Website: http://sail.open.ac.uk/
Email: OU-Sailing-Club@open.ac.uk
Venue: Haversham Sailing Club/Lake, see website for directions and map.
Membership Fee: See website for current details.
The Open University Sailing Club (OUSC) owns three dinghies, a Pico, a Topper Magno (family dinghy) and a Laser Classic (with a racing sail), all berthed at Haversham Lake.
OUSC members are affiliated to Haversham Sailing Club (HSC) and have full use of club facilities including club house, galley, bar, changing facilities, security lockers.
Members can also take advantage of the HSC organised training and social events (with a fully packed calendar throughout the year).
Club membership is open to all OU staff, students and families.
All sailing skills are catered for from novices (HSC run RYA instruction for beginners), to serious sailing in the Sunday fleet racing, and a Buccaneers club for children.
Members can sail all year round in orgnaised events, or informally whenever other sailers are present.
For further details please contact any committee member, details are on the website.
And why not keep an eye open for the 'come and try days' that will be advertised on posters and on the website.
Full up to date information and downloadable membership forms, on-line booking calendar, links to maps and HSC's website are also available on the OUSC's website http://sail.open.ac.uk/.
Contact: Simon Sheridan x 59519
Andy Morse x 59509
Day/Time: No regular time
Venue: No regular venue
Membership Fee: £10 waged; £5 unwaged
SOUP runs caving day trips and weekends throughout the year to Yorkshire, the Mendips and Derbyshire. Trips to Yorkshire have proved most popular. The Club has a large set of ropes, ladders and other equipment, enabling a wide range of caves to be attempted. Individual members may borrow this equipment on payment of a small hiring charge.
Subscription is £10 waged and £5 unwaged. If you are interested in going caving for the first time or are an experienced caver who would like to join, contact Simon Sheridan (s.sheridan@open.ac.uk) on ext 59519 or Andy Morse (a.d.morse@open.ac.uk) on ext 59509.
Contact: Jim Moffatt x 53384/Denzil DeSouza x54140
Day/Time: Wednesday 5:20pm -9.20pm
Venue: Squash Courts, Pavilion
Membership Fee: £15; (£10 students)
The Squash Club has two courts based in the Pavilion bar complex.
Courts are available 7 days a week from early morning to late evening.
A club night operates on Wednesday evenings from 5:20pm -9.20pm. The club is affiliated to England Squash and information on England Squash and other local and national activities are posted on the squash notice boards in the court foyer. The Club runs two men's teams in the Bedfordshire Leagues.
Presently there are no women's teams.
There are no court fees, but membership is £15 per year (£10 for students) and entitles you to book courts.
Depending on demand, coaching for beginners and intermediates by qualified coaches can be arranged. Fees for coaching will be subsidised by the Club and should be about £12 for a six session series.
For more information contact Jim Moffatt on ext 53384.
Contact: Patrick Wong x 59356
Day/Time: Monday & Thursday 5-10pm and
Saturday or Sunday 9:30am-12:30pm
Venue: Green Room or Old Lecture Theatre
Membership Fee: £6 staff; £9 non-staff or £1.5 per session for non-members
Table tennis is a sport for all. It can help releasing work stress and burning off unwanted calories at a rate higher than football (professional players can hit a ball 3 times a second!). You can also play table tennis whatever the weather is.
We usually meet at the Green Room (the room situated above the Old Lecture Theatre) on Monday and Thursday evenings, and at the Old Lecture Theatre on either Saturday or Sunday mornings whenever we are able to book it. We have regular bookings for the Green Room for:
1. Monday and Thursday evenings (5-10pm);
2. Saturday or Sunday mornings (9:30-1pm).
We also have some bookings for the Old Lecture Theatre for:
Saturday or Sunday mornings (9:30-1pm).
The club has two tables with nets, bats, balls and a serving robot for use by members. However, for serious players, they are encouraged to bring their own bats. We now have about 25 members. The club is also an affiliated club of the Milton Keynes Table Tennis League. We currently have four teams playing in the league at varies divisions (Division 1, 3, 5 and 7). Our OU Dynamos team won the divisional titles in Division 2 and OU Pavilion got the Runners up in the Intermediate Division (3rd highest division in the league) in 2005/2006. If you are interested in playing league matches, please contact us.
The membership fee for 2009 is 6 pounds per annum for staff members and 9 pounds per annum for non-staff members. The membership fee will be reduced by 50% if one joins the club between 1st July and 31st December. Session fee is only 1.5 pound for non-members and free for members.
