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Your Committee and the Club
We are a vibrant, well organised club, with over 50 members from late twenties to eighties! We are well known for our friendliness and openness to our members and the wider community. Our focus is to provide learning opportunities for our members in a fun and engaging way. Our goal is to have fun, learning about creative photography.
Your Committee
Being a committee member is a great opportunity to contribute to the future direction of the club and the activities in a season. This is YOUR committee and they enderavour to give the members a great programme and many opportunities to lean. Members typically volunteer to spend at least 2 years in a role.
| Role | Name | Photo | Contact Details | Responsibilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chair | Adrian Reeve |  | Leads the club in developing an organisation that is attractive to photographers, is well organised and is financially secure. Represents the club in the local and photographic community. | |
| Secretary | Claire Constable |  | Ensures that the Committee business is conducted with due process in an orderly and democratic fashion. Leads the administration of the club. | |
| Treasurer | Charles Broomhead |  | Controls all aspects of financial management of the club, ensuring the long term financial security. The Treasurer keeps track of all incoming receipts and outgoing expenditure and ensures this is appropriately recorded. | |
| Programme Secretary | Brenda Scott-Oldfield |  | Devises & plans the programme for each year, ensures each activity is well organised and regularly communicates the schedule to all members. | |
| Programme | Jennifer Edie |  | To assist the Programme Secretary | |
| Competitions Secretary | Paul Dunnell |  | club.competitions.tdcc@gmail.com | Devises the annual programme of competitions and exhibitions and leads the execution of these. Records results to calculate the annual awards and inform decisions on group membership. |
| Competitions | Paul Keating |  | club.competitions.tdcc@gmail.com | To assist the Competitions Secretary |
| Workshop Secretary | Ros Alcock |  | To devise and plan practical learning activities that help members to broaden their creativity and develop photographic skills, especially in support of forthcoming competition subjects |
Other Roles
There are two other club members that have a role in supporting the committee and members, but are not actually members of the committee.
| Role | Name | Photo | Contact Details | Responsibilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| President | Peter Cox |  | Acts as figurehead of the club and as an independent advisor to the Chair in handling the management of the Committee. Is a primary point of contact for any member who wishes to confidentially discuss a concern, regarding the behaviour of any Committee member. Seeks to promote the club in the community. | |
| Tech Support | Alvin Roussel |  | Supports the committee and club members with Club email addreses, Info Centre, Dropbox, Competitions, particularly scoring and any general support regarding use of technology in supporting club activities. |
CACC & PAGB
There are hundreds of camera clubs across the UK and Worldwide. In the UK the overarching organisation for the clubs is the
‘Photographic Alliance of Great Britain’ (PAGB). https://thepagb.org.uk/
This organisation:
·      Offers qualifications and distinctions
·      Supports ‘Salons’ – these are National competitions for advanced photographers
·      Provides leadership in defining things that need to be common across all clubs – for example: The definition of certain genres such as nature / The appropriate use of AI in club photography / Standards for Judges
·      PAGB also host one of the top National Print competitions – called ‘Master of Print’
Within the PAGB are regional Associations – Tring Club belongs to a group of around 35 clubs called the:
Chiltern Association of Camera Clubs (CACC). https://thecacc.org.uk/
This organisation:
·      Trains, Develops and organises Judges whom travel to club competitions across the region to provide expert feedback and scoring of images.
·      Acts as a support organisation to the member clubs – giving advice and practical support on thing such as insurance
·      Organises regional competitions – such as an annual knockout competition called ‘The Rose Bowl’. (Tring have decided not to take part in this) and also an annual ‘Championship Day’ where clubs compete as clubs and as individuals.
TDCC is a member of CACC and therefore PAGB and this entitles members:
·      To enter any of the competitions at National or Regional level
·      To apply for one of the PAGB qualifications
·      To receive a monthly newsletter that shares great images and advertises events
For more advice on these benefits, please contact Peter Cox club.president.tdcc@gmail.com whom manages relationships with both organisations, has a PAGB qualification and is a winner of the Master of Print competition.
Key Documents
There are two documents that cover how the club operates and these are shown below.
| Document | Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Constitution | The constitution of the club too be followed by the committee and club members. | |||
| Operational manual | Operational guidance for the Committee in running the club. |