Hi All,
Please find the agenda for the AGM next Monday attached - I'll bring a few
copies with me on Monday. I've also attached an outline description of each
of the current committee roles for those of you that are new. Also attached
are the minutes from last years AGM, along with the minutes from the EGM
earlier this year. If you could all read it in advance of the AGM to avoid
us having to read it out at the start to ratify it and I will sort a brief
summary of what has been done / not done from these, which should help on
the day.
If you currently hold a role on the committee, please prepare a brief
report/update for the day (thanks Sue for already doing yours!).
In terms of the evening itself, if you are able to, please come for 1915 -
we can get things set up for a prompt 1930 start. Feel free to bring snack
and drinks to help the evening go by. We'll do our best to go through
everything as efficiently as possible - in the hands of the chair! - but it
usually goes on a bit longer than our usual practice end time.
If you are not able to make it on Monday, but have things that you would
like raised, comments you would like to make etc. please email me or Becky
and we'll make sure they are covered in the meeting (Ideally before 1800 on
Monday).
Thanks,
Hannah
Hi All,
Not too much to update you all on this week. We collected a whopping
£192.04 on the last crawl, so well done all. Next event will be Thrales Day
on 11th November, more info next week.
Don't forget our AGM will be the day after, if there is anything you would
like adding the agenda please let me know asap. I'll send round updated
role descriptions, the final agenda and last years minutes next week, so if
anyone is unable to make it you can make any points you would like raised
via email.
Sign-ups we need to let YORK know by 10th November (I know next September
is ages away) so could you all look at that one as a matter of urgency
please (no-replies and maybes). This is one of the ones where we will
mostly be able to dance in pubs.
Otherwise, please please sign up to things next May/June/July - would be
good to be able to work out which ones we are able/would like to do. If you
don't mind, then maybe sign up to the ones you are free for and say x out y
events. Thanks to those of you that filled some of it in on Monday, if
everyone else can please take a look and help reduce the no-replies that
would be great! Any questions on any of these please let me know - you
might not be the only one wondering. ☺
Sign up sheet here as always...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
See you Monday!
Thanks,
Hannah
Hi All,
It's going to be a long-ish one as I've tried to briefly summarise some of
the events we've been invited to next year. Please pay special attention to
the super urgent sign-ups. I'll be bringing a couple of copies of the
sign-up sheet to the AGM and might even remember one on Sunday as well for
all the other slightly less urgent sign-ups...
1. Upcoming events
2. Super Urgent Sign-ups
3. Less urgent sign-ups
4. Declined invites
*1. Upcoming events*
Firstly, it is Thrales Day on Sunday! The Knights Templar near Chancery
Lane will open at 12, please be in kit and ready to dance at 1215 - there
should be lots of us, so lots of fun. Anyone who isn't dancing, but fancies
watching a load of rapper / clog / occasional broom dance, feel free to
come along! Thrales will also be out with Medlock on the Saturday starting
in de Hems, Soho - I think at 12..
Our AGM will then be on Monday - more on this coming in a separate email...
*2. Super Urgent Sign-ups!!*
*30th November spot at the Courtyard Theatre*, there are a couple of
no-replies and maybes that weren't at practice last night if you could take
a look at this urgently please as we need to get back to them asap. (I will
be chasing)
*York Festival of Dance *(7-8 September) They need to know by 10th Nov, so
if you are a maybe or a no reply, please move yourself to yes or no asap -
you are the deciding people. It should be fun as we'll be dancing in pubs
and there are a lot of good rapper pubs in York. (again I will be chasing)
*3. Less urgently:*
All the events in 2019 - we have quite a few of these at the mo, I
appreciate they are ages away, but a lot of them do need to know either
before Christmas/early 2019. So if you could at least move to a maybe (just
to make me feel like I'm not talking to myself) or even better a yes/no
that would be a great help as that tends to result in enough No's in some
cases to turn an event down and makes decisions on the remainder easier.
I'll put a brief summary of all the current invites below as a reminder of
what each of them is.
If you haven't yet danced out with us, you will have done by the time these
events happen, so please don't be afraid to sign-up to anything that you
would like (or even not like!) to go to. ☺
We've also just been invited to* Bridport Folk Festival* in Dorset 26-28th
July. I don't know much about the festival, so if anyone has been and has
any info, please let me know. All I have gleaned so far is that there is
ceilidh dancing and dance workshops and that we would get discounted
tickets, so possibly not the most amazing offer, but I may be wrong!
