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Forth Canoe ClubPaddling in the Heart of Edinburgh

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1. Minutes of the 2016-7 AGM

2. Commodores Address

3. Strategy Planning Day

4. Strategy Plan for 2018/19

5. Reports

6. Treasurers Report

7. Election of Office Bearers

8. Subscription Levels

9. SCIO and changes to Constitution2


1. Minutes of the 2016-7 AGM

A show of hands to accept last years minutes

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Commodores Address – Looking Back • Membership at record levels - 374

• Lots of activity – 95 blocks of courses run

• Club Coach business model proved to be sustainable for a second coach

• 2 new XL adult boats delivered

• Strong junior section – Craiglockhart Primary sessions, Development Squads and Sprint Squads now up and running

• 7 FCC members paddling for GB in Sprint, Polo and WWR and K1 200m Junior European and World Sprint Champion

• Grantully Slalom, Great Edinburgh Paddle Race

• Significant back office improvement to membership systems

• Reasonable progress on boat house re-build

• FCC Voted as 2017 ‘Club of The Year’ by Club Sport Edinburgh 4


Commodores Address – Looking Forward • Full calendar of activities for seniors planned, many star award courses

• All year round calendar of activities for juniors plus continuation of the FCC Junior Development Squad and FCC Sprint Squad

• Continuing our partnership with Craiglockhart Primary

• Review our legal status and consideration of becoming a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation

• Continue work on building a new changing room and toilet block at the front of the boathouse as well as new storage on the land behind Nola’s Barge

• Following EGM in March and the Strategy Day we have refocused activity –more later

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Commodores Address – Recognition• Volunteering is what sustains the club so here’s a vote of thanks to all the

people who have given up their time to support the club in 2017.

• Special mentions to …

• Kelso without whom Grandtully would be impossible to run – Andrew takes this on in 2018

• Committee members for their work in 2017 and especially those standing down this year – thank you Katerina & Laura

• Volunteers who have contributed a lot in 2017 such as Mike Hook, Cameron Playfair, Tomas Duarte, Poppy Croal, John Raven, Gillian Denvir & Dan Rhodes, Catherine Jones, Phil Young, Ben Gallcher, Cassie and Jo.

• There are many, many more volunteers who continue to give there time and effort and I’d like to thank them all for their time and goodwill

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Club questionnaire and

Strategy Day

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3 Key Take Outs:

1. Continue with the Junior program

2. Extend the adult program past 2* to start running more trips for members

3. Find ways to communicate with members on a more regular basis.


Strategy Plan 2018-19

• Re-run and improve on 2017

• Commitment to run trips in 2018 – budget set aside and volunteers to co-ordinate

• Website and communications- 3 folk now trained

• Explore becoming a SCIO

• Get serious about new facilities

* Full strategy plan available on the website *

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Boat House Plan3. Toilet block

1. New boat storage

2. Re-model interior of existing boat house


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Lets talk about the PADDLING now


Sprint Report• 1 World Championship Gold, plus A-Final for Rachel Kneen

• 1 European Championship Gold

• 17 FCC competitors at Scottish Championships

• 9 Gold, 9 Silver & 10 Bronze at Scottish Championships

• 1 Silver Medal at September Nottingham Regatta, U14 K4 500m for Aida (after 3 months training)

• GB Vests for Ieuan James, Ben Gallacher, Lydia Dowling-Clarke & Rachel Kneen

• 6 FCC athletes in SCA Squads (Alexander, Ben, Maks, Rachel, Elliot, Rory) Lydia and Ieuan now full time at Nottingham

• Junior section training hard all year round and having fun too 11


Slalom Report


2017 Slalom Report• 13 Paddlers competing at Slalom last year

• We had 10 promotions across 4 divisions and 4 classes (K1W, K1M, C1W, C1M)

• Paddlers developed and improved over the sessions.

