Cambridge University Ice Skating Club

CUISC!! We hope you’re enjoying the sun and the end of exams - our AGM is just around the corner and we’re looking for a new committee!

The AGM will be held on Saturday 18th at 18:00 on Zoom. Voting for new committee members will be taking place!

If you want to apply to a position, please send an email to [email protected] with your name, crsid/email, and a couple of sentences about why you want the position. The positions available are:

President – Chair meetings, liaise with the Ice Arena, general running of the club.

Treasurer – Deal with club finances.

Secretary – Take minutes at meetings, make sure website and mailing list is up to date, deal with stash.

Welfare – Prevent issues related to welfare and/or dealing with such issues if they arise.

Social Secretary – Inspire fun!!

Publicity – Take control of our social media!

We are open to splitting some of these responsibilities into multiple positions or opening new positions (such as webmaster) if a convincing enough argument is presented xx.

Please let us know by Friday 18:00 if you want to apply! An agenda will be sent before 12:00 on Saturday 😊, including the link to the Zoom Call.

Luv,

CUISC committee 21-22 x

Hi skaters!!

Just a little reminder about our next coaching session happening on Thursday 26th May at 11am. Everyone is welcome and it’s a great way to escape the stress of exam term for a morning!

The link to sign up is: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NRFQOp5KzLaGBwNOfiuL8MvbrqrTSvex0tnDim-J5ow/edit =1231896587

Please sign up ASAP if interested so we know if there’s enough interest for the session to go ahead!

CUISC love ⛸

Hey Everyone,

We have several coached sessions upcoming (3 confirmed, waiting for confirmation for the 4th) on Thursdays 11:00 to 11:30. These will be two groups of 6 (which we’ll split up on the day). We’ll send out links to the spreadsheet about a week before each session (except this week). The first session is this Thursday!!

The cost for the coaching is £6. You will need to pay this to the CUISC bank account and confirm that you have paid on our sign-up sheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NRFQOp5KzLaGBwNOfiuL8MvbrqrTSvex0tnDim-J5ow/edit?usp=sharing

You will also need to book a ticket to the corresponding public session via the Cambridge Ice Arena website. You can book your public session ticket for as early as 10 am if you want to get some practice in beforehand!

A child (student) ticket to the public session is £7.50 (+ skate hire) and can be bought via the Cambridge Ice Arena website. You must bring student ID if you purchase a child's ticket.

Follow the link above to sign up and pay. We can’t wait to see you all there and escape from exam term for a bit!

CUISC love

It’s finally happening! We’ll be holding two coached ice-skating sessions on Thursday 17th March for beginners!

There will be two 30-minute coached sessions between 11 am and 12 pm. Each accomodates 12 skaters so there are 24 places in total.

The cost for the coaching is £6. You will need to pay this to the CUISC bank account and confirm that you have paid on our sign-up sheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NRFQOp5KzLaGBwNOfiuL8MvbrqrTSvex0tnDim-J5ow/edit?usp=sharing

You will also need to book a ticket to the corresponding public session via the Cambridge Ice Arena website. You can book your public session ticket for as early as 10 am if you want to get some practice in beforehand!

A child (student) ticket to the public session is £7.50 (+ skate hire) and can be bought via the Cambridge Ice Arena website. You must bring student ID if you purchase a child's ticket.

Follow the link above to sign up and pay. We can’t wait to see you all there and celebrate the end of another term!

CUISC love

Big news, skaters! CUISC stash is dropping on Monday!

We’ve been working with the wonderful people at Redbird who have come up with a huge range of CUISC-branded items for us, available in multiple colours and with the option of having your initials embroidered too. This will make you super identifiable, perfect for getting crushbridges in Mainsburys and identifying each other on and off the ice!

Skaters!! To celebrate the start of the WINTER OLYMPICS we're having a social this Sunday at 7pm at Selwyn Bar. The theme?

🥶🥶🥶HYPOTHERMIA🥶🥶🥶

Brave the cold and join us - heating, hot chocolate and whisky provided on destination!! Posts in Robinson MCR and post posts at lolas!

It was amazing to see so many new (and familiar!) faces at the rink this morning! Next time we will make sure to organise a meeting point so that we can all find each other at the start of the session! Feel free to tag yourselves in the photos

Hi skaters,

It’s confirmed! We will be holding a Refreshers Skate on Saturday 29th January at the Cambridge Ice Arena at 11:30am. Whether you skated regularly with us last term or have only recently discovered the club, we’d love for you to join us!

