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Travelling in style, Krizna Jama, Slovenia
elcome to Nottingham University Caving Club. We are a medium sized, non-elitest, friendly club where new members are always welcome, almost all of the members started as complete novices at the club. We run regular weekend trips around the UK with a Summer and Easter trip abroad. We cater for all abilities and provide instruction and equipment free of charge to our members. Trips have a relaxed atmosphere with plenty of social as well as caving opportunities for beginners, as well as experts.
The Caving Club offers excellent oppurtunities for you to do practically any outdoor activity you want, push your body to the limit and expand your horizons beyond anything you have ever done before. Due to the varied nature of caving there are elements of many outdoor sports thrown into the mix such as climbing, scrambling, hiking, abseiling, swimming and mountaineering to name but a few.
What other club can boast to offer you the oppurtunities to; travel the world, walk on vast glaciers high in remote mountains, relax in the Mediterranean sun, descend over 1000m below the planet's surface, walk through cave systems hundreds of kilometres long, go where no human has ever been before, travel through massive underground chambers formed millions of years ago, walk at altitudes of 2000m+, see extremely rare Sites of Specific Scientific Interest, see vast underground lakes, rivers and waterfalls, visit caves that have lain undiscovered for millenia, meet some of the rarest creatures on the planet, travel down fast flowing white water rivers, spend time in the Alps and return you safely home in time for Tea and Medals?
The only limits in our lives are those we accept ourselves.
Tell me more ...
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Oddly enough no events are currently planned.
| News | New Committee
Posted by carl blakey on March 02, 2009
After a typically eventfull AGM, we have acquired a shiny new committee.
President: Emma Coupland
Vice President: Carl Blakey
Treasurer: Carmen Swanrick-Roa
Tackle Officer: Jon Stonor
Trip Officer: Sam Mason
Social Secretary: Simon Woolhead and Hannah Draper
| Gold STARS Award
Posted by Ralph Delaney on May 09, 2007
Word on the street has it that the caving club has won the Gold STARS award, this became apparent to me while listening in on other peoples conversations in Sainsbury's (Castle Boulevard) car park last night. I have confirmed this on the Students Union website this morning.
The Bronze and Silver STARS awards are awarded on a basis of the ability to fill in forms and attend meetings, however Gold is given to those clubs that have made some impressive achievements in the past year and are efficiently run and well organised. If you want to read our nine page long application form for the Gold STAR you should probably seek help or speak to me (Ralph).
| New Committee
Posted by Ralph on March 19, 2007
After a successful and extremely eventful AGM, against all the odds we have elected a new committee! They are:-
- President: Malcolm South
- Vice President: Ralph Delaney
- Treasurer: Leeanne May
- Tackle Officer: Simon Woolhead
- Tackle Officer: Charles Johnson
- Cave Safety Officer: Michelle Cullimore
- Publicity Officer: Donna Moy
- Permit Secretary: Justin Shenton
- Social Secretary: Cat Kilburn
- Communicatons Officer: Alex King
Photos will follow soon!
| New Equipment Order
Posted by Ralph on December 20, 2006
With thanks to the nice people at KPMG, Mark Epps and Garry Leeson the club has purchased over £700 worth of new equipment, this includes:- 3 oversuits
- 3 undersuits
- £200 of new rescue equipment
- 200m of rope
Over the last few years the club has been decommissioning its old FX2 lamps and purchasing more powerful FX3s. At £131 each this has not been easy. However, the club now has 14 complete FX3s and has just spent £30 and intends to spend a further £45 upgrading the older design headsets to ensure maximum reliability underground.
| CONDUCT OF PLAYERS TOWARDS MATCH OFFICIALS
Posted by Andy on November 30, 2006
Forwarded from BUSA:
There has been a worrying trend that has been brought to our attention over recent weeks of officials suffering verbal abuse from teams. As you will all be aware, the booking of officials for Wednesday afternoon sport is increasingly difficult, these volunteers are giving up their time to enable the BUSA league programme to continue to thrive, however they will not continue to do so if they are subjected to abusive behaviour from teams.
Equally BUSA relies on many other volunteers to organise events on our behalf and again I have received reports of abusive behaviour and more stealing following last weeks episodes at the BUSA Badminton Individual Championships and the Short Course Swimming where both BUSA and institutional banners went missing.
Institutions are reminded of REG 23.11 and the responsibility they have towards their teams. Whilst these complaints remain isolated incidents to date, BUSA views these actions very seriously and will take action against universities if this continues. Therefore we would remind all institutions to ensure that competitors and supports are all reminded of their responsibilities whilst attending a BUSA event.