• We have attended competition including 2 in England

• We have purchase a new C1 Boat

• 4 Boats in the Scottish Championships• J16 C1M – Runner Up

J16 C1W – 3rd

• J15 Scottish Schools Champion (C1W)

• All (certainly appeared to) have FUN


Slalom in 2017 • Three Groups

• ‘Beginners’

• ‘Improvers’

• ‘Performance’ – Coach Piotr Szczepanski

• Target – 1 Prem boats, 5 Div 1 Boats, 3 div 2 boats, multiple Div 3 boats

• Focus for top group moves to performance but aim to continue to have FUN

• Limited availability in ‘Beginners’ –Contact Andrew for details. (Age 8+)


White Water Racing Report

Racing a sprint and classic down a section of white water

Boats are 4.5 metres long

Classes in K1, C1 and C2 for both women and men

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White Water Racing Report

• Two club members securing positions on the GB team at both junior (Michael Denvir) and senior level (Ryan Hunt)

• Several club members trying out and participating at local WWR Racing

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Access Report• £1,700 Grant secured for Access equipment

• Para performance paddler now involved in the club

• Introduced an new regular slot as a drop-in sessions with a regular turn out

• Forth CC provided taster sessions for the RNIB, Teens first and Edinburgh City Council

• A range of support being provided by the access team on either a 1:1 or group basis

• Huge thank you to Cameron Playfair who has put a astronomical amount of volunteering hours as a cadet this year

• Access support has increase with a massive thank you to Michael Hook, Cassie Abousamak and Cameron

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Child Protection

• Growing importance 200 children and >1500 coached hours being delivered to children each year

• FCC takes child protection seriously and completed disclosure process for existing coaches and coach helpers

• All new coaches/coach helpers are undergoing disclosure process when getting involved

• We make sure that our policies are updated and put into place.

• Parents please support this by making children aware of their rights for a safe environment.

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CoachingThis year we concentrated on consolidating the skills of our existing coaches, and bringing in new, experienced coaches with the aim of creating more provision for improver paddlers.

Welcome to Forth’s new coaches!

We have our 1* and 2* courses planned out and staffed for the new year, and are looking forward to getting going!

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Ben Gallacher UKCC Level 1 Michael Hook (assistant)

John Raven UKCC Level 1 Petra Adams (assistant)

Lynn Moir (assistant)

Matthew Harvey (assistant)


Coaching – adult coursesBC Star CoursesWe took 45 learners through 1* kayak or canoeWe took 19 learners through their 2* course

Coach/Coach assistant training6 First Aid6 FSRT 1 Moderate Water Endorsement Training3 UKCC Level 1 Training and Assessment 1 UKCC Level 2 training1 4* White Water Kayak Training 1 White Water Safety and Rescue9 trained with Dave Rosseter to deliver rolling clinic (granted CPD credit from SCA)Poppy has gained the ability to run and assess FSRT

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Membership

Year 2014 2015 2016 2017Adult Members

196 195 173 166

Junior Members

79 110 200 208

TOTAL 275 305 373 374

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161 Female 213 Male members in 2017


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Net Income Net Expenditure

FCC Accounts

2018

Item £k

Membership/Keys/Storage 3.9

Day Boat Hire (cashbox) 2.3

Summer Courses 8.5

Training & Coach Training 5.9

Pool Sessions 2.2

Grandtully 1.0

Access Grant 1.7

Finance Charges (inc. one-off RBS Refund £2,130) 0.9

Total Net Income 26.3

Item £k

Boathouse & Running Costs 6.4

Equipment 4.6

Minibus & Trailer 1.2

Clothing 2.2

DCI Coaching 8.3

Total Net Expenditure 22.8

FCC Accounts £k

Opening Club Balance Jan 17 42.6

Closing Club Balance Dec 17 46.1

Annual Surplus 3.5


Election of Office Bearers

7 voted for positions1) Commodore – Matt Harvey2) Secretary – Petra Adams 3) Treasurer - Robb Peel4) Child Protection Officer – Jolanta Czarnecka5) Membership Secretary - Wiola Starus6) Coaching Co-ordinator – Cassie Abousamak 7) Hut Custodian – Oscar Vazquez