*Dance on the Moor, Goathland* (25-27th May)- invited us and other sword
teams specifically. Steam train (probably) pub crawl between Whitby and
Goathland. Indoor camping available / space for tents. Live music in the
evenings. It is possible to get there entirely by public transport -
apparently it involves Britain’s most scenic bus route (York-Whitby bus)…
max about 4 hours travel time to get there. We really ought to be making a
decision on this one asap so they have time to plan - so it is sort of
urgent...
*Ossett Beer Cart* (31st May-2nd June) - Dancing mostly outside, a spot in
the hall usually as well. Additional pub dancing entirely possible. Camping
on the cricket grounds, showers available. ~2.5 hrs away
*Wimborne Minster Festival *(7-9th June) - dancing sat and sun, all
outside. 3hrs away
*Kimpton Festival *(6th July) - Think this was a couple of dance spots at
the festival and maybe a workshop, they'd ensure we can get to nearest
public transport (it stops early and they are super keen for us to go)
*Hammersmith are 60* (13th July) - Dancing in various places in London
*Bridport Festival *(see above)
Any further Q's on any of these, please shout and I'll see if I have the
answers...
*4. We've declined the following invites:*
Evesham
Blackheath Morris 50th Ale (clashes with Kimpton)
Ilfracombe Morris Festival
Sign up sheet is here as usual:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Congrats on reaching the bottom of a super long email! Have a lovely week
and see you all soon!
Hannah ☺
Hey guys
Here is the Treasurer's report for the last financial year (Nov 17 to Oct 18). If anyone would like further details or has any queries, please get back to me this week, so that I can address them before next week's AGM.
I've also included a couple of documents that detail our tour collections - narrowly our best year ever,
even without our triumphant success at Sidmouth. Well done, everyone!
NB In order to reduce paper consumption, I don't intend to bring any hard copies to the AGM this year, so if you would like one, please print it off yourself or bring it along on a suitable device.
Cheers
S x
Hi all,
Sorry for late email!
Absences: Jo, Fliss, Rachel and Martin (but we have Nikki!)
Plan will be to continue on with Jubilee, Westerhope and Piccadilly. Today is probably a good day to have Piccadilly with just Hannah TD, and just with Ellie. This might partly depend on me being able to dance (which I'm hoping to do!)
Please come to clog. Clare is learning it so even if it just me, Clare and Ellie at 7 and others arrive for 7.15 for a quick run through?
This will be discussed at the AGM so should be settled soon :)
See you later,
Becky xx
Hi All,
Please find attached a draft of the Agenda for 12th November. Let me know
if there are any items that you would like adding by 5th November (if you
have anything further to add it can always be AOB). I will then circulate
the final draft along with the minutes from the previous meeting.
Any questions / items to add, please let me know!
Thanks,
Hannah
Hey all,
Looking forward to seeing you tonight: Crown and Cushion at 7.15, ready to dance at 7.30. Remember the plan is for some of us to eat upstairs (that apparently exists) so if can't find us that's where we'll be.
We don't have many people tonight (I suspect I am just too broken to dance, unless I get super excited)
Jubilee:
1.
Katherine
2.
Laura/Hannah
3.
Laura/Hannah
4.
Laura/ Hannah/ Ellie
5.
Rachel-Anne/ Ellie
Westerhope:
1.
Katherine
2.
Hannah
3.
Laura
4.
Ellie
5.
Rachel-Anne
I didn't properly plan otherwise I would have run through this with Sue on Monday! I think as it's been such a long time we'd be better to just do the 5 person ending. Exactly the same figures but with no 6th person.
Piccadilly:
Emma is around at the start so, if we can, we'll do Piccadilly:
1.
Emma
2.
Hannah/Laura
3.
Hannah/Laura (I'm assuming you'll want to be 3 Laura as that's what you've done recently, but decide together!)
4.
Katherine (sorry, I'm aware this hurts your hip!)
5.
Rachel-Anne
Rachel I know you might be around which will obviously alter the numbers a bit!
See you all later. Please bring tankards if you have them!
