Hi Everyone
Just a bit of an update on things that have been going on this Month.
If you did not see the Facebook post or read your email, we’ve had a slight change to communication methods. Due to a lack of interest in the newsletter (both reading it and contributions to it) we have now stopped sending it. Instead we are making more use of the website and have created a ‘Latest News’ section. All the new trip reports, articles etc and my chairman’s reports that go on website, will appear on this section first, so they are easy to find. The trips and events will still go onto the calendar as they always have and we’ll still be using Facebook too as most of the members are on this, and really like using it.
The Pool sessions have been a sell out again and are going really well at Desford, great to see everyone doing well, learning new skills and having fun. The HCC Hammerheads polo team is very popular too and we now have a lot of keen members on the team and the Sunday night training sessions are going great. Over time more kit will be available and I even think some friendly games with other clubs are on the cards. Thank you to all the coaches and helpers involved for both of these, we really could not to it without you.
We’ve had a few trips including the Nene W/W centre, River Avon, Full moon (Halloween) canal trip, Matlock introduction to white water for both canoe and kayak and a social night/get together. Please see trip reports for some of these on the website. We have also had the annual Crickhowell HCC Christmas weekend away. This was a great social weekend in a great bunkhouse, lovely food, good company and a bit of paddling and walking thrown in as well, hopefully some trips report will be out for this soon (any volunteers please??) Big thank you to Hayley Clarke for organising this great weekend.
Well done To Martin Stretton who has passed his 3 star open canoe assessment this month. and to Martin Aldridge who has completed his level 2 coach training.
We have now got quite a few new boats and one more SUP, all the details are on a website article if you want to see what the club has been buying.
Happy paddling and I look forward to seeing a lot of you at the Christmas meal
Dave Clarke