Post by Admin on Apr 2, 2016 13:25:44 GMT
April Newsletter
Hopefully the cold months are behind us now and we can look forward to some lovely spring cycling weather.
Ladies Who Lunch Monday, 11th April at Aston Wood Golf Course.
Time: 12.30 pm.
Closing date 6th April. Contact : Mary Evans. 0121 308 1306.
Saturday Rides on 30th April will start and finish at the Club house where
Tea, Coffee, Cake and Bacon Butties will be available from 9.30 till 1.30.
All The Saturday Rides will start at 10.15.
The Club Vote Saturday April 30th 9:30am till 1:00pm at the Cooper Rooms, Shenstone Opp the Railway Pub, Bring your Club Card with you.
Doors open 9.00
Voting from 9:30 till 1.00
The Count from 1.00 till finished
Preliminary results issued before 2.00 (pending any checks)
Some Helpers are Required to assist on the day for adjudication, counting etc
Please contact me if you can assist. Northbirmingham.ctc@gmail.com
Audax Reminder that our Audax is on Sunday 8th May
It's a perfect opportunity to introduce your friends to cycling with us.
Distances of 50K, 100k, 160k and 200k
Details:- Here
Forum, The North Birmingham CTC Forum and Message Board
(click the link ) northbrum.boards.net/
AVIVA Womens Tour Saturday 18th June, we will ride out to catch the tour as it comes past somewhere near Abbots Bromley B5234. further details to follow.
InterClub Ride the New date for this event is now 11th September
Not Getting Emails ! If you are seeing this newsletter as a hard copy due to not receiving it in your email in-tray, please check your Spam filters and your junk emails and add us to your accepted email list.
If you are still unable to see it, please check that the email you gave to CTC is still your current Email if not please contact John Bedford, our Membership secretary to confirm your details, on either Tel: 0121 353 5136 or Email: parkcycles@yahoo.co.uk
The Club Vote.
The resolution on which we will be voting is that...
CTC North Birmingham be dissolved as a members group and
re-launched as an independent club affiliated to CTC.
Notes
CTC North Birmingham (NBCTC) Member Group
Potential Conversion to Affiliated Club
Introduction
At the clubs AGM on 3rd November 2015 it was agreed that the club undertake a root and branch review to ensure that it is delivering maximum opportunities and benefits for its members.
The findings of the review have been presented to members and are available on the club web site.
Results of the review process
Q What are the benefits of becoming an independent Cycling Club affiliated to CTC?
The main benefits are; that being an affiliated club would provide more flexibility in membership to assist in the clubs growth, would retain the same level of insurance cover for both ride leaders and organisers, would enable the club to retain all funds raised and to spend such funds in any way it wished and would remove the other restrictions imposed by the policy handbook. Individuals’ CTC membership and the benefits this brings would be unaffected.
Q What would we lose by not being a CTC Member Group?
Other than the potential loss of some club funds we would lose nothing by becoming an affiliated group.
Q Should we run an Independent Club in parallel to a CTC Member Group?
We concluded that we should not, as we do not want to split the club into two separate entities. In addition it would take twice the administration resource for little additional benefit and would potentially cause some confusion with members and local riders.
Q What about rider and organiser liability insurance?
We agreed that Liability Insurance was very important and would be insisted upon. We concluded we would affiliate to CTC in order to obtain Organisers Liability Insurance which covers our ride leaders and event organisers in the event of a claim from a third party.
The new Independent Club, would on its membership application form, ask members to provide:- “Their personal liability insurance details” to cover cycling. This could be through membership of an organisation that includes liability insurance within its member benefits, e.g. CTC, Tandem Club, British Cycling, London Cycle Campaign, League of Veteran Racing Cyclists - or through specialist cycle insurers like ‘CycleGuard’ or ‘CyclePlan’ - or having cover under their own household insurance.
Q What should we do about the club funds?
Our current club cash balance would be donated to the Cyclists Defence Fund, other local cycle related charities and be given as ‘seed funding’ to the new affiliated cycling club we are going to set up. Other minor assets would be transferred to the new affiliated club.
Q How would we fund the new Independent Club?
We would charge a nominal Membership Fee of just £1 per year. The remainder of our funding will come from the successful Jumble Sale and Audax events that we organise each year.
Q How will the new Independent Club be managed?
A constitution has been drawn up for the new club and this will be shared with members once it has been agreed by the committee.
Q How will this affect me?
You will see no change in the way the club operates on a day to day basis.
You can still be a member of CTC at your current level of membership.
You could perhaps reduce your costs by becoming a CTC Affiliated Member.
You could perhaps reduce your costs by changing your Insurance cover.
We will still run the club as before, with the same events and weekly rides.
We will be able to attract more riders from the wider local cycling community.
We will try to expand the rides program to offer more interest and variety.
