Tayside OWL Committee Meeting by Zoom 08/06/22

Present Alison Wilson (Chair), Anne-Marie Mackin (Secretary), Penny Martin (Treasurer) Kirsty Adam, Jillian Ritchie

Apologies: Cara Roberts, Mel McRae, Trisha Carrigan-Key,

Updates from after the meeting in bold

Alison welcomed everyone to the meeting and went through the minutes of the previous meeting

We discussed the problems with having to cancel Dan Puppletts event in March at short notice and people still turning up as they hadn’t checked the e mail account they had given us. Penny is now collecting phone numbers for if ever something like this happens again. The event is now happening on 4th September and any spare spaces will be advertised after the summer.

Archaeology event – Alison isn’t sure what the feedback was. There were about 7 attendees although more people had booked. Gavin went through the resources so not very participatory and we don’t know if we will have a live event,

Kirsty gave an update on POP. There are 2 new volunteers and if they stay the group might look at First Aid training for them so will need to apply for funding. There are now 13 volunteers with 7 trained First Aiders. The group currently meets weekly on a Monday and they have run some weekend sessions. After summer there will be a weekly Monday session and a monthly Sunday session. We discussed again the popularity of the led sessions and the volunteers have said that they would like sessions on storytelling, Bushcraft, campfire cooking, willow weaving and orienteering

Penny said that she and Bonnie could run Lost Words training and this would link with POP interests. This has been booked for 29th October at The Shed.

We decided after some discussion around campfire cooking which we know is expensive so would require funding to run a Winter Crafts session in November on Willow Weaving. AM to ask Eilidh for contact details of person who ran session at last Falkland event. Eilidh is getting back to us on this. Scout Hut booked for this session on 26th November as The Shed wasn’t available because of Christmas Tree sales

Penny had attended the Aberfoyle Networking event in April and had been really energized by it. Great atmosphere and a good range of workshops with lots of enthusiasm from participants old and new. Penny gave an update on what Tayside Owls have been doing. Some resources were being shared

As OWL Scotland are moving the website to a new platform there is some work to be done on our information. Penny will do this and be paid for the work.

Finance – We have £3771.89 of which £825 is the admin grant. £500 for the Tracking Workshop and £500 POP award money.

There is a meeting of Branch Chairs on Monday 13th. Alison has a school commitment during the time of the meeting so Anne-Marie will attend on our behalf and give a short report and Alison will join if she can

There is going to be a Falkland Networking event. This has been confirmed by Eilidh as being held at Pillars of Hercules from 9th to 11th September. Details will be coming out soon

Eilidh confirmed that things have been a bit held up because of the work on the website and that the grant info will be ready soon and not vastly different to last time

Next Meeting The Shed, Kinnoull Hill 7th September 6.30 pm to 8pm. AM will bring refreshments. Any allergies dietary/requirements?