AGM minutes

The Shore Surf Club AGM was held today ,8th of Jan 2012 ,Shore Pub.

Will Pleasance ,the president, called the meeting at 11:30 am.

First to speak was Graham Taplin with a round up of the club activities of the past year.

The first event was the Welcome party at the "Drift In" cafe, followed by the beach clean up,

the groms surf comp, camping week end in Devon, Paddle race from east to west , MR contest

ending with the South Coast in IOW and the British Longboard inter club at Saunton.

Comments where:

Welcome party was a success with the new members joining the club.

Mike Ruinet contest was very good too with the junior members taking part.

Camping week end in Devon was very enjoyable with a good bunch of juniors and kids with their families.

Paddle race was good but slightly disappointing with the amount of money raised for charity.

Most people just paid for the entry fee but not charity. Lets hope we can improve this!

IOW,South Coast Contest was challenging to say the least, thanks to Nick,Shane and Ed who did a huge paddle out in very harsh conditions..

Well done to the longboard division for coming 2nd(Shag),3rd(Symms),4th(Nicolai).

The inter club was fun , we managed an 8th place, room for improvements there.

The scoring system was different..so we have to be better prepare for this year.

Graham is stepping down as events director, but wish to help the club when need it,

specially when the time comes to run the South Coast Champ at home!

Our Longboarder members are welcome to participate with the hot-doggers at Saunton.

We thanked Graham for all the good work during these years.

Adriano ,club secretary, told us that the junior membership has risen steadily

in the last 3 years.

This past year 2011, junior members amounted to a total of 40%.

Adriano said:

"The club has achieved what we set up to do a year ago, to attract more surf groms.

Nick and he's Wittering Surf Shop have really helped us to get more juniors into the club and we thanks him for this."

Adriano is stepping down from secretary to concentrate on running club events.

Lucy has given out a questionnaire for all juniors to fill in regarding their experience of the past year.

Then Jude Conlon spoke as the representative of the juniors saying that the best event was the Devon weekend.

Most of the junior’s thoughts that this year it would be better to find a campsite so they could walk to the surf.

The juniors really liked the Mike Ruinet contest and the grom contest.

The offer of the free hot chocolate at the Drift In was not popular as the kids had a hard time to get into the village. Nick says that the juniors want more contests and maybe it would be good to call contests in an impromptu way when the surf reports looked good.

We could run these events as a league table and then trophies given out at the end of the year.

(Spencer Hargreaves wants the best groms in the country to compete in getting into European contests on a wild card)

Tony Chennel gave the treasure report:

Approximately £1200 into our account and £1022 was spent.

We have £644.00 in the bank.

Voting results for the 2012 SSC committee:

President: Will Pleasance

Events manager: Adriano

Events assistance: Deshy Robbins

Junior Representative: Lucy Howell

Secretary: David Gammon

Treasure: Tony Chennel

End of AGM 12:40

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