You can book your ticket through the rink’s online booking system, which you can find here: https://bookings.better.org.uk/location/cambridge-ice-arena/public-skating/2022-01-29/by-time. There aren’t many spaces left for the 11:30 slot on Saturday, so please book the 11:40 or 11:50 slot if these run out.

The rink has agreed to give us student discount for this skate, so you can select a child ticket when you book online (£7.50 + skate hire), however you *must* remember to bring your student ID and booking confirmation to show on arrival at the rink. If you don't have student ID you'll need to purchase an adult ticket (£9.50 + skate hire). We would also recommend that you do a LFT before coming if possible, as the COVID rates in Cambridge seem to be quite high at the moment.

Can’t wait to see you all on Saturday! CUISC love ❤️

📣We are transferring our club’s group chat from Facebook to WhatsApp! The group chat is the best way to get up-to-date info about our plans and to interact with the committee, so make sure you join!💚

Link to join: Send us a message if you’d like the link!

Skaters!! To kick off the term we have discounted tickets available for tonight’s ABBA disco at Mash! Make sure to sign up via the link below if you’re interested and we’ll be in touch with more details later on!🕺

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15700AK0JzllJDTbXU2euOVl40hntaDwjHgTT4A9Vuco/edit?usp=sharing

Hey skaters, we’ll be at the Cambridge SU Refreshers Fair at the Corn Exchange on Monday 17th January from 10am - 5pm. Come and find out what we’re all about and what we have planned for this term. You’ll find us at Stall E08. See you there!!⛸

*you’ll need proof of a negative lateral flow test to enter the venue*

Happy Bridgemas from everyone at CUISC! And an especially big thank you to those of you who skated with us yesterday! Here are the photos from the session!💜💚

Exciting news, skaters!! We have 30 half-price tickets for a skate at the North Pole on Parker’s Piece on Bridgemas evening (Thursday 25th November). There is no better way to end the term and get into the Bridgemas spirit than skating under the stars in Cambridge, so make sure you get booking! See you there!💜💚

Link to book and pay through us: https://forms.gle/UZ5CdPWBCcVfceAd9

We had so much fun at the rink yesterday with the Cambridge University Hungarian Society! Thank you so much to everyone who came along - here's to many more swaps in the future!

Hello skaters!

Our next planned skate is a skating swap with the Hungarian Society on Saturday 20th November at 4 - 5:30 pm. This will again be a casual skate, but as it’s a swap there will also be the chance to meet some new faces!

The sign up link is https://forms.gle/oV2zGznR5R68mbA66. You can book online yourselves however the Cambridge Ice Arena website doesn’t offer a student discount, so we recommend using the bank details on our sign up form to prebook with us!💚

See you on Saturday, CUISC love💚

Thank you all for joining us yesterday for our Halloween Skate!🎃 Look out for details about future sessions coming soon, and don’t forget to tag yourselves! CUISC love🧡

Hello skaters,

It's lovely to see the continued interest in Cambridge University Ice Skating Club!

🎃 HALLOWEEN SESSION 👻

- Slightly late notice (the email kept not sending...), but we're planning an (informal, again) skate session 15:00-16:30 on Saturday 30th October in optional (but encouraged!) Halloween dress-up!

- As with last time, this would be an informal non-coached skate, but we are in the process of arranging logistics with a professional coach, ideally on Wednesdays, so please bear with us on that.

- A ticket should cost £5 plus £2.50 skate hire: remember to ask for student discount! You will need to pay at the rink’s reception desk when you arrive, although booking online is also an option - and the rink is cashless.

- Eventually, the booking process will be done through us rather than the rink, and session tickets will be sold out, but we are currently waiting on some issues with accounts. They should not be sold out in-person yet at this point in the year, but expect that to be a possibility in the near future.

- Add your details to the form below to express your interest for Saturday: https://forms.gle/UZ5CdPWBCcVfceAd9

We understand that a lot of people will be very busy on the day before Halloween, so this may be cancelled if there is a lack of interest before Saturday. Keep an eye out for an email if it is.

🗺 DIRECTIONS 🧭

- We have a Facebook group for you to organise sharing an Uber to the rink if you don’t fancy paying for a bus or cycling: Cambridge University Ice Skating Club Uber Share

- The Newmarket Park & Ride bus leaves Drummer Street (near Emma in central Cambridge) every 10 minutes and drops you right outside the rink. A single ticket costs £2.80 and a return is £4.50. Details can be found here: https://cambridgeparkandride.info/newmarketroad.shtml

- If you’re cycling from Central Cambridge, we recommend going via Jesus Green and Midsummer Common and then joining the A1134 at the Tesco Superstore, as this avoids lots of busy roads. You can find the route here: https://goo.gl/maps/tP5TfBg4iQUTGryW8

🗣 KEEPING IN TOUCH 📱

- Our socials have been launched, and we now have photos! We’d love it if you could follow, like and promote our pages as much as possible to help us gain some visibility. Please also feel free to share the details about the club and the taster session on your college freshers/JCR/MCR pages!

