Strategic planning is an essential activity for any organisation that wants to have a future for another 100 years. It's also obligation in our Club rules.

Since 2020, work has been underway to generate a Club strategy that:

• is good practice,
• has membership support,
• builds on our history, and
• helps us navigate the future. 

A new Club Strategy

At the 2024 Annual General Meeting, the Club membership adopted the new Club strategy:
 

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This Strategy has been several years in the making, through a series of activities including: 

• Workshopping to explore what was needed (2020)
• A major survey of members and the Club’s wider community (2021)
• Committee workshopping to decide how to use the survey insights 
• A Strategy Working Group (2023-4) that generated the draft Strategy material for Committee endorsement
• Following Committee endorsement, members’ adoption at the 2024 AGM. 

(See here for detail on this history.)

The Strategy will be continually monitored, and reviewed every few years to see if we’re on course or if something needs to change.

Bringing the Strategy to life

The first steps of implementing the Strategy – giving life to the strategic directions of the big pillars – start with the “Next 1-3 years” actions.  As at the end of our first Strategy year (AGM 2025), Strategy implementation has meshed with the Club’s centenary activities, and with the reshaping that’s necessary to make the Club shipshape for the next 100 years. 

If you’d like to find out more or get involved, contact the Commodore.

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