Hythe Cricket & Squash Club
The Grove • Hythe • CT21 6AX
Tel: 01303 267 458
Don't forget to come along tonight.
Chairman's comments
An interesting past 12 months!
The pandemic has proved that we have an outstanding group of members who despite the difficulties we were able to ‘get together’, keep the Club going and importantly put the Club in an extremely favourable financial position.
We have lots of highlights: (Not in any real order)
Special mention to Gary Hollamby and Kayvan Karimi reviving Tom Mccorkindale on the squash court and saved his life.
We increased the overall membership to 295 members.
Squash and Racketball now have 145 players, massive thanks to all members, particularly Tom Locke and Lydia Clark.
Baz Hodgson, our Squash Coach, has a thriving Junior section, requiring the need to allocate more courts for them.
We plan to open at 6.30 am once we are back to normality to satisfy demand. We are seriously investigating how we can accommodate two more courts.
We played Cricket Saturday and Sunday –thanks to Matt Ford and Nigel Pichowski for getting teams together.
Our Junior Cricket was able to continue - thanks to Martin Cobb and Rachel Gainsford.
The Grovellers managed a few games before the last lockdown and Andy Boorman taking on the responsibility as Head Groundsman.
We now have best shower facilities in the Hythe area, thanks to Dave Wilson, who is not only a great plumber but has work wonders on our Entertainment media, web advertising and IT facilities.
We had over fifty members turnout over a weekend to ‘tidy up.’ Andrew Chivers spending days renewing the bench seating.
Steve & Tobie spent weeks re-decorating the bar and reconditioning the bar tables.
Phil Porter and his team cleaning the Squash court walls.
Chris O’Donovan weekly visit to clean the beer cellar pipes.
We have two new working groups reviewing our Communication, Marketing, IT and Membership.
We sadly had to make our Cleaner Lucy redundant after over 20 years of fantastic service and devotion.
We have developed a more amicable relationship with the tennis club and are actively working together on several projects. – Watch this space.
The main highlight was the Crowdfund effort with members and the community raising over £30,000, remarkable – a great club effort led by the inspirational Rachel Gainsford, who we cannot thank enough.
Priorities in the months ahead are reviewing the Club’s vision and objectives, reviewing our current structure, and agreeing the best format for the Club now and in the future.
(We are currently unincorporated, and if there is an accident and someone wants to claim damages, they could claim against the Trustees, Committee or Members).
The consideration is a change to an Incorporated Club, becoming a legal entity with limited liability. Our members will own it, and they vote in the Directors to run the Club.
We are taking legal advice and will present to the members in a General Meeting once we get back to some normality, any proposal of change is a decision that rests with the members.
Finally big thank you to Tobie Davies – who continues to our most valuable asset, on behalf of the members a massive thank you to her.
Please come along tonight to discuss any of the above or any other questions and thoughts
See attached Minutes from last AGM
Kind regards
Philip
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