You can now book your place at our Annual Dinner 2025.
We would love to see a large number of our members attending. Bring friends and family - anyone who loves the outdoors or just wants a lovely dinner!
The Annual Dinner will be held at The Princes Arms Hotel, Trefriw. Saturday 25th January 2025. Everyone is welcome and it is a great opportunity to meet other members and get some time in the hills as well as enjoying the meal and guest speaker.
Click the file below to download the booking form in .doc form. Please fill it out digitally and return by email, or you can print it and return it by post.
Completed booking forms should be sent to:
Michael Raymond BBRCC,
25 Bley Avenue, East Leake, Loughborough. LE12 6NX
Email: Michael.Raymond@ntlworld.com
Timetable of events
6.30pm Coach departs Cae Groes for the Princes Arms.
7.30pm BBRCC Annual Dinner at the Princes Arms, Trefriw.
11.45pm Coach departs Princes Arms for Cae Groes
The guest speaker will be Olly Sanders a sea kayaker and climber. More details about Olly are on the flyer accompanying this invitation, and he also has a website –
Menu
Leek and potato soup with golden croutons (V)
Breaded button mushrooms filled with cream cheese and red pepper and served on garlic mayonnaise
Pressed ham hock terrine with spiced vegetable chutney and dressed leaves
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Balsamic beef and red pepper casserole served in a puff pastry shell
Pan fried chicken breast served with a cider and wholegrain mustard cream sauce
Fillet of salmon set on mediterranean vegetable Caponata and garnished with basil pesto
Vegetable and mixed bean rissoles served with a spiced vegetable sauce (V)
(All main courses served with roast potatoes, honey roast parsnips and green beans)
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Steamed orange sponge with orange curd topping and Crème Anglaise
Brandy snap basket with stem ginger ice cream, tropical fruit salad and mango coulis (V)
Selection of cheeses with savoury biscuits, grapes and celery
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Coffee
(V denotes that a Vegan version of this dish is available upon request)
Olly Sanders - Sea kayaker, Mountain Climber and Owner of Rock & Sea Adventures
A B.C.U. Level 5 Sea Kayak Coach and A.C.A. Advanced Open Water Instructor, Olly has been playing on the Snowdonia and Anglesey coastline for 20 years.
His qualifications also extend to the climbing arena where he holds a Mountain Instructor Certificate (M.I.C.), the highest instructor qualification in the UK, as well as being a nominee for the Piolet D'Or in 2004 - mountaineering's most prestigious International award - for first ascents in Alaska. He has had many successes, and a few failures, in India, Nepal, Patagonia and Peru, many of which involved the odd prussik and a bit of honest hauling!
Expeditioning also plays a large part of his life, whether it be on big walls or big mountains.
