It should go without saying, but if you have symptoms DO NOT ATTEND ANY CLUB EVENT, self-isolate, and get yourself a test. Ditto if you have returned from a country or area where you are required to quarantine.
COVID-19 Officer
Mountaineering Scotland has strongly suggested that clubs appoint a 'COVID-19 Officer'. The club feels that this is a good idea, and will, in the event of any outbreak or positive result provide both the club and NHS Test and Protect with a single point of contact. The COVID Officer may be contacted here Currently, the 'officer' is Karen.
Club Day Meets (organised group exercise)
Club day meets can resume once again with up to 15 people in total. This 'Organised Group Exercise' must occur entirely within your own local authority, there is no provision to go 5 miles beyond. Additionally, folks from different local authorities must partake in 'Organised Group Excersise' separately.
No car sharing is allowed.
Keep an eye on the meets list for day meets.
In line with Government Requirements, the club must collect the details of everyone attending club day meets, this will be done using an online form. The data will be kept for 21 days after the meet has taken place and then deleted. It will be provided to NHS Scotland 'Test and Protect' if required.
As a reminder: ANY club member can organise a day meet. Doing this through the club enables more than 4 people/2 households to meet (with social distancing) as we have a risk assessment and test+protect in place. The only stipulation here is that your meet should be open to all members - eg it should be published via official club sources: Website,Facebook,WhatsApp etc. This is to prevent an ad-hoc free4all and allow everyone to benefit. The rules and process for this are documented here: https://www.ochils.com/events/covid19-meets-risk-assessment
This text is based on the latest info from mountaineering Scotland as agreed with Scot Gov. https://www.mountaineering.scot/coronavirus Or get the PDF here.
Ad Hoc activities between club members (Non organised exercise)
The provision remains for ad-hoc activities with a total of 4 people from 2 households. No risk assessment or Test and Protect is required.
The law allows travel for outdoor exercise which may start up to 5 miles outside your own local authority, and must start and end at the same point. This is your route to meet folks from other local authorities for exercise.
Club Cottage
The Club cottage will remain closed until we return to Level 3 (or lower) restrictions at which point, text below will be re-instated. At the moment it is intended to re-open the cottage to members from 28th April. We don't yet know how many households we will be able to accomodate, and we will need to get the plumber in to check the water supply as the hut has not been used since the end of November.
Current restrictions for the use of our cottage are:
Club Weekend Meets
Weekend Meets are not operating until further notice. James has planned in a schedule of camping meets for the summer as these are free to organise/cancel and the most likely to be able to go ahead.
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