The way we arrange a practice session is that I send an email out to all the people in the mailing list in the mornings of Mondays and Thursday and ask if anybody wants to play on that day. If someone is interested to play, he/she will reply to all the people in the mailing list with the time he/she intends to come. If you would like to join the mailing list, please send me an email.
Members of the club are happy to give advice and help to new members. Contact Patrick Wong for more details, ext 59356 or email: k.c.p.wong@open.ac.uk
http://www.open.ac.uk/ouclub/tabletennis/
Contact: Vivien Bacigalupo ext 53103
Lorna Maguire ext 52572
Day/Time: Mondays 1pm to 2pm Change to 12.50-1.50
Venue: Old Lecture Theatre or Pavilion Activity Room
Membership Fee £7 per session (pay as you go). OR (£6:00 per block booking of 8 weeks, payable in advance).
Beginners/Intermediates/Advanced - All welcome.
For further information on any of the above please email
Vivien Bacigalupo, V.M.Bacigalupo Lorna Maguire, L.R.Maguire
Contact: Alan Carter, a.p.carter, x59047,
Gerald Evans, g.c.evans, x59071,
Sam Hammond, s.hammond, x 59781
Venue & Times: summer on Tuesday and Thursday lunch times 12.30 - 1.30pm near the pavilion and Thursday lunch times throughout the winter.
Membership £5 pa
Both Tag and Touch Rugby are fun sports that help people to keep fit and healthy. There is minimal contact involved in these sports that are played throughout the world by men and women (including mixed teams) of all ages and skill levels. Both games emphasize running, agility and ball handling skills such as passing and catching. Tag and Touch rugby is similar to rugby but without the physicality and contact of full game.
We play throughout the summer on Tuesday and Thursday lunch times 12.30 - 1.30pm near the pavilion and Thursday lunch times throughout the winter. We also play friendlies against anybody who wants to play us, and we also play in the Bedford Touch Rugby league during the summer.
If you have any questions, want to know more, or register an interest in taking part in the fun please contact Alan, Gerald or Sam.
http://www.open.ac.uk/ouclub/touchrugby/index.shtml
Contact: Marion Hall x 55136
Angela Redgewell x 53173
Venue: Tennis Courts
Membership Fee: £15; £30 associates; £6 unwaged/students/juniors
The OU Tennis Club is based at the Walton Hall campus where we have four floodlit hard courts with changing and shower facilities in the adjacent Sports Pavilion. Membership brings a number of benefits: court booking rights, club sessions, subsidised coaching and purchase of tennis balls at reduced cost. Current membership fees are £15 for ordinary members and £30 for associates. Reduced rates of £6 are available for unwaged, students and juniors.
Club sessions are held on Tuesday evenings (from 5.30 to 9pm) and Sunday mornings (from 10.30am to 1.00pm) - members can just turn up and join in the general play. All standards are welcome, but some previous experience is useful.
If you would like more details, contact Marion Hall x55136 (email: M.J.Hall) or Angela Redgewell x53173 (email: A.Redgewell). Full information and membership forms can be obtained from the OU Tennis Club website.
Visit the Tennis Club's website
http://intranet.open.ac.uk/ouclub-tennisclub/
This club organises trips to a wide range of shows at Milton Keynes Theatre and trips to the West End. In the last year we’ve booked 2633 tickets for 42 different shows totalling over £50,000 of ticket sales! We have over 350 regular bookers.
Milton Keynes Theatre shows are run on a discount scheme, working on the principle of the greater number of tickets sold, the greater the discount. For most shows; groups of 40+ receive £5 off face value per ticket, groups of 20+ receive £4 off per ticket, groups of 10+ receive £2 off per tickets. Exceptions include shows with larger discount eg Pantomime, Operas and special offers we receive from the theatre as valued customers.
Top priced tickets for West End shows are offered often at half price for groups of over 40 people, and we provide subsidised coach travel leaving from Walton Hall. Tickets are usually limited to 4 per OU staff member for West End offers.
There are no membership fees and everyone can book tickets. Tickets can also be booked for family and friends who can take advantage of these great reductions offered by the theatres for group booking.
Please visit our website for more information and a "doodle" poll where you can vote on which London shows you wish to see http://www.open.ac.uk/ouclub/MKtheatrebookings/
New bookers should look at the FAQ before booking.
Contact:
Karen, Louise, Tracy and Vic via
OU-Club-Theatre-Tickets@open.ac.uk
Formally this was run by Karen and Louise as volunteers under the umbrella of the OU Club, but we have become an affiliated club and can now offer different methods of payment which should make things quicker and easier for everyone.
