Our aims are simple - to promote social links between past and present members of Oxford Brookes/Poly Boat Club; to support the current student rowing club wherever possible, financially and otherwise; and to promote rowing participation amongst the Taurus membership.

If you haven't already joined Taurus, get in touch with our membership secretary and send in your form. Then let the partying begin...!

Latest:

Boathouse campaign

• Oxford Brookes University is running a campaign to build a new centre for rowing on the site of the current boathouse: see the OBU website for details.

  
  

• Newsletter - the dinner in early March was a roaring success, and now we are after pictures, gossip and news for the spring newsletter. Email it in if you have anything to contribute

• Sunday 29th November 2009 ‹ Taurus held a massive boat-naming ceremony at the Brookes boathouse to name five new boats after our Olympic medallists - Steve Williams, Rowley Douglas, Ben Hunt-Davis, Fred Scarlett and Alex Partridge. More coming in the newsletter later in the spring.

• Newsletter out - The November 2009 issue of The Bull has been despatched to the membership by post. For the future, since printing and postage costs are so high, anyone who can receive it online is encouraged to tell us their email address (even if you think we have already got it) so that we can save Taurus money for better things (like partying and buying boats). Anyone who has changed snail address in the last year please let us know anyway (even if you're opting for the e-newsletter), so that we can keep records up to date.

  November 2009 newsletter now online

• Boathouse extension - no specific news yet, but there are plans afoot to extend the Brookes boathouse to provide even better facilities. It's very early days - watch this space.

• Website update - there are dozens of photos of Taurus activities which we couldn't fit into the newsletter, and a website update will take place this November/December so you can see friends in all their glory. Please send in any other good photos/videos you have and want to share.

• Taurus on Facebook and Twitter - See the Facebook link and Taurus on Twitter. We will start using these more to get the word out about events.

• Have you joined Taurus yet? If no, why not? Visit the Downloads page and print off the form. And send the website address to all your ex-OBUBC/Poly mates who haven't joined yet, and get them to do it.
  
  YOU KNOW IT'S WORTH IT....