Thanks,
Becky
Hi All,
I have just confirmed us for* Whitby* as we now have enough of us to
commit. We don't need exact numbers just yet, so anyone else that would
like to go, please do add yourselves and we'll worry about partner tickets
etc. at a later stage. Watch this space.. Woop woop, we're going to
Whitby! ☺
Don't forget we have the* crawl on Thursday* around Waterloo, most likely
starting in the Crown and Cushion (closest tube Lambeth North). First dance
is at 1930, so please be there and in kit by 1915 so we can have a prompt
start. As Becky mentioned there is only 1 cubicle in the pub, so if
changing there, maybe factor that into your arrival time.
*Other festivals/bookings...*
Please sign up to all the things we have been invited to in 2019 one way or
another. It might seem like a long time away, but for them to plan these
events they do need to know fairly soon. All of them want to know by
Christmas, others much sooner. I appreciate that there are several in a row
and that we are unlikely to do all of them, so if free for several, please
mark a preference when filling yourself in or some kind of comment of not
adjacent weekends or whatever if you don't mind. If you are unsure what any
of them involve, please shout as you may not be the only one, and I can
then provide some more info... Also *DERT *replies by end of November
please including whether you would like to bring anyone (doesn't matter
whether you are dancing/spectating/turning cartwheels just that you want to
be there)
*New invites:*
Hammersmith are 60 - 13th July 2019. Dancing around Putney, Wimbledon and
Hammersmith. Probably starting at 11 and finishing in Lyric Square in
Hammersmith at 6.
*Sign-up sheet here:*
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
*AOB - mostly financial stuff:*
Sue has reimbursed everyone some money for various festivals over the
summer - please check your accounts this week and if you have any queries
get in touch with her.
If you have spent any money on behalf of Ravens, please let Sue knwo this
week so this can also be sorted.
And, finally, if you need to pay subs (and aren't already), please do so
and set up your standing orders for 1st Nov - again any queries/concerns
please ask Sue.
If you could all do this as soon as possible if it applies to you that
would be great so Sue can sort out the end of year accounts and produce her
treasurers report...
In case anyone doesn't have Sue's email - connollysue(a)hotmail.com
Which brings me onto the *AGM* - I will be sending out an Agenda very soon,
so you can add any extra items you wish / start drafting responses if you
are unable to make it and want to have your say.
Have a lovely week!
Hannah
Hello all,
Absences: Rachel, Jo?? Clare? I think that's right, please let me know if there is anyone else.
We'll do clog at 7ish. Continuing to think about neatening. Fliss if you're around we could begin teaching you.
One of the things I want to discuss at the AGM is if people are interested in learning anything else, and if not what we want to do about practicing as every week seems a bit intense.
Normal practice will be recap of jubilee for new people and continue some work on Westerhope. Ellie and Hannah TD to be brought through Piccadilly again. Ideally if we have the people I will actually be teaching Piccadilly from the outside so we can try and look at some finer details (don't panic Ellie, I know you've only just got through the dance so I don't expect miracles).
Thanks,
Becky
Hi All,
Thanks to everyone for signing up one way or another for next weeks crawl
and Thrales Day. We've still got one or two people left to fill in for the
AGM on 12th November, but looks like we have enough of us - so it will
definitely be then! I shall try and get an agenda out soon as I can so you
all have plenty of time to add anything onto it etc.
We have a few sign-ups that we need to make decisions on pretty soon... So:
1. *Whitby (17th-23rd August 2019) *- we need to let them know by 30th
October and we could do with a few more people - as otherwise it will be
super-tiring for those that have currently said yes, so probably not
currently feasible.
2. Following on from that *York* Festival would like to know by 10th
November
3. *And most excitingly DERT! *we need final numbers submitted by 15th
December (this includes +1's etc.) so if you could fill that in by the end
of November at the latest please, that would be great and make it much
easier for me to sort our registration out. For this we don't need you to
have decided whether you are dancing and what you would like to dance, we
just need to know that you fancy going to Newcastle for the Rapper Event of
the Year and whether you'd like to bring anyone along...
Whilst you're staring at those, please could you take a look at the other
events on there for next year and start deciding which of them you would
like to do. I appreciate there are a number of consecutive weekends with
invites, we don't have to do them all, so if you have preferences please
state them and then we can work out which to accept and decline.
*Goathland*, for now I am considering our reply to be us expressing
interest, but it would be good to give them a bit more than a vague "that
sounds fun" as soon as possible so they can plan the weekend - so please
turn your attention to this one as the 4th key one to look at this week
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Have a fun week of decisions and diary checking! (And whatever other
excitement you have planned ☺ )
Thanks,
Hannah
