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TRAINING TEAM NEWS

John Tullett

Coronavirus

With effect from 19th July we entered the final stage of the lockdown roadmap, step 4, which meant that most legal restrictions were lifted. The Government’s ‘Freedom Day’ saw a switch in emphasis with individuals now being expected to use personal judgment to manage risk. If you need to continue wearing a mask and/ or maintaining social distancing then these measures can easily be accommodated within EAMG’s training activities – just make your observer aware.

While it is too early to predict how things are going this change has enabled EAMG to resume a wider range of social activities, with Group Nights due to restart at Channels on Tuesday, 7th September.

Observer Team Changes

Unfortunately, over recent months some very experienced and valuable members of the Training Team have stepped down from observing including Senior Observer Assessor Richard Parker and Senior Ob-

server Phil Jones. Our Observer Coordinator, Eddy Brazier, is also standing down as an Observer at the end of 2021.

On a more positive note I am pleased to confirm that: Graham Cooper and Mick Hewitt recently passed their assessments to become Senior Observer Assessors; Paul Reynolds passed his Observer retest; and Danny Rutter qualified as an Observer in June. Congratulations to all four.

We are now in the process of arranging assessment rides for the Observers who expressed an interest in filling the vacant Senior Observer positions and observers due their standard two-yearly retests in 2021.

Thanks to EAMG’s success in attracting good numbers of new Associate members this year and the popularity of Further Training for Full Members (FTFM) the Group is actively seeking to recruit some new Trainee Observers. Following a recent Group e-mail eight Full members expressed an interest in becoming observers and, to date, two of these have confirmed that they wish to complete a Trainee Observer Assessment ride.

RoSPA & IAM Testing

Testing has now resumed but there do appear to be some delays in scheduling tests and retests. For example, I was due to take a 3yearly retest in April but heard nothing from RoSPA. After some chasing up my test eventually took place in August.

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