16 March 2022
5pm via Zoom
Minutes
Present: Mark Goddard, Ian Dovey , Keith Spencer, Shirley Ashtari, Mel Shepherd, Chris Frost
Apologies: None
- Treasurers report – ID reported that there had been very little movement in finances since the last meeting and that the association was still in a very healthy financial position.
- AGM
The organisation of the AGM to be held on 14 May was discussed. SA volunteered to get all the relevant notices out and ID said that the accounts should be ready on time, but needed to go to Dave Beaumont as Independent Examiner. The meeting was to be held via zoom. The make-up of next year’s committee was discussed with MG stating that he did not want to be Chair and ID saying he was stepping down completely (all other members were willing to stand) – which would give us a shortfall.
All committee members to consider whether there were other individuals they could approach, as well as clubs.
- Events
Some discussion around events had been held via email beforehand. The main two events under discussion were the Journal Cup and the Team of 4 competition, both of which were qualifiers for EBU competitions
There was discussion around whether to hold online or F2F. Whilst there was a desire to hold F2F, it was noted that county players were offered the chance to play F2F in the recent match against Leicestershire and the majority preferred online. It was also noted that the EBU competitions are online and that whilst clubs were finding their way back to F2F it was still relatively low numbers and some clubs still had not made the move. As such, it was decided to hold online as there was more chance of better numbers.
The dates selected were 10 April for Journal Cup and 24 April for Team of 4 qualifier, both to be held on RealBridge with an entry fee of £5 per player.
Other competitions discussed were the Priday Cup and Mixed Pairs. It was felt that they should be run, but with two events in April and the AGM in May, this should be left for the post-AGM committee meeting.
- Date of next meeting – to be agreed post-AGM
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