Tayside OWL Committee Meeting 12/01/21 by Zoom

Present Alison Wilson (Chair), Anne-Marie Mackin (Secretary), Kirsty Adam, Mel McRae, Trisha Carrigan, Jillian Ritchie

In attendance: Bonnie Maggio

Apologies: Penny Martin

The amended minutes of December 9th were accepted

Kirsty had heard from Robin Lofthouse that The Shed won’t be available until after the end of this financial year.

POP has been suspended until Jan 22nd. It can run with 7 families and it was agreed that as long as they operate within the guidelines the sessions can go ahead.

Zoom sessions with Kate Hookham are being set up which the committee could possibly join in with. Kirsty will let us know. The topics are doing RBA’s with children and Schema.

Outdoor First Aid. We asked Bonnie if there might be additional funding for this but there is a policy on not funding the training. AM will look into small grants for this and Alison will contact Aileen Hill to see if she is available. Kirsty felt weekends were best for this. Ideally we would use The Shed or the Scout Hut. We need to check what level of training is required and how this links to the insurance.

So as not to impact on outdoor time we have moved the AGM from 6th to 9th Feb at 8pm. We believe that most of the committee are prepare to re stand ( not sure re Cath). There will be some simple craft ideas of things to do in lockdown as well as the business part of the meeting and it is hoped that POP parents will come along.

Bonnie told us about some good online courses that she will be sending info out about very soon. AM will get this out to members over the weekend.

There will be a pre meeting on 2nd Feb for office bearers and presenter

Kirsty set up a whats app group which we all joined

AOCB Idea to set up a book club for children’s outdoor books

Junior Foresters to be discussed at a future meeting