It is obvious from responses seeking your involvement to try to overcome the discontent emanating from the club's abseiling activities, that to date indicate there is strong support to continue with abseiling as one of the club's activities.

The object of the meeting will be:

• Provide open transparency to identify members concerns

• Have a submission drafted for the monthly Management Committee to consider at the May 2026 meeting

• Determine the capacity of the club from a resource point of view to be able to engage in abseiling:
  • Does it have the quantity of people - a large enough membership and interest?

  • Does it have the financial capacity to purchase and replace gear?

• Consider what level of abseiling activities are appropriate for BBW

• Management of the clubs abseiling activities

• Are appropriate records being kept and reviewed by others eg training, gear, incidents, near misses, events, attendees etc?

• Does it have a way to measure or document qualifications and experience of leaders, co-leaders and participants to conduct, or engage in each level of abseil activity from beginner experience days at Kangaroo Point to single and multi-pitch bush abseils?

• Is the club linking with environmental bodies (QPWS, NPQ, Outdoors QLD) to ensure environmental geographical impacts are minimised?

• What to include in the terms of reference for an independent abseiling expert to report - past, present and future

• Selection criteria for the appointment of an expert/experts to provide evaluations, recommendations, etc

• Risk assessment - grading of activities