Shipley Novices

Shipley Pool

Alexandra Road

Shipley

BD18 3ER

Competition Dates: Saturday 29 – Sunday 30 April 2017

Travel Dates: Friday 28 – Sunday 30 April 2017

Dear Parent/Guardian,

Edinburgh Diving Club is taking a team of all ages to the Shipley Novices competition at the end of April and the coaches have nominated your child to participate. I will forward an event programme when it is available. We intend to travel down to Shipley on Friday 28th April, probably by coach (please note that we will probably leave before midday on the Friday). We will return on Sunday 30th April once the competition is finished.

We encourage divers of all ages to travel and stay as part of the team. Divers of all ages have benefited greatly from this and it is often the great motivator to improve their diving so they can be invited to more of these away trips. Divers age 9 and over are expected to travel and stay with team. Any exceptions must be agreed with the coaches/CPO – in which case independent arrangements must be made by parents/guardians.

Please reply to this email () no later than Sunday 26th February 2017, indicating whether your diver will be taking part. Please include the diver’s name in your response and whether you will be travelling independently. If you have more than one child taking part, please indicate whether both will be attending or not. In addition a deposit of £50 for each diver travelling with the team must be paid by Friday, 3rd March 2017. Please make an electronic payment of your deposit to:

Account name: / Edinburgh Diving Club
Sort code: / 80-11-00
Account number: / 00272704

Please put your child's name and ‘SHIP’ in the payment reference. You may have to sensibly abbreviate this information. Payments are made on a non–refundable basis as we have to book ahead and pay in advance (any exceptional requests for refunds must be made to the Management Committee). Unfortunately any responses or paymentsreceivedafter Sunday 26th February 2017 will mean that your child will be unable to participate in the trip.

The final costwill vary depending on numbers. We will endeavour to keep the price to @£150-£180 per diver. This will include a subsidy from Club funds. Keeping the cost low will depend in part on us knowing final numbers travelling with the team as early as possible - ie allowing us to take advantage of discounted rates for early booking, so I would urge to you to respond as soon as possible please.

Please also note that this trip will not go ahead unless sufficient chaperones can be found.

On these chaperoned trips, parents/guardians are discouraged from staying in the same hotel as the team and must not join the team for travel/meals.

Finally, if you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me. Further details of travel arrangements, accommodation costs etc. will be provided once numbers have been finalised.

Regards

Kay Hume