The committee is elected each year at the AGM, usually in May. Potential candidates should express interest in advance to the member currently holding the role in order to learn more about it.
Contents
Ordered by estimated workload.
- President
- Ensures the smooth running of the club, chairs club meetings and represents CUGC at Cambridge Gliding Centre (Gransden) meetings and at other gliding organisations. Is responsible for ensuring that other committee members are doing their jobs, and for completing any random tasks that may come up.
- Secretary
- Manages club membership. Works closely with the president and treasurer. Responsible for ticketing for trial flight events.
- Flying Coordinator
- Responsible for organising instructors and booking aircraft for trial flights and winter flying days. Works closely with president and secretary.
- Treasurer
- Manages CUGC's accounts and grant applications.
- Equipment Officer
- Ensures that our glider (CU) and its associated equipment are properly maintained, along with the relevant documentation. Great if you want to learn more about what goes into owning and maintaining a glider. Responsible for organising annual maintenance.
- Captain
- Responsible organising expeditions and competitions (including the Varsity match). Must have Bronze badge or above.
- Webmaster
- Manages the website, wiki and club email addresses. Requires a reasonable level of technical competency.
- Vice President
- Supports the president on special tasks. Helps organise trial flights. Can attend CGC committee meetings on the presidents behalf.
- Social Secretary
- Organises social events such as formals, pub meets and the annual dinner. Partly responsible for keeping Facebook page updated. A good role for someone who is unable to commit much time, but a really important role to be filled!
- Welfare Officer
- Looks out for members' welfare.
- Safety Officer
- A sports club mandated role. Liaises with the CGC safety officer. A small role.
- Assistant Treasurer
- Supports the treasurer.
- Ordinary Member
- Perfect if you want to be involved with major decisions and help out when you can. This is a zero commitment role as we appreciate some people want to help but can’t commit to anything.
Committee History
Current Committee
| Position |
Member |
College |
CRSid
|
| President |
Charlie Brooker |
Queens' |
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| Treasurer |
Una Xu |
Newnham |
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| Secretary |
Harvey Logan |
Jesus |
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|
| Co-Captain |
Eszter Olah |
Newnham |
ero24
|
| Co-Captain |
Charlie Brooker |
Queens' |
cb2027
|
| Flying Coordinator |
Isaac Dai |
Trinity |
ld560
|
| Equipment Officer |
Matthew Wang |
Christ's |
tw463
|
| Webmaster |
Martin Gazo |
Trinity |
mg816
|
| Social Secretary |
Eszter Olah |
Newnham |
ero24
|
| Welfare Officer |
Peter Coppola |
Fitzwilliam |
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|
| Alumni Officer |
Koji Shukawa |
St John's |
ks925
|
| Senior Treasurer |
Prof Malte Grosche |
Trinity |
fmg12
|
2020 - March 2021
| Position |
Member |
College |
CRSid
|
| President |
Charlie Brooker |
Queens' |
cb2027
|
| Treasurer |
Eleanor Lim |
Darwin |
yel24
|
