Committee
The Club is run by a fantastic team of volunteers. Our committee meets four times a year.
The Annual General Meeting is held in the autumn and all members are invited; you’re encouraged to come along to support your club and help with future planning. AGM 2025 Minutes
Dan Malcolm – Chair
Dan looks at overall management and future direction of the club alongside his amazing hard-working fellow committee members. He is keen for the club to welcome people of all levels, ages and backgrounds, whether it’s experienced athletes exploring their limits or newcomers achieving things they never thought they could.
“I swore I’d never do competitive aerobic exercise again after some painful XC mountain bike races in my teens. However, after watching my kids training and racing with Kendal Tri Club juniors and learning about some exciting events taking place around the Lakes, I couldn’t resist. I love the process of training and testing myself on the adventurous longer events, like Tri-Hard’s “A Day in the Lakes”, the Lakesman, Triathlon X and the ROC sea/lake-to-summit-and-back triathlons.”
Kerry Byrne – Treasurer
Kerry monitors the Club finances on behalf of the Committee, preparing the budget for the forthcoming year, monitoring performance against it and providing the year end position for presentation to the AGM.
Kerry joined the Club to ensure she trains regularly. She has met lots of new training partners and friends through joining the Club sessions. As well as swimming in lane 3, Kerry can regularly be seen on the weekend social off-road runs that take place from Autumn to Spring (even if the main motivator is the cake and coffee at the end). Kerry had only completed sprint tris before joining the Club but, through regular training, learning from the coaches and being motivated by other member’s achievements, has since progressed to half-iron distance and long distance cycles and swims.
Hester Harris – Secretary
Hes keeps the committee in order, organising our meetings, helping with club admin and communications.
Hes is new to the area and has embraced the outdoors enjoying trail running and open water swimming.
Kath Finn – Head Coach
This role involves organising and co-ordinating all the sessions we offer, supporting other coaches, involving new coaches, coaching sessions myself and ensuring we stick to all guidelines around safety and insurance. I am very lucky to have such a great team of coaches to achieve things with.
“I realise with slight horror that I have been enjoying triathlon for over ten years now and have been a Club member all that time. During this period I have taken my coaching qualifications and really enjoy encouraging others to have a go at any aspect of the sport, or to improve their performance.”
Mel Gosling – Membership Secretary
Mel manages member registrations through our online booking system and membership renewals, which includes maintaining accurate and up-to-date membership records.
“I initially joined the club to participate in its swimming sessions, which have enabled me to start training again with other people after an absence of more than 30 years from the time when I played water polo. Although, for medical reasons, I cannot participate in running and cycling, I have taken up all year-round open water swimming with some of the many friendly and inspirational people that I have met through the club.
As a member of the committee, I’m
pleased to be able to give something back to the club during my retirement. “
Mel Burton – Welfare Officer & Social Secretary
Mel is the club Welfare Officer and Social Secretary. She is the first point of contact for individuals who have queries or concerns regarding safeguarding and welfare and ensures that the club has safeguarding and child protection policy and procedures in place. Mel is keen to help members feel welcome and enjoy being part of the club. Mel also assists with the Intro to Tri Course.
“I joined the club after having a go at a couple of sprint triathlons, with the desire to master front crawl (you’ll find me in swim lane 1, it’s a work in progress!). I’ve benefited from so much more than just the coached swimming; taking part in the ‘Intro to Tri’ course, attending club talks, and meeting so many people participating in an amazing range of different disciplines and events, all willing to share their experience, has been really inspiring. I really enjoy participating in events for the personal challenge and satisfaction.
I’m really pleased to be able to contribute to the committee and running of the club, and help members feel welcome and benefit from everything our friendly and supportive club has to offer. “
Please get in touch with any questions (further details at https://www.kendaltri.co.uk/safeguarding/)
Julia Kinch – Member Liaison Officer
Julia is the club Member Liaison Officer. Her role involves supporting our membership, keeping everybody up-to-date on club activities and getting feedback from our members.
She has a background in charity work (mental health/ learning disabilities/ advocacy/ rape and sexual violence) and Project Management within the public sector.
“I initially joined the club when I moved to Kendal to support me with training to swim Coniston end to end. Since joining I’ve met so many incredibly lovely people, motivated by a huge range of things, and have been inspired to get out on the bike more, and have started running again (I completed the Leeds half a few years back and I don’t think I’ll ever love running – but the beauty of Tri is that I get to cycle and swim too). I’m really excited to be part of a vibrant and committed club, and am keen to try and show that Tri is for everyone – not just really, really fit athletes :P”
