Dear [NAME],
The minutes of the Balcombe Tennis Club's AGM 2007 are below and also available for download
here.
From the Treasurer's Report, you will see that raising additional revenue is crucial to funding the court resurfacing in a few years' time, so please remember to spread the word about doing your Internet shopping through the Club's shopping portal
http://shop.balcombetennisclub.co.uk. It costs nothing extra and as a club we get a little kick-back (every little helps!) and if you shop through the shopping portal you get special offers that normal web users don't.
Best regards,
Gerrit Hoekstra
BALCOMBE
TENNIS CLUB
COMMITTEE
MEETING 20 NOVEMBER 2007
TANDY's
HOUSE 8:00 PM
Present: Karin,
Neil, Nick, Tandy, Gerrit
Apologies: Baz,
Judith,
AGENDA
ITEMS:
Minutes
from previous AGM of November 2006
Accepted
Chairperson's
Report
New:
We
have a new gardener and it looks better
Bi-weekly
cleaner has been arranged.
We
have left the LTA. The decision seems to have been vindicated by the
fact that they have not responded at all!
Recent
News:
We
had a friendly with Ardingly Tennis Club who we have been having
tournaments against for a number of years, on the 20th October and
The Club won the match. This was a first!
The
lease of the courts has been renewed.
The
relationship with the tennis coach has improved considerably.
The
Vision for the Future:
We
need to get the beginning of the tennis season off the ground.
We
need to get the tennis ladder off the ground for the New Year.
Suggestion for formats and a name for the event are open – a
possible American Tournament perhaps? May month would be the month
to hold the event.
Tennis
Ladder:
The
discussion ensued about the approaches for a Tennis Ladder - the
feeling was to have a bulletin board format for members to volunteer
information about themselves and to describe their ability and the
type of tennis partner required.
Membership
Secretary's Report
Fees
have increased which did not cause a substantial loss of membership.
The results of a mass mailing via the Middy suggests that we should
try this again, but this time not includ a
membership form since this will be mailed separately to existing
members and cause confusion.
The
newsletter will now be abandoned and the parish magazine and the
website will be the regular mouthpiece of the Club.
Treasurer's
Report
Total
Liabilities and Equity:
2006/2007:
8'928.62
2005/2006:
6'175.90
YearOnYear:
2'752.72
At
the rate at which we are banking a year (approx. 2'000 a year) and
with additional fund raising, we might be on target to get the courts
resurfaced when the time has come. The courts were done in 1999 and
should last 10 years at least. We are therefore due to resurface in
2009 and anticipate a cost of approx. 15`000. Various strategies for
fund raising were discussed for covering potential deficit.
Public
liability insurance was previously via LTA. We have now had to find
our own insurance for this.
Election
of new committee
The
committee remained unchanged.
Comments
from the floor
Need
new double door for the club house.
AGM Closed at 22:00
