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News about GOC

This page is to tell you news about GOC and our activities - visit here regularly to see what's new.

GOC's Latest Munroist

Posted: 23 August 2010

Congratulations to Fabian Seymour, coordinator of Adventure Out Scotland (and previously GOC Mountaineering) on compleating (sic) his round of  Munros. Fabian and over 25 of his friends celebrated on Ben Lomond (and later at the Drovers Inn) on Saturday 21st August.
 
The Munros are the 283 hills in Scotland over 3000ft. By my reckoning that means there are now 23 GOC members or former GOC members who are Munroists, several with multiple rounds under their belt. 
 
Tim Hall

A request for help from the gay men's health charity GMFA

Posted: 14 July 2010

Every year Sigma Research conduct the United Kingdom Gay Men’s Sex Survey. Information from this research plays a major role in letting gay men's health charity GMFA find out what gay and bisexual men are doing, what they are thinking, and what they do and don’t know about HIV and safer sex. GMFA then use this information to guide them in developing health promotion and shaping campaigns. Taking part in this survey has a direct impact on the health and education of gay and bisexual men.

This year the survey is being conducted in 33 counties across Europe and is set to become the largest survey of gay and bisexual men ever. This is a rare opportunity that will enable comparison of attitudes and sexual behaviours of gay and bisexual men in the UK with other counties across Europe.

GMFA make two requests of gay and bisexual men

First, fill in the survey at:https://www.demographix.com/surveys/3Y9Q-VHRX/37XLDP3J/?UKgmfa.
The survey takes around 10 minutes to complete.
Second, please pass this message on to gay and bisexual friends; the more gay and bisexual men who take part, the better the information.

Next year the Surrey and Sussex groups are getting together to organise a return to the campus style event to be based at the University of Surrey at Guildford. It will be on the weekend of the 12-15 August 2011. Put it in your diaries now!

If any of the groups that you subscribe to has regular events (for instance weekly trips to a climbing wall), they will now be shown at the bottom of ‘My Events’. Subscribing to groups means that you see a customised list of events in ‘My Events’ and you can optionally receive mailings from those groups. To change the groups you are subscribed to, go to ‘My GOC’ where guests can choose one group to subscribe to and members can choose as many as they want.

When you next receive a mailing from GOC (which could be from the club or one of your subscribed groups), you will notice that it has a graphic at the top and it says who it was sent to which should help members who receive messages from more than one group.

The menus on the group pages have also changed which has enabled us to set up dedicated sub-pages for the group’s events and people who subscribe to the group (the latter can only be seen by members).

A lot of other enhancements are planned - members can see those in the 'Forthcoming Features' option in the left hand menu.

The 18-39 group has been relaunched as ‘Adventure Out’ which aims to organise events for dynamic and adventurous people across the country - the group will be for all, young and old, who's goal is adventure. The group will build on the success of the ‘Adventure Out North Wales’ group which has already organised an exciting programme of events.

For details about the group, see their page at www.goc.org.uk/groups/adventureout.

It can sometimes be daunting to come along on an event, especially for a woman who doesn't know if there will be any other women on it. We have now introduced a discussion forum for women to chat about going on an event, so they will know that they won't be the only one. As well as the forum, we would encourage you to post a public message on the event details so that other women can see that you will be there.

If anyone needs additional encouragement to go along to an event please send a message, or phone, the event organiser so that at least there will be one person that you've had contact with.

Getting Involved in GOC
Posted: 13 April 2010

Every GOC member is entitled, and encouraged, to get involved in the club in some way - by leading an event, helping to run a group or serving on the national committee. You can read about how you could help in the 'Get Involved' page under 'About Us' in the main menu.

In particular we are looking for members to fill two vacancies which will come up on the committee at the AGM and are the Secretary and the Events Officer. Details of those posts are at www.goc.org.uk/about/involvement/vacancies.

BBC presenter Clare Balding recently went on a walk with the North Wales group and recorded a programme for the Radio 4 programme Ramblings. This was the result of a lot of hard work by Pete Burling and a good crowd of GOC members turned up on a cold and wet day to walk a beautiful part of the Anglesey coast. The programme resulting from this visit, containing interviews with many of the members, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February. To read about the event, see photos of it and listen to it, go to www.goc.org.uk/groups/northwales/ramblings.