What's Happening??All participants hoping to complete their Gold expeditions during the year should attend a practice expedition and if you don't have much experience or just want to brush up on your skills the expedition training weekend aswell. Dates for these to be published shortly.
Participants wanting to organise other types of expeditions such as canoeing should come along to the monday meetings and discuss further possibilities.
This year we are hoping to have speakers come in to some of our meetings to give you ideas and advice about activities you can do for the other sections of the award. If you have any suggestions as to who you would like to come or something that particulary interests you let the committee know and we'll try to arrange something.
2007/2008:
| Date | Activity |
|---|---|
| 4/5th October | Fresh Fair (just come along and signup!) |
| 22nd October | MR4, 7.30pm introductory meeting. |
| 19th November | MR4, 7.30pm Training |
| 3rd December | MR4 7.30pm, Summer 07 Gold Presentations (& social for 2006/7 members and new members) |
| 21st January | Training 7.30-8.30 |
| 4th February | Training 7.30-8.30 |
| 18th February | Training 7.30-8.30 |
| 3rd March | Planning and Briefing for Day Walk 7.30-8.30 |
| Saturday 8th March | Day Walk (Compulsory for all GOLD Expedition participants) |
| 17th March | Debriefing from day walk and briefing for Practise Expedition, planning and looking over routes |
| Friday 21st March | leave for Practise Expedition |
| Sunday 23rd March | return from Practise Expedition (in evening) |
| 28th April | Final expedition route planning |
| 5th May | Route cards/tracings/consent forms etc must be completely finished and submitted on this evening, meeting to finish these and sort any other problems, check kit/food lists etc. Voting for new committee members |
| 16th June | Handover to new committee (possibly meal) |
| Friday 20th June | Leave for Final Expedition |
| Wednesday 25th June | Return from Final Expedition |
2006/2007:
| Date | Activity |
| Introduction and welcome, followed by a social | |
| Monday 30th Oct | Presentation by the groups from last year about their expeditions (assessed) |
| Monday 13th Nov | Guest speakers and information about the training weekend, followed by ice-skating. |
| Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th Nov | Training weekend |
| Mon 27th Nov | Epi! |
| Mon 4th Dec | Bring £5 deposit for the christmas meal to the Epi, committee will be attending from 8pm (must have deposit to be able to book you a place) |
| Mon 11th Dec | Christmas meal! Turnup to Zero Degree's at 7.30-8pm! (Last meet of the term) |
| Mon 22nd Jan | MR4, 8pm. If you're planning on coming on the expedition this year you MUST attend this meeting, will be sorting final groups and dates, bring a diary. |
| Mon 5th Feb | MR4 7.30pm. Route Planning. |
| Mon 22nd Jan | MR4 8pm. Sorting out groups and dates for final expeditions |
| Mon 5th Feb | MR 7.30pm. Route planning for the practise expedition, mandatory for those who wish to come on it. |
| Mon 12th Feb | MR4 7.30pm. Finishing the route cards for the practise expedition, also bring £30 to pay fee's for the practise expedition. |
| Mon 19th Feb | MR4 7.30pm. St.John's Ambulance first aid training, mandatory for anyone intending on attending the practise expedition. |
| Wed 21st Feb | Social to Jester's comedy club (for free!) |
| Mon 5th March | Second half of St.John's Ambulance first aid training (also mandatory). |
| Mon 19th March | Finalize everything for practise expedition (bring consent forms also, attached to emails). |
| 23rd March (Fri) | Leave late in the day for the practise expedition... |
| 26th March (Mon) | Return late in the day from the practise expedition! |
| Mon 23rd April | Just to go over what needs to be done for the expedition (7.30pm MR4) |
| Sat 5th May | Optional: MR4 has been made available 11am-5pm for gorups to use to plan their routes if needed. |
| Tues 8th May | Each group will need to bring route cards, route tracings, and the notification form. After the meeting we'll be voting for the new committee members. |
| 23rd June | Leave early in the day (around 10am) for the real expedition... |
| 27th June | Return late in the day (around 7pm) from the real expedition! |