Welcome to the May newsletter

Firstly I’d like to welcome all the new members, hope you’re enjoying your paddling, and great to see so many paddlers down at Stanton, either on the courses or social paddling.

At the start of the month we had the Llangollen camping weekend. During the weekend 18 of us paddled the Dee, and a big group of us paddled the upper and lower Tryweryn, on the Monday a few of us headed to LLandegla for some mountain biking, it was a great club weekend, thanks to everyone who joined us. We have had a few other trips/events including the annual Midland canoe show at the Nene W/W centre, this is Canoe kayak trader (leam boat centre) event, where they have demo boats, workshops, which some members went on and a boatercross challenge. Penny is now the HCC boatercross champion.

As always there is plenty on the calendar to put in your diaries, including lots of 3 star training, a 2 star trip and hopefully something for everyone. For the people that don’t know, a group of paddlers are off to the Southern Alps in France for 2 weeks soon, so good luck and have a great time guys.

See you on the water Dave Clarke

This training course aims to provide paddlers with the key safety and rescue skills required to operate safely and to be able to deal with common emergencies. These skills form the foundations for safety and rescue throughout BCU qualifications.

The award has two purposes;

• To provide the paddler with the necessary skills which will enable them to ensure the safety of themselves and others

• To provide the paddler with the appropriate rescue skills which can be used to help themselves and/or others in difficulty

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To book on please contact Hayley Clarke.

Purpose of the Aquatic First Aid Level 2 Award:  To provide candidates with a level of knowledge and skill to render first aid in a range of emergency situations in an outdoor environment where advanced medical assistance may be delayed.  To provide BCU coaches with an “intermediate” understanding of first aid in an outdoor environment. To build upon the AFA L1 award to provide a 16 hour first aid award.

To book on please contact Hayley Clarke.

This month we have to trip reports

Midland Canoe Show

Doggy Paddle

It’s a great help to have trip reports from members, so keep them coming in.

Whats comming up

We have setup a club You Tube Channel, Still loads of work to do on it so any ideas are allways welcome

If you would like any videos uploading or featured please let us know.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtqjEv17UnzeK8ghMhzoXULTJSaMLgcqp