1. Canoe England North East Regional Development Team Meeting Tues 11 th February 2014 Maiden Castle Sports 19.00 to 21.00

2. AGENDA Apologies Minutes of the last meeting Matters Arising Newsletter Tyne Tour How we support events in the region PDO Report Equipment – Roker Club Stand Up Paddleboards Waterways and Environment - update and future planning Coaching Report Any Other Business

3. Luis Perales Bjoern Backe Apologies

4. Matter Arising March 11 th : Combined Coach Update/Club Forum moved to April5th at maiden Castle, all communication through Rachel Waterways: Alastair agreed to send a copy of the access agreement relating to Whorlton –not done and no response to reminder Minutes of the Last Meeting

5. Thanks to Rayan Sammut, English Coaching Manager, for helping us send out the enewsletter to every Canoe England member in the north east. Proposal that we try to do 3 newsletters per year. Newsletter

6. AGENDA Apologies Minutes of the last meeting Matters Arising Newsletter Tyne Tour How we support events in the region PDO Report Equipment – Roker Club Stand Up Paddleboards Waterways and Environment - update and future planning Coaching Report Any Other Business

7. Andy Brittlebank Tyne Tour

8. AGENDA Apologies Minutes of the last meeting Matters Arising Newsletter Tyne Tour How we support events in the region PDO Report Equipment – Roker Club Stand Up Paddleboards Waterways and Environment - update and future planning Coaching Report Any Other Business

9.  Humbledon Trials  Round the Island  Sea Kayak Expedition Gathering  South East Northumberland – Paddle Ability  Greenland Paddling  Surf  Tyne Tour  Boxing Day How can we support events in the region?

10. Is a commercially run symposium through East Barnby Outdoor Centre, it would be great to team up with other organisations. June 15 th this year. Usually attracts 30- 40 paddlers. The main content is journeying with additional aspects of expeditioning eg fishing, cooking, effective long term paddling, navigation on the move, incident management. This year they would also like to incorporate Greenland paddling. Looking for a venue near ColdinghamBay as the opportunities for different venues - surf, sheltered, exposed, islands etc. Sea Kayak Expedition Gathering

11. Huge interest in Greenland paddling in the world of sea kayaking (largely by passing the north east). Bjoern Backe of Wansbeck Paddle Sports Club is acting as a link to Mike Holgate (http://qaqajuk.org) to host a Greenland Coaches Gathering – August 1-3 2014. Hoping that coaches will meet together to learn from each other and possibly develop a structure to promote and coach Greenland paddling.http://qaqajuk.org This follows on from very successful paddle making sessions and Bjoern is willing to teach others to coach Greenland paddling before August. Amongst other things access to pool sessions over the weekend would be helpful. Greenland Paddling

12. Hope to develop a surf fest and a competition as part of the ongoing Surf strategy. Some elements may be impossible due to Canoe England lack of support for surf – particularly relating to awards and coaching. Possible link to SCA as way forward. Surf

13. AGENDA Apologies Minutes of the last meeting Matters Arising Newsletter Tyne Tour How we support events in the region PDO Report Equipment – Roker Club Stand Up Paddleboards Waterways and Environment - update and future planning Coaching Report Any Other Business

14. PDO Report U Canoe To Date Since last Update No. Of Wired Centres 3 actual Adventure in Middlesbrough Teesside Uni (training 7 th Feb) Biddick School (training 26 th Feb) 4 others potential No. Of Unleashed Centres Adventure in Middlesbrough registered 1 other possible. Participants transfer to ‘club’ 0 0 Satellite Clubs Roseberry School is one of our Watersports Hubs and also a Sattelite but school may be closing Bishop Auckland now have links with St John’s RC and Satellite club up and running 1 provisional

15. PDO Report Indoor Kayak Race Events 1 Tyne Tour Indoor Kayak Challenge Events 0 Skills Clinics 0 Challenge Events 1 Stockton & Thornaby Canoe Club Club Accreditation 0 Quality Mark Accreditation Paddle-ability 1x event 17 th May 14 Paddle- ability Top Club 0 Paddle-Ability Starter Sessions

