2023 has been an exciting year with lots of training and skills days! We, The Committee, hope you enjoyed everything the Club has to offer and hole you are ready for 2024! Keep reading because there are some exciting things happening.
We hope you all have a great end of 2023 and an incredible start to the new year!
Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting will take place on Monday 22nd January 2024 at the White Swan, Kineton.
The AGM is important, and there is real importance attached to making it a great success. We really would like to have as many of you – the Group Members – come along and get involved. Please remember that this is your Group – come along and show your support!
There will be the activity reports from the outgoing Committee Members including our Financial Position, Membership numbers, Training successes, and perhaps most importantly, plans for the coming biking season and beyond!
Once the outgoing Committee Members step down and the new Committee members take their seats you will have the opportunity to put your questions to them and let them know what you would like to see taking place over the next few months.
Please find below a link to the committee nomination forms, for you to nominate your 2024 Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer and the Training Officer. We also need a couple of other members to join the Committee. These additional Members are needed to help spread the workload around as well as giving a voice to the wider membership – how about you! – You only have to say yes!
2024 Membership Fees
Alongside it being the time of year for our AGM, it is also the time of year than the annual membership fees are due in. These can be paid very easily into the following account:
Sort Code 30-91-91
Account number 51124868
Please use SUBS24 with your full name as the reference.
Not all members are due to pay this time around. Those that joined us under grant funding in 2023, and have NOT passed their test, are covered for 2024.
Those of you that have passed your tests, joined on the 2022 grant, or joined as a self-funded member, will be due to pay for their 2024 membership at a cost of £25 for the year.
Tours coming to SWAR!
As RoSPA South Warwickshire Advanced Riders grows, we are looking to schedule three multi day tours for qualified (and near qualified) riders to join.
These trips will enable the rider to move to the next stage in his/her riding career within the club and venture further afield with an experienced ride leader. This will help to overcome some of the common challenges involved in riding further afield and, in particular, in a foreign country.
For 2024, we have arranged three trips:
- April – A Three-day tour around Mid Wales
- July – A Four-day tour to Normandy and the D-Day Beaches
- September – A Five-day tour to the Vosges Mountains in the Alsace region of France
Further details of these trips are available in the calendar.
There will be a maximum of 10 bikes per trip (pillions welcome) allocated on a first come first served basis.
To request your place on the tour, please confirm with our Tours Officer, Rob Wilkie, which tour(s) you would like to attend. We will require a non-refundable deposit of £50 per tour (which may need to be changed if hotels demand a higher deposit to secure rooms). This will be used in part-payment of your accommodation costs.
If there are any questions, please let Rob know by email, rbwilkie@gmail.com
The Tech Corner
We have a new calendar available for the club. You will find it in the same place than the old one, but it is not more dynamic and interactive.
All the 2024 events are already there, go and check it out!
