Ski club renewals and work parties

The Weardale Ski Club Ltd

September is looming and as the weather cools down and the first frost of the autumn has arrived what better time to turn our thoughts back to skiing!

WSC membership renewals are due from the first of September and this year we are moving over to "On-Line" renewal using a company called Sportident. For those of you who are involved in cycling, running, orienteering events etc you will know sportident who have been around for many years and are very experienced in this field. We haven't quite finalised the details yet but as soon as they are I will email out instructions which are very simple indeed and easier than the traditional way of renewing.Current members will be able to renew in September and will be guaranteed a place if they get their applications in by the end of September. From early in October we will open membership to all-comers on a first come first served basis. Membership will be limited to 750 as previously so once this number is reached we will close membership.

We are also holding 3 work parties in September where the bulk of the preparatory work will be done including fence repairs, drainage, putting the hangars back on etc. One of our main projects this year is to upgrade the toilets in the lodge and we have ordered a composting system and hope to make a start preparing the area before installing the new system. We will need help doing this and if any of you have carpentry or plumbing skills your help would be much appreciated. For those with no particular skills there is still much work to be done so please come along and join us. The dates we have are Sunday 9th September, Sunday 23rd September and Wednesday 26th September all starting at 10am. We may also need a further work party in October but if so I will email out details.

If you plan to attend a work party please will you email me so that we have an idea of numbers and also let me know if you have any particular skills that will be useful as we may be able to allocate specific jobs on the basis of available skills.

Hope to see as many of you as possible in September and details about renewal will be emailed in the near future and also available on the website.

Steve