- Find us on Instagram .uni.ice.skating

It was wonderful to meet everyone last Saturday, and we'd love to see you there for this one too!

CUISC love,

Ain (President) ⛸

MEET THE COMMITTEE #6

Name: Margarita (she/her)

Position: Junior Treasurer

College: Alumna of Corpus Christi

Subject: Chemistry, now an actuarial analyst

Skating experience: Just random skating

Role: To make sure your money ends up in the right tills!

MEET THE COMMITTEE #5

Name: Chiyun (he/him)

Position: Webmaster

College: Formerly Queens’

Subject: Working at AstraZeneca (previously a biochemistry undergrad)

Skating experience: Been learning from my girlfriend for maybe over a year. Am learning single jumps kinda

Role: To set up and maintain the club’s website and email system.

MEET THE COMMITTEE #4

Name: Cathy (she/her)

Position: Publicity Officer

College: Selwyn

Subject: MPhil in French Literature (previously an MML undergrad!)

Skating experience: A brief skating summer course aged 12 when I was going through a Torvill & Dean phase… but I can’t do much now apart from skate round and round in circles!

Role: To promote the club, encourage new members and run our social media - if you contact us on Instagram or Facebook, I’ll probably be the one replying!

MEET THE COMMITTEE #3

Name: Morgana (she/them)

Position: Welfare and Access

College: Homerton

Subject: Classics

Skating Experience: I had skating lessons for a year when I was 10. I've only gone to seasonal rinks ever since…

Role: To make everyone comfortable and feel safe 💛

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us at the rink for our taster today, look out for info about future sessions coming soon!!

Get tagging, CUISC love

Just a reminder of the taster session today!

Changing rooms are limited, so try and come in what you're gonna skate in (leggings and a top should be fine). Lockers are free!

Can't wait to see everyone!! Xx

MEET THE COMMITTEE #2

Name: Ross (he/him)

Position: VP

College: Robinson

Subject: ChemEng (4th yr)

Skating experience: Taster session with (was rejected)

Role: I’m gonna be backing up our amazing president this year with special focus on making future years even better

MEET THE COMMITTEE #1

Name: Levia (she/her)

Position: Stash Officer

College: Tit Hall

Subject: Pathology (3rd year natsci)

Skating Experience: NONE🤩 but last time I went skating, I only fell over twice!!

Role: To produce and place orders for stash…watch this space🤑

Welcome to the Cambridge University Ice Skating Club page!

TASTER SESSION

- We’re planning an informal taster session from 11:30 am - 1 pm on Saturday 23rd October so that you can try out the ice rink, meet each other and our committee members, and find out what we have planned for the year ahead!

- The plan is for this to be an informal non-coached skate, with more experienced skaters on hand to help you out, but a professional coach is also on the cards for the future if you’d like to learn to skate properly. If you have experience coaching and would like to help out as a student coach, feel free to drop us an email at [email protected]

- A ticket will cost around £10 including skate hire, however we are waiting on confirmation from the rink about this. You will need to pay at the rink’s reception desk when you arrive - be aware that the rink is cashless!

- Add your details to the form below to book your place for Saturday: https://forms.gle/wuLYuZCwdYKxfE3J9

DIRECTIONS

- We’ve made a Facebook group for you to organise sharing an Uber to the rink if you don’t fancy paying for a bus or cycling: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ubersharecuisc/

- The Newmarket Park & Ride bus leaves Drummer Street (near Emma in central Cambridge) every 10 minutes and drops you right outside the rink. A single ticket costs £2.80 and a return is £4.50. Details can be found here: https://cambridgeparkandride.info/newmarketroad.shtml

- If you’re cycling from Central Cambridge, we recommend going via Jesus Green and Midsummer Common and then joining the A1134 at the Tesco Superstore, as this avoids lots of busy roads. You can find the route here: https://goo.gl/maps/tP5TfBg4iQUTGryW8

KEEPING IN TOUCH

- We’re launching our socials!! We’d love it if you could follow, like and promote our pages as much as possible to help us gain some visibility.

- Please also feel free to share the details about the club and the taster session on your college freshers/JCR/MCR pages!

- If you haven’t already, join our mailing list for all the latest news about sessions and events: https://lists.srcf.net/mailman/listinfo/cuisc-members

- Find us on Instagram .uni.ice.skating

CUISC love