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Committee Vacancies: April 2020

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Alas, all good things must come to an end. With April ahead of us it is time to advertise vacancies for committee positions where your dear leadership team are stepping down. Some need to organise weddings, some need to organise their sock draw, but all have given a great deal to the club as we celebrate land speed records, record membership, record success, record cake consumption and a generally sucessful time at K&D. I guess even David Attenborough is an endangered species these days.

Note: The incumbent residents of committee roles will all help guide you through the processes and requirements. You won’t be thrown in at the deep end!

Chair:
I am stepping down after 3 years as chair. I have loved the job and helping the club to grow. I still plan to do all the back office stuff I do now, and remain on the committee to support the new chair implement K&D’s next phase of development (if they will have me) but it’s time to let someone take the reins and implement their vision for 2020 onwards.

The role involes oversight of the club, committee and The Arden 9, but should involve significantly less admin than in the past. It’s vital the chair is someone of great leadership, well respected and loves the club. I’d suggest it is also vital they are able to commit to regular Wednesday leadership as a visible presence. From within the committee I feel Paul Winwood has all the qualities needed. However in the interests of healthy democracy if you feel you have a vision for the club, the skills and a desire to lead please do put your name forward and if we have more than one person apply a vote will take place in April at the AGM.

Current Nominees: Paul Winwood

Treasurer:
Holder of the purse strings, responsible for payment of affiliations and various other things like saying No to me requesting bronze statues of Richard Dixon. Ideally someone with a financial background in accounting or similar. Speak to Jan Hornby for more info.

Current Nominees:

Membership Secretary:
Isa has had her hands full with record numbers of K&D, but she’s also overseen us move to a new fully online system of payments for club membership which has reduced workload massively. The job now is to chase those of you who are late paying, to encourage new runners to join officially and to keep an eye on the Membership Secretary’s portal (Darren also has access to this via work and will occasionally ‘borrow’ 10 mins of work time to process a new member but shhhhh!)

Current Nominees:

Club Secretary:
This is probably the most important role on the committee. Jo has indicated she might do another year if necessary but after 3 excellent years service and looking after Darren she probably deserves a break. You MUST be organised. The role largely covers things like distributing info from leagues, entering teams into things like XC and Road Relays, and minuting committee meetings. Lots of things like entry deadlines you need to keep on top of. You do all the hard work while the chair gets the plaudits. BUT you’re definitely the chair’s favourite person in the world (after Jenna Louise-Coleman and Becky Wood off the Weather on BBC).

Current Nominees:

Ladies Team Captain:
Rosie has overseen a dominant Cross Country league win and a women’s team that puts out 30 women for Cross Country races. Success is an understatment. She also bakes a mean brownie. But she has a wedding to plan. The next ladies team captain should be hopefully be someone who enjoys racing. We’d like someone who loves Cross Country so we can keep that incredible success and participation going. If you feel you can bring similar levels of motivation and drive we’d love to have you on board. Ideally someone who can commit to running the cross country season fixtures and some of the WRRL (though that runs itself largely).

Current Nominees: Caroline Edwards

Run Leader Coordinator:
If Paul were to become chair we’d need a new Run Leader Coordinator. Mostly involes using the WhatsApp to sort Wed Nights roster of leaders and hosting a meeting 1-2 times per year of Run Leaders to guage any issues. Also tasked with encouraging club members to take their Leadership in Running Fitness course. Due to retirement and a new job Hannah England isn’t able to make Monday’s or Wednesday’s as in previous years. However the Run Leader Coordinator will work alongside Hannah to deliver sessions, feedback and plan any coaching events.

Current Nominees:

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K&D Committee 2018/19

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Following the K&D AGM on 18th April please see below for your club’s committee for 2018/19.

We would also like to appoint a vice-women’s captain should anyone wish to support our Women’s Captain.

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All Club Members: Club Member Etiquette and parkrun support

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Expectations

As a club we expect the highest standards from our members and that includes respect towards fellow runners, officials and event volunteers at all events as standard and irregardless of circumstances. 

