Tayside OWL Committee Meeting 08/09/20

by Zoom

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

Apologies: Penny Martin. Melanie McRae

POP

The first session was held on 4th September with 10 families (22 people in total) attending. Eventbrite was used for the booking process. It was great weather and Biscuit was a really good leader, relaxed and really good with the children. The session involved a natural obstacle course. The session flowed really well with lots of good natural obstacles. People seemed to really enjoy the session. The session on 18th September will be den building and there will also be one on 2nd October.

There is now a POP email account and a google docs function which Kirsty will share with the office bearers

Melanie and Kirsty are both doing the First Aid course being held at the Scout Hut over the first weekend in October. A couple of the other parents have shown an interest and we have some reservations around commitment to the group going forward but Kirsty will check with Bonnie to see if there is any additional funding available.

5 POP families went camping in Angus and had a day at Lunan Bay

OWL events

We discussed the possibility of using the Belmont Centre at Meigle for the Dan Puplett event so as to keep the momentum of the branch going. Another option might be Largan Park at Coupar Angus.

Alison and Tricia are going to run a half day crafts session on 21st November outside at RDM ( 10.00-12.30)

Trisha has checked and this would be £120 for the day for the specification we require. option not discussed at the meeting could be the Camping Field or other space at Pillars of Hercules as we would have access to both the toilets and the takeaway food service. AM will ask Bonnie about this

DTONM Tuesday 22nd September at 7.30 for 1 hour ( NB there is a short gap between the two meetings so that we can firm up the Autumn programme)