It is very unlikely that we will be holding an Annual General Meeting in January 2021 so I have taken the opportunity of circulating my Annual Report and Balance sheet to Club Secretaries and Committee members. Hopefully we will be in a position to hold a Spring Meeting, lets wait and see.
My Annual report for 2020 will be much shorter than in previous years. Will be be playing in 2021 at the moment will be in the lap of the gods.
At the start of 2020 I had the usual quantity of handbooks printed and some were distributed to Clubs, the remainder are cluttering up my house. Fortunately I was able to cover the cost of the books by a refund from the Sports Council who earlier in the year were giving out grants, some Clubs benefited from this. My intention sometime in the New Year is to circulate the remainder of the books together with a new complete set of fixtures with a request to Secretaries to delete the fixtures shown in the 2020 book. Hopefully these new fixtures will be on one sheet of paper which will makes things easier. The reason for the new fixtures is firstly that the dates of the published matches originally for 2020 will be wrong but mainly the withdrawal of WVC from the League, this is due to the loss of their green. They have been a member of this League for many years and I am sure the remainder of the Leagues Clubs will be sorry to see them leave. I understand their members are joining other Clubs.
In formulating the new set of fixtures I am thinking on the lines of starting them the first week in May, two reasons for this, 1, this will help Clubs who didn”t pay their Public Liability in 2020, the new Policy starts on the 1st May, and also the more of a delay in commencing the League the better the chance of playing, the Covid situation at the fore front of my mind. It may well be that the first two/three weeks in April if we are able to play could be utilised with a couple of the League Compeitions, again we will have to wait and see.
The proposed prospects for 2021 have not been confirmed by any member of the Committee, we have not been in a position to hold a Committee Meeting, therefore I trust that they will agree with my suggestions. I will put a copy of this annual report on the web site this will allow interested members the opportunity of reading it,
I wish everyone a Happy New Year and hope that 2021 will be better than 2020 and that we can at least get some bowls matches completed.
All the very best.
Ron Holt.
Secretary/Treasurer.
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