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Regional Networking Committee
INTRODUCTION
The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 brought about many unprecedented challenges and impacted everyone not just in Singapore but also worldwide. As countries closed their borders to prevent the spread of the virus through imported cases, plans for travelling were put on hold for Singaporeans. Our members were not able to visit overseas reciprocal and affiliate clubs for their leisure trips and as a safety measure, visits to local clubs were also temporarily suspended or were on restricted access to prevent intermingling of members between clubs.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR
Reported by: MR STEVEN TAN Chairman
This year, we saw a drop in the total number of members visiting our reciprocal and affiliate clubs, from 195 recorded in 2019 to 165. Though plans to visit overseas clubs were put on hold from March 2020, the Club continued to engage the 20 reciprocal clubs and 22 affiliate clubs which were already established as at 31 December 2020. We are pleased to share that the new reciprocal agreement with Singapore Swimming Club (SSC) was well received by members as it provided them additional privilege dining options to dine at SSC’s F&B outlets.
Due to the pandemic, the Committee had to reschedule some plans that had been in discussion with Lifestyle Committee in organising overseas trips with leisure activities for members. However, the Committee had continued to be in touch with both overseas and local clubs, hotels and resorts to explore and prepare for future partnerships or collaborations when the situation improves so that we can continue to grow our network of reciprocal and affiliate clubs and value add to our membership.
2021 will be another challenging year. We hope the COVID-19 situation around the world will improve as vaccinations have started in many countries including Singapore. When the “travel bubbles” are established between countries, travelling will gradually resume and members will be able to plan their trips and visit the overseas reciprocal and affiliate clubs.
Meanwhile, we would also like to urge members visiting our reciprocal and affiliate clubs to observe the safety measures put in place by the local reciprocal and affiliate clubs to keep everyone safe during your visits.
I wish to extend my heartfelt appreciation to my fellow members of the Regional Networking Committee and the Management Committee for their unwavering support. A very big thank you to all the staff for their continuous hard work!
Singapore Swimming Club
Jade Phoenix Jackson Miller
