The following is a quick read summary of the AGM held in January. A copy of the full AGM minutes was attached to Zoe’s last Gramp Gossip this month before handing over the secretarial reins to Fiona.
Many thanks for all your hard work over the years collating and circulating info and organising the club’s 50th anniversary dinner amongst other things, Zoe.
Congratulations to those who won club champs trophies this year. Those that didn’t receive their trophies/prizes at the AGM should contact David Esson.
| Junior Men | Junior Women |
| 1st Fergus Gallagher | 1st Samantha McDonald |
| 2nd Cato Stockton | 2nd Joanna McDonald |
| 3rd Hannah Will | |
| Senior Men | Senior Women |
| 1st Ian Morrison | |
| 2nd Matthew Thompson | |
| 3rd Matthew Humphries | |
| Veteran Men | Veteran Women |
| 1st Julian Robinson | 1st Fiona McDonald |
| 2nd Adrian Will | 2nd Claire Gallagher |
| 3rd David Esson | 3rd Sarah Wallace |
| Super Veteran Men | Super Veteran Women |
| 1st Ian Hamilton | 1st Oonagh Grassie |
| 2nd Neil McLean | 2nd Laura Farquharson |
| 3rd Bob Daly | 3rd Lesley Gomersall |
The Chairman’s Quaich was awarded to Ian Hamilton for his outstanding service to the club, being a main official on committee for circa 15 years and ever the professional who gets on with the job with no fuss. Many, many thanks for everything you have done for the club, Ian.
And many thanks to David Esson too for carrying out both Chairman’s and SI/computing duties over the last few years with equal (laid-back) professionalism, coping with the Covid years and personal health issues but still ploughing on determinedly to get both club and himself back up and running.
Chairman’s AGM Report 2024
34 events – up from 29 in 2023. We are a healthy club, even though we have significant challenges in particular the lack of areas due to the Storms. At the moment we only have 3 areas which are big enough for a full colour coded and Glen Dye is currently embargoed for the Scottish 6 Days. Open day at newly remapped Aden Country Park, quite a few members made the journey and enjoyed themselves between the wintry showers.
During the year we produced a club survey which many members filled in. Thank you to all. Very useful information for the new committee to work on but generally people love having the Wednesday events throughout the year, but also would love more Sunday events. So we’re thinking of doing some local Sunday events at areas like Aden and Haddo and make it very much a social day out too. Look out for these this year.
Throughout the year, we did emphasise that the 3 main committee members were standing down at the end of this year. May I first of all say thank you to the people who have put their names forward. It is very much appreciated. The reason why I started asking so far in advance was I was concerned that if no one would come forward, it might have spelt a bad ending for the club, which would have been a great shame as we are a strong club in many other aspects. But if the proposed changes come to fruition, the committee and club will grow in numbers and therefore strength.
Other than the usual elections and Treasurer’s report, a couple of things were discussed at the AGM regarding identifying suitable areas to map to replace the areas we’ve lost and getting funding to cover professional mappers’ fees as these do not qualify for community grants.
2024 Successes
Scottish O Champs – 1st Kevin Reynard M55S, Neil McLean M80,
Claire Gallagher W45S, Joanna McDonald Yellow
2nd Paul Duley M70L
Scottish Orienteering League – 1st Joanna McDonald W14B, Samantha McDonald W16S, Ros Nicholson W45S, Neil McLean M80
2nd Carolyn McLeod W21N, Oonagh GrassieW65S
Scottish Relay Champs
17+ category
5th Tim Griffin, Claire Gallagher, Sam Gomersall
8th Malcolm Fisher, Lesley Gomersall, Kevin Reynard
20+ category
20th David Esson, Adrian Will, Bob Daly
Scottish Urban Orienteering League
No podium finishers from GRAMP although Laura Farquharson was 6th Supervet after attending nearly all the SOULs and several others managed a few races each over the year with good results which, if combined, may have resulted in a podium place 😉
We’re hoping to get funds to map an urban area and be able to offer to host a SOUL in 2025/6. Watch this space….
British Relay Champs
Mixed – 3rd Lesley Gomersall, Sam Gomersall, Mike Greenwood
Looking ahead
- Forest Sprint/Summer Series/Local Sunday events/ 6 Days on Deeside
- GMC in October to look forward to
GRAMPIAN ORIENTEERS 