Ed W
Member
Given various threads elsewhere on this forum, I am interested in finding out what other southern cavers think of how they are being represented by the CSCC. Personally I am somewhat disenchanted. As an individual who voted for CROW in the national ballot, and a member of two CSCC clubs (at that time) who also used their group votes to support the motion, I am somewhat upset at the image that CSCC try to express that all southern cavers are anti-CROW.
I also feel that CSCC is failing to work within the democratic structures of BCA, it is of course OK to disagree (in fact healthy to do so) but from my point of view the CSCC is attempting to frustrate progress no matter what the wider caving community wants.
Finally I think representation within the CSCC is a joke, meetings struggle to be quorate and decisions are made by a very small number of representatives of a small number of the member clubs. That there is no mechanism for representation of cavers outside the club structure is also, to my mind, unbelievable in the 21st Century.
I do not want to call into question the motives of the volunteers who give up their time for what is after all a thankless task. I believe that they all do this form the best of motives. However is it time for change within the CSCC? Or are things fine and dandy just as they are (and have been since the 1960s)?
I also feel that CSCC is failing to work within the democratic structures of BCA, it is of course OK to disagree (in fact healthy to do so) but from my point of view the CSCC is attempting to frustrate progress no matter what the wider caving community wants.
Finally I think representation within the CSCC is a joke, meetings struggle to be quorate and decisions are made by a very small number of representatives of a small number of the member clubs. That there is no mechanism for representation of cavers outside the club structure is also, to my mind, unbelievable in the 21st Century.
I do not want to call into question the motives of the volunteers who give up their time for what is after all a thankless task. I believe that they all do this form the best of motives. However is it time for change within the CSCC? Or are things fine and dandy just as they are (and have been since the 1960s)?