Superstars Cricket Club

Time and place.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 4.00pm at Great Minister House (and available remotely)

Attendees.

Barry Gigg, Matthew Conway, George Warren, Jason Marchant, Paul Gaught-Allen, Michael Duggan, James Hewlett, Richard Abigail, Steve Meyler, Dan Forman

Apologies.

Vijay Anand, Chris Mountain, John Bishop, Konrad Chodzko-Zajko, Mike Kamellard, Mike Taylor, Simon Gundry, Will Walker, Harish Kumar, Rick Smith, Chris Thompson, Adam Spencer-Bickle, Merv Aranha, Gary S Plahe, Ian Moxon

Minutes of the last meeting.

Jason Marchant apologised that the minutes of the last meeting had not been circulated. They had been typed up but were stored on the hard drive of his laptop which had recently been replaced and so he now did not have access to them. He had discovered a recording of the meeting so could retype the minutes if necessary.

Matters Arising.

As the minutes were absent there were no matters arising.

Chairman's Report.

Chairman, Matthew Conway, thanked all the club officials for all their hard work during the last season. He said that he was pleased that the club had a close to 50/50 win/lose ratio in the season and thanked the fixture secretary for arranging at least one game a week throughout the summer.

On a personal note, he was extremely pleased to finish the season 50 not out in 34 balls playing against the Bank of England.

He said that the club officials had provided their members with a superbly varied number of fixtures against some extremely nice opposition and a successful tour. It was a season that everyone had enjoyed.

He said that he was looking forward to the club progressing next season.

Treasurer's Report.

The accounts had been audited. The Treasurer went through the details of income and expenditure and the forthcoming SPARTA bid. All players were reminded that if they were in DfT or DCLG then they should join Sparta at a cost of £2 a month or a one-off payment of £24 to the club for the year.

Barry presented the accounts and said that the club had received a much larger grant from this year which amounted to £659. He said the amount was enough to ensure that the club remained buoyant throughout the year. Match subscriptions were down a fair bit this year due to a number of cancellations because of bad weather and unavailability of teams. Pitch fees were expenses that the club were locked into across the season and so were unavoidable expenses. The club had kept fees at £5 per game apart from the odd fixtures when the pitch prices were higher.

There had been a higher income than expenditure from the nets. This was due to a credit from the nets that had been cancelled by the venue because of covid.

Barry presented the bid that would be presented to SPARTA at their upcoming AGM. The bid was currently £420 but was still open to change. He said that the final figure could be closer to £620. The accounts and bid were agreed.

Barry informed the meeting that Nationwide had closed the clubs account and that our funds were currently resting in his personal account. He asked the AGM to consider what suitable solutions were available to this problem. Steve Meyler suggested setting up an account with Starling Bank, but the account would be in person’s name. Metro Bank had a community account and Monzo Bank was another suggestion. Action: Barry to investigate account solutions.

Election of Officers.

No nominations had been received. The following appointments were agreed unanimously. Elected officers are as follows:


	Chair	Matthew Conway
	Secretary	Jason Marchant
	Treasurer	Barry Gigg
	Club Captain	Barry Gigg
	Fixture Secretary	Chris Mountain
	Committee Members	Mike Taylor, Mark Williams, Paul Gaught-Allen, Michael Duggan, Gary Plahe, Adam Spencer-Bickle, Ian Moxon, Vijay Anand, Steve Meyler, Richard Smith, Dan Forman, Mike Kamellard, Will Walker, James Hewlett, Harish Kumar, George Warren.
	Vice-captain	As and when required
	Auditor	Richard Abigail

Motions.

No motions were received.

Arrangements for 2023 Season.

A Superstars social was being arranged for March. Thursday 9th March was the preferred date. Several locations were considered.

There were problems with booking nets at the Oval this year due to the number of nets being reduced from 6 down to 3 because of ECC rules of the width of nets changing. Outdoor options were available such as Archbishops Park which could be booked via Lambeth Council. BEIS may have indoor nets available. Action: All to investigate available options.

There was a possibility of arranging a tour in the Cambridgeshire area. Alok and Will Walker had mentioned this in the past. Dan suggested that he and James may be able to put people in touch with clubs in the Oxfordshire area for a future tour. Worchester was suggested for 2024. Action: Paul to chase up to see if a 2023 tour was a possibility.

Chris Mountain was making good progress setting up fixtures for the 2023 season. The draft fixture list was looking to offer a good variety of fixtures with varied level of opposition. There would also be number of weekend fixtures included.

Any Other Business.

Jason advised those attending that SPARTA were looking to relax the reporting and audit requirements on the clubs they were written into the SPARTA constitution, so a new constitution was in the pipeline.

Jason asked the AGM to consider ways to encourage more cricket teams to take part in Sports Day next year.

Barry said that the email list needed to be kept up to date. Action: Paul said that he would review the list.

Jason said that the SPARTA Meet the Clubs events had gone really well. He was disappointed that no one from Superstars attended. He asked that Superstars tried to make sure that they were represented at future events. The meeting agreed that we needed to do more to recruit new players during the upcoming year.

Barry let the AGM know that Phil McBarron was retiring and having a do on 9th February in the Leisure pub in Westferry.

There being no other business the meeting closed at 5.45pm.

Jason Marchant.