Minutes of March 2016 Committee Meeting

West Cumbria Motorsport Club

 

Minutes of Committee Meeting held on 7^th March, 2016 at the Shepherd’s Hotel.

 

Present: -            Richard Barnard Stephen Dixon, Peter Lister, Russell Grant, Kerryl Steel, Pearl Wilson, Dave Culley, and Ian Aitken

                               

Apologies: -       David Mitchinson, Sam Steel, and Ryan Winthrop

 

Matters Arising: - None

                               

Treasures Report: 

 

CMSG/ANECC/ANWCC/SACC matters: - Nothing to report

 

Greystoke: -       Regulations will be available from the 9^th of May. The MSA has approved our grant application to buy two more radios and additional Greystoke equipment and have awarded us £408 towards the costs.

Correspondence: -          None.

 

Membership: -                                 Stands at 60.  Similar to this time last year

 

Club Secretary:-               Kerryl kindly agreed to take on this role in addition to being Treasurer

 

Competition Secretary: - Nothing to report

 

Events:                                

12^th  Mar              Malcolm Wilson Rally. Peter, Andy B, Mitch, Ryan and Ian doing Start in Main St.

21^st Mar               AGM – 7.30pm at the Shepherd Hotel

27^th Mar               Tarmac Autotest at Maryport.  Stephen organising. Invited clubs permit.

30^th  Mar              12 Car Rally - Sam and Kerryl to run. 7.45pm start from Shepherds Hotel area.

4th Apr                 Committee Meeting

10^th Apr                Autotest - Forward Facing – At Eastmans

1^st May                 Treasure Hunt - Pearl to organise

3^rd May                 Committee Meeting

8^th May                 Grass Autotest – Threlkeld Leys

6^th June                                Committee Meeting

20^th June              Grass Autotest/Bannockburn

3^rd July                  Distington Vintage Rally

 

Club Website.  Kerryl reported the invoice for 2016 had been paid.

 

ANECC web site. Website still down so no change

 

Club Nights

1.      

Battle of Bannockburn car trial/Autotest.  Kerryl has spoken with the MSA, if everyone takes part in all formats then the clubs fine. Details wanted of tests,  regs, ect. If everyone wants to do  the fun bits then we have to go back to the MSA

 

Club Banners/Display Stands.  Richard to add the two new radios to the inventory for the next meeting.

 

 

 

Autotest Venues.

1.      

Walkers Car Park.  Leaving for now

2.      

Moota. Possibly been bought, awaiting new owners to get in touch.

3.      

Eastmans. To be used in April

 

Dalemain.  Ian has sent an email to John Slone for WMC to discuss at their meeting.

 

Rally Sprint.  Ian, Russell and Richard to study Blue Book requirements and report back .

 

First Aid Training.  Dates of 16^th March and 6^th April have been booked with possible venue of M-Sport. 23 people have registered to attend.

 

MSA 2016 Seminars for Club Officials. – Ian has registered to attend the seminar at Carlisle on the 10^th of April.

 

Any other business

 

Marshals Training. Kerryl suggested we put a link to the MSA Marshals training page in the magazine. Peter to action.

 

MSA Media Accreditation.  Dave reported the scheme is a very vexatious issue and somewhat inconsistent.

 

Missing Awards. Russell believes two trophies from previous years may not have been returned and are therefore missing.  Ian and Kerryl said the may have lists from pervious awards nights and would pass them to Russell to see if we can locate them.

 

Meeting closed  21.00