MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
OF THE
RAINHAM &
DISTRICT BADMINTON
LEAGUE
Held at Castlemaine on
Present:
Avengers,
Frindsbury Sterling, Hartley
Rede 78, Regis, SBTM,
Apologies: Graham Franks, Coxheath
The Minutes of last year’s meeting were approved and there were no matters arising.
Chair Report:
We do not currently have a Chair Person, George Downey has been Acting Chair for the last couple of years but is not available to support the League at present. We are struggling for committee members and are looking for two volunteers.
Treasurer’s Report:
Graham Franks was on holiday but had produced the accounts for the year, which were circulated at the AGM. We had made a small profit this year and it was proposed that that registration fees remained as last year at £15 per club and £2 per team payable at the fixtures meeting. No charge was being made for teams entering the Dahms-Brown cup.
Match Secretary’s Report:
DJC circulated the final league tables and a report which he ran through at the meeting.
As the fixtures meeting is only two weeks away it is essential that clubs who have not submitted their club information sheets do so immediately otherwise he cannot organize the divisions for the coming season, which would mean having to re-arrange the date for the fixtures again.
Dahms-Brown Cup:
Helen Sensier said that we had 14 teams
entering the Dahms-Brown Cup this year which was excellent.
Most of the results went as per the handicapping.
We had a very exciting final between Bucklands and
No tournaments were held this year as it was impossible to get a date that didn’t clash with other events taking place in early September. Mike O’Keefe did say that Sunday mornings are now free which may be of interest for organizing a tournament.
However we understand a team was entered in the Inter Regionals. There was no report as Graham was away on holiday but Carol Gardner said that it was rather chaotic as one team pulled out at the last minute which rather unbalanced events.
Election of Officers:
There were no nominations from anyone wishing to come onto the Committee. All the committee members were willing to stand for re-election and were unanimously voted back as re-elected. However, should anyone in the clubs be willing to take on more and come onto the committee they would be most welcome for their help and opinions.
Fixture Meeting:
This has been set for
Rally Points Scoring System:
Most clubs were aware that a letter had
been distributed by Badminton
Any other business:
Last season we divided the ladies divisions into 2 and decided to handicap division 1. This was very successful and the committee had nothing but praise for the handicapping and it was recommended that this continue. The committee were also asked if this could be extended to division 2. Once David has a note of how many teams are entering this season a decision will be made. If numbers fall it may be that they will play under one division only.
On Saturday Geoff Rolfe was made
President of Badminton
A number of ideas had been put forward by Hartley County Club in a letter to the committee whereby individuals or teams were handicapped. The committee felt the ideas were good but couldn’t see a way to deliver them. Also moving to feathers if the individual club wanted to play with them instead of plastic shuttles but as we were specifically a plastic league the committee felt this was not an option particularly in view of the cost to clubs.
Playing mens 4’s was also raised again but as the number of mens teams entering the league seems to be healthy enough it was felt that this wasn’t necessary at this stage. Obviously if things change it will be looked at again.
Presentation of Trophies
The trophies had been engraved and they were presented at the meeting.
Meeting closed at