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Matchpoint Badminton Club

Minutes of Committee meeting 30 May 2006

 

 

Present

Chris Pitchers, Matt Pascoe, Mike Newton-Woof, Ian Newcombe, Peter Burgess, Peter Gurd, Kim March

 

Apologies

Jacky Barron, Paul Hoff, Craig Paget,

 

1 Club nights

 

Very busy now. Agreed take extra court 9-10pm for June and July. MNW was putting together the club night pack. This would include league registration forms and a membership form. A table was needed to track new members visits so it could be seen when they needed to join.

 

MNW confirming he currently had the stock of shuttles following recent delivery of new batch.

 

2 Newsletter

 

PB had already sent this out via e-mail. PB suggesting the club needed to push for e-mail addresses for all members to assist administration.

 

3 Club Championship

 

Entries had already been received. Entry was £3 adults £1.50 for juniors.

 

The Selection Committee would meet next week and resolve handicaps. Scorecards were already set up as a template by PB on the web site.

 

4 New members

 

IDN advising that he had become aware through recent club nights that there were various new people playing who had not joined this posed a problem for insurance. IDN had noted the following were not recorded as members; Anthony, Stephen Irvine, Rachel Jones, Andrew Cox, Ian Herbert, Steve Newman and Andy Barrow.

 

PB noting names.

 

5 Buddy scheme

 

MNW would be speaking to individuals with coaching qualifications to assess the level of interest before taking the matter further.

 

6 AGM

 

This was set for 03.07.06.

 

IDN stating he was unsure whether he would be joining next year and consequently was no longer prepared to undertake Secretary/Treasurer duties.

Kim identified the need to reduce the Match Secretary roles in order to lighten her workload at the start of the season. PB would print details of the role definition so that Kim could restructure duties.

 

There was then a general discussion about potential for new Committee members. MNW also confirmed that most if not all match fees had now been received but that there were still some outstanding memberships from; Nicky Torgerson, Linda Bradshaw and Matt Chapman at least.

 

Consideration was given as to topics for the AGM to include the level of club fees and whether to advance purchase further shuttles due to the imminent increase in cost.

 

KM suggesting reduction of teams but general consensus was to leave this until members had sent in their forms for team selection.

 

7 Social

 

PG was organising a fancy dress fun tournament possibly for the 29.06.06 he had so far had 12 takers.

 

The 22.07.06 was put forward the date for an awards presentation. PG would come with ideas as to were to hold this and feedback at

 

8 Social

 

PG enquired were the Committee wanted to have a presentation evening. Various members suggested venues which PG would look into along with any ideas for Christmas.

 

9 AOB

 

The issue of Jamie Russell’s invoice from a match was raised. KM would telephone him and explain what had been agreed with Charmaine.

 

KM suggesting the need for a notice for the board to indicate dates for coaching. She had provisionally booked 4 courts for 26.07.06, 02.08.06 and 09.08.06.