsuccessful.

RC to follow up canoeing chair on transport proposal to SU

47

Summer trip

 

Dates finalised for 30th May – 2nd June.

 

Could run this more like freshers trip where we have a surplus of leaders, from committee or other leader list etc. as we could end up with lots of new members who haven’t been on trips before. Aim to fill as many leaders as possible from committee and then open it up. However caution with pre-signing up leaders if we are only allowed 30 people on the trip and having too many people pre-signed up. Could put feelers out within committee and see who can come before we make any decisions.

 

 

48

Christmas trip

 

Deposit refunded not postponed. Hut not open for bookings so need to either decide to wait to book there, book somewhere more local or book the hut we usually go to in North Wales.

 

One in North Wales is expensive. Centre in Dartmoor to look into which is more local. Could see if Freshers hut is free as well.

 

49

Peaks trip

 

Should be booked up but need to catch up on new rules and regulations.