It’s almost the end of term! We’ve got some updates to share.

NSR Success

We had a great weekend at NSR and special well done to Michael and Will who won awards including first place in their competitions on the weekend. Full results and photos up on our Facebook Page!

Meeting TONIGHT!

Reminder we have our General Meeting tonight at 6pm in the Cargill lecture theater, discussing the elections and plans for next year. Please try and come along.

Brayford Clean Up

Another reminder about the Brayford Clean Up happening on Wednesday, this begins at 10am right until 3pm, more details in your inbox or the Facebook Group. This will also be the last session of the term.

Last sessions of the term

There last Brayford Session is Wednesday the 16th, and there is no pool session this week. Sessions resume after the break on April 6th.

Development fund good news!

We are pleased to announce we’ve been successful in our grant application £496 worth of new safety kit: These included: X8 Wetsuits, x1 Mountain First Aid Kit, x2 throwlines, x1 Group Safety Shelter, x3 Karabiners & Safety Tape, x2 Pairs Roof Straps, x2 river knives, x6 Airbags, x1 Set Dry Bags, x1 River Guide.

This fantastic news means that’s £496 extra left for us to invest further into the club. This grant was secured under the new system which replaced to old development fund request in front of sports committee, applications are now decided by the ‘sports zone’ officers from the SU.

This kit will be purchased gradually over time so you’ll see benefits right until June when the purchases will be complete.  Overall this means we have spent almost £900 worth of new kit this year, including paddles in October, Decks in November, Helmets in December!

LCC refurbishments

We’ve been informed from the Lincoln Canoe Club, who’s building we use on Wednesdays that they are undertaking refurbishments & decorating during the easter break, while we hope this will be finished for April there might some effects on Wednesday sessions so we advise you arrive earlier to account for any extra time in kitting up.

Elections

It’s election week, over the next 6 days you’ll be able to vote for next year’s committee, all nominees will be at the meeting tonight to answer any questions and discuss there plans so make sure you hear what they have to say. Voting can be done 24/7 online at www.lincolnsu.com/vote until the 20th of March.

Hoodies & Mid-Layers

Ah yes, firstly as before we apologise for the issues and frustrations with getting the club hoodies this year. As mentioned before in previous posts we’ve been struck with issues with PlayerLayer stock and service. Here is the update we can provide:

The SU is now in the process of terminating its contract with PlayerLayer due to issues across the board for all clubs, including ours. However the current contract remains in place until the end of the academic year, meaning we are not free to seek alternative suppliers. Also due to this process all communications to PlayerLayer from us now goes via the team of the SU who are dealing with the contract termination. This team have been on hold during February (due to the SU elections) so no progress was made for 2 weeks.

After discussions with the SU, VP activities, President and CEO of the SU, we are now looking to end our order with PlayerLayer as there is no foreseeable chance of gaining the ordered stock. On top of the fact all remaining stock are now in the possession of the SU (that does not included the hoodies as they have yet to even be manufactured). At this time we are arguing for us to go with an alternative supplier which Societies and non-competing sports team can do so. Dependent of this outcome of discussion will depend if we remain waiting for hoodies from PlayerLayer or we can seek alternatives, as we agree ordering these in December and still being empty handed in March is not fair on us, the members.

We will keep you updated as soon as we can, however these discussions can remain private due to the sensitive nature of contracts involved.

Apologies once again, we understand you’ve paid fairly for these products and we are working as much as we can to get leisurewear to you as we do every year. We never thought we’d be facing these issues down the line as what the SU and PlayerLayer promoted back in the introduction of this system in September!

Anglesey

Our annual surf trip is just under 2 weeks away, we are going to provide a final details of timings and activities this week so keep an eye out for that.  If you are yet to pay the remaining costs please can you do so ASAP at the Students’ Union, we’ve extended the deadline as some have missed the 2nd payment.

 

So it’s been a busy month again, any questions drop us a message.

 

Happy Paddling!

