[Older highlights : from 2014/15 season from Alan Wearmouth]

Highlights from the GCBA Committee Meeting December 2015 - from Jim Simons, GCBA President

Treasurer’s Business

• Cheltenham Bridge Club want to change the arrangements for Monday nights so that they could run other events in parallel with GCBA events, and their preferred solution is to charge us per table rather than having us hire the entire club, as we have done for years.  Our constitutional objectives include encouraging duplicate bridge across the county, and since the current arrangement could be said to be preventing duplicate bride from being played, we concluded that we must agree to some such arrangement. We discussed the principles that should apply, and then delegated to the treasurer the task of negotiating the details.  (Note added after the meeting – the agreement is that as from 1 January 2016 we shall pay to CBC an amount equivalent to half their current table money, the remainder of the table money we charge going towards GCBA expenses.  Initially we shall leave the total table money at £3.50.

• We discussed our weekend events.  The entry fee has been unchanged for years, and we agreed that it was time to increase it, but to compensate this by providing, for at least some events, premium catering to make the meal part of the reason for coming.

Youth Bridge

Our Youth Officer Ro Kaye has been very busy organising events, but she is in need of support.  It is great fun working with kids – they learn terrifyingly quickly!  If you’d like to help in any way, please contact Ro by emailing youth@gcba.org.uk.

Publicity

Our publicity has been in parlous state since we failed to recruit a new publicity officer.  Now Judy Sanis has agreed to return to doing most of the job, whilst I shall be writing the article for English Bridge, the first to appear in February.

Officials

Committee Members

CBC Representative to GCBA committee

Membership of Sub-Committees (Tournament, Representative Events and Youth) can be viewed at and contacted from the "Committee" page on the home page, left hand side menu.

We are creating notes on the tasks which committee members need to carry out; as they are confirmed, new documents will be added to the list here

1. EBU Shareholder duties
2. Duty member.

It was necessary in 2007 to produce a new constitution because of tighter financial regulations, the advent of the Human Rights Act and changes in the relationship with the EBU. Some further changes - to do with the concept of membership - had to be introduced in 2010 and these were ratified at the AGM in May 2010. Work is in hand to present to the 2015 AGM a revised constitution to accord with the EBU recommended constitution for County Bridge Associations.

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