REIGATE & REDHILL
NORTH DOWNS MOTOR CLUB
MINUTES OF
COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON 4TH MARCH 2009
Present
Dave Charman, Richard Coles, Debbie Don, Jo Jenkins, Pete
Jenkins, Jan Smewing.
Approved.
Matters
Arising
None.
Secretary’s Report
Nothing to report.
Treasurer’s Report
Nothing to report, still working on accounts.
Editor’s Report
We welcomed Debbie to the Committee. She will collect and collate items for publication in the Club magazine and get them to David for printing before the monthly deadlines.
Membership
Secretary’s Report
Not
present.
Competition Secretary’s Report
If we hold
an evening trial at Don’s we need to decide if we want to do our own barbecue
or let the owners provide the food.
Richard will make enquiries regarding holding an evening trial at
Sparticles Wood, although we would need to do some clearing beforehand for
parking.
The Star
Group is looking for a new President and Pete may put himself or Keith Cross
forward for the role. Southern
Sporting, who are part of the Star Group, will possibly be stepping down from
running a trial next year.
The
possibility of running our August Club trial in conjunction with our South
Coast trial was discussed, as opposed to holding it at the Camping
Weekend. We decided this was not really
workable and will drop our August Club trial.
Scores will now be best 8 from 11.
When we use
Hookwoods for trials, we are charged £8 per rider by the owners, which is what
we charge our under 16s. A lot of
Surrey Schoolboys usually attend Hookwoods so we are in effect losing money as
we have to pay for their insurance too.
We do not want to increase the rate for our riders so guest riders will
be charged an extra £5 at Hookwoods to help contain costs.
We will
update our entry forms to give four choices – adult RRND member, child RRND
member, adult guest and child guest – so that it is easier to identify guest
riders.
The Old
Codger has been booked for 18 October 2009, so our Club trial will take place
the following Sunday, 25 October.
Social Secretary’s Report
Unfortunately
the Dinner Dance had to be cancelled.
We needed a minimum of 30 people to run this event and only had a
possible 20. A decision was made to
cancel, at a loss to the Club of £719.
Jo and Pete
offered to run a seventies themed party at their house as an alternative
evening out, open to all RRND members, £10 per head to cover cost of food,
people to bring a bottle, any left over monies to go into Club funds. This will be advertised on the website. A new gazebo will be purchased for use at
same, as well as other Club events.
This was
well attended. The Minutes have been
put on the website.
The Smith
family won the competition to design a new Club logo, with the prize being free
membership. Jo will reimburse the £24
they have paid for family membership. JJ
We may
purchase a Club bike. Some of the people
that attend the Training Trials would like to try a bike. They usually join the Club after a few
trials so it would be a good idea. It
would need to be transported (probably by Richard Coles) and maintained and
would only be available to non members at training trials. At other times we may hire it out to members
if their bike isn’t working. We will
look for a 200cc machine and Dave Charman will take to Chris Roos as he may
have a suitable bike available.
Wednesday 6th May 2009 at the Home Cottage,
Redstone Hill, Redhilll.