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Additional Office Bearers

Additional positions co-opted by the committee1. Access Representative – Rob 2. Adult recreational officer – John 3. Trips Co-ordinator – Katerina 4. Club Liaison Officer - Katerina5. Slalom Representative – Andrew6. Sprint Representative – Tomas 7. Polo Representative – Poppy 8. Event Safety Officer – Poppy 9. Pool session manager - VACANT

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Sub-Committees1. Boathouse redevelopment – reporting through the Hut Custodian – Mick2. Adult Courses Entry Central Manager –reporting in through the Coach Co-Ordinator – Jo3. Junior Courses Entry Central Manager –reporting in through the Commodore – Tomas4. Communications / Website / Social Secretary – reporting in through the Secretary – Lynn and Fernando


Subscription Levels for 2018• No change recommended………• Key Hire £20 (with £5 rebate for returning previous year’s key)

• Senior (ordinary) membership - £25

• Junior membership - £12.50

• Family membership - £50

• Associate (non-paddling) member - £5

• Club boat hire – on canal, junior member - £2

• Club boat hire – on canal, senior member - £3

• Club boat hire – off canal, all members - £5 (waived if competing for FCC)

• Club boat hire – on canal, non-member (taster session) - £5

• Club boat hire – off canal, non-member (taster session) - £10

• Club boat hire – annual subscription (members) - £60

• Remember that if you sign up for many of the courses you automatically become a member 25


Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO).

FCC currently unincorporated• Becoming a SCIO, among other things, means:

1. Our club assets are the cap for our legal liabilities

2. We can apply for charity funding – desirable for the boat house re-build

3. We will have some additional annual paperwork

4. We will have to update the club constitution

5. SCIO is SCA best practice club structure

• Vote to give the Committee authority to review the Club’s legal status with a view to becoming an SCIO. Any final decision on the club structure to be made at an EGM.


Notices• Changes to the constitution :

1) At the end of section 2, insert: “No portion of the income and property shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividend, distribution, bonus, honoraria or otherwise howsoever by way of profit to the members.”

This is to state explicitly that the Club is not for profit.

2) In section 9, paragraph 5, line 2, delete the word “him” and replace it with the word “them”.

This is to render the Constitution gender neutral throughout.The Constitution can be found here:

http://forthcanoeclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/FCC-Constitution-as-amended-March-2016.pdf

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Notices Club Policies – please remind yourselves of these - they are all on the website and will help you to understand how the club works

• PLEASE GET INVOLVED Volunteers needed for

• Canal Festival 16th June – Dan Rhodes

• Grandtully Slalom 24-26 August – see Andrew T

• Great Edinburgh Paddle Race September – see Simon Clarke

• Boat House Redevelopment – looking for folk with planning application / building control/ architecture experience – see Mick James

• 8 Adult river trips planned - Sun 25th March on the Tweed is the first one see Katerina

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Notices• Club Clothing

• Helly Technical Training Tops - £25

• Game Gear Long Sleeve Technical Training Tops £15

• Hats - £5

• T-shirts - £5

• Any questions on what you have heard today?29


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Sprint Awards 4

Slalom Awards 3

Polo Awards 2

Coach Awards 3

Commodores Cup 1

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Sprint Awards 4

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Most Consistent Effort

Most Improved

Most Enthusiastic Paddler

Most Improved Effort from Performance Squad Member

Aida

Mathew

Ksymena

Maks


Slalom Awards - 2017 • All paddlers showed great skill acquisition and supported

each other.

• Difficult to pick a winner but the following awards• Performance of the year

• Capsize of the Year

• Achievement of the Year


Performance of the Year • Max Hampson


Capsize of the Year• Winner – Alex Thomson


Achievement of the Year

• Promotion into Division 1

• Clare Denvir


Polo Awards – FCC currently second in Div 2

Polo shield for Commitment and Improvement

Polo Tankard for Player of the Year

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Hannah James

Anna Young


Coach Awards

Coaches, Coach of the year Double Handled Trophy

Adult Paddler of the Year Gold rimmed tankard

Most Committed Coach of the Year Star trophy 38

Calum Arundle

Lynn Moir

Hooker


Commodores Cup

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Ieuan JamesK1 200m sprint

Junior GB ChampionJunior European Champion

Junior World Champion


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