Firstly, a belated Happy new year to you all.

Thanks to all those who turned up to the AGM on thursday, it was great to hear what you all had to say, and hopefully we can look forward to an action packed 2012. As is often the case after these events, there’s a natural changing of the guard on the committee. This year Pete, Stu and Emelie were standing down. Thanks to those guys for all their hard work over the last year.

So, your 2012 committee line-up stands as follows:

• Chairman- Neil Hayden
• Treasurer- Mark Waterfall
• Secretary - Ric Harwood
• Membership Sec - Andy Dibble
• Social Sec - Nathalie Belunza (aka French Bird)
• Web Admin - Dave Patterson

Thanks to all the committee members for volunteering their services for another year and hopefully we can all do the club proud. We still have a committee vacancy for beginners rep, so if anyone’s interested then get in touch, we’d love to hear from you. Also, if anyone has any flashes of inspiration and ideas for things we can do and ways we improve the club, then again, get in touch with us via email or have a chat at the pub- we really do want your feedback and suggestions.

In terms of upcoming events, we shall be sitting down in the next week or so and looking at the social and events calendar for the next year, so watch this space.

In the mean time, I hope you’re all thinking about the sponsored swim in aid of the RNLI on February the 18th. We really do need as many people to take part as possible, it doesn’t matter if you’re not the strongest swimmer, it’s the taking part that counts.

This is my last newsletter as I take on chairman duties, so I thank you all for your time and pass the baton over to Ric, who I’m sure will do an excellent job!

See you all in the pumphouse or at the beach soon.

Neil