Minutes of Letcombe Cricket Club AGM held in the Clubhouse on 7 Feb 05 at 20.00hrs

 

1. President thanks all for coming

 

2. Present:

 

Richard Taylor, Glyn Oliver, Simon Pittard, Jim Pike, Pat Bryan, Ken Trotter, Laurence Gardiner, Richard Hales, Paul Bryan, Rob Jones

 

Apologies:

 

Alan Law, Keith Hawton

 

3. Minutes of previous AGM – apologies from Secretary for lack of minutes.

 

4. Matters arising from the minutes

 

None

 

5. Presidents Report

 

Done extremely well for the last 3 years.

 

Started in 1948, so 3 years time is 60th anniversary.

 

Reminisced that 1st game against Ox Nondescripts resulted in a win for Letcombe, with both teams getting over 180.

 

Congratulations to Jim for carrying on the work which Glyn himself started many years ago.

 

6. Chairman’s Report

 

Difficult areas – hit by injuries – cup final was a point in case. Emphasises the need to get more members, or existing ones to stay fit.

 

Encourage new players & Sunday guys to continue to help as they have done a lot before.

 

Converse is also true with Sunday’s sometime requiring help, so this needs addressing.

 

Laurence pointed out that some players do not want to play Saturdays because of the nature of the cricket.

 

Conclusion is that both teams are important.

 

A lot of money comes from the bar, and we need to continue to support the bar whenever we can.

 

7. Treasurer’s Report

 

Everyone reviewed accounts.

 

Suggestion to keep subs the same £4/month or £50/year.

 

Junior Annual Subs £5.00

 

Recommend increasing Saturdays fees from £6 to £7. Juniors half price.

 

Sunday match fees £5 – no change from last year. Juniors half price.

 

Double-header is £7.

 

Profit of just over £2,000.

 

Asked if any other bills – nothing that anyone is aware of.

 

Agree principal of there being a membership fee for juniors, as well as a match fee. Cut-off is 16, unless in full-time education.

 

Wednesdays £2 – stay as is. Ken will do the home bar. Rob will provide a list to Simon to collect monies at the end of the Midweek Season.

 

Accounts adopted, with ~ £4,000 in the bank.

 

Decisions on what to do with the money is required. Need some aims.

 

Any expenditure required – need feedback from Jim, and from the League about the state of the pitch/facilities.

 

RT to get feedback from the League ( Dennis Faulkner ) on marks received from opposition teams on the facilities, and Jim & Ken will highlight anything required with the current equipment which will need expenditure, and feed into Simon.

 

8. Election of Officers

 

As is, but with Pat Bryan & Keith Hawton sharing the Sunday captaincy. Noted that Bill Cookson was still willing to do the Vice job, so can continue to do so if he still wishes.

 

Rob Jones – Saturday vice-skip proposer Ken Trotter, seconder Richard Hales

 

9. Discussed & agreed to adopt the treasurers proposal.

 

10. Discussed & agreed to adopt the treasurers proposal.

 

11. Ken briefed the members on the plans for the new pavilion.

 

All viewed the plans.

 

12. AOB

 

KT – Wine & Quiz evening. Rescheduled to Saturday 12th March.

 

Youth evening / Club Night. Want to introduce on a Tuesday night. KT will let East Garston know that the ground will not be available on Tuesdays. 18.00 – 21.00.

 

Question to Dave as to whether he would be able to supervise the youngsters.

 

Equipment – RT to obtain details/equipment.

 

Bar open on club night.

 

Fixtures

 

Cup games. Not happy with the disruption to Sunday fixtures, but all agreed that there was very little we could do about it.

 

RH - Club Night

 

RJ – Sightscreens. JP to buy timber to repair top sightscreen.

 

Meeting closed 22:20