Minutes of New Forest Club Cricket Association Annual General Meeting
Held at Langley Manor CC on Monday 29th January 2018
The Meeting was opened at 7:04 pm
Bashley Rydal, Beaulieu, Bramshaw, Bransgore, Brockenhurst, Burley, Cadnam, Calmore Sports, Fawley, Hyde, Hythe & Dibden, Langley Manor, Lymington, Lyndhurst & Ashurst, Mudeford, New Milton, OT’s & Romsey, Paultons, Pylewell Park, Redlynch & Hale, Sway, Totton & Eling, Wellow & Plaitford cricket clubs. Visitors:- Rob Pfeiffer (HCB)
Apologies were received from Ray Mortimer and Steve Chiverton
The minutes of the previous meeting, having been circulated, were taken as read. They were unanimously confirmed acceptance was proposed by A, Stickland and seconded by A Tuck and adopted as a true record of the meeting.
There were no matters arising from the minutes.
Nick Gossip said that both Knock Out Cup finals were played in the right sprit with a good turnout at each final. He thanked Trevor Phillips for the programme at the Stone Cup giving a short history of the competition and the competing clubs. He relayed the sad news that Ray Mortimer had resigned from the NFCCA Committee due to ill health. Ray had been a stalwart member and main organiser since the early days of league cricket in the New Forest. He thanked Alan Sturgess the NFCCA Secretary for his sterling effort. Derek Hopkins has agreed to take the post of Vice Chairman and during the year we have co-opted two new Committee persons Andy Tuck from Lyndhurst & Ashurst and Roger Porter from Beaulieu. Roger has agreed to fill the role of Competition Secretary which was vacated by Ray Mortimer. Roy Thomas will also be leaving the committee as he has new employment and unable to commit the time to NFCCA. Finally Nick stated that he was saddened by the demise of Swan Green, one of the most photographed grounds in the country that will shortly be returned to forest grazing.
The Association’s Accounts for the period ending 31st December 2017 were circulated and explained by Tony Leadbetter. The summary for the NFCCA in 2017 was. Income of £1,375.00 was made up of £800 subscriptions from member clubs and £575 knock out cup entry fees.
The Expenditure was £1,233.13 giving a net Income on the year of £141.87
The total funds in the joint bank account were shown as being £4742.55
The cost of Knock Out cup trophies had again been reduced but the poor level of entries had meant that income failed to cover costs but only by £ 53.98
Copy of the summary of accounts is attached
The NFJCA Accounts can be reviewed in their AGM minutes
Acceptance of the NFCCA portion of the account was proposed by Iain Soutar and seconded by Arthur Stickland.
Alan Sturgess said it had been a quite year for communication, and was finding it all much easier with everyone having email.
Tony Leadbetter reported it had been a busy year and all the competition requirements had been covered with the exception of one Stone Cup game that had been rearranged without the umpire’s knowledge.
Ray Mortimer had resigned during the year due to ill health. As per the Chairman’s report the meeting were asked to formerly accept Ray as a Life Vice President. The vote was unanimous and was followed by a round of applause to recognise the amount of time and effort Ray had put into local cricket over many years.
2017 competition had been a success albeit with a much reduce entry. Sway appeared in both finals.
Pylewell Park had held the cup for 3 years but in the final Sway were the worthy winners.
Presidents Cup was won by Bashley Rydal with a very strong performance.
This year’s entries were again looking low with only 7 teams entered to date.
The committee were very pleased to announce that Roger Porter would be taking the role of Competition Secretary.
The draw will take place on 13th February 2018.
Clubs within the Forest area had achieved excellent marks for Wicket and Outfield during the year.
The grounds cups for the season were awarded as follows.
County 3 Regional 1
Special mention to Bashley 3rds Average 17.14 and Fawley 2nd 15.88
Winner was Bashley 4th with an average of 17.43
Regional 2
Special mention to New Milton 3rd average 16.17 and Beaulieu Average 16.00
Winner was Pylewell Park with an average of 18.17
Regional 3
Special mention to Sway 4th and Hyde
Winner was Lymington 4ths with an average of 17.33
11 Re-election of Committee
We have two resigning committee persons Ray Mortimer and Roy Thomas.
Three members had been co-opted during the year, Pete Luker, Roger Porter and Andy Tuck all are now standing for election. No other nominations have been received.
N Gossip asked the gathering if anyone would volunteer but there were no offers from the floor so it was proposed to elect on-block those that were available.
Proposed by John Church Seconded by Peter Biddlecombe and unanimously approved by the members present. So the Officers and Committee elected for 2017 is therefore:-
Chairman:- Nick Gossip
Treasurer:- Tony Leadbetter
Secretary:- Alan Sturgess
Competition Sec:- Roger Porter
Committee:- Derek Hopkins Andy Tuck Pete Luker
Auditor:- Tony Wharton.
12 Presidents and Vice Presidents
Vic Loveless was re elected as President.
Ray Mortimer elected to Life Vice President:-
Vice Presidents are Mr R Biddlecombe, Mr M Green, Mrs R Hayward, Mr M Hayward.
13 Date of Next Meeting
The date of the next Annual General Meeting was arranged for the last Monday in January, which will be 28th January 2019 at 7pm
There being no other business the meeting was closed
The meeting was closed at 7:26pm