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by Hannah Norman

Hi All, Thanks for all the thoughts and ideas at the EGM on Monday. Appreciate it was a little longer than hoped, but I feel some useful things have come out of it. The round table of favourite parts of DERT was lovely, if a little time consuming. Hopefully we can arrange a party some other time so we can dedicate more time to Item Party. Please find the minutes attached, and action points below. A key item which we need to address in the next week is to check the constitution regarding the proposed second treasurer position, Sue could you circulate this please? I have checked the G Drive and it isn't there (but will be soon...) If you have any amendments that need to be made to the minutes, please let me know 20th April. Thanks, Hannah *Action Points:* Try Thrales shorter swords 15/4 HN to ask Simon Vaughan/Laura Smyth about first women's rapper dance EH to organise a data discussion session RAS to flesh out Pub Federation idea. To be testes on a crawl in future SC to circulate constitution (HN to save to GDrive) HN to ask Phil Heaton for 1925 video referred to in trad marks Incorporate Earsdon stepping into Piccadilly. Send a video and letter to the Pearsons Discuss format for DERT crawls at AGM DoD with Thrales - to organise for May Summer Crawl on a Saturday rather than Thurs PM EW to tell HN when free in May for day/evening clog practice. HN to create doodle poll TH/EW to discuss additional Sunderland steps / them showcasing steps HN/HL to discuss fundraising options for DART. MC to provide detail on DART via email. EH to obtain Emily's kit HN to email mailing list members that have not attended in 6 months to check whether they would like to remain on it. HN to put RAS in touch with Coral Reid regarding archiving KR to create new YouTube account EH to review maximum expenditure on Tower Ravens account. HN to check with Melanie regarding Whitby tickets, in case list has ended up in Spam

6 years, 2 months

Data - yay!

by Emma Hope

Hello again, There are a couple of you who I'm definitely spamming by now - sorry! I mentioned on Monday my plans to create a dataset on the pubs we visit on crawls. I have various ideas but I'd really like to hear other people thoughts before I start something and only realise later that I've done it all wrong.... Thoughts and ideas fall into the following themes: - how to set up the data well so it's easy to manipulate later - what kind of stuff you'd like to know about pubs - where is the map and how can we link it up Martin made a very good point that it's not all about the cash, so am definitely going to add in some measure of 'atmosphere' but not completely decided how to do that yet. Other ideas for non-money measures welcome. Crawl organisers: is there anything you'd find useful when thinking about which pubs to choose? Everyone: feel free to suggest whatever you think might be interesting to see - I guarantee you that it will be easier to add in now rather than later. For those who care: I'm thinking of using excel because we have it at work so I'm probably best at it. I've dabbled in R before but it feels a bit overkill for this. Other software suggestions welcome. The other benefit to excel is that I think you can use excel online to share and edit. I've tried google sheets but it frustrates me by not being excel... I'm happy to take thoughts by email or over the phone, and if there's sufficient interest we could have a pre- or post-practice group brainstorm in the next few weeks - or even not on a practice night if that'd work better. And now I think that's all the emails I'm bombarding you with this evening... Happy Wednesday! Emma

6 years, 2 months

DERT Trains

by Emma Hope

Hi, As discussed on Monday (see previous email from me for more details) if your name is in the table below, please could you pay the ravens account the amount next to your name to cover your travel? Ellie £68.65 Emma £82.80 Hannah N £68.65 Hannah TD £68.65 Laura £82.80 Martin £68.65 Miriam £68.65 Paul £82.80 Tori £68.65 As ever, please talk to me if this is not what you were expecting or if it'll be a trouble for you. Thanks, Emma

6 years, 2 months

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6 years, 2 months

DERT costs

by Emma Hope

Hi all, hopefully this is sending to all.... I've been bending my head around subsidising DERT costs in a fair way. Our usual policy is to reimburse half of travel costs, although this weekend there were hotel costs as well. The hotel cost £89.10 per person. The trains cost between £68 and £87 per person. To make life simpler for me, I suggest that the ravens account pays for the hotel, and individuals pay for their travel. This means that everyone will get at least half of their costs covered - some will have slightly more than half their costs covered. We can discuss this tonight, if there is an alternative way to split up the costs then I'm open to hearing about it. There are a couple of people who's costs ended up not in the ranges above - I'll speak to you separately about how you want to settle up. Thanks all, Emma

6 years, 2 months

DERT Score Sheets

by Hannah Norman

Hi All, Basically you are all amazing. We will get proper copies of the score sheets at some point, in the mean time, here are the photos of them from DERT Info. I haven't really looked at these properly, but there are some really lovely comments in there, and hopefully some of the others will be useful for key things to focus on for next year when we beat the Kingsmen... Don't dwell on anything you see as negative much - I know we've already had the discussion about why we got low tommy marks on the WhatsApp - we did awesome and that's all that matters. Can someone add Martin to the WhatsApp so he doesn't need to keep borrowing my phone please? Thanks, Hannah

