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Forth Canoe Club

Paddling in the Heart of Edinburgh

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Paddling in the Heart of Edinburgh 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 Constitution

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Paddling in the Heart of Edinburgh 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

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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.

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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 Plan

• 3. Toilet block
• 1. New boat

storage

• 2. Re-model interior of

existing boat house

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Lets talk about the PADDLING now

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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

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Slalom Report

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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

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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+)

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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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Coaching

This 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)

Forth Canoe Club

Paddling in the Heart of Edinburgh Coaching – adult courses

BC Star Courses We took 45 learners through 1* kayak or canoe We took 19 learners through their 2* course Coach/Coach assistant training 6 First Aid 6 FSRT 1 Moderate Water Endorsement Training 3 UKCC Level 1 Training and Assessment 1 UKCC Level 2 training 1 4* White Water Kayak Training 1 White Water Safety and Rescue 9 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 2017

Adult 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

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Election of Office Bearers

7 voted for positions

1) Commodore – Matt Harvey 2) Secretary – Petra Adams 3) Treasurer - Robb Peel 4) Child Protection Officer – Jolanta Czarnecka 5) Membership Secretary - Wiola Starus 6) Coaching Co-ordinator – Cassie Abousamak 7) Hut Custodian – Oscar Vazquez All positions nominated by Mick James and seconded by Katerina Stein

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Additional Office Bearers

Additional positions co-opted by the committee

• 1. Access Representative – Rob
• 2. Adult recreational officer – John
• 3. Trips Co-ordinator – Katerina
• 4. Club Liaison Officer - Katerina
• 5. Slalom Representative – Andrew
• 6. Sprint Representative – Tomas
• 7. Polo Representative – Poppy
• 8. Event Safety Officer – Poppy
• 9. Pool session manager - VACANT

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Sub-Committees

• 1. Boathouse redevelopment – reporting

through the Hut Custodian – Mick

• 2. Adult Courses Entry Central Manager –

reporting in through the Coach Co-Ordinator – Jo

• 3. Junior Courses Entry Central Manager –

reporting in through the Commodore – Tomas

• 4. Communications / Website / Social Secretary

– reporting in through the Secretary – Lynn and Fernando

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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

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Forth Canoe Club

Paddling in the Heart of Edinburgh 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.

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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
• ne 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?

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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

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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

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Performance of the Year

• Max Hampson

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Capsize of the Year

• Winner – Alex Thomson

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Achievement of the Year

• Promotion into Division 1
• Clare Denvir

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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

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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

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Calum Arundle Lynn Moir Hooker

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Commodores Cup

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Ieuan James

K1 200m sprint Junior GB Champion Junior European Champion Junior World Champion

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