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  M INUTES OF THE KDCS COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON  26/02/2024 Attendees: Steve Warner, Anne Brookes, Brian Woodward, Dave Wills and Will Beck. Apologies sent from Martin Slader. FINANCE REPORT Martin as treasurer had already circulated the accounts covering years 2019 to 2024. Our current surplus stands at £245.95. In the financial year 2022/23 we had expenditure of £130 which included the affiliation fee of £88 to Cycling UK, and a payment of £42 towards the Christmas Social Event. We still remain in a healthy financial position at present and have sufficient funds to meet our forecast 2024/25 commitments but recognised that we will need to ask members for voluntary payments as we have done in the past if we are to meet our commitments next year. MEMBERSHIP UPDATE Anne reported that we have had 7 new members this year (3 road and 4 MTB) but to her knowledge very few of the new road riders had been on any of our road rides. 57 members are on the road riders e-mail contact list but it is

  MINUTES OF THE KDCS COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON 21/02/23     Attendees Steve Warner, Anne Brookes, Brian Woodward, Dave Wills, Martin Slader. Apologies sent from Will Beck and Mike Pezet. Observer Jan Goodey   FINANCE REPORT   Martin as treasurer had already circulated the accounts covering years 2019 to 2023. Our current surplus stands at £369.56p. In the financial year 2022/23 we had expenditure of £180.78 which included the affiliation fee of £85 to Cycling UK, £28.78 for our domain name and a payment of £67 to fund the Christmas Social Event. We remain in a healthy financial position at present but recognised that at some future point we may need to ask members for voluntary payments to meet our annual commitments.   MEMBERSHIP UPDATE   Anne reported that we have had 21 new members ( 17 both road and MTB, 2 road only and 2 MTB only  ) but to her knowledge only about one third of the new road riders had been on any of our road rides. 49 members are on the activ

MINUTES OF THE KDCS COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON 09/02/22 - version 15/2/22  Attendees Steve Warner, Anne Brookes, Brian Woodward, Dave Wills, Mike Pezet and Will Beck. Martin Slader sent his apologies but was available by phone if needed.     FINANCE REPORT   Martin as treasurer had already circulated the accounts covering the years 2019, 2020,2021 and 2022 to date prior to the meeting. There was only 1 item of expenditure to report for year 21/22 so far which was the affiliation fee to Cycling UK ( £85). Our current income surplus stands at £548.11p. We therefore remain in a healthy financial position.        2.  MEMBERSHIP UPDATE    Mike / Anne, Will and Dave gave an update on current membership. There are 134 members in total the majority of which are considered non active in terms of riding. Anne advised that she had received over 30 responses to her e-mail survey and that there are 25-30 active riders. The change to twice monthly weekend road rides seems to be worki

Letters sent by the Chairman to Richard Leafe, and The Westmorland Gazette re The use of 4x4 vehicles on Green Lanes in the Lake District. 6th June 2021 FAO RICHARD LEAFE    Dear Sir, Please see the attached copy of a letter I have submitted to the Westmorland Gazette regarding the excessive use of these vehicles in the National Park.   I am requesting on behalf of our cycling club that you curb the use by imposing a Traffic Regulation Order through your Rights of Way Committee and I am also requesting a place on your committee on behalf of the Kendal and District Cycle Scene cycling club. With over 100 members many of whom walk and Cycle on the affected lanes I have been mandated to make representation to your authority to try and change this situation for both current and future generations. Notwithstanding you are asking people to comment on the future direction of the park action on this matter , this can only contribute to your purpose and aims for now and the future.   Steve Warn

MINUTES OF THE KDCS COMMITTEE MEETING HELD VIA ZOOM MEDIA ON 25/1/21 Attendees Steve Warner, Anne Brookes, Brian Woodward, Dave Wills, Martin Slader, Mike Pezet and Will Beck Steve as chairman welcomed all.  He advised that following his all members note issued prior to the meeting a number of responses had been received ( circulated to the committee in advance of the meeting ) and these would be referred to during the meeting.  FINANCE REPORT  Martin as treasurer had already circulated the accounts covering the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 year to date prior to the meeting. There were only 2 items of expenditure to report for year 20/21 so far which was the affiliation fee to Cycling UK ( £80 ) and a payment to retain our domain name / website of circa £25. Our current income surplus stands at £630.02p. We therefore remain in a healthy financial position.  MEMBERSHIP UPDATE   Mike / Anne confirmed that there had only been 5 new members this year which was understandably down from th

  Minutes of the KDCS Committee meeting held 20/1/20 Attendees - Steve Warner, Anne Brookes, Martin Slader, Brian Woodward, Dave Wills, Bill Jackson Apologies - Mike Pezet, Neil Hazlehurst As Chairman Steve welcomed all to the meeting and advised that Mike Pezet had another engagement and Neil is away on holiday. 1. Finance Report / income generation Martin advised that we currently have £751.52p in our Skipton Account. Last years voluntary donation exercise resulted in £552.02p being raised through our members. Our only forecast expenditure is £80 for our ride leaders insurance via Cycling UK and around £15 for our website costs. It was agreed that we will not need to raise any additional funds for quite some time and that any charges for room hire should we need them for talks, members meetings etc. could be met from our funds. Note - This account can be accessed at Branch level only and requires any 2 of our 3 named signatories for withdrawals. We agreed that Martin should circulate