Orienteering NSW

Coming Events

map	Sun 3 Nov 4:00 pm River and Bay Series #2 - Randwick Over the Rainbow, Randwick

map	Wed 6 Nov 4:30 pm 2024/25 Sydney Summer Series #5 - Lindfield Primula Oval, Lindfield.

map	Wed 6 Nov 5:00 pm Newcastle Summer Street Series #4 - Blackalls Park Blackalls Park

map	Thu 7 Nov 5:00 pm Summer series #1 72 Ross Street

map	Fri 8 Nov 5:30 pm Goldseekers Park #2 - Gosling Creek Gosling Creek

map	Sat 9 Nov 9:30 am SOS 4 Gore Hill Oval, 209 Pacific Highway, St Leonards. Meet by the oval car park and playground.

map	Sat 9 Nov 10:00 am Illawarra Map Running Series - Spring #4 Unanderra Lindsay Maynes Park, cnr Princes Highway & Factory Rd, Unanderra

map	Sun 10 Nov 9:00 am Central Coast Summer Series 1 - Shelly Beach Naomi Honey Reserve, Shelly Beach Rd, Shelly Beach

map	Sun 10 Nov 4:00 pm River and Bay Series #3 - Canterbury The Gallops, Tasker park, Phillips Avenue Canterbury

map	Wed 13 Nov 4:30 pm 2024/25 Sydney Summer Series #6 - Camperdown Memorial Rest Park, Camperdown.

ONSW is calling for interested persons to nominate for the vacant Finance Director position.

The new ONSW Board held their first board meeting last week following the recent AGM, at which 8 director positions were filled.

It would be helpful if the Finance Director position is filled by someone with a finance background but it is not essential. ONSW uses the cloud-based software Reckon to manage the accounts. There is a part-time finance officer who carries out the day-to-day accounting activities and Robert Spry has agreed to continue as paymaster.

The board would like clubs to consider whether they could put forward the name of someone who might be interested in taking up this position. We are particularly interested in having another club represented on the Board if possible.

Expressions of interest and suggested names should be emailed to Robyn Pallas (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by Sunday July 5.

The duties of the Finance Director are as follows (from the ONSW Manual):

(a) To direct and monitor the financial affairs of the Association and ensure that they are managed in accordance with current and proper commercial procedures. To be custodian of all financial and commercial procedures of the Association. To manage the balance of expenditure and receipts and oversee the funding of new initiatives to achieve the strategic objectives of ONSW.

(b) To ensure that membership fees, levies and other monies due to the association and that invoices and statements for forwarding to debtors are prepared as required.

(c) To ensure that all receipts are deposited in the Association bank accounts. To keep secure money of the Association.

(d) To ensure the receipt of all accounts to Association by the due date.

(e) To ensure that the books of account of the Association are properly maintained.

(f) To ensure that financial reports are prepared for each Board Meeting or as otherwise required by the Board.

(g) To ensure that budgets are prepared as required.

(h) To ensure that the Board approves all expenditure and that written quotes for all major items of expenditure are obtained for approval by the Board.

(i) To liaise with the Auditor as required to arrange for the audit of the books of account at the end of each financial year.

(j) To monitor completion and return of financial documents required by government bodies.

(k) To monitor the salary and leave records of employees of the Association and ensure that all relevant legal obligations are observed.

(l) To perform other duties as directed by the Board.

It is with much sadness we announce the death of Newcastle legend Dot Wright.

Dot was the wife of Allan Wright, founding member and stalwart of the club in its growth years.

Dot may not have taken to the bush very often, though she and Allan were avid bushwalkers, but her contribution to the club was immense.

Phone enquiries for information about club activities were ably handled by Dot and she was a great advocate for our sport.

She supported their sons Ian and Neil in the sport, and was often in charge of Enter on Day duties for our State and local events.

The Hunter Schools Orienteering Championships particularly in the 1980s and 1990s were spearheaded by Allan and Dot with Dennis Lyons course planning.

However, her biggest contribution was to support Allan in the production of the Club Newsletter - in the times when it was a printed production, needing to be collated, stapled or folded, enveloped and posted.

Dot was always in the thick of the action. Our thoughts are with Allan and the family.

Congratulations to Robyn Pallas who has been elected president of Orienteering NSW amidst a raft of changes to the Board.

Robyn is president of the Central Coast club and at the virtual AGM on Saturday night won a narrow vote over incumbent Greg Barbour (Big Foot), who filled the role for six years.

We also welcome aboard new directors Mary-Jane Mahony (Uringa, secretary), Melanie Christie (Uringa), Jamie Kennedy (Garingal) and Rod Parkin (Bennelong Northside).

All members thank Greg for his service as president and to the other retiring directors Mark Shingler (Big Foot), Michael Ridley-Smith (Garingal) and Anna Fitzgerald (Goldseekers).

The meeting was held by ZOOM and the election for President used electronic voting, both firsts for ONSW. The attendance of 41 members was, we believe, a new record.

President - Robyn Pallas

Finance Director - vacant. The Board will consider an appointment at its first meeting.

Secretary - Mary Jane Mahony

Directors (6) - Andrew Lumsden

Andrew Power

Robert Spry

Jamie Kennedy

Melanie Christie

Rodney Parkin

ONSW would like to recognise and broaden the event management skills of our members and clubs.

Learning at ONSW has usually been equated with training courses and coaching. Workshops have been conducted on an ad-hoc or as-needs basis, usually at the ONSW office.

The covid-19 shutdown has given us a chance to think about our role as a skills provider and how we might produce a more regular and sustained program of learning.

As such, members are asked to please fill out the 2020 Learning survey so we can better plan our ongoing "orienteering education".