Want to help your club? - current vacancies on the club committee

As you may or may not be aware your club is run entirely by volunteers, and we currently have a couple of vacant positions on the club committee.

• 1st Team manager (1 expression of interest so far)
• 2nd Team manager (1 expression of interest so far)
• Venus manager
• Development officer

If you are interested in helping to run your club in our 20th anniversary year and any of the above roles appeal, please send an email to Karen Anderson (club secretary) on secretary@millwallrugby.com before 31st December 2014 indicating which role you would like to volunteer for.

If you would like further information with regards to these roles, please feel free to speak to the outgoing position holder or any committee member to get a feel for what the role entails or referring to the role descriptions on the club website committee page
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For those roles which receive just one expression of interest by 31/12/14, this person will be notified and 'co-opted' formally at the next committee meeting on 13th Jan 2015 (although they will be in role asap).

For those roles which receive more than one expression of interest by 31/12/14, these will be discussed at the next committee meeting and the successful applicant will be showered in a flavour of Hooch of their choice* (*this may or may not happen).
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From personal experience, I can say that a committee role is both rewarding and challenging and it's a great feeling to be so deeply involved in a club and see it grow from strength to strength. 

For those who think you have to be at the club a while before going into a committee role - I don't think this necessarily matters - I joined in Nov 2011 and by April 2012 I had taken a committee role (and have been in one ever since)

Granted, some would say me bringing Hooch into the club is tantamount to bringing the club into disrepute, I will leave my peers to decide on that......

Gareth

Update for Members from the October CMC meeting last night (14th Oct)

Hello everyone,

A few weeks ago I promised I would start to write a short update with the key points that come out of club management committee meetings.

Here are some of the highlights:

• O2 Touch Rugby: Nigel Webb attended to talk about the already popular Sunday touch rugby sessions.  He provided an update and explained the intention to enter spring/summer leagues next year.
   
• Chairman's Lunches: We are going to look into the idea of hosting lunches for visiting committee and life members to happen when oppositions visit us, called "Chairman's Lunches". Other clubs do this.
   
• Finances: Adrienne will start to produce a set-format management committee monthly report to help the rest of the committee be more aware of finances, so if you have any questions more of the committee will understand the numbers better.  Andrew (Comms Officer) will also work with Adrienne (Treasurer) to present the costs the club has in a way that is visual and people can understand.  This will go in the programme regularly and probably on the clubhouse wall somewhere.
   
• Training: Reported low numbers at some training sessions recently - discussion held as to how we get more people to turn up - we can all play a part in encouraging others to come to training. If there is a reason why numbers are low we need to know so we can do something about it asap (please tell someone on the committee or email me if you prefer).  It's not fair on the coaches who work hard to plan sessions for us.
   
• Recruitment of players: A longer discussion was held around what we can do to attract new players to the club. Neil Sweeney, Rugby Development Officer attended from the RFU.  A serious effort is now required at recruitment and everyone needs to be involved.  It was noted that Rugby Basics and Sunday Touch were already contributing new players.  Noting the need also to attract experienced players, we've agreed a brand new "player-get-player" incentive that we will announce shortly. Iwan will be getting some of you involved with making a promotional video to share on YouTube and Facebook.  Players will be involved in finding more players via drinks nights in City and Canary Wharf bars - we have lots of flyers to give out. Some simple low-cost Facebook and Google advertising will also begin in coming weeks as a trial.  It was noted that there had been a significant increase in press coverage recently and that this should begin to help with recruitment and sponsorship.  Importantly, it was noted there was a lot that individual members could do to help, such as printing and displaying a poster (PDF 4.5Mb) at their work/gym, taking some flyers, phoning rugby friends, or even as simple as liking, sharing and commenting on our Facebook posts and retweeting our tweets rather than just reading them.
   
• Rugby Basics: as a key part of the strategy to get new players, it was noted that 5 people attended last week's session and a further 6 people had emailed interest/responded to the GumTree ad we placed. It was noted that this appeared to have been very successful, and the committee wanted this to continue on a regular basis. Thanks go to Tim McDonagh for starting this.

Whilst the management committee minutes are available to all members upon request to the secretary, it does take time to produce official minutes and to have them approved at the following meeting.

Please DO comment below if you found this update helpful  :-).  It's not meant to be a substitute for minutes... and there are probably some things I've forgotten to note.

Best regards
Andrew
Communications Officer
andrew@millwallrugby.com

Committee, Officer & Volunteer List Updated

We've updated the list of committee, officers & volunteers on our website, where you'll find email addresses for each of them.