NMC Committee Minutes Tuesday 5th December 2017 Attending Andrew Shanks (AS),Joe McCarty(JMcC), Ciara Barret(KB), Emma Smith(ES),Felix Larieu(FL), Radoslaw Florczak(RF), Steve Blake (SB),John Spencer(JS), Megan DenmanCleaver(MDC)
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Apologies Claire Robertson(CR), Joe Rudin (JR), Craig Harrison (CH), Adrian Wilson (AW), Eva Diran(ED)
Approval of Minutes of last meeting Minutes approved with corrections by general consensus
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Action Points and Matters Arising •
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SB reported on the ceilidh preparations ◦
SB will bestow honourary memberships at the buffet and JS will provide him with biographical information
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SB has NMC pins in presentation boxes for the honourary members
JS reported on the upcoming Stephen Venables lecture ◦
Stephen Venables has contacted JS asking for clarification on ticket availablity and payment options for non-members
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FL and JS will discuss the issue and provide proposed wording to Stephen
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The idea of offering places exclusively to club members for a window before opening ticket sales to the general public was raised
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JS will design a poster to promote the event and SB will take it round the shops
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SB will contact Scarpa for raffle prizes
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JS will contact the Lit and Phil to discuss promotion of the lecture
The Claire Rowntree presentation was discussed ◦
SB reports that the room in the Valley initially proposed as a venue will not be ready
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Hadrian Leisure, the Cumberland Arms and the Cluny 2 are being considered as alternative venues
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Winter Meets ◦
Many winter meets are already full
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FL reported a number of members complaining about not receiving emails FL reported that he had responded by sending the notices personally
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JS requested mailChimp access
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JMcC proposed notifying users via Facebook of the newsletter issue and asking those who have not received the newsletter to get in touch
BMC ◦
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SB reported on the BMC meeting ▪
SB believes there is no impact on the club of the BMC proposals and will respond that the club is in favour
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The language in the proposals around indoor climbing and competition climbing were discussed
Communication ◦
FL drew SB's attention to the membership resignation of a senior member that AW brought up at the previous meeting. ▪
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SB will follow up with AW
Guidebooks ◦
SB reported on the recent Wired guidebook meeting ▪
SB reported a controversy over the SMC trialling a Rockfax app that could be considered competition for the CC app •
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SB reported that Don Sergeant, Emma Alsford and Paul Donahil had produced a selected guide for Morocco and applied to join Wired •
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A like for like trial comparing the Rockfax app to the CC app was proposed
It was decided that Wired could not accept commercial organisations as members
SB reports that someone has volunteered to start uploading the NMC's route data to the CC app's database •
Once sufficient data is uploaded the NMC will pay a fee to the Wired cooperative and will subsequently receive payments from downloads
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AoB ◦
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SB has had a meeting with Steve Roberts of Scarpa to discuss the County book ▪
The ballpark figure to produce the book is £18k
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Steve Roberts is very comfortable to contribute £8k towards the book in exchange for a pro-rata share of any profits and an unobtrusive sponsorship notice, as in Peak Rock
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SB proposed that any profit the NMC sees over recovering their investment and a return equivalent to the current bank rate
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The size of the print run and the price point are yet to be decided
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SB described his efforts to clarify the access situation at Kyloe in the Woods and the proposal for the BMC to erect a more visible sign.
Next meeting Tuesday the 2nd of January