March 2020

Royal West Subscriptions 2020-2021

The Royal West Club House is currently closed due to lock down associated with COVID-19. Therefore, the tradition of paper forms to collect information about Members is nearly impossible to implement. Therefore, the Committee has set up an on-line form to collect information from you. If you are currently a

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AGM 2020 – Open Water Swimming Convenor’s Report

This year is the 7th year that Open Water Swimming has been an organised activity at RWSABC in the modern era.  When I first joined the Club and became the Convener, I was confident that there would be at least 10 new or existing members who would take up Open

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AGM 2020 – House Convenor’s Report

The past year has been a pleasantly busy one at the Club, and looking after the Clubhouse has been no exception. Keeping any 150-year-old building in running order means there’s always a list of on-going maintenance, from simply replacing bulbs and locks to fixing plumbing or roof leaks. The Club

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AGM 2020 – Kayak Convenor’s Report

I would like to think that 2019 was the year in which we continued with the development and growth of the kayaking section started in previous years and before I became involved. 2019 started with the normal pool sessions at the Waterfront Leisure Complex. As always, they were well attended

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AGM 2020 – Rowing Convenor’s Report

I am going to apologies in advance as it was only when I sat down to write this that I realised how busy we had been this past year. So please bear with me as I take you through a brief summary of another successful rowing year for Royal West.

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AGM 2020 – Message from the Honorary Treasurer

Hi all, We would normally have posted the 2019/20 Accounts and Proposed Budgets for 2020/21 on the Club Noticeboard last weekend. This would have been pointless as the clubhouse is closed and things were evolving hour-by-hour, that would impact on the 20/21 Budget. I will come back to the year

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AGM 2020 Subscriptions Convenor’s Report

Membership There are currently 320 members which is a considerable increase in last year when we had 294. (8.12% increase). Female membership currently stands at 24.1%, an increase of 4.1% on last year, not including Ogilvies members. Listed below is current membership by category. There were 20 resignations and 1

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AGM 2020 Social Convenor’s Report

I am delighted to say that the past year seems to have been another successful for the activities in the club. I must stress that the success is not down to any one person. Although I am making this report it is not all due to me. It is wonderful

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AGM 2020 Beach Convenor’s Report

It’s been a very busy 12 months across all disciplines & areas of the club both on and off the water including the beach. So what has been done over the last 12 months? Slip Rota A slip rota has been put in place and you guys came forward very

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AGM 2020 – Information you would have heard at the AGM

To help alleviate some of the boredom of staying at home, and to give you something to read when you have finished watching the last boxset of “Only Fools & Horses”, we will be publishing the Convenors’ Reports that would have been presented at the AGM. Over the next few

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