NMC Committee Minutes Tuesday 3rd April 2017 Attending Andrew Shanks (AS), Felix Larieu(FL), Radoslaw Florczak(RF), Steve Blake (SB), Megan Denman-Cleaver(MDC), Craig Harrison (CH)
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Apologies Joe McCarty(JMcC), Joe Rudin (JR), Eva Diran (ED), Adrian Wilson (AW), John Spencer(JS), Claire Robertson(CR), Camilla Mapstone(CM), Emma Smith(ES)
Approval of Minutes of last meeting Minutes approved by RF and FL
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Action Points and Matters Arising •
RF reports that 17 T-shirts have been sold at a price of £10 each
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FL reports that he has been approved for access to the club's bank account and is waiting for the card reader that will allow him online access
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StB reported that the hotel in which the previous year's President's Dinner had been held is willing to do a deal for this year and that he intends to take them up on it ◦
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RF suggested we should ask for better vegetarian options
StB raised the issue of joint meets with the Wanneys ◦
A member of the Wanneys club has suggested the possibility of the Wanneys and the NMC running joint meets
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ED will be asked if there are winter meets on which additional spaces can be booked with the option of use by Wanneys members
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The committee agreed to promote 2 or 3 Wednesday evening meets to the Wanneys club and invite them to weekend camping meets
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The proposals are to be put to John from the Wanneys and discussed further on NMC chat
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CH reported that a number of the Facebook events for Wednesday night meets had been created as private, and that he plans to delete them and recreate them
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StB reports that the NMC and Mark Savage will be collaborating on a history of climbing in Northumberland for the club's 75th anniversary and expects financial support from Scarpa ◦
The size of the print run and distribution strategy are to be discussed
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Guidebook Issues •
StB reported that the club would not be producing new definitive guides while still holding large stocks of the current guides and continuing to sell the current guides
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Contributions to the wired guide will continue
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StB reports that the different contributors to the Wired guidebook have agreed to subcontract layout work to Don Sergeant to ensure a consistent style ◦
StB reports that a representative of Cordee was at the Wired guidebook meeting and believed that the Northern Rock guidebook could sell as two volumes
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StB reports that so far there is only one volunteer for the NMC guidebook subcommittee and that he will put out a call for volunteers on Facebook
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The extent of regrading that may be required was discussed
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StB reported that a number of crags were being re-photographed with drone photography AoB
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CH raised the issue of inducting new honourary members ◦
Candidates for induction are to be decided next month
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CH proposed some form of ceremony to be associated with the induction of honourary members ▪
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StB suggested that honorary member induction could be accompanied by a presentation at the President's Dinner
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StB proposed that a limited number of members could be considered for honourary status on an annual basis
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MDC proposed a Gogarth meet
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StB drew the committee's attention to the BMC meeting on Thursday the 6 th about the motion of no confidence
Next Meeting •
Tuesday 2nd May