12 October 2015

MINUTES OF MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETING ON 12 OCTOBER 2015 

  1. Opening and welcoming: 

Christo Meyer did the opening and welcoming of the meeting held on 12 October 2015 11:00 at R.E.A.L

adventures office in Parys.

  1. Attendance and apologies: ­­­­­­­­­­­­­

Ester Ndweni, Hugh du Preez, Bennie Pretorius, Christo Meyer and Carl Cilliers attended the meeting.

Apologies were made by Samuel Seleke and Johan Ferreira.

  1. Minutes of the last meeting:

The minutes of the last meeting was red out load, signed and approved by the members present.

  1. Matters of the minutes:

         Website: Webmeester were chosen to do the design of our website and we already paid 50%deposit.

The email address of the association will be info@domeguides.co.za

  • Payments and outstanding payments:

         Skills programme Feedback:

We managed to successfully complete the training at the end of September; we didn’t need any extension on

time. We want to do a second round of the Skills programme training. We need to get information regarding

registration of the guides in provinces. There is a need in training in different specialities of guide work like

nature and cultural guides.

  • Marketing Plan:

We need a flyer with our information which can be forwarded to Magda Cilliers to make people aware of our

association (Webmeester will design the flyer). Bennie Pretorius will arrange flyer and article to Magda Cilliers

as well.

  • North West Second grand application:

They will provide another R50 000.00 for a second course.

  • Cathsseta second grand application:

     5. General:

  • We need to invite the Vredefort guides in a formal way to attend a meeting and discuss what benefits they have in joining the Vredefort Dome Tourist Guide Association.
  • Christo Meyer made the suggestion to get a lady to come once a week to do the Admin of the association at a fee per month, as well as managing a Facebook page to make people aware of the training and guiding in the Vredefort dome area. Webmeester will be responsible to create the Facebook page.
  • The Vredefort Dome Tourist Guides associations name will change to “Dome Guides”, we will create a footer at the end of documents stating “Vredefort Dome Tourist Guides association trading as Dome Guides”
  • Christo Meyer will give feedback from seeing Andy (wild life conservation trust) about helping with cleaning the banks of the river.
  • We want to make a badge for each registered guide on the Helmets, PFDs, caps and shirts.
  1. Next meeting and closure:

The next meeting will be held on Monday 09 November 2015 @11:00 at R.E.A.L Adventures office.

Meeting closed at 12:30 on Monday 12 October 2015