Welcome to edition 76 of the Bulletin, the regular communication keeping you informed of things happening at HBSC

Update on new access toilet

Thanks to all who have already moved their gear from the gear store. Unfortunately we now need to get access to the back wall, so will be moving any remaining gear into the gents changing room to enable the DDA toilet works to be completed.

Winter Social Programme

We are super excited to bring to you a programme of winter events to keep us united over the winter! More details to follow in the coming bulletins.

This Saturday 9th November - end of season celebration - book for your skating and food.

3pm - 4.30 Roller Skating at Herne Bay Hight School. Skate hire available. Advisable to book in advance through Active Life but you can also turn up on the day. Meet there.

5pm-6pm home made chicken curry or vegetable chilli with rice at HBSC. £6 adults, £3 if cadets are of Primary School age. Please book any pay for this by end of tonight Thursday 7th November on SCM: Herne Bay Sailing Club. 19 booked in so far, plenty of room for more people!

https://members.hernebaysailingclub.co.uk/event/en...

6pm - Water Users meeting followed by approx. 7pm End of season prize giving and achievement celebration!

Please return any trophies back to club by 6pm!!

Have your say in how the club operates it's water based activities - please come along, we want to hear your views.

Saturday 16th November - barn dance - see poster below.

Please let Richard know what food you will bring along to make sure we don't end up with a table full of sausage rolls! Everyone is welcome! Don't be shay, we need number to make this viable. Thank you.

Friday 29th November 7pm - Christmas decorating, crafting and Christmas jumper wearing

Let's get into the Christmas Spirit by enjoying a mince pie and a drink at the bar, putting up the decorations, wearing our Christmas Jumpers with friends and family. There will be a table to bring along any crafting you are happy to do and share with others. If you would like to sell any of your wares, please let Maria know and we will make space for you. We really want this to be a lovely evening for everyone so do come along and bring your friends and family.

Saturday 7th December 7pm - Christmas Quiz/games and Christmas Jumper night

More details to follow

Thursday 26th December - boxing day punch up

Sunday 5th January 2025 - Winter Walk

to the Ethelbert Pub, Reculver for lunch

Afternoon of Saturday 11th January 2025 - HBSC Lego Masters

January - date TBC games night

22/23 February 2025 - Dinghy show

RYA Dinghy & Watersports Show

Trophy return

Please return your trophies ASAP by Saturday 6pm. Please contact Russell with any queries.

Google reviews

If you have 5 spare minutes, please can you do a Google Review for the club? It helps our visibility! https://g.page/r/CTXtXyATLVIFEAE/review Thank you!

Kayaks on racks and in the store

We have had great success identifying the kayaks - thank you! If you still need to pick up your tag (and attach it to the kayak), please do so asap. The remaining tags will be on a table in the main room of the clubhouse in named envelopes from this Saturday. As stated in July, over the winter, we will be reviewing the kayaks on the racks/in the store and removing those that are not identifiable as belonging to members of the club.

Moving to cashless

As a club we are moving towards cashless transactions. We encourage you to use your card/phone/watch to pay on the Sumup machine where possible. It is becoming increasingly challenging to access cash/change from the bank and so we have little choice but to move with the times......we appreciate this can be a bit tricky in the galley with smaller amounts of money and we are working on a solution for this. Thank you.

100 Club

I'm reaching out as I have recently taken over the HBSC 100 club lottery from Steve and Jane. As part of the transition process, unfortunately Nationwide are making us set up a new bank account. So we are reaching out to all the 100 club members with the new standing order details that we need everyone to switch to.

I am sorry it is a real pain, but please could you set up new standing orders to the below account and then cancel the old ones. Much appreciate if you can confirm when you have, my phone number is below if its easier to message on whatsapp.

Nationwide

A/C name: Peter Bradshaw

A/C Number: 05231664

Sort code: 071096

We really appreciate your continued support with fund raising for the club by participating in the 100 club lotto.

Kind regards, Pete Bradshaw 07812158383

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