Georgetown Ski Club has been a long standing tradition within the town. It's been going for over 20 years. This is really a stand alone social club as it doesn't fit into any other group or organizations parameters.

Ski club is open to anyone between 3rd and 12th grade living in Georgetown, generating and supporting interest in a life long full family winter activity. As a town, we generally lack these types of options for our youth. My hope is that getting this up and running as a stand alone social club, it will not only secure the future of this club, but maybe serve as an inspiration for others to do the same with other activities.

We typically have well over 100 kids each season. It is the largest club/asset this town has to offer and I think the longest running one. If it was tied to Parks and Rec then it would be subject to having the town fund an employee to run it and that position can (and likely would be) cut killing the ski club.

It used to be managed by the PTA, but the MA PTA said it did not fit the mission and could no longer by supported that way. Last year, the board of the Friends of GYCC were asked to help. I joined that board to ensure Ski Club continued as I had been helping the PTA with it. We ran it as a GYCC program, sponsored by The Friends of GYCC.

This year, with no brick and mortar GYCC, it makes sense for the Ski Club to become an independent social club. I'm hoping to get sponsorship from Awesome Georgetown in addition to the continued support from the Friends of GYCC.

It will essentially operate as a net zero club, the amount charged to each child to ski will be the same that is set by Ski Bradford. If any additional amounts are collected it will be transparent as to what they are for and optional. For example - we try to provide snacks on the last week of club. I could charge $10 per person and use that money on the last week, but it would be labels as end of season snacks, not a mark up of the lift ticket.