16. PDO Report Successes and Progress: e.g. regionally, related to measures, specific outcomes Club Forum and Coach Update to be rescheduled to April Bishop Auckland Club Kayak (BACK) has formed a Satellite link with St John’s RC School and the link is going well. BACK also applying for Sport England Small Grant to buy new equipment to be used for the river. Teesside Uni are the first club to complete U Canoe Tutor training and have delivery of Ergos Kayak Northumbria is about to register and Newcastle Uni and Middlesbrough College are interested What else we have achieved in this region?: e.g. related to WSP Wansbeck and Hexham CC have renewed Clubmark Accreditation under new scheme. Coquet almost complete, Tyne Valley and Morpeth well on way Bishop Auckland in progress, Tees Tigers and Cleveland CC still to be arranged

17. PDO Report CE Participation Team News and Updates: e.g. General good news stories from rest of team, potential funding updates, programmes etc County Sports Partnerships; Tyne & Wear Sport, Northumberland Sport, Tees Valley Sport County Durham Sport are constantly posting information regarding funding and coach support. Clubs are encouraged to use this source of support and help by keeping in touch with their partnership. Future plans: e.g. any projects in the pipeline Still finalising work plans and priority areas. National Go Canoeing Week – 24 th May – 1 st June Huge Press coverage for 2013 Every Mile Counts target 11,073 miles Paddling around the UK. Please support this by registering your event Dates for the Diary National Go Canoeing Week 24 th May – 1 st June 2014 Will your club/ centre be registering and organising a Starter session with Go Canoeing Every Mile Counts. Target to paddle around the UK coastline 11,073 miles. There are lots of other ways to clock up the miles too

18. Roker Canoe Club is seeking support for equipment. They need equipment in order to Taster Sessions and Introductory courses that will attract new members. The equipment being sought is 8 kayaks, 2 canoes, paddles, helmets, buoyancy aids, spraydecks wetsuits etc at a cost of £8314. Roker Canoe Club requests that the RDT support the bid with 25% of this total - £2080. Equipment - Roker

19. AGENDA Apologies Minutes of the last meeting Matters Arising Newsletter Tyne Tour How we support events in the region PDO Report Equipment – Roker Club Stand Up Paddleboards Waterways and Environment - update and future planning Coaching Report Any Other Business

20. During 2014 working in partnership with the MAC we are making introductory sessions available to members of Canoe England affiliated clubs in the North-east. There will be a booking deposit to pay, but this will be re-imbursed upon attendance, and non-attenders will be making a contribution to RDT funds. Please talk with your club to establish interest in these full day sessions on Sundays. We will set up booking system through the website (we hope!!). 30 th March 27 th April 18 th May 29 th June 27 th July 31 st August 28 th September 26 th October 30 th Nov 14 th Dec We need clubs to book dates and to agree a system where we don’t waste this valuable resource Stand Up Paddleboards

21. AGENDA Apologies Minutes of the last meeting Matters Arising Newsletter Tyne Tour How we support events in the region PDO Report Equipment – Roker Club Stand Up Paddleboards Waterways and Environment - update and future planning Coaching Report Any Other Business

22. Generally this issue slips off our agenda and we don’t have regular communication. Would it be useful for half of the next meeting to focus on this issue and for people to bring issues that concern them to that meeting? Waterways and Environment

23. AGENDA Apologies Minutes of the last meeting Matters Arising Newsletter Tyne Tour How we support events in the region PDO Report Equipment – Roker Club Stand Up Paddleboards Waterways and Environment - update and future planning Coaching Report Any Other Business

24. Supportive informal reaction No response form Canoe England/BCU Phone call with Sue Hornby arranged for 16.00 Wednesday next week Proposal: set a series of meetings – March, June, August for club/discipline reps and paddlers to set plans Coaching Report

25. Any other Business