General

A reminder that the ERSA AGM will take place next Saturday the 29th September after prize giving at Welwyn. The agenda can be found here. The chair report for this year can be found here.

The 2012 ERSA Annual General Meeting will take place on Saturday 29th September a Gosling Ski Centre after the race.

Committee members

Chair – Bernard Wright, willing to continue
Vice Chair – John Curtis, standing down
Secretary – Don Daley, willing to continue
Treasurer – Janet Jenkins, willing to continue
ROTP Chair – Ian Mawson, willing to continue
Regional Race Manager – Steve Lambert, willing to continue
Other members – Andrew Upton, willing to continue

The ERSA AGM will be held after the race at Welwyn on Saturday 29th September 2012. If you have anything you would like to discuss or would like to stand on the committee please forward to the ERSA Secretary, Don Daley, at secretary@ersa.co.uk.

Snowsport England are looking for a Talent Development Officer to join the team. Full details of the role can be found in the attached document.

The Alpine Challenge 2013!

It’s a key event for SnowCamp’s fundraising each year, and they would be so grateful if you could promote in any way possible, or perhaps encourage some of your friends to even enter a team?!

All details are at: www.snow-camp.org.uk/alpinechallenge

Two emails have been sent out recently and everyone should have received a copy if registered with SSE but is also something that should be available to all non SSE registered racers and parents.

Dear All,

We are running 2 open meetings on the weekend of 21^st & 22^nd July 2012 to discuss the future of Alpine Racing in the UK.  We would like to obtain the views of people who are involved with racing for racers to parents to coaches to officials.

The meeting will be held at the following locations:

Snowsport England
Sports Development Officer,
Head Office, SportPark, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE113QF

(West Midland, East Midland and Yorkshire)

Attached is a document which has been put together by BSS (Dr Jenny Shute and Paddy Mortimer) about possible changes in the future. It is a discussion document and feedback is welcome. Andrea Grant, andrea@buttermountain.com, is collating feedback for SSE or alternatively if you would prefer send it to myself at chair@ersa.co.uk and I will forward it on. Feedback is required by the end of May.

Tonight Jasmin Taylor from Ipswich, featured on the BBC Look East programme talking about her Telemark skiing over the past winter. She trains over at Hemel where there is now a club. Watch the video here.

Details about the SSE vacancy for a chair person can be found here.