HCC Open Day
As many of you will know, via the Facebook post, we have decided to cancel the HCC open day this year.
There are a couple of reasons that led us to this not easy decision and we’d like to try and outline the committee’s view.
Firstly the club is really strong at the moment with record membership numbers and lots on the calender every month, if we were to get a big influx of new members from the open day we just could not cope with the extra numbers on a thursday night session, some of last years sessions were a bit of a challenge to get enough coaches and kit on the water. We do have expansion plans for the site, kit and coached but that’ll take time to get in place to enable us to support larger groups during the summer.
Secondly this event is a very big thing to organise with months of prior planning and organising. We have not been successful this year in getting third parties (kit suppliers, open water swimming, etc..) involved to make this day such a good event and don’t want to put something on that does not stand up to the success of previous years.
Also we recognise that the open day in the past has been a great day for members to bring their family along to see what we get up to and have a chance to go in some boats etc and so to try not to loose this fun opportunity we will be putting on a members fund day in the summer.
We are still actively trying to grow the club, by training new coaches and trip leaders and encouraging more members, but want to grow in a way that is sustainable and does not outstretch out ability to put on enjoyable and safe sessions.
Rest assured it’ll be back in the future.
HCC Committee