2022-06 Piripiri Pānuitanga a te Tumuaki
Toitū he kāinga, whatu ngarongaro he tangata.
While the land remains, the inhabitants are gone.
E mihi ana ki a koutou
TTC is a founding member of Federated Mountain Clubs. Now the new executive is in place I am looking forward to being able to work with FMC to the benefit of our club and the wider outdoors community.
I welcome your feedback on issues I intend to raise (and in some cases raise again) with FMC. These are:
- A focus on serving FMC’s constituent clubs and their members
- Returning the focus of FMC advocacy to issues that benefit the outdoors community
- Continuing of the FMC’s focus on promoting access to stewardship land through its Forgotten Lands campaign. See also: “The Conversation’s” article co-authored by the new FMC Vice President How New Zealand’s review of ecologically important land could open the door to more mining on conservation land; FMC’s unformed legal roads (Same as SH1) campaign: and access campaigns that also promote conservation, such as Wild Rivers Park and Remarkables National Park
- Promoting the development and adoption of common policies across all outdoor clubs in areas such as the participation of youth and leaders on club trips
- Building FMC’s membership through individual membership of its member clubs, rather than through the existing ‘FMC individual supporter’ membership category
- Making Backcountry magazine available electronically (as is our Tramper), to reduce the costs of printing and posting hard copies and potentially reduce the cost of FMC membership
I hope we will have a talk by the new FMC President at club night and be able to hear more about the state of outdoor recreation in Aotearoa.
Ngā mihi nui
Simon
Tumuaki o te rōpū hīkoi Tararua
Vacancies
The club’s AGM and elections take place in August. The club is looking for members to contribute by filling the following vacancies:
- Treasurer. This Club Officer role is of critical importance to the club The club uses Xero to help make the job easier, and training and support are available
- New members for General Committee
- Club activity night reporter, to help keep us up to date with our weekly trips
- Almoner, a valuable role that we would like to see resumed
- FMC representative - an opportunity to represent TTC at a national level
- An Archive group, working with and promoting our archives
- Developing public policy submissions across TTC areas of interest