6 years, 2 months

Score sheets

by Martin Clarke

Hello Here are the score sheets from all the judges for you to pore over and analyse all the finest details of who/what/where/when/why/Yay!/WTF??!!. Well done again to everyone! Now go and get some rest. See you tomorrow/soon. Martin

6 years, 2 months

EGM - 8th April

by Hannah Norman

Hi All, Please find attached a draft for the EGM next Monday (8th April). Please do take a look and let me know of anything that we are missing. For reference, I've also attached the AGM minutes from 19th November 2018 and the action points are below. Please do read the AGM minutes before Monday as well, to save us having to read them out during the meeting. Any items you would like adding, please let me know before 5pm on Monday so I can print off some copies to bring with me. Please feel free to bring food and drink on the day, always helps the meeting go by, and once the meeting is done we can chill/Party! Thanks, Hannah *2018 AGM Action Points:* RS to pass Westerhope notes to EH to add to to give to FD - done Invite Will Allen to come to practice for DERT - done Try new Westerz figures - done a bit If have figures that you would like to try send to Becky - Did you get any Becky? Tumbles -19/11/18 - done Clog - Could practice with EW pre-practice. Existing clog ready to go at 1925 - done KR to ask Tom R if we can try out some short Thrales swords - not done, still need to do? Buy some new swords - done - on order SC new costume - not done Kit recall on neckers, pins, ties - done (will need to recall again post DERT) HN and SC to discuss kit priorities - done Consider DART 2020 and Ed Fringe at 2019 EGM - not done, on Agenda, TBD Day of Dance between DERT & festivals (EH, EW, RAS, BS, HTD) - on Agenda, TBD Check when the first women's rapper dance video was from - not done Keep eye out for suitable practice pubs - ? Disaster Recovery (HTD / BS) - sort of? Called dance with new figures - not done, still want? Ru to help with stepping 1/12/18 - done LW to liaise with crawl organisers about new places - day trip? - have we considered this? probably more of a post-DERT thing 17th Dec Xmas party? - done EW to investigate houses for Whitby - done

6 years, 2 months

DERT!

