The Climbers’ Club AGM has for me been traditionally a great opportunity to meet up with friends, enjoy a slap up dinner, and get involved helping set the direction of those that manage the club – the Main Committee. In fact the AGM is, from my point of view, the main opportunity for the membership to exercise democratic control over the direction of the club. All members are of course welcome to attend the AGM, and with only the optional dinner representing a cost I would contest that all members that have a view on the club’s direction should attend. If you don’t, then just as with a general election if you don’t vote, you tacitly accept the results – in the CC’s case – until the next AGM in a year’s time.
This year the AGM followed a pattern that started to emerge last year as Steve Scott continued his amazing plans to organise a weekend full of activities – a kind of uber-AGM, come meet, or simply
The line up of events was staggering:
- A “Bingo Quiz” hosted by the incoming president, Richard Wheeldon, on Friday evening at the Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley.
- Endless climbing at the Lakeland Climbing Centre all weekend. Complete with a special CC only climbing ladder competition on Saturday.
- Climbing masterclasses from John Dunne, Lucy Creamer, and Chris Gore.
- The AGM meeting itself chaired by the outgoing president Fiona Sanders. Followed by analysis and results from the online membership survey, and the AGM open-forum discussion about topics ranging from our eight huts to our various forms of communications with our 1600 members.
- AGM dinner, speeches, climbing ladder competition prizes, etc. Including the main after dinner speaker Jim Fotheringham.
- An awesome band, the Rusty Bullets.
- Plus at the wall over the weekend: a rock-shoe demo, a rope demo, gear testing, and various gear destruction tests by Lyon Equipment!
Now that’s a packed weekend! Easily the most exciting AGM line up I’ve seen in my 17 years in the club. Long may this kind of exciting agenda continue.
Here’s a very small sample of the hundreds of pictures I managed to grab over the weekend in between climbing, eating, chatting with friends, partying, and generally having a fantastic time…
Bingo Quiz at Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley
Kendal Wall
AGM at the Castle Green Hotel, Kendal
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AGM Dinner
Band – the Rusty Bullets
There will hopefully be more examples of the pictures I took during the weekend on the Climbers’ Club web site and in the club newsletter!
One more thing…
For those that didn’t spot the new mapping feature introduced to the site last weekend, here’s another example of
geo-tagging of the photographs that appear in this post…
HI Pete,
This looks more like the sort of thing that a modern club should be delivering. This is the sort of AGM that might actually attract climbers as well as “politicians”. Nice one
Sounds a brilliant AGM :star: Definitely the way forward.
But do you reckon that climbing masterclasses can really make you climb better ❓
Yes, if you listen and practice what you learn. But even so, I still think the secret of good footwork is strong fingers. 😉
Yes great time had. Thanks to Steve Scott who organised everything. Only just recovering and already climbing a grade harder!
Well, I bought a book one time about how to climb harder. About 200 pages and £25 but the only positive message was to (a) shred weight, about 2 stones in my case) and practice falling off (on bolts) ❗