Minutes of Meeting 22nd June 2026

1. Present and apologies

Present Gregor Muir, Norman Clark, Claire Abernethy Kennedy, Doug Little, Gill Barnes, Henry Cairns, Dave Parfitt, Jacqui Parfitt, Steve Bradley

Apologies Marian Austin, Mark Clark

2. Minutes of last meeting / actions: –

Just Go

CAK everyones paperwork in some pending approval.

Policies

Policies on website …DL has updated policies on website

Kids Club

5 potential level 2 trainees. CAK to contact Mark Clark re date for L2 training and to check whether can do assessment

waiting list is reducing. DL CAK and GM to look at reducing it further after summer holidays

Specsavers

Funding money has been paid in, Steph has been paid for coaching course, Nevis Cycles for bike and pumptrack for electricity costs

Banner up on fence, discussion around whether the banner might damage the fence in a storm but agreed fence stronger than banner.

Lta request for financial help for insurance annually £375 was raised at the final winter league race weekend and we have given them a further £375 towards the insurance. Question as to whether Kenny Forsyth was paid for burgers after race

Action CAK to check KF paid for burgers provided for BBQ

3. Winter League – dates and permissions for next year

Lance happy to do organisation again Action DP to get in touch with Lance to discuss

MA by email:- Need to be more proactive with wolftrax Action SB to chat to Christian once we have dates arranged

MA by email:- Suggest henry checks dates of triathlon events to try and prevent clashes .. discussed and agreed can be difficult to avoid clashes with LAC events and we should prioritise avoiding clases with triathlon events as more crossover between triathlon and whw than lac and whw race participants

4. Stripe – membership changes

JP:- email from Stripe asking us to update details .. if not completed account would be suspended. JP went in and made updates but Shaun Lee was down as main administrator and had to sign changes off. As he no longer lives in area he felt it was better to have main

administrator as club member and therefore changed this to JP. Chairman listed as Doug Little still and Gill Barnes other person with access. Need to update to put Dave Parfitt as chairman. However this has married couple as main administrator and chairman so agreed to change to Gill Barnes as main administrator (as treasurer)

Action JP to make changes so GB is be main administrator

5. Gravel Rides

JP;- there have been a few queries regarding gravel bike rides. People have been told currently no gravel rides but would discuss with committee.

HC;- Trii club arranged gravel rides but no one came

CAK:- Nevis Cycles selling and hiring more gravel bikes than mountain bikes so definite increased participation

Action:- HC to put out an email asking if any interest and anyone keen to lead on it and a facebook poll

6. Coaching for club leaders/ members

JP;- In the past the club has had people such as Ben Cathro run coaching sessions for both kids club leaders and club members. There are some parent hepers and leaders who have asked about doing sessions like these again

Following discussion it was agreed to approach Joe Connel initialy Action DP to approach Joe Connel and find out if interested what availability he has

Offer to club leaders and helpers initially then open up to rest of club

Possibility to have him take higher group of kids in mornings then adults after.

7. Potential gondola day for club

Nevis Range still owe kids club free uplift days. CAK is liasing with them on this.. Agreed to work on getting these delivered in 1st instance

8. Treasurers Report

Bank account £1227.52 but still to pay out insurance £468

9. AOCB

MA by email Insurance has been renewed for another year

GM Bike park insurance is currently approx. £3500 per year, Arran Bike club pay £400 as do it through the club. DMBins are trying to reduce insurance costs for bike parks but this may need the bike park to be tied to a club either by bike park forming a club or doing through wheelers. Graham from DMBins was a bit vague on detail. Agreed to discuss further once further info received from DMBins

JP Specsavers requested that logo was included on website, currently discounts are just listed on membership page, ? have dedicated page for discounts. Discussion.. local companies who provide discounts have logos and links at bottom of home page as

“partners”, agreed to include specsaver discount info on membership page and add logo to home page with other links. Action DL to update website, JP to email over logo

SB update on laggan “mini epic” trail from pattack end has had 2km of vegetation cleared so now rideable. Descent challenging but is a multi user path , great ride on a nice day with fantastic views but is quite a long ride and potentially a lot of pushing on non ebikes

Local path group trying to get funding to do path up further.

Time trials noted these are going well and being well attended

10. Provisional date for next meeting September 1st 2 weeks… date to be agreed . finalise winter league dates and fort to fort