We will introduce new technologies to improve communication with members.
Hopefully the cold months are behind us now and we can look forward to some lovely spring cycling weather.
Ladies Who Lunch Monday, 11th April at Aston Wood Golf Course.
Time: 12.30 pm.
Closing date 6th April. Contact : Mary Evans. 0121 308 1306.
Saturday Rides on 30th April will start and finish at the Club house where
Tea, Coffee, Cake and Bacon Butties will be available from 9.30 till 1.30.
All The Saturday Rides will start at 10.15.
The Club Vote Saturday April 30th 9:30am till 1:00pm at the Cooper Rooms, Shenstone Opp the Railway Pub, Bring your Club Card with you.
Doors open 9.00
Voting from 9:30 till 1.00
The Count from 1.00 till finished
Preliminary results issued before 2.00 (pending any checks)
Some Helpers are Required to assist on the day for adjudication, counting etc
Please contact me if you can assist. Northbirmingham.ctc@gmail.com
Audax Reminder that our Audax is on Sunday 8th May
It's a perfect opportunity to introduce your friends to cycling with us.
Distances of 50K, 100k, 160k and 200k
Details:- Here
Forum, The North Birmingham CTC Forum and Message Board
(click the link ) northbrum.boards.net/
AVIVA Womens Tour Saturday 18th June, we will ride out to catch the tour as it comes past somewhere near Abbots Bromley B5234. further details to follow.
InterClub Ride the New date for this event is now 11th September
Not Getting Emails ! If you are seeing this newsletter as a hard copy due to not receiving it in your email in-tray, please check your Spam filters and your junk emails and add us to your accepted email list.
If you are still unable to see it, please check that the email you gave to CTC is still your current Email if not please contact John Bedford, our Membership secretary to confirm your details, on either Tel: 0121 353 5136 or Email: parkcycles@yahoo.co.uk
The Club Vote.
The resolution on which we will be voting is that...
CTC North Birmingham be dissolved as a members group and
re-launched as an independent club affiliated to CTC.
Notes
CTC North Birmingham (NBCTC) Member Group
Potential Conversion to Affiliated Club
Introduction
At the clubs AGM on 3rd November 2015 it was agreed that the club undertake a root and branch review to ensure that it is delivering maximum opportunities and benefits for its members.
The findings of the review have been presented to members and are available on the club web site.
Results of the review process
Q What are the benefits of becoming an independent Cycling Club affiliated to CTC?
The main benefits are; that being an affiliated club would provide more flexibility in membership to assist in the clubs growth, would retain the same level of insurance cover for both ride leaders and organisers, would enable the club to retain all funds raised and to spend such funds in any way it wished and would remove the other restrictions imposed by the policy handbook. Individuals’ CTC membership and the benefits this brings would be unaffected.
Q What would we lose by not being a CTC Member Group?
Other than the potential loss of some club funds we would lose nothing by becoming an affiliated group.
Q Should we run an Independent Club in parallel to a CTC Member Group?
We concluded that we should not, as we do not want to split the club into two separate entities. In addition it would take twice the administration resource for little additional benefit and would potentially cause some confusion with members and local riders.
Q What about rider and organiser liability insurance?
We agreed that Liability Insurance was very important and would be insisted upon. We concluded we would affiliate to CTC in order to obtain Organisers Liability Insurance which covers our ride leaders and event organisers in the event of a claim from a third party.
The new Independent Club, would on its membership application form, ask members to provide:- “Their personal liability insurance details” to cover cycling. This could be through membership of an organisation that includes liability insurance within its member benefits, e.g. CTC, Tandem Club, British Cycling, London Cycle Campaign, League of Veteran Racing Cyclists - or through specialist cycle insurers like ‘CycleGuard’ or ‘CyclePlan’ - or having cover under their own household insurance.
Q What should we do about the club funds?
Our current club cash balance would be donated to the Cyclists Defence Fund, other local cycle related charities and be given as ‘seed funding’ to the new affiliated cycling club we are going to set up. Other minor assets would be transferred to the new affiliated club.
Q How would we fund the new Independent Club?
We would charge a nominal Membership Fee of just £1 per year. The remainder of our funding will come from the successful Jumble Sale and Audax events that we organise each year.
Q How will the new Independent Club be managed?
A constitution has been drawn up for the new club and this will be shared with members once it has been agreed by the committee.
Q How will this affect me?
You will see no change in the way the club operates on a day to day basis.
You can still be a member of CTC at your current level of membership.
You could perhaps reduce your costs by becoming a CTC Affiliated Member.
You could perhaps reduce your costs by changing your Insurance cover.
We will still run the club as before, with the same events and weekly rides.
We will be able to attract more riders from the wider local cycling community.
We will try to expand the rides program to offer more interest and variety.
We will introduce new technologies to improve communication with members.