Every dive manager is given access to a Google Drive folder, which includes guidelines for the financial management of a trip, the money marshall spreadsheet (which helps track divers, deposits, money spent, etc.), and the trip’s cash sheet detailing all transactions related to the trip. Examples can be seen in Appendix 1.3f including a completed money marshall sheet for the Normandy 75 expedition.
1.4 Information With a large and diverse membership, there are noticeable differences in how members prefer to receive information. As a policy, all information about trips, training and other events must be circulated first by email so that every member has equal access to it. After that, our other channels are used, and members’ preferences determine how they best respond. Our Marketing & Communications Officer has been reviewing how to maximise the impact and reach of information particularly for training and dive trips. We have experimented with glossier trip and training promotion, which has worked well. Examples of trip promotion are in Appendix 1.4a. Newsplash is our regular newsletter, which, for the last couple of years, has been posted as an open blog on our website with an email alert sent to all members and Friends of Clidive - mostly ex-members who have opted to stay in touch. It promotes all club social and diving activities and contains links to our trip reports, which are published as separate blog posts. It also highlights important news and information such as updated safety information from the club or BSAC. Appendix 1.4b contains Newsplash 2019 publications. Occasionally, members also post a blog if they have been away on a big trip. In June, Gregory told us about the diving he had done while travelling in Asia between September 2018 and January 2019. Gregory’s post ‘Diving South East Asia: A Clidiver’s Highlights’ is in Appendix 1.4c.
1.4.1 Use of Social Media Clidive has a vibrant social media scene. The main channels are the private Facebook group and the Whatsapp group. Some members belong to both of these, others have a preference for one or the other, and some for neither! Both are active. Specific Whatsapp groups – many of them temporary – are used to share information with those taking part on dive trips or in other club activities. This efficiently targets information and provides a discussion forum for those who need it, without overloading the other Clidive channels.
Joli Riley meets up with former member Kamal Shaker in Australia last year
12 | SHARING THE ADVENTURE