by Hannah Norman

Hi All, Here it is - the email that you've all been waiting for! A few general things: *Kit* - make sure you have it! Including all the extra bits like skull hair bobbles for piccadilly, the long sleeve as well as regular length sleeve t-shirts for Westerhope Make sure you have whatever you need to keep your hair tidy (probably mostly applies to piccadilly to save us having to re-tie multiple times) - so 500 hair pins / hair spray / 20 hair ties etc. And don't forget to *polish* your shoes! 🌟 The timetable for the daytime can be found here, we'll find out our warm-up pub when we arrive on Friday in our welcome pack: https://dert2019.co.uk/competitions/ I've attached the Final Instructions from the DERT committee which should have some info on food availability, the silly "Coals to Newcastle" competition and all that jazz. 🎵 For Friday evening, it would be good to have as many of us wearing some kind of merch - T-shirts/hoodies etc. *Friday:* *Travel: 🚂* If you are on the 1500 train, please by at Kings Cross at 1445 at the latest between Leon and the ticket info place so I can hand out tickets and we can board without any panic! I might bring myself some tins of gin... We get to Newcastle at 1750. *Don't forget your railcard! *(and buy one if you don't yet have it/it is out of date). *Hotel: 🛏* We are staying at the Jury's Inn, Newcastle (the one nearest the station and on the north side of the river - *http://tinyurl.com/y6p9kank <http://tinyurl.com/y6p9kank>*). There's a short cut through the life sciences centre from the station. It is 2 people per room, though we do now have one spare bed, all rooms are supposed to have 1 double bed and 1 single bed. I've put the some provisional pairings together at the bottom of the email, but feel free to change this - names in bold are the named person for the room - they might not actually care, but just in case. If you are there earlier than me and have any issues, just give me a ring. In theory they will charge my card on the day. Please note that we do not have breakfast included in the room, but you can purchase it there or go to a nearby shop/cafe/pub. 9 of the rooms are on this booking ref: 360465817 Will, yours is on this one (can't book more than 9 at a time without jumping through hoops, so I didn't): 360465849 *Evening Venue 🍸* The evening venue is Star & Shadow Cinema – DERT HQ. They are serving food 6-10 and there are takeaways and supermarkets nearby. The coach trip also arrives back at around 6pm, so I'm presuming that's when that opens up. The Star and Shadow bar will stay open until midnight, then the Coal Yard open 11-2 (will need our DERT tickets to get in there though). An option for food pre-Star and Shadow Cinema that has lots of space and would cater for all our dietary needs is Wagamama - obviously we can see how we feel when we arrive. Keep in touch on the WhatsApp, as I know not everyone is arriving at the same time. *Saturday:* We need to be over in the Ouseburn for our warm up dance at 10am, so at the moment the call will be 9am gathering in the hotel lobby ready to leave by 0915 via collecting some food if you need it. It may also be a good idea to grab something to have for lunch later as I don't think we are near food venues other than inside the pubs themselves. Timetable in the link above. Have a blast of a day! We're going to be awesome! 🕶 I've copied Becky's drinking rules etc. as I can't think of a better way to phrase it! **Drinking rules: as always I'm going to implement my have one drink before we start to calm nerves. Laura obviously you do whatever you feel necessary at this point! I will probably also suggest another drink in the afternoon, but I want to avoid drinking too much until we're done! Westerhopers obviously you can drink a bit during the day but please be sensible, it'd be awful to have worked so hard only to go wrong due to a drink too many during the day. During the evening we can go wild! Again, hoping a schedule appears soon so that we can judge when we will be dancing both the trad and the showcase. 🍸 **Lunch: the area doesn't have anywhere we can go specifically, although the venues generally do food and snacks.As we aren't close to Byker at lunch then I might suggest picking something up on route to make sure there is something we want and that we can get it in time. 🍔 **Post-lunch and pre-trad dancing. Newcastle has many pubs that are happy to have rapper but it's a match day so we might really struggle, especially at lunch time. Again it all depends on location and timings as what will be available, but we'll try! If we're able to get some photos during the day to keep the buzz going on social media (and also so we can post some after DERT so it looks like we went!) Pop them on the Whatsapp when you're able to. 📷 We'll be done shortly after 1630 in the Cumberland and need to be in the Tyne Theatre and Opera House at 1800 for the trad, I don't know what time we are on, but regardless we should do our best to be there throughout to support the other teams too/avoid stress about getting there in time. We aren't able to take food and alcohol into the venue, but it is very central, so there should be plenty of stuff nearby for popping out. Am guessing that depending on what time Westerhope are up, might not want to eat beforehand. The after party once all that is done is back at the Star and Shadow Theatre Bar, there will be shuttle buses over there, otherwise it is a 30 min walk. Again bar open until midnight, then the Coal Yard after that. 🍸 Sunday: We usually find a pub (often Wetherspoons, but other pubs are available) on the Sunday morning to have some breakfast/brunch/nurse hangovers etc. The workshop will be at 10 in the Cumberland Arms, followed by the DERT reps meeting (at least one of us will go to this) at 1115 followed by farewell drinks, all in the Cumberland. We are then (most of us) on the 1301 train back to London, which will get us in at 1551. So, if we can be at the station by 1245 please to save me from worrying. 🍸 Hopefully that should cover it. Any questions, please do shout - you might not be the only one wanting to know something! Can't wait to see you all on Friday! (Congratulations for reaching the end!!) Thanks, Hannah *Room pairings: * 1 *Hannah N* & Martin 2 *Laura *& Paul 3 *Rachel *& Dan 4 *Katherine *& Tom R 5 *Becky *& Ffion 6 *Emma *& Hannah TD 7, 8, 9 take your pick: *Ellie*, Miriam, *Joanna*, Hannorah, Tori - one of you is going to be lucky to have a room to yourself! Can one of you also pretend to be *Rachel-Anne* please? a room is booked in her name... 10 *Will* Sue booked her own in case anyone thinks I'm missing her out

6 years, 2 months

Business

by Hannah Norman

Hi All, Coming up this week... DERT! (No shit, Sherlock). You should all have received a mega email from me and be busy polishing your shoes. Looks to be cool-ish up there and might be a bit showery on Saturday. Anyway, after that we have our EGM on 8th April, you should all have received and Agenda, please do comment on it (thanks to those that already have!). The other thing is to quickly fill in the sign-up sheet for it, based on Monday, most people are able to come, but we do need to make sure. Thanks for the mega-diary check on Monday for 23rd April, 1st May and 11th May - if you were a maybe for Oxford, could you take a look at your diaries in the next few days please? At the moment it is a no, but depending on the maybes we could do the day but not the evening. We have declined the invite from Dorset Moriarty to dance at Avebury/Stonehenge on 14th July based on popular vote given we are dancing at the Hammersmith DoD the day before. Sign-up sheet here as always: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4… Thanks, Hannah

6 years, 2 months

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