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10th January 2005, 9:30pm Huddersfield Sports Centre

Minutes from Meeting
 

1.	Apologies None received All other committee members present except Trish Holmes, Andy Waugh and Steve Hill Also present, Diane Hepworth and Gary Exton
2.	Matters Arising Compressor No update.  Andy Briggs will chase up Sarah Flanaghan and Ray will chase up Colin Octopush T-Shirts Andy Briggs has received the logo but has not yet passed it onto Stewart for distribution. 50th Anniversary Dinner - 113 tickets have now been sold and it is expected to sell at least 120.  the closing date for tickets will be in 2 weeks as we need to commit to and pay for a fixed number for the venue.  Pete will approach Bear Divers Kate will approach Divers Warehouse and Andy Briggs will approach Robin Hood for raffle prizes (preferably gift vouchers to increase the relevance to all attendees). Pete agreed to provide a display board for photo's to be shown.  Pete and Stewart jointly agreed to take responsibility to ensure the club laptop and projector were taken to the event and set up.  Kate confirmed that Martin Farr is willing to provide an after dinner speech at a reasonable cost. T-Shirts - Diane has produced a 'claim form' for members qualifying for the 50 dives in the 50th year and will coordinate the size requirements and pass to Stewart.  Diane will also produce an order for for other members offering t-shirts and sweatshirts with the 50th Year logo on it.  Helen Briggs will forward the logo to Stewart.  The logo is to be displayed on the breast approx. 2.5" diameter.  Diane will confirm final phrasing for the special t-shirts.
3.	Membership Secretary No new members since the last report
4.	Diving Officer's Report What an event it was on Boxing Day! Not only did 16 divers turn up to face the Acrtic conditions but some brave supporters standing watching in the snow. We were also joined by Paul Rayner who was evidently a member of our club nearly 50 years ago and was enjoying his 70th birthday on Boxing Day. He said that seeing so many members of BSAC18 still continuing the tradition was the best birthday present he could have had. He enjoyed chatting with us and telling us about some of his amazing experiences. I still wish we could still see the wrecks the way they must have looked back then but I began to realise that it was divers like Paul and his fellow club members who actually did most of the pillaging. He took great delight in describing all the parts they removed from wrecks like the Hispania. I took pleasure in telling him about some more recent members returning the parts from the Brummer to the museum at Scapa Flow. We had managed our weekend before Christmas trip to St Abbs and had two dives on the Saturday. The viz was terrible and the surge was powerful in places but we all had a good time. The only equipment failure was my own apart from one or two freeflows. All good experience. My suggestion for 2005 is.. get any equipment serviced that needs doing in good time. Don’t wait until the first trip of the year to try it out. So often regulators and things play up after servicing and it’s better to discover the problem at Capernwray than in the North Sea. My final thought is about the tsunami. I know that every member of this club will have been deeply shocked by all the news and wondered whether any divers were lost. As far as I know from people like Tony Backhurst, all his customers have been accounted for but obviously there are still a lot of people missing. How easily any of us could have been on holiday out there. Makes you appreciate every day how lucky you are to be alive. Hope you enjoy lots of good diving in 2005.
5.	Training Officers Report 8 Ocean Diver trainees are now ready for open water training and a new Ocean Diver course is starting next week.
6.	Treasurer's Report December - positive balance of £537.00 Year to date - positive balance of £2171.35 These figures include receipts for the Anniversary Dinner of £2700.00 and expenses of £500.00 paid as a deposit and £21.00 paid for postage.  The final payment to the venue will be made in three weeks. Richard will enquire with the bank as to whether we are paying tax on any interest received.
7.	Equipment Officer's Report Existing equipment is continuing to be serviced as and when necessary.  Two tanks have recently failed. Andy informed the meeting of an ex-PADI school that is selling off its full range of kit for what appears to be a very reasonable price.  Andy and Pete will invesigate in more detail but the committee approved the purchase if it was felt to be good value as much of our existing club kit is coming to the end of its servicable life.
8.	Welfare Officer Report Gary asked for the contact details of all active instructors - Ray will forward. Gary explained that to comply with BSAC Head office procedures, we had to arrange to amend the constitution to adopt the BSAC Guidelines for training vulnerable people.  This can only be done at an AGM and Gary will forward the motion for voting to Stewart to ensure it is included on the agenda.....adopting the BSAC Policy and implementing our own procedures will then allow us to carry out Criminal Records Bureau checks on all relevant members of the club (committee officers and instructors). Gary will prepare a document that can be made available to all club members prior to the AGM to explain our approach and to detail the AGM motion, based on  recent experiences and BSAC guidance.
9.	Club Awards This year, the awards normally presented at the AGM shall be, instead, announced at the AGM and awarded as part of the Anniversary Dinner event.