Hello everyone and welcome back to January, we have some exciting updates for you:

NSR 2016

First of all NSR is back this year and we are planning on attending after our year out! If you don’t know what NSR is; it’s the National Student Rodeo, a kayaking festival/party weekend down the road at the White Water Centre in Nottingham. It’s a weekend of free style kayaking and features races, time trails and play boating. While there is a lot of skill on show, it’s a student event so expectations are not to high so don’t feel put off! Off the water there is a festival style atmosphere with other university teams, spectator areas, visits from Kayaking manufactures (chance to spend those xmas pennies) and 2 large parties in the evening!

The dates are the 4th – 6th of March and involves 2 nights of camping. There is also a theme each year, (the blog image should give some clues) and gives us a chance to dress up as a team, and the winning team gets loads of prizes, like literally boat loads! Our 2 events organisers are getting the final arrangements done but if you want to come you can register your interest now, check your inbox for more information. The weekend will cost £50 that covers the tickets, accommodation and entry into the parties and one nights of food. You’ll see more information  on the blog and on your e-mails.

Varsity 2016

This year the University of Lincoln Students’ Union Activities and Hull University AU will be competing in 3rd ‘Humber Games’, or Varsity. And this year we are pleased to be entering a team to compete against Hull University Canoe Club. While we work out the details of events  etc.. The date will be on the 16th of April and this year Hull are hosting. We’ll have more details soon once we agree of the details with HUCC.

Sessions resume

Brayford Sessions are going to resume on the 13th of January, please don’t be fooled by the mild December we had last month, it will be cold! So while your loans still fresh in your account buy some cheap thermals.

Pool Sessions are resuming on the 17th of January!

Hoodie & Mid-Layers

We understand you might be getting frustrated with the lack of Hoodies this year, and even though we’ve taken your money your still are waiting. So here is what is happening.

In October we connected PlayerLayer the SU supplier in placing an order of Hoodies & MidLayers, We wanted to add our logo and members names so it required the bespoke design/alterations so needed to be cleared by Player Layer before we took orders. Then we advertised in October for hoodies as normal, and took orders right until the 16th of November. Then we allowed 2 weeks to pay for the hoodies. As always with bespoke orders (as in the past) we took payment first. This is done to make sure we have to money to pay for production and also to make sure people who have ordered some can pay for them, and not being left out of pocket.

Once payment was confirmed we sent off the order to Player Layer on the 7th December. Understanding the festive period would mean the 4 week production time would be extended, so we hoped these be delivered at the start of term. PlayerLayer then responded adding specifications of design on the Mid-Layer needed to be changed as in the time of the original design a new policy was introdcued about location of members names, this added another week onto production time.

On the end of term (17th of December) PlayerLayer contacted us about Stock issues with the hoodies, Issue being there is no more stock of the hoodie until February. by this point all of our committee members had returned/returning home and SU drop-ins had finished so the issue was not raised for the SU. PlayerLayer offered an alternative product but seeing this not what members have ordered we thought it would not be right advertising one product and then receiving another.

The Player Layer office, production team , Students Union office then closed for the festive period on the 24th. Meaning nothing was resolved during the break.

Upon return we’ve now contacted both PlayerLayer & The Students’ Union about the problem we are still facing. These have been passed onto the Vice President who is now looking into this issue.

And thats were we are about hoodies & mid-layers, we’ve been effected by mis-communication from PlayerLayer, Red tape and being told about issues to late. We are still aiming to get the original hoodies & mid-layers which have been ordered to you ASAP. And we’ll keep you updated on the blog.

Other Kit News

Our new helmets & spray decks have been ordered and will be with us soon! We’ve also added another pair of split paddles based from feedback in Wales, these are of better quality and will easier to use in the case of if your primary paddles break or are lost.

Communication feedback

Before the end of term it was raised on improving feedback, so from 2016 we’ll be publishing agendas & minutes of committee meetings, if you have any ideas then we’d like to hear them! Drop us an e-mail!

 

Happy Paddling!