The Caving club takes matter like this very seriously. If any member of the club is brought to discipline whilst representing NUCC at a BUSA event, then they will forfeit all free half time tea and cakes, as well as their free transport allowance for the remainder of the academic year - NUCC exec
| Explicit Material
Posted by Ralph on November 07, 2006
There has recently been an ingenious idea from the SU to start trawling through all of the club websites looking for pornography and explicit material instead of doing the jobs we pay our tuition fees for them to do. If we (the committee) accidentally upload lots of naked page 3 girls instead of a trip report, please inform us before we get into trouble!
Your help through this difficult time would be much appreciated,
Ralph
| Titan Shaft Film!
Posted by Andy on November 06, 2006
An amazing video showing what caving is all about can be downloaded here (Right click, "Save Link As..." 21 MB). It's the best video I've ever seen showing what caving is really like! Just ignore everything the guy is saying, because he didn't do his research (for example, this system is still 60 m short of being the UK's deepest cave - although it is still one of the most spectacular!)
AU Communications "officers" click here instead
| SHINY STUFF
Posted by Charlie on November 02, 2006
The Club has just purchased some new kit, the important bits are;
3 new FX3s, we now have 14.
3 new SRT kits, we now have 9.
6 new helmets, 20!
and 50 shiny shiny maillons.
| Publicity Officer
Posted by Ralph on October 15, 2006
Malcolm South has taken up the new position of Publicity Officer. We've already started him working sorting out the club clothing for 2006-2007.
| New Committee Positions
Posted by Ralph on October 08, 2006
At the EGM today, the club has voted to create the following positions:-
Publicity Officer
Responsible for organising the club clothing, sponsorship and Fresher's Fayre. A laid back job with practically no continuous workload.
Survey Officer
Responsible for obtaining cave permits, ensuring the club trips have the correct surveys and guides and for managing the club library and online survey database. After initial training this job has a low, but continuous workload.
ANY club members can apply for the post. For more information on what the job entails or to apply send an email to the committee.
| Introduction to the Caving Club 2006-2007
Posted by Andy on September 22, 2006
It's that time of year again when we convince you to join the most exciting outdoor club at Nottingham. Please have a look at our new members section. Have a look around our website to find out more about this unique sport best tried as a student, or email us with any questions. Here are some of the benefits of membership (only £5):
- Access to over £13,000 worth of equipment
- Free ropework and SRT training
- Highly subsidised trips to caving areas in the UK and abroad.
- Trip costs include all food, accomodation, transport and equipment.
- Find out more by looking at a copy of the Freshers' Fair handout here (40 KB .pdf)
- Sports Centre membership NOT needed!! Save around £50 a year!
If you don't fancy committing yourself just yet, why not sign up to our mailing list to read about planned trips and some of the awesome trips we have been on and if you want to join later in the year, you're always welcome, we had new cavers on EVERY trip last year!
 
| Try Caving
Posted by Andy on September 18, 2006
 The BCA have launched a new website: www.trycaving.co.uk It's aimed at people who may not have considered caving as a sport, but who'd actually enjoy it!
| Sardinia Report Complete!
Posted by Andy on September 16, 2006
Sardinia Report now written!! (Large document, lots of pictures). If you are using Internet Exporer you may experience a toys+pram moment. Tough.
| Caving on Radio 4 Again
Posted by Andy on July 14, 2006
The Open Country Radio 4 programme visits the Yorkshire Dales, including a trip down the infamous Long Churn cave system.
Listen again:
Episode 1
Episode 2
| New Club Kit
Posted by Charles on May 28, 2006
The new club kit has now arrived:-- 4 New FX3's
- 200m of rope
- 5 first aid kits
This brings the total number of club FX 3's up to 11, we aim to replace the remainder of our FX2s this year if we can secure funding.But more importantly: The question Andy's you're all asking:
"Is the rope in this years colours?" - Andy
Err, sorry, no. It's yellow.
| West Brecon Cave Rescue Break In
Posted by Ralph on May 17, 2006
WBCRT was broken into (14/05/2005) and a cave rescue landrover and specialist rescue equipment was stolen, totalling about £40,000. What kind of mentality do the thieves have to steal rescue equipment?
Update: Most of the equipment has been recovered; the landrover was found abandoned in the woods nearby - Andy
| New Website
Posted by Ralph on May 15, 2006
Those of you on the ball may have noticed the clothing has our new website www.nucaving.co.uk on it. This is a lot more memorable to the confused Freshers than http://su.nottingham.blah
| Club Clothing
Posted by Ralph on May 13, 2006
The order for club clothing will be put in this week, anyone wanting a t-shirt, female fit t-shirt or hoodie should email the exec. Here are pictures of the front, back and close up of the back image.
| Annual General Meeting
Posted by Andy on March 20, 2006
The New Exec are:
- President: Ralph Delaney
- Treasurer: Kathryn Trochimiuk
- Vice President: Thomas Spriggs
- Tackle Officer: Charles Johnson
Photos now on the website!
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