Appeal to members

An Appeal for New Committee Members

Our longest serving committee member, Derek Bradley, resigned from the branch committee in September due to ill health. We are sad to see him go, as he had been an active committee member since 1994, holding the positions of Branch Chairman from 1995 to 2003 and Regional Chairman from 2003 until 2009.

The existing committee has been together for a very long time; Peter joined in 1996, Stephen 1998, Keith & John 2004, Enid & Carole 2010 and Gail 2014. As you can see, even our newest recruit has been on the committee for 7 years !!

So once again we are appealing for people to join the committee.

The Great Ouse committee embraces the slogan “Waterways for All” and that includes boaters, canoeists, paddleboarders, wild swimmers, walkers, nature lovers and fishermen, all of whom enjoy our lovely rivers. If you do any of the above activities, or are just keen to protect and develop our local waterways, then it would be super to have you join our committee so that we could benefit from your input and ideas.

We have 5 or 6 committee meetings a year when we plan and manage our 4 winter general meetings plus any branch outings. We also take a publicity/ sales tent to a couple of local fairs each year, ie at Reach & Ely. At present we hold committee meetings at the same venue as our general meetings ie North Lodge Pavilion in Milton as this is central to those who come from Bedford, Royston, Bury St Edmunds, Thetford and Ely areas, but we would be happy to consider alternative venues.

The committee also usually have a couple of get-together meals each year. Our committee meetings have plenty of friendly banter and we even have an itemised place in the agenda for a drink and cake break !!