Committee Meeting Minutes November 2021
MINUTES OF COMMITTEE MEETING at MYLCHREEST COURT, PEEL 2 pm Monday 8th November 2021 Those Present: Ken Harding – KH, Lesley Parkington – LP, David Leiserach – DL, Jack Verity – JV, Peter Gunn – PG, Peter Corkish – PC, Pat Mudie – PM. 1. Apologies: Apologies were received from Gill Smith 2. Minutes of the previous meeting: having been circulated beforehand, were approved, and signed by the Chairman, Ken Harding. 3. Matters Arising from previous meeting: • KH has written to Miles Cowshill of Lily Publications to request a meeting to discuss the percentage MFCG receives from the sale of walking books. To date he has not received a reply. • KH asked LP if we had heard from the ‘Keep in Touch’ group in Ramsey regarding a talk about the history of the MFCG. LP replied that she has put ‘K.I.T’ in touch with DL who will do the talk in September 2022. PM suggested having the same talk as
Emergency location options and apps
Despite our best efforts of safety, being careful and looking out for each other, unfortunately on rare occasions, accidents and incidents do happen when we are all out walking. In an emergency, a very quick dynamic assessment will deduce if we need to call the emergency services here on the island that will connect us to the emergency joint control room and one of the vital initial pieces of information they require is ‘ What’s your location?’ A number questions now confront us and the quicker we reply with this information, the quicker the correct emergency services can be dispatched.Postcodes, road names, house numbers and a gird reference are all valid options, especially the latter - if the incident is in a remote location but new options of digital applications are now available and are used here on the island by our first response emergency teams. What3Words (has been heavy publicised recently) is