Jacobites Mountaineering Club Information for members www.jacobitesmc.co.uk

Who we are • Founded in Edinburgh in 1973 as a non-selective club which encourages all abilities and types of mountaineering, with the advantages of sharing facilities and experience; we are now a well known and respected club of about 150 members. What we do • Hill walking, rock-climbing (outdoors and on climbing walls), ice climbing, ascents in Alpine and other ranges, ski-mountaineering. Also provide contacts for mountain biking, hill running, piste skiing, etc. • But: as club policy we do not offer formal training and our meets have no formal leaders. Professional training is available at centres such as Glenmore Lodge in the Cairngorms and Plas y Brenin in Snowdonia. Benefits of Membership • People to hill-walk and climb with; personal information and ideas; shared transport and equipment. • Approximately 24 weekend meets per year, most in climbing club huts, some in commercial bunkhouses, some camping. Held in wide variety of mountain areas of Scotland, also in other parts of Britain. Shared transport can be arranged. Climbing huts provide cooking stove and utensils, water, toilet, dormitory bunks. For some huts, including ours, bring a sleeping bag and mattress. • Our club hut: Invercroft House, in Strathcarron, halfway between Inverness and Ullapool, with access to about 40 Munros and 8 rock or ice climbing cliffs. It is a roomy converted croft amongst the hills and beside Loch Gowan, (below). Members can use it free of charge, anytime when not fully booked; contact our Hut Custodian for instructions on use and a deposited loan of a key.

• Evening meets for hill-walking and for rock-climbing locally outdoors and at climbing walls. • Equipment for loan: ice axes, crampons, harness, helmet, tents including a large mess tent. Ask the Gear Secretary. • Opportunity to learn a wide range of mountaineering skills by sharing with experienced companions. • Membership list with contact details. Regular Newsletters plus: Website (www.jacobitesmc.co.uk) and NewsGroup (http://groups.google.com/group/jacobites-mountaineering-club) • Annual Journal of club activities, written by members. • Annual Dinner at a Highland hotel and other social meets: Christmas Ceilidh, Burns' Night and mid-summer barbeque. • Liability insurance through affiliated membership of the Mountaineering Council of Scotland and access to overseas rescue and medical insurance through the British Mountaineering Council. • Notification of club discount nights at a local climbing equipment shop. Safety • Members are responsible for their own safety. We encourage everyone on a mountain meet to carry: whistle, correct maps, compass; and know how to use them in bad weather. Similarly in winter carry also: crampons, ice axe and bivouac bag. Go up the hill according to a forecast of mountain weather. Forecasts from several sources: www.mwis.org.uk/index.php or www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_forecast_weather.html or 09068 500 441 for West or . . . 442 for East Highlands. Mobiles may work poorly in mountains but 999 or 112 on a mobile of any network will search for a link through all networks. • The legal principle of Duty of Care clearly applies to the ethos of the club and mountaineering in general. The group or climbing team should mutually guard their own safety, specially by keeping together and also retreating as necessary in bad conditions. Mountaineering Council of Scotland • The club's membership fee substantially includes a fee of affiliation to the MCofS. This does the following: provides insurance against third party and person-to-person liabilities in respect to mountaineering activities, including use of club huts. This is not travel insurance and everyone climbing abroad is emphatically advised to insure against very large rescue and medical costs through the British Mountaineering Council scheme. Unlike the UK, these private services abroad must be paid for directly. • The MCofS produce a quarterly magazine posted free of charge to affiliated members. They campaign over access rights, safety training, problems over bolting ethics, etc. They are a source of information about safety, instruction and training courses, professional guides, tours, club huts and other accommodation, etc. (www.mountaineering-scotland.org.uk). Welcome to the club and thank you for your support. See overleaf >>

Constitution (September 2007)

1. The Club shall be called the Jacobites Mountaineering Club. 2. The purposes of the Club are to promote the amateur sport of mountaineering in Scotland and community participation in the same. 3. Membership: a. Membership of the Club shall be open to anyone interested in the sport on application regardless of sex, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, religion or other beliefs. However, limitation of membership according to available facilities is allowable on a non-discriminatory basis. b. The Club may have different classes of membership and subscription on a non discriminatory and fair basis. The Club will keep subscriptions at levels that will not pose a significant obstacle to people participating. c. The Club Committee may refuse membership, or remove it, only for good cause such as conduct or character likely to bring the Club or sport into disrepute. Appeal against refusal or removal may be made to the members. 4. The Club is to be organised on friendly, informal lines and novices shall be encouraged to join. 5. The Club shall support the aims and activities of the Mountaineering Council of Scotland and the British Mountaineering Council. 6. An Annual General Meeting shall be held on the last Thursday of September each year. At this, a committee of ten shall be elected and an accounts auditor shall be appointed for the next year. The Committee shall serve from the 1st October until the 30th September. 7. The Committee shall consist of a President, Treasurer, Secretary, Membership Secretary, Meets Secretary, Journal Editor, Hut Custodian, Social Secretary, Gear Secretary and Newsletter Editor. 8. The Committee shall meet at least once every three months with a quorum of six. 9. The committee shall organise meets, lectures, social events and an annual dinner to be held in the last quarter of each year. 10. The club financial year shall run from 1st September till 31st August each year. The Treasurer shall publish the audited accounts in time for the Annual General Meeting. 11. The Membership Secretary shall be responsible for administering the membership and providing a regularly updated membership address list as required. 12. The Meets Secretary shall be responsible for describing the area to be visited, running the meets booking procedure and organising accommodation. Meet activities are the responsibility of the individual and are not organised by the Club. 13. The Committee have the power to co-opt members at any time. 14. Invitation for nominations for committee posts shall be posted on the noticeboard three weeks before the AGM. 15. Any member (even if suspended or banned) may call an Extraordinary General Meeting, which must be held within four weeks, by presenting a petition signed by three other members to the Secretary. 16. Policy and Constitution Changes: a. All policies shall be decided by a simple majority vote at a General Meeting. Members must be present for their votes to register. Proxy and postal votes are not acceptable. b. The Constitution shall be amended by a simple majority vote at a General Meeting. Members must be present for their votes to register. Proxy and postal votes are not acceptable. 17. Property and Funds: a. The income of the Club shall be solely used for furthering the aims of the Club and for no other purpose. b. All surplus income or profits are re-invested in the club. No surpluses or assets will be distributed to members or third parties. c. The Club shall have the power to purchase or lease property for use as a Club hut. The President, Treasurer and Secretary shall, subject as always to having the approval of the membership, act on behalf of the Club for such purposes. 18. Upon dissolution of the club any remaining assets shall be given or transferred to another registered Community Association Sports Club (CASC), a registered charity or the sport's governing body. 19. The Club accepts no liability for persons or equipment associated with the Club. 20. Climbing and mountaineering are activities with a danger of personal injury or death. Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be responsible for their own actions and involvement.