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SWP AGM & Volunteer Positions

Published: 13 July 2022

The following is an update and appeal from the Chair of the Scottish Water Polo Committee

Dear Clubs & Squads,

I hope you are doing well. This is quite a lengthy important email so please take the time to read through and please forward on and share with your membership/volunteers/parents.

Due to unforeseen circumstances we are going to postpone the AGM again next week. The reason I was pushing to get it done so quickly was because there was a deadline for Scottish Swimming providing our Committee Nominations by the end of July but I have had confirmation that we can extend that deadline.

In order to make sure we provide you with a valuable meeting that covers information required I have taken the decision to push the AGM into August in order to be fully prepared and make sure it is worthwhile to us all.

Once the date has been confirmed by the committee I will be in touch.

In the meantime there are some important volunteer roles that will be vacant at the AGM so I would please ask that you strongly encourage your club or squad members/parents to fulfil these roles. We will not be able to function properly as a discipline without volunteers stepping in to these roles:

Vice Chair

Finance Coordinator*

Officials Coordinator**

Marketing and Communication***

Pool Allocations****

*Finance is probably the most important position needing to be filled so if there are any members/parents/volunteers with a background in finance we really need them to step forward. Without someone in finance we will not be able to provide any real support to clubs, squads or the overall membership.

** This is another important one needing to be filled so that we can make sure officials are allocated accordingly. If no one takes on this role clubs will need to organise their own referees for fixtures and there will be limited scope for courses/ official progression.

*** We have been struggling in this role for some time now and luckily Richie Metcalfe has been supporting the SWP social media, however both Julie and Richie will be stepping back from this support for the AGM. If there is no one in this role then there will be no information shared on social media outside what I have time to add (which isn't much). 

**** Although not a committee position we desperately need someone to coordinate the allocation of central pool time that SWP has access to across RCP, Carnegie & NSA. I have been doing this which in all honesty is an admin task that as Chair I shouldn't have to be worrying about. Therefore if noone steps up to this role then there will be no pool allocations for any squads or clubs from September onwards and we will lose the little pool time we currently do have.

It would also be really helpful to have a Vice Chair that can support some of the development work we are trying to accomplish in the coming months.

If you do manage to identify anyone who might be interested in any of these roles please let me know and I would be happy to meet with them alongside the current committee member.

If you have any questions regarding this please let me know.
Thanks,

Tom

Missing "Mackeson Trophy"

Published: 01 July 2022

With the Home Nations anxious to resume the Water Polo International event the hunt is on for the trophy which was used previously. "The Mackeson Trophy" was competed for from 1962 to 1971 then from 1985 to 1997. England won the event in 1997  but it is not certain when trophy was last presented.. The rough photo below gives an idea of the appearance of the trophy. Quality is not good as it was extracted from a small team photograph. Any information to  England Water Polo.