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President’s Column – August 2026

At our last meeting, we showed the results of our Trenna Packer competition. It was nice to see lovely sets being presented. A big thanks to Robyn for organising the competition and to Craig Mackenzie for being our judge. Both of these jobs take a good amount of time and I would like to acknowledge that.

I am looking forward to this weekend’s Cass trip. I have not had the chance to get out much recently, so am hoping for some nice weather and photography opportunities. The club does have lots of trips and workshop up on our website. Please do take time to look at these and sign up to them if interested. The Committee are currently looking to improve how we indicate people’s physical abilities with the trips we do. We have many trips that don’t require much physical ability and others where physical ability is important for everyone’s enjoyment. Future trips will include some information about expected physical abilities. We will also be adopting better risk assessment for our trips and so expect to see this briefed more at the start of trips.

Is anyone in the club a Graphic Designer or know a Graphic Designer? Our template for printing certificates is not easy to use with common software and we are reliant on one or two people to prepare certificates for us. It would be great to be able to produce our certificates in the likes of MS Word or PowerPoint. If you know a Designer who may be interested in helping make some templates for us please let myself or a committee member know.

Welcome to our new members: Tony Greaves, Vandy Pollard, and Greg Pringle.

Regards

James Thompson