Club secretary Marianne writes: We’re holding our Annual General Meeting on Monday 12 October 2026, 19:00 at Port Edgar Yacht Club. All club members welcome!

Provisional agenda

1. Apologies
2. Approval of 2025 Minutes
3. Matters Arising
4. Captain’s Report
5. Treasurer’s Report
6. Other report
7. Proposals
8. Election of Office Bearers and Committee Members
9. AOCB

Committee nominations

In preparation for the AGM, we’re requesting nominations for 

• four office bearer positions of Captain, Vice-Captain, Secretary and Treasurer.
• up to seven committee members.

These positions will be elected at the AGM. 

Sign up form are on the shed notice board. The form has columns for the name of the nominated person, the names of the proposer and seconder. Alternatively, you can email nominations, with proposers and seconders, to me at secretary@queensferryrowing.org.

Voting

Each member has one vote. In the case of family memberships, voting is restricted to two votes per household. 

Proxy votes

If you’re unable to attend the AGM in person, you can nominate another voting member to cast a proxy vote on your behalf. 

Proxy voting is for Committee positions only (not proposals etc.), and may not be necessary, depending on the number of sign-ups for positions.

Proposals/amendments to the constitution

Please send these in writing to secretary@queensferryrowing.org

Key dates

Office bearer and Committee nominations	Closes Monday 28/09/2026
Proposals, amendments to the constitution, agenda items	Last date for submission to the Secretary Friday 25/09/2026
Voting proxy forms Reports	Last date for submission to the Secretary Sunday 04/10/2026

You can download the QRC constitution and other documents from the documents section.

If you have any queries or questions, please do not hesitate to speak to me, or contact me via email at secretary@queensferryrowing.org. 

The QRC committee writes: Please join us on January 24^th from 5pm at the Port Edgar Sailing Club for an (early) celebration of Burns Night.

We will be serving haggis, neeps and tatties (veggie options available) from 5.30pm onward and will provide quiz sheets.

Please bring:

• Receptacle(s) to eat and drink from
• Cutlery
• Pens/pencils for the quiz

We also invite you to bring any puddings, cakes or sweets you would like to share! We will have a prize for the quiz-winning team, and a booby prize for the worst team too – so we’re all in contention!

Prizes will also be awarded to the person/people who are voted by attendees to have brought the:

• Most interesting (while still functional) food/drink receptacle(s)
• Best homemade pudding/cake

The evening will be pay-what-you-like, children and guests are welcome

Please RSVP by January 19th. See WhatsApp or club emails for a link to the spreadsheet. Or send an email to Jen: jenkremnant at gmail.com.

Queensferry Rowing Club Annual General Meeting – 20 October 2025

Club secretary Marianne writes: We’re holding our Annual General Meeting on 20 October 2024 at 19:30 in the Club House at Port Edgar Yacht Club.

Committee nominations

In preparation for the AGM, we’re requesting nominations for 

• four office bearer positions of Captain, Vice-Captain, Secretary and Treasurer.
• seven committee members.

These positions will be elected at the AGM. 

The Committee nomination form will be on the notice board in the shed until Friday 03 October when the process closes. The form has columns for the name of the nominated person, the names of the proposer and seconder. Alternatively, you can email nominations, with proposers and seconders, to me at secretary@queensferryrowing.org .

Committee meetings are usually held monthly, and a minimum of eight times a year. Committee members may be expected to carry out functions throughout their term.

Voting

Each member is allowed one vote. In the case of family memberships, voting is restricted to two votes per household. 

Proxy votes

If you’re unable to attend the AGM in person, you can nominate another voting member to cast a proxy vote on your behalf.  Please complete a proxy request form and send it to the Secretary by email before Friday 03 October. 

Proxy voting is for Committee positions only (not proposals etc.), and may not be necessary, depending on the number of sign ups for positions.

Proposals/amendments to the constitution

Please send these in writing to the Secretary’s address by Friday 03 October at secretary@queensferryrowing.org

Key dates

AGM Date		20/10/2025
Last date for submission to Secretary: Voting proxy forms  Proposals, amendments to the constitution, reports Committee nominations		03/10/2025
Minutes/Committee nominations/Proposals etc out to members		06/10/2025

If you have any queries or questions, please do not hesitate to speak to me, or contact me via email at secretary@queensferryrowing.org.

We have moved to the Spond app for booking a seat in social rows. This way it becomes less of administrative task for someone (like David and many before) as you can book places for yourself.

We already have about 50 members using Spond to book training rows, so its not new to everyone.

Also, Sharon will be organising the social rows. For those members who have not used it before, it is an app used by many of the rowing clubs for organising rows.  You can access it via the smartphone app, or using the Spond website on a PC or laptop. Once you’ve set up Spond, just accept the invitation Sharon has sent to the club email.

A guide to using Spond will be added to the website soon, but it’s fairly straightforward.

The photos in the report linked above – and many more! – are now on the club’s Flickr. Many thanks to Anne P for the report, and to all those who shared their photos. It is wonderful to see so many happy faces!

The SkiffieWorlds 2025 album on Flickr.