Minutes of Oswestry Bridge Club AGM
held on Thursday 29th June 2023
In attendance were Pat, Phil, Flo, Jane. Elizabeth,Sue, Helen, Zena, Robert L, Robert H, Lesley,Henry,
Graham, Margaret, Rosie, Mike,Gloria,Nick
Apologies Najma, Janis, Val and Ed, Nigel, Anjie, Annie, Eileen, Brian, Beryl, Elaine and JennyR
Minutes of Previous AGM Read and Approved
Report by Chairperson
I think we have had a good year; we are averaging 8-9 Tables on a Thursday F2F with slightly less on a Monday online.
We took part in an EBED and stratified Sims with EBU, a CiN event and held a charity evening for Air Ambulance.
Robert’s 90th Birthday was celebrated in November and we held a successful Christmas Party in December with
food organized by Elizabeth
I would like to thank committee, Flo, Sue, Elizabeth, Jenny and Phil for their efforts during the year.
Jenny has now resigned due to ill health. Jane has volunteered to take over as secretary
Duplimating Rota is going well with Val, Ed, Phil, Sue, Jane, Duncan, Jenny Rogers, Lesley,
Henry and myself taking part.
We have welcomed another 5 new players to the club thanks to John’s lessons.
We must all make them welcome and remember to be on our best behavior.
Lastly thank you all for playing at Oswestry Bridge Club and continuing to make it a success
Treasurer’s Report given by Phil Inch
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I am glad to say that our membership has grown to 79 by the end of May 2023.
Welcome to all those of you that have joined in the last year and I hope you are enjoying playing.
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However our table fee income has dropped by £1,433 due to the reduction in the number of players this year compared to last.
In the year to May 2022 we had 3,340 players during the year, this year it has dropped to under 3,000.
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This year a full membership fee was charged of £10. This was the first time since the year
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19/20 a gap of 2 free years. This has made up part of the shortfall.
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Together with other items our overall income is £524 lower than last year
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On the expenditure side we have some savings. F2F started in Sept 2021 part way through previous FY.
Hence this year we have spend £633 more on rent but £955 less on on line
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directors fees (also reduced from £40 to £35 per session).
BBO platform fees are £732 less and EBU P2P fees are £368 less.
Those 4 items show as overall saving of £1,422.
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Our playing activities show an improvement of just over £1,000 compared to previous year.
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Miscellaneous expenditure is just over £1,100 less than last year. The main items not repeated this year
being the new tables purchased £646 and the donation we made to the Memorial Hall of £500.
In summary this year we made a modest surplus of £314 , over £2,100 better that last year
when we made a loss of £1,801
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Our Charity events this year were Children in Need (£195) and Air Ambulance (£230)
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Our Bank Balances at the end of May stand in total at £9,405
Breakeven point for F2F is 7 tables whilst online it is 8 tables. We are getting over 7 tables regularly on a Thursday,
but are only averaging 6 tables on a Monday
Phil then presented balance sheet, Zena asked about restricted reserves –this is money held to replace equipment.
Balance sheet is attached
Accounts were then approved proposed by Lesley Chew and seconded by Henry Ramsay, everyone was in agreement.
Election of Committee
Pat, Phil, Flo, Elizabeth and Sue were willing to stand again. Proposed by Zena and seconded by Henry.
Everyone was in agreement.
Election of Chairperson Pat was proposed by Elizabeth and seconded by Graham Everyone was in agreement
With no other business meeting closed at 6.50
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