With running being a small community, even when not in club-colours, a single recognised club member is reflective of the whole of K&D RC. We have an excellent reputation and the club committee is determined to ensure our well earned respect within the wider-community continues. 

The committee appreciates things happen in running events that may upset or frustrate you. Should you wish to speak to an event director of any race or run about an incident or issue please do feel free to contact the committee who will advise and offer support where we can and to ensure things are done in a way the befits the values of the club and all our members while addressing your concerns fully. Please remember that you represent everyone in the club. 

Helping on a Saturday 

Brueton parkrun has seen a massive rise in numbers since 2016. It is now vital that to ensure it continues to function you play a role in its organisation on a weekly basis. You are experienced runners who are needed to share your knowledge. Please stay religiously to the right of the path – you should not be crossing the white line.  If you see none club runners running on the left please encourage them to stay right. 

parkrun is a two way agreement between a very understanding set of volunteers and the runners. If this understanding breaks down then Brueton parkrun will stop.  As a club we have a responsibility to help the parkrun team with our skills and experience. 

Your Committee Supporting You

I know there will be situations that frustrate. I was left sitting on the side of the road at the Knowle Fun Run by St. Johns for 2 hours with a broken hip in 2014 before being told it was a muscle tear and given paracetamol and told to go home by them. My leg was snapped in two,  major surgery was needed and I was off work 4 months. You can imagine the frustration at the treatment…

But please remember without volunteers we have no events, club or sport.  A polite email or conversation after is much more likely to fix any situation and your club committee will always support you in that. 

Thank you for your support and consideration. You are to a person a pleasure to work with and I’m sure going forward every one of you will help contribute to the positive running community we are building in Solihull. 

Regards, 

Darren

Chairperson

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Committee Minutes – 26th April

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Details of the minutes from the most recent committee meeting held on the 26th April 2017 can be found here:

K&D Committee Meeting Minutes 26 04 2017

All Committee documentation can be found here:

http://knowleanddorridgerunningclub.org.uk/committee-documents/

The next committee meeting shall happen on Wed 7th June 2017. Please forward any concerns or suggestions to one of your committee members in advance. 

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Committee Meeting Minutes – 29th March 2017

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The Club Committee met on 29 March 2017.

Minutes from the meeting can be found here:

K&D Committee Meeting Minutes 29 03 2017

All other Committee Documents can be found here: Committee Documents

If you have any issues, concerns or ideas please speak to one of your committee members. We’re always looking for ways to improve the club and help provide a safe, social environment that helps improve performance, health and wellbeing.

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Club Constitution Updated

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In line with the AGM vote on April 5th 2017 the club constitution has now been passed and updated on the website.

The new club constitution can be found here:

Club Constitution

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Constitutional Amendments – AGM Proposal

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Hello K&Ders

There are a number of revisions that have been made to the K&D Constitution. These are proposed for approval at the upcoming AGM.

Geoff Lewis has kindly and diligently been working on this (Should the American Founding Fathers have included a Geoff i’m sure we’d not be in the situation we currently find ourselves in across The Pond).

Please read the constitution prior to our AGM on 5th April:

K&DRC constitution final approved 02.10.13 REVISION 25.02.17

The revisions made by Geoff will be open for debate and, hopefully, approval on the night. Should you wish to discuss any issues pre-AGM (constitution or indeed otherwise) please contact the club on kdrunningclub@gmail.com or speak to a committee member. 

Regards,

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Knowle FC: Storm Doris Roof Damage

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Storm Doris caused substantial damage to Knowle FC’s Club House yesterday.

Everyone at K&D RC Would like to send our full support to Knowle FC.

They’ve been incredibly supportive of us recently during our move to their home and anything we can do to return the favour in this difficult time i’m sure we’ll jump at the chance to help them. Most importantly nobody seems to have been hurt in the incident.

As you can see from the image below the roof was torn from the club house in the high winds. This will obviously cause us issues going forward. Your club committee have been discussing the issue already and once we have liaised with Knowle FC we will give you as much information as possible.
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