Minutes of Eastwood Cricket Club AGM, 27th Feb 2011
Present: Kevin Robinson, Alaric Wade, John Harmon, Brian Burns, Doug Whalley, Ian Roake, Dan Fullarton, Richard Ackery, Neil Mason, Sean Worrall, Phil Sms, Mike Dineen, Mark Armitage, James Drabble, Cameron Hill, Oli Harp, Graham Fletcher, Trevor Harp, Luke Harp
Apologies: John Price, John Mitchell Sr
Minutes of last year’s meeting
These were agreed.
Matters Arising
It was agreed that we should charge £1 for fixture cards this year.
Chairman’s Report
John said it had been a good season and it was great to see the 1st and 2nd teams get promoted. The club just needs some fine tuning and it should go from strength to strength.
Secretary’s Report
Attached (hopefully)
Treasurer’s Report
Income has been greater than expenditure this year due to last year’s increase in match fees. Pitch fees will be going up by 5.1% but other costs are not expected to change much. The youth side will be training at Belfairs from April onwards so this should reduce the cost of hiring a hall for practice.
Development Officer’s Report
The development committee met in January and updated plans. The Cory grant of £6k has been accepted and we have applied for an interest free loan from the ECB to cover the time between paying for the nets and receiving the grant. The council are happy for nets to be used outside during the summer, but not in the winter. We have two further grant applications in the pipeline, for a total of £1250.
Our Clubmark status is due to be reviewed this year. We have fallen behind in some areas – e.g. holding committee meetings, producing newsletters, registration forms etc and we need to get these sorted of we are to keep our Clubmark status. We need more effort from members to get involved with these issues. The committee needs to organise Cricket Force day better and make sure we know what we want to achieve from it.
A tour is being arranged to Henley for the weekend of 9th September. Costs are expected to be about £160.
Election of Officers
The following were elected:
Chairman – Graham Fletcher
Secretary – Kevin Robinson
Assistant Secretary – Alaric Wade
Treasurer – Trevor Harp
Fixture Secretary – Alaric Wade
Team Secretary (Saturday) – none. The captains will sort this out between them as they did last year.
Team Secretary (Sunday) – Brian Burns
Social Secretary – none. Social events will be organised by a committee of Richard Ackery, Mike Dineen, Dan Fullarton, James Drabble and Neil Mason.
Press Secretary – Oli Harp
1st XI Captain – Dan Fullarton
2nd XI Captain – Paul Heath
3rd XI Captain – no nominees
4th XI Captain – James Drabble
Sunday XI Captain – no nominees
Evening XI Captain – Richard Ackery
Youth Development Officer – Neil Mason
Child Welfare Officer – Kevin Robinson
Committee Members – Dan Fullarton, John Mitchell Sr, James Drabble, John Harmon, Paul Heath
Subs & Match Fees
Several alternatives were discussed. The club’s finances are fairly healthy but as Belfairs Sports & Social Club are struggling ang the constituent clubs may have to support them, it was agreed to raise subs to £30 for adults and £15 for juniors. Match fees will remain as they are (£11 for adults, juniors / unwaged £6).
AOB
Kevin outlined the arrangement we have come to with Leigh Ramblers over the use of the ground in the last two weeks of September. Essentially, for this season we will let them use the ground as their league is threatening to expel them if they don’t play home matches at Belfairs.
It was mentioned that it as the club has now been in existence for over 30 years it would be good to document its history. This was agreed to be a good idea and Sean will take this on.
There was also a suggestion that we could set up the post of Life Vice President of the club and ask former player(s) to act as such but this was not taken forward.
There is concern that too many young players claim not to know how to score or umpire so the burden falls on the same people every week. Stuart Orrock has offered to run a course in umpiring which we agreed would be very helpful.
John Harmon offered to buy the club a motorised roller if we can find somewhere to store it. Kevin will contact the council and ask if they are happy for us to store one in a container at Belfairs.
Meeting ended at 10-ish.