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Interlopers Club AGM 2024
Find out who's who in our new committee, and which club member won the coveted Gullane Rock ...
The Club AGM was held on Thurs 27 September at our traditional venue of The Charwood in South Edinburgh.
Out-going Chairman Colin Eades gave a summary of the club’s year since the last AGM. This has been a particularly eventful time given heavy involvement by club members in WOC 2024 for which a small army of around fifty Interlopers contributed support across a full spectrum of volunteering tasks. In addition, four club members took part on the world stage as competitors. Exciting times for the sport, bringing it to the very heart of Edinburgh. WOC aside, a number of club members were selected to compete for GBR at international events, including Euromeetings, World Cups, World Students, European Champs and European Youth Champs. On the domestic scene, Interlopers individuals and teams continued to perform at a high level and bring home medals as well as development experience and an on-going love of the sport. Congratulations to everyone for their achievements and doing the club proud.
Events organisation is of course the bread-and-butter of the club, and Interlopers has continued to run a busy calendar of local competitions, come-and-try-its, and more informal urban races. Many thanks are due to a number of volunteers who stepped up, particularly those whose work has yet to deliver the benefits of some enjoyable orienteering challenge at Calder Wood (sadly the planned SoSOL had to be postponed due to gale-force winds). A new club development project has now got underway, focused on widening our engagement and encouraging new interest, with the hope that in time that will grow our club capacity and capability to do more to deliver quality orienteering experiences. Colin ended with thanks to the Committee for its support, particularly out-going members (Lorna as Social Secretary and Fiona as junior member), and stepped down as Chair with a promise that he will be continuing to support the successful running of Interlopers and orienteering in other ways going forward.
You can read Colin’s full report here.
After signing off on amendments to Constitution to update it, postholders were nominated and voted in, with the new committee is as below. The new committee will continue work to identify a new Chair as soon as possible, as well as a junior member.
- Chair: (currently vacant)
- Secretary: John Barrow
- Treasurer: Robin Galloway
- Social Secretary: Mairi Eades
- Comms Manager: Katherine Ivory
- Club Captain: Rob Lee
- Events Coordinator: William Ivory
- Junior Member: (currently vacant)
- Ordinary Member: Mike Stewart
- Ordinary Member: Ann Haley
- ESOA Rep: Lorna Eades
Finally, Graham McIntyre was nominated by John Barrow, Secretary, as this year’s recipient of the Interlopers’ Gullane Rock Trophy, for his sterling work around coaching for most of his time with the Club, and also his wider contributions through high-level competitions roles. In recent years, he has coordinated the Club’s Off-Road Training sessions on Thursday evenings at a wide variety of venues around Edinburgh.
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