Number of Uni clubs left

[Loki]

I am ex Hallam. As far as I’m aware they just fizzled out, not shut down. The mystery was what happened to all the gear. They had a mountain of gear and it ‘vanished’. I think I know who has the logbooks though.

 

[Babyhagrid]

trent definitely had a caving club but it collapsed mid 90s i believe .

 

[Cantclimbtom]

I like the very ermmm.. "studenty" motto

 

[BarneyH]

I'm not sure if other University Clubs allow their ex-poly equivalents (Leeds/Beckett, Nottingham/Trent etc) to join.

We don't have any Trent students in NUCC currently (atleast to my knowledge), but we have however had students from Loughborough join in the past few years. Some of which have even become members of our committee (albeit unofficially without the knowledge of our SU).

Unfortunately last year our SU tightened up massively on associate memberships, requiring each associate member to fill out a form to the SU explaining why they should be accepted as an associate member. Which made it a pain in the arse to get 2 Loughborough students official club membership this year, and we had to convince the SU to allow Loughborough students in the club.

So in my experience keen students from other universities are welcomed with open arms in student clubs, but red tape introduced by student unions gets in the way. Fortunately for Sheffield uni it's very easy to become an associate member however

 

[asheshouse]

Caved with Portsmouth Poly (PPCC) in the late 70s. Great times. Club was very well funded so transport to all regions heavily subsidised. I was finance secretary in the 77/78 period. We had enough funding to organise the clubs first foreign trip, to the Vercor. Despite that the club folded a few years later, I assume because of funding cut backs but not really sure. Close association with Cerberus in the Mendips provide good support particularly at the start of each academic year when there was an influx of new inexperienced members.

 

[i think it goes]

Just having a little read through the thread and wanted to add that Nottingham Uni CC was supposedly established in 1948, which I would imagine makes it one of the earlier student clubs around? Though not sure what the club was actually like back then, whether sporting or scientific. The 'supposedly' is because the only reference I have for that date, from memory, is an old newsletter and the website. Very little of the clubs early history has survived in the library unfortunately.

 

[Martin Laverty]

Just having a little read through the thread and wanted to add that Nottingham Uni CC was supposedly established in 1948, which I would imagine makes it one of the earlier student clubs around? Though not sure what the club was actually like back then, whether sporting or scientific. The 'supposedly' is because the only reference I have for that date, from memory, is an old newsletter and the website. Very little of the clubs early history has survived in the library unfortunately.

NUCC probably began as the caving section of the mountaineering club, which gets a mention on the front page of the Nottingham Evening News on 7 October 1949 when one of its members left for a job in Sarawak, where he would find quite a few caves ...

 

[Graigwen]

Here is a link to an image of a sliver of NUCC's history from 1969.Malcolm Billinge plea

 

[Dan S]

Caved with Portsmouth Poly (PPCC) in the late 70s. Great times. Club was very well funded so transport to all regions heavily subsidised. I was finance secretary in the 77/78 period. We had enough funding to organise the clubs first foreign trip, to the Vercor. Despite that the club folded a few years later, I assume because of funding cut backs but not really sure. Close association with Cerberus in the Mendips provide good support particularly at the start of each academic year when there was an influx of new inexperienced members.

The Portsmouth Poly club, then the Uni club (UPCC) was very active in the 80's and 90's and we prided ourselves (at the time) from being banned from most caving huts! (I think we are still banned from SWCC ) Poggle (as we were known) finally fizzled out in the early 2000's.

 

[mrodoc]

The Cerberus provided a lot of support to Portsmouth members and some are still there believe it or not. I have caved with quite a few over the years and am in touch with one or twol;

 

[mrodoc]

When at medical school in the early 70's after some trips with UC club somebody said we should form our own club - so we did and got cash to buy decent lights, ladders and rope. We did some great caving but the club faded away after I qualified. One or two quite well known people in medicine for that brief time as I subsequently discovered when I heard them on the radio.

 

[pwhole]

I was a Hallam student when it was still called Sheffield Polytechnic, mid-80s, and I do have vague memory of our introductory 'Freshers Fayre' having a caving club stand - but as we were all in the art department in the rarified air up at Psalter Lane, we had a natural aversion to orgañised sports, especially those based at Pond Street, so I never followed it up - officially anyway. Too many rugby shirts going on. We still had several shroom parties in Old Tor Mine though, and I got rather wedged at the inner end of Buttress Hole at 4am on one of these events.

We also did a 3D recording session in Peak Cavern as part of our degree show project, and I'm still doing shit like that now, so something must have worked

 

[Tricky Dicky]

The Royal Military College of Science (RMCS) had its own caving club, (mainly for undergrads, but also staff) back in the 1980s, not sure how long it lasted but pretty sure it was no more by the time undergraduate degrees ended 20 years ago.


It was part of Cranfield University, don't know if they had a club at their other campus though.