Committee

Chairman Greg Round

In 2019 my son George, then 14 wanted to take up the sport following a try dive with the club.

Rather than just being “dad taxi” on open water dive trips, I decided to take up learning to dive too. Having completed my Ocean Diver course and gained a love for the sport George and I progressed through the Sports Diver syllabus during the covid lock downs.

I have since completed my Dive Leader qualification and in 2024 I become an Open Water Instructor.

I am an active UK diver attending club trips to various quarries and coastal sea dives favouring wrecks and scenic dives with seals.

Diving Officer Peter Miles

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Training Officer Esme Meredith

Hallo! I began my diving journey in 2023, and I’ve since become an Assistant Instructor, working on my Dive Leader qualification currently. I aspire to become an Open Water Instructor to bring the world of scuba diving to anyone interested!

I favour wreck dives and my dream is to search for lost wrecks, but I do enjoy a poke around for sea creatures! I love UK diving and I’m always up for a jaunt to the quarry with the club, or a shore dive. I especially keep my eyes peeled for Octopi and hermit crabs!

Equipment Officer Roland Smith

I kind of fell into diving, one of my palls whilst boating abroad in 2005 suggested having a try dive after I complained about the amount of time I could spend underwater with a snorkel! On returning back to the UK, I had a try dive and signed up to do the Ocean Diver course with Stafford Sub Aqua Club. At that time the Ocean Diver was the only level of diving I considered as necessary, but strangely enough a few years later, I’ve now qualified as an Open Water instructor…

For me, time away and especially underwater is relaxing and stimulating. I enjoy the practical instruction element especially and I get a kick out of other people developing their skills and learning to Dive.

I dive both in the UK and overseas, with a particular affinity for the Medes Islands located off the shores of Estartit in Spain.

Welfare Officer Jacqui Hodgkinson

I’ve been a member of the club since 2011. I decided I needed to “learn how to do it properly” after experiencing a succession of amazing try dive experiences in Thailand, Egypt and Kenya.

I completed my Ocean Diver in 2012 and my first open water experience, after qualifying, was a trip to the Farne Islands. Diving with club member Steve Postles I experienced what I can only say was a “moment most people could only dream of” when I came face to face, quite literally, with a seal pup!

Since then I’ve had the opportunity to further my diving with experiences both in the UK and overseas, and I’m now a Dive Leader. AND…………… ask any of my dive buddies, diving with me is definitely an experience that will not be forgotten!

Social & Publicity Officer TBC

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Secretary Daniel Kirkham

I first did a try dive on my 16th birthday but I decided to take up the sport properly in 2010 after SSAC was promoted during freshers week at Staffs Uni where I studied Mechanical Engineering.

I completed Ocean and Sports diver during my first two years of Uni, and remained a distance member whilst working nearer to my home in Stoke. More recently, I have thrown myself back into the sport with enthusiam attending trips in the UK and abroad with the club.

2025 was a notable year for me, as I acheived two personal milestones: organising a club trip to Cyprus and passing my Dive Leader qualification (much belated some may say!). I’m now hoping to give back to the club which has been such a big part of my life for the past 15 years by joining the committee.

Treasurer Ian Smith

Having wanted to learn to SCUBA since being a teenager, I joined Stafford Sub-Aqua Club in June 2023. I qualified the following January as an Ocean Diver and then completed my Sports Diver in October that same year.

I was elected as treasurer in Jan 2026 as Alan Weaver decided to stand down after 17 years.

Most weekends I am diving with anyone willing to go, quarries, UK, abroad – anywhere! I enjoy that whilst diving you have to give 100% attention and you forget about everything else going on.

Ordinary Member Richard Haughton

I had my first try dive with Stafford Sub-Aqua Club in January 2014 and I was instantly hooked.

I sailed through my Ocean Diver course in record time and progressed to Sport Diver just before a week’s diving holiday around the Medes islands, Spain, in June 2015. I’m now an Advance Diver and qualified as an open water instructor.

I enjoying passing on my enthusiasm to students and coaching them to master new skills.

Ordinary Member Robin Smith

I joined Stafford Dive club in 1996 and qualified as a Novice diver in 1997. I’ve made steady progress through my qualifications and am now an Advanced Diver and Open Water Instructor as well as an Instructor for other skills.

I dive all year and have favourite spots around the globe. Wrecks and Seahorses fascinate me.