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A quick update on venue hires as we are starting to get lots of bookings.
We have appointed 5 caterers to use the RRC Boathouse as a venue for bookings. You can see information relating to these on the Venues page of the website. These caterers manage all aspects of a venue hire for us, giving us a professional image.
All caterers have access to the boathouse for the purpose of showing potential clients the venue and also for setting up and holding functions. Mainly clients will visit during the day when most rowers are not around, but if you do see people who are clearly looking at the boathouse as a venue, please just let them continue – the caterers know everything they need to in order to sell the venue.
We are putting all our bookings onto the calendar on the blog so that you know when the boathouse will be booked. Venue hires are a major fundraiser for us – potentially worth a new boat a year –  so please be considerate when a venue hire is in progress.
During a venue hire:
– You can still access the changerooms and gym as normal via the back stairs.
– You can open the wall between the gym and classroom if the classroom is not being used for the function but please ensure that all the blinds in the classroom are down.
– Please keep the changeroom, gym and internal boat bay doors shut to ensure security of your and the club’s possessions.
Caterers will have access to set up for a function from 2 hours before the start time. Once they start setting up,  please do not enter function areas.
Caterers will close up after a function. However, rowers should close up the boat bays as usual and leave via the rear doors.
Thanks for you help in making the most of our fundraising opportunity from venue hires.

If you have some free time on Friday morning after 8.30 am, please help us clear out our old furniture into the skip!

If those training Thursday night can flex those muscles for an extra workout and carry stuff down ready to go that will be a great help.

NOTE: Thursday/Friday will be an excellent time to claim any items cleared from lockers.

• Do you have a spare hour or two once a month?
• Have you been away from the club for a while, and would like to ease your way back onto the scene?
• Have you had inspiring coaches in the past, and feel you could share your rowing tips?
• Have you been coaching (or wanted to) but found the time commitment and organisation was beyond what you could give?

If any of this is you, then we have some great news.
This season we are proposing to run a new rowing structure – one that allows coaches with almost any level of experience and time commitment to be involved with the club, and to contribute to a team coaching culture.
We plan for the squads to move to bigger, more inclusive groups. To give you some idea of how things will be run:

• Winter training will have a skills and fitness focus. Squads will be mixed and will not train in set boats or by sweep/scull only.
• The head/sprint/masters phases are aimed at maximising the competitive experience of our sport.  We will focus on boats chosen across the squads and with an equal priority.
• Coaches will primarily coach the squad, not the same boat, working in pairs so that each rower gets the benefit of each coach’s experience (as does the other coach).
• Boats will not spend the entire session with one coach, moving between work with the coaches and away on their own.
• In each competitive phase of the season, as key regattas approach coaches will work more often with specific boats, although the group approach will remain.
• We will have set weekly club training sessions.  Squads will be run using a combination of online sign-up boards and dedicated squad organisers.
• Training plans will be set for the entire squad, so coaches available for any particular week simply need to deliver one of the session plans allocated for that week.

The RRC Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Saturday 26 July 2014 at 10AM in the clubhouse. Although the redevelopment will not be completed, we will have access and use of the hall. It will be a great opportunity for members to meet, appreciate the improvements to our hall, as well as participating in the AGM.
The AGM includes reports from the current committee, elections for the 152^nd committee and voting on changes to the Rules of Association (RofA).
We are required to make a few changes to our RofA to be compliant with the Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012. The Committee has taken the opportunity to review all our RofA and make a few other amendments to reflect current requirements and modernise language. A link to the summary of changes is below.
If you are considering nominating for the 2013-14 committee then please speak to a current committee member to seek information on the time and work required. A link to the nomination form is below.
All nominations for the 2014-15 committee must be with the Secretary 14 days prior to the AGM, that is Saturday 12 July 2014. Completed nomination forms can be scanned and attached in an email to the Secretary ([email protected]) ,handed to me in person or posted to the Secretary. Currently no mail box is available at the club, so all mail needs to be directed to; 13A Warana Way Mount Eliza 3930. Continue reading “RRC Annual General Meeting 26 July 2014”