Hythe Cricket & Squash Club
The Grove • Hythe • CT21 6AX
Tel: 01303 267 458
Good morning
Please find below an AGM Review - if you have any questions, thoughts or comments, please call or email me.
Have a good day
Philip
Club UPDATE
We have two football teams playing on a Sunday – looking to have a third team playing next season. Led by Andy Boorman.
We have Saturday, Sunday, and Monday Night Cricket teams. In addition, in the coming season, we are participating in a midweek 20/20 league this season. Led by Will Clayton, assisted by Pat Briscoe.
We have over fifty Junior Cricketers with teams under 15, 13, and 11s, plus a ladies' team. Led by Martin Cobb and Rachel Gainsford
We have 120 Racket members and 20 Juniors members, ten squash and six racketball internal leagues, three Kent League squash teams and two Racketball teams. We recently did a trial Mixed Ability Team Squash match (MATS) at Rodmersham, to great success and holding our first evening next week. Hosted two Professional Squash Tournaments. Led by Glenn Mousley and Gary Hollamby.
We hold ten weekly Pilates classes and two evening sessions for the running club.
The Shed Foundation (which supports Adults with Learning Difficulties) now use our premises Monday to Friday.
We have three new committee members Tom Locke, Steve Egglestone, and James Pope.
Club, committee members, and volunteers do thousands of hours to support the club and our activities.
Total membership now is just over 300 members - We have had 56 new members since June 2022. Jayne Wilkins has been Membership Secretary for over 12 months; she performs an amazing job.
Thanks to Pete Stanton, our current treasurer, performing a near miracle in managing our finance for the past three years.
We are continually indebted to Steve Davies – who continues to sort out the building maintenance plus even more.
Rachel Gainsford – Safeguarding lead plus lots more – the club would struggle to function without her.
Clare Daniels works efficiently as our email monitor.
Tobie Davies does an amazing job keeping the club running smoothly. However, it has been a challenging year for recruiting bar staff, and likely not to improve. External parties are crucial for our bar revenue to ensure we continue with our current opening hours. Our current bar opening hours (excluding parties and events) are 40 hours per week, 2080 hours per annum.
Charity Day – We raised £8000 for Cancer Research – An amazing achievement.
Financial Update
Total INCOME –£137,426 - Bar Surplus of £55717, Sports income £42,773, Donations & Grants £13790, Lettings £14,000, Boot Fair £3500
Expenditure – Salaries £41394, Building Maintenance £11361, Ground Maintenance £11579, Cleaning £9611, Energy £9715, DEFICIT -£2792
CASH IN THE BANK as of 30/09/22, £49535 (Cash in Bank 28/02/23 £42,000)
Budget for Oct 22 to Sept 23
INCOME - £196000 – Boot Fair £9000, Lettings - £18500,
Expenditure – Salaries £5300, Building Maintenance £12000, Ground Maintenance £15500, Cleaning £10,000, Energy £17000, Insurance £4100
DEFICIT - £7269.
Redevelopment Plan update:
Pre-Planning Application submitted in October 2022; Summary results received in January 2023
A full Ground survey carried out in August 2022
Bar and Kitchen upgrade plan produced in September 2022
Glenn Mousley and Philip attended a funder conference/seminar in November 2022
We were appointed a Funding Mentor from Sport England/National Lottery in January 2023 and had two meetings.
In January, Dennis Croft and Philip met with the Three Hills/Sports Trust Trustees to share our thoughts, ideas, and funding options.
Priorities for the coming months:
CASC to CIO once we have the Charities Commission Approval
Review the Management of the Club – Staff, Volunteers, Lettings, Energy usage, Maintenance Programme,
Improve our First Impression - Front Entrance – Car park – Clear Shrubbery – Install Planting Troughs - Paint the metal railings - Renew the Signage and advertise what we do.
Bar, Long Room and Kitchen upgrade – Redecorate additional tables and chairs.
Produce a Maintenance Schedule for Members.
Pre-Planning Application Update
Thanks to Dennis Croft for his work in submitting the pre-planning Application. He has put in 100s of hours in getting to this stage. We are in a difficult planning area. There are many planning requirements; making a planning application will cost about £20k. Plans and pre-planning are to be displayed in the club for discussion and feedback.
Transitioning from CASC to CIO - Agreed.
Prop to accept the CIO constitution - Agreed.
Election of 7 CIO Trustees:
Philip Carter/James Pope/Rachel Gainsford/ Steve Egglestone/Tom Locke/Martin Cobb/ Ken Pollock
A simple majority elected all Trustees:
Appointment of Chair of Trustees and Club Philip Carter
Election of 3 Section Representatives:
Andy Boorman Football Will Clayton Cricket & Glenn Mousley Squash& Racketball
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