| Secretary |
Harvey Logan |
Jesus |
hvrl2
|
| Co-Captain |
Eszter Olah |
Newnham |
ero24
|
| Co-Captain |
Charlie Brooker |
Queens' |
cb2027
|
| Flying Coordinator |
Isaac Dai |
Trinity |
ld560
|
| Equipment Officer |
Matthew Wang |
Christ's |
tw463
|
| Webmaster |
Martin Gazo |
Trinity |
mg816
|
| Social Secretary |
Eszter Olah |
Newnham |
ero24
|
| Welfare Officer |
Harvey Logan |
Jesus |
hvrl2
|
| Senior Treasurer |
Prof Malte Grosche |
Trinity |
fmg12
|
2019 - 2020
2018 - 2019
2017 - 2018
| Position |
Member |
College |
CRSid
|
| Chairman |
Chris Barrott |
Downing |
cjb259
|
| Treasurer |
Matthis Lehmkuehler |
Girton |
ml728
|
| Secretary |
Vikramaditya Giri |
Trinity |
vg295
|
| Captain |
Nathanael West |
Churchill |
rnw29
|
| Equipment Officer |
Bonan Zhu |
Queens' |
bz240
|
| Webmaster |
Matthis Lehmkuehler |
Girton |
ml728
|
| Social Secretary |
Preeyan Parmar |
Trinity |
pp324
|
| Senior Treasurer |
Dr Malte Grosche |
Trinity |
fmg12
|
2016 - 2017
| Position |
Member |
College |
CRSid
|
| Chairman |
Vikram Giri |
Trinity |
vg295
|
| Treasurer |
Matthis Lehmkuehler |
Girton |
ml728
|
| Secretary |
Richard Ladley |
St John's |
rgl31
|
| Captain |
Nathanael West |
Churchill |
rnw29
|
| Equipment Officer |
Tomasz Cebo |
St Edmund's |
tc377
|
| Webmaster |
Matthis Lehmkuehler |
Girton |
ml728
|
| Social Secretary |
Vikram Giri |
Trinity |
vg295
|
| Senior Treasurer |
Dr Malte Grosche |
Trinity |
fmg12
|
2015 - 2016
| Position |
Member |
College |
CRSid
|
| Chairman |
Richard Ladley |
St John's |
rgl31
|
| Treasurer |
Stella Lau |
Trinity |
sl715
|
| Secretary |
Vikram Giri |
Trinity |
vg295
|
| Captain |
Joe Roberts |
Selwyn |
jr592
|
| Equipment Officer |
Joe Roberts |
Selwyn |
jr592
|
| Senior Treasurer |
Dr Malte Grosche |
Trinity |
fmg12
|
2014 - 2015
| Position |
Member |
College |
CRSid
|
| Chairman |
Richard Ladley |
St John's |
rgl31
|
| Treasurer |
Woody Bu |
Homerton |
zb234
|
| Secretary |
Joe Roberts |
Selwyn |
jr592
|
| Captain |
Joe Roberts |
Selwyn |
jr592
|
| Social Secretary |
Monique van-Beek |
Lucy Cavendish |
mv336
|
| Flying Coordinator |
Tim Puchtler |
Corpus Christi |
tjp39
|
| Equipment Officer |
Malcolm Morgan |
Girton |
mem48
|
| Senior Treasurer |
Dr Peter O'Donald |
Emmanuel |
pod1
|
2013 - 2014
| Position |
Member |
College |
CRSid
|
| Chairman |
Keshav Thirumalai |
Jesus |
kt358
|
| Treasurer |
Siqi Ding |
Newnham |
sd574
|
| Secretary |
Jonathan Carr |
Emmanuel |
jcc68
|
| Captain |
Joe Roberts |
Selwyn |
jr592
|
| Social Secretary |
Monique van-Beek |
(unknown) |
mv336
|
| Flying Coordinator |
Tim Puchtler |
(unknown) |
tjp39
|
| Equipment Officer |
Malcolm Morgan |
Girton |
mem48
|
| Senior Treasurer |
Dr Peter O'Donald |
Emmanuel |
pod1
|
2012 - 2013
| Position |
Member |
College |
CRSid
|
| Chairman |
Iain Butler |
Fitzwilliam |
ib312
|
| Treasurer |
Caspian Merlin |
St Catharine's |
chpm2
|
| Secretary |
Deepak Venkateshvaran |
Fitzwilliam |
dv246
|
| Captain |
Malcolm Morgan |
Girton |
mem48
|
| Social Secretary |
Keshav Thirumalai |
Jesus |
kt358
|
| Flying Coordinator |
Jonathan Carr |
Emmanuel |
jcc68
|
| Ordinary Member |
Graham Spelman |
Fitzwilliam |
gms41
|
| Ordinary Member |
Philippa Bell |
Queens' |
pgr22
|
| Senior Treasurer |
Dr Peter O'Donald |
Emmanuel |
pod1
|