Date: Monday Monday the 28th of September 2015.
Elswick Harriers Monthly Committee meeting
Present: Colin Bolton, Tom Hanson, Rob Wilson, Steve Robertson, Derek Nelson, Frank
Watson, Mary Lisle, Harry Matthews, Peter Sloan, Lalage Brown
Absent: Dave Jardin, Mark McLeod, Graham Bell.
Minutes of the previous meeting.
The previous minutes were read by the group and accepted
Matters Arising:
HM raised a question on the proposal for the increase of the subscription for 2015/2016 for
clarification.
TH re-iterated to the Committee that the reasons for the intended increase in subscriptions
are due to England Athletics membership going up and the increase in the costs of the
NEHL, HM thanked him for the clarification.
Leadership in Running courses, only Judith Flannigan has so far come forward to show
interest in the course.
Norman Woodcock:
FW gave the committee an update.
Gosforth Park has informed Frank that they not allow us to use the current course due to
impending civil works in and around the race course.
Other options were looked at by TH and FW but they came to the conclusion that there was
no real possibility of holding the race in Gosforth Park.
TH came up with another suggested route for a 5 mile course using Newburn Activity Centre
as the headquarters and starting at the road adjacent to Warburtons running riverside
towards B@Q and returning the same route approx. 5 Ml but would need checking out.
TH suggested getting some club members to run the route at the same time/day that the
race would take part in order to assess the course and the amount of traffic/ walkers/cyclists
etc. That would use the same route.
The course would be mainly off road.
TH to announce the trial run at the next Club nights.
Centre Lighting.
Newburn Leisure Centre is currently changing all of its lighting to LED, GB was going to
address the Committee on asking them to change the ones on the field which Elswick
purchased and also maybe adding a few more to light up the field better in the winter
months, this would be at a cost to the Club.
FW asked the Staff on duty if they had received any official costing for this work but was told
that this was still under discussion.
The Committee decided to add this to the agenda of the next meeting when we could get a
formal quotation for the cost of changing/adding to the lighting.
Tent Duties:
GB through FW added this to the agenda to see if the Club could organise a rota system for
members who are attending the NEHL to take the Tent to the course and put it up with
another taking it down and bringing it back to the centre for storage.
ML suggested a table with dates of each race be put on the notice board asking for
volunteers to commit to an event.
Running Groups:
FW asked if the various running groups within the Club had been informed of what is
available to them.
LB responded that she had informed the group that Les Williams takes out of the other
options of training ie longer runs, sessions, running in a faster group, but had no response.
CB asked about the ‘Running in Leadership Courses’ were any members running within
these groups holding this accreditation or willing to take this on in the future as we are not
abiding by England Athletics rules with the ratio of runners to coaches.
FW to ask Les if he is willing to go on the course DN who also runs with the group offered to
take the course. HM stated that he would also be willing to go on the course.
AGM FRIDAY 20th NOVEMBER at 7.30pm.
FW confirmed the booking at the leisure centre.
Proposal so far would be to change the financial year to January to fall in line with members
subscriptions to England Athletics.
Due to increases in the fees to England Athletics and the NEHL fees the proposed
subscriptions will lead to an increase in members fess to:
Seniors/Vets Competing - £50.00
U/20
- £28.00
O/65 Competing
- £29.00
Non Competitors
- £34.00
Non Competitors O/65 - £12.00
Training Venues:
FW reported that from the initial incident where a club member had almost come into contact
with a motorist that GB had a confrontation with a member of the public who complained
that a lot of the runners are running on the wrong side of the road and not wearing HI VIZ
clothing, GB told him that he would inform the Committee of his concerns.
LB confirmed this and said that some of the groups are running on both sides of the road
and a lot without HI VIZ clothing.
After some discussion rather than cause any further confrontation that before each session
the members are informed by the person taking the session to all stay on the same side of
the road and ask any member not wearing HI VIZ clothing to not take part in the session.
A message to this effect will be posted on the Club Website.
New Members:
George Turnbull
Emilie Turnbull
Kerrie Old
Rosie Morrison
Rachel Galler
Tim Cooke
Rachael Hambil
Alexandria Hare
Mary Rack
Debbie Spoor
Ponteland
Ponteland
Ponteland
Prudhoe
Ryton
N/cle
Ryton
N/cle
N/cle
R/Gill
Junior
Junior
Senior
Senior
Senior
Senior
Senior
Junior
Senior
Senior
Club Vests
CB/SR informed the Committee that due to an increase in the cost of the vests from the
supplier that currently we are selling them at a loss to the club.
After some discussion it was decided to increase the price of a Club Vest to £15.00.
Next meeting on Monday 2nd of November @ 7.30pm.
TH closed the meeting @ 9.10pm