In attendance: 32 members (app 1)
Apologies received: 10 members (app 2)
Minutes of previous AGM – available on club website at https://www.bridgewebs.com/oswestry/. Have been read and agreed correct (Proposer: Duncan Kerr, Seconded: Dave Berry)
Report by Chairperson – Pat Ramsay
I think we have had another successful year, although numbers on a Monday have fallen slightly, unfortunately mostly due to health issues. We wish them all a speedy recovery.
We took part in A Better Deal for Cancer Research UK, EBED and Stratified Sims events, with another Sims booked for July. We also held a charity event for Severn Hospice.
I think everyone enjoyed the Christmas Party.
I would like to thank committee, directors, members who duplimate, help set up room and clear everything away at end and in particular Phil who has the task of billing us all and then checking that we have paid, which must take a considerable amount of time so please do pay up on time. He also duplimates, directs and sets up tables.
Peter is still doing a great job with WhatsApp; it is the main means of members finding partners so if anyone would like to join please speak to Peter.
I would like to suggest that members change their polarity from time to time - if we all stay the same each week we end up only playing the same pairs and don’t meet the others
We are hoping to welcome beginners from John’s lessons in the near future. Can I ask you all to continue to make new players welcome and be on best behaviour at all times and try and keep the noise level down.
Lastly thank you all for coming, enjoying and making the club a success.
Report by Treasurer – Phil Inch
Report for the year ended 31/05/25
Membership this year has remained static at 83 members. We have welcomed 6 new
players to the Club whilst we have lost the same number during the year.
Table fee income has decreased to t7,887.50 from a figure of t8,721.50 last year.
ln the year to May 2025 we had 3,134 plays during the year a decrease from 3,300.
This has resulted in our playing activities showing a drop t834.00 compared to last year
Together with other items our overall income is t424.14 higher than last year. This
however includes the recovery of f 1,050 from the County for John's beginner's lessons.
Without this we would be showing a decrease of f625.86.
This year we have spent 81,485 more on rent but this has been offset by a reduction of
on line costs of directors’ fees of £1,015.00 and EBU P2P fees of £720.94.
Miscellaneous expenditure is £382.88 greater than last year. The main part of this
expenditure was 40 sets of bidding cards and 2 sets of dealing boards as some of the
older boards have started to fall apart.
ln summary this year we made a surplus of £500.45, better than last year's surplus of
£488.76.
Our Charity donations this year were to Cancer Research UK.
Our Bank Balances at the end of May stand in total at £10,394 .24. (LY £9,893.79). This
year we received bank interest of £138.14 compared with £101 .00 last year.
Breakeven point for F2F playing is still 7 tables
From Oct 24 we went back to playing F2F on Mondays
We are currently achieving 6.73 tables on a Monday (7.18 last year) and 9.16 tables on a
Thursday (9.27 tables last year).
Phil Inch
20/06/202
Phil then presented a balance sheet (attached) and asked for any questions. There were none.
The Treasurer’s Report was approved by a show of hands and the accounts adopted (Proposer: Graham Roberts, seconded: Lesley Chew)
Proposed amendments to the Club Constitution
- Motion to remove the current 3-year limit which a Chairperson may serve. Vote taken by show of hands and carried.
- In view of the reduced size of the Committee proposed amendment to show a quorum shall now constitute 50% of Committee members present. Vote taken by show of hands and carried.
Proposed changes to awarding the Ian Mellor Trophy
Following further correspondence received from Mrs Marjorie Mellor the Committee will give this matter further consideration and inform members of the outcome in due course.
Election of Committee
Flo has resigned – no new nominations received.
Pat, Phil, Sue, Jane, Helen and Mike are willing to stand again for election. (Proposer: Henry Ramsay, seconded: Graham Roberts) Vote by show of hands – carried.
Election of Chairperson
Pat is willing to stay in post (Proposer: Elizabeth Redrup, seconded: Duncan Kerr) All were in agreement.
AOB
- Flo has requested that we play more Sims events through the year and explained that as an affiliated club it would be appropriate use of club surplus funds and demonstrate support for EBU. Currently there are about 4 per year and it was suggested we increase these to 6 per year. A vote was taken by show of hands and carried by majority.
- Elaine has requested an online session be organised during the winter months (extra to Monday and Thursday sessions). Pat explained there are already several online options with affiliated clubs available to members and will discuss these with Elaine.
- John proposed that we revert to a system of handing out cards to members on arrival to determine their tables and polarity. This will be trialled from next week and reviewed after 2 sessions.
With no other business the meeting closed at 6.50pm
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