All Change at the Top
What is the Chair up to? Well I love the job of Chairing Ripon Runners and feel privileged that you have entrusted me with this role for 5 years but it wouldn’t be right to hang on beyond my use-by date! By my reckoning that will be March 2016 when we have our AGM. I think it important in any organisation to keep new ideas flowing which means new people and new strategies.
No one on the current committee is keen to take on the onerous role of Chair and I don’t think we should leave it to chance at the AGM. Your committee therefore is proposing to co-opt SIMON McCUDDEN onto the committee as he has indicated a willingness to stand as our next chair in 2016. In this way he has time to get used to how the committee functions and find out what lovely people we are to work with!
This co-opting by the committee in no ways diminishes your right as members, at the AGM, to nominate whom you wish to the post of Chair. Obviously though we hope members will be pleased that such a capable and well respected member as Simon has agreed to stand in 2016.
Membership Secretary
Martin Gabriel has been membership secretary for over 15 years and not unreasonably would like to hand over to someone else. I suggested that if he wished to give up he would have to recruit his successor so he did! What better candidate than someone who has brought in so many new members herself, friends and relatives have all been recruited with great enthusiasm so I’m sure you’ll all agree that NICOLE SUTTON is an ideal choice to be our new membership secretary.
We thank Martin for carrying the job for so long and Nicole for agreeing to take it on.
Fell Running Representative.
Fell running amongst Ripon Runners goes in phases with periods of us being well represented at local fell events such as the Esk Valley series to more fallow times with very few of us competing on the fells. Many of you would like to try out Fell Running but maybe lack the confidence to start which is why we are pleased to appoint SALLY HOUGHTON as our new representative. Sally has great experience of running the hills and fells which she is more than willing to share with novices and experts alike. Sally will be contributing regularly to our Website on all matters related to the fells.