January 2025

Present:

Jane Roberts (Chairman)(JR), Kevin Sands (Secretary)(KS), Geoff Appleton (Treasurer)(GA), Margaret Appleton (Outings)(MA), Jilly Lane (Marketing/Website)(JL), Solveig Haywood (SH), Lesley Cornish (LC), Neil Larry (NL), Chris Deverell (CD).

1) Apologies

Sam Roberts (President)(SR), Andy Barwell (AB)

2) Minutes of the last meeting

Accepted and signed by Jane.

3) Matter Arising

a) Jilly to put a questionnaire together for the next meeting

b) Neil has been in touch with Bath RFC and an access route avoiding steps has been identified. Neil will be contacting Bath to arrange drop-off point.

c) The signing approval for the account has been received. The online banking is still being looked at with, hopefully, only requiring 2 or 3 approvals.

d) Item 7 - The cheque for £3000 has been given to the Club, but as yet not cashed.

Jane and Andy are meeting later in the month to discuss the way forward for the Followers and FoB's.

4) Treasurers Report

Geoff presented the current position with regard to our current finances

5) Membership & Outings Report

Outings

As of the meeting there are 25 booked on the coach to go to Bath.

Memberships

143 members to date (104 adult, 19 adult[FoB's), 2 juniors, 15 life, 1 free (auditor), 2 Honorary.

6) Committee Succession

Existing job descriptions of the Committee officers have recently been distributed for perusal and, where necessary, updating.

We are now looking for volunteers from the Committee to stand as “No. 2s” for each officer position.

7) Marketing/Website

Chris and Jilly are now in a position where the new website can go live. It was agreed that they would go for a ‘soft launch’ to iron our any hiccups before going for the big launch.

Jilly announced that the sales of the Anniversary polo shirts are showing a profit.

8) AOB

a) We have received a letter from ‘Cancer Research UK’ thanking us for our donation in memory of Neil Roy.

b) It was reported that Dawn (Blues Club official) accused Linda and Mick of causing a safety obstruction when selling jackpot ticket on the corner, (where we have stood for as long as anyone can remember). We will now look to move the selling point round the corner next to where Jackie sells the programmes.

c) A suggestion was made to look to arrange a trip down the river on the ‘John Bunyan Boat’ for the followers as part of the 75th anniversary celebrations.

Margaret agreed to talk to Linda.

d) Everyone one at the meeting was impressed with the Larry Webb room as it was warmer in the current cold weather and safer when leaving at the end of the meeting.

Kevin agreed to ask Amy if this could be a permanent move for future committee meetings.

9) The next meeting will be on Thursday 9th January 2025at 6.30pm in the SDC Suite.

There being no further business the meeting was closed at 7.30pm