Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on
4th December 2023 at 7pm held at The Royal Oak.
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Present: Kevin Armitt, Keith Wildgoose, Stuart Fenton, Mike Dunning, Peter Rose, Tony Rich,
Dennis Starkey, Paul Till, Neil Crawley, Dave Higgins, Chris Hassall, Richard Nightingale, Peter
Sheldon, Colin Davies, David Evans, Ade Micklewright, Mark Knight.
Apologies for absence: Ian Colclough, Dennis O'Dea, Nick Panayi, Mark Murral, Jon Harber,
Peter McDermot, Bob Shalts, Mike Morris, Mark Quinnel.
Approval of the Minutes of the AGM held on the 12 th December 2022:
It was proposed by Colin Davies and seconded by Dennis Starkey that the Minutes of the
12/12/2022 meeting are a true record. They were approved by all members present and
subsequently will be signed by the Chairman.
Matters arising from the Minutes:
No matters arising that had not already been dealt with in the General Committee meetings and
reported in those minutes
CHAIRMAN’S REPORT
Opening of meeting.
I would like to thank you all for coming along to our AGM for 2023, and a warm welcome to you all.
REPORT

We have had a very successful year and have increased the membership over the last 12 months, and I
would like to extend a very warm welcome to all our new members. I will leave it to Peter to comment
further on the membership in his report.
The increased membership has resulted in the club sessions being well attended and competitions being
well supported, along with tables being booked outside of club sessions, which is very good news for our
finances. The “Teamup Calendar” has been pivotal in allowing us to manage the club sessions and book
tables at other times. The calendar was a suggestion by Ian Colclough a few years ago and I would like to
thank Ian for his continued support in maintaining the calendar and the KBSC website.
Obviously, with the club being more successful and the membership increasing this causes added work
for committee members and others, and I would like to thank the following people for their support
over the last 12 months:
Peter Rose for arranging this AGM/Social evening, and for all his general administration work
throughout the year.
Tony Rich for maintaining our finances, which as I indicated at our AGM last year is a substantial amount
of work, and I can’t thank Tony enough for all his hard work throughout the years since he’s been
treasurer.
I would like to personally thank Lynne O’Dea on behalf of the club for auditing the financial accounts for
us, which have become very complex over the years and not the job she started doing several years ago.
Dennis Starkey for maintaining the tables and for talking his wife Lynette into cleaning the room for us,
which we all appreciate, thank you Lynette.
Kevin and Tony for arranging the competitions, which have been a great success due to their continued
commitment to making them run as smoothly as possible.
Peter Sheldon for volunteering to get the trophies engraved, and for all his help on the committee.
I would also like to thank Peter M for all his support in maintaining the snooker room, and with
supplying us with bread pudding once a month during the winter months.
Finally, a big thank you to all of you here today and the rest of the membership for your support, as I’m
sure without this support the club would not be as successful as it is today.

Keith Wildgoose - Chairman
Secretary’s Report:
Nothing of note other than to thank Colin Davies for representing the club at the Village carol
service on 10th December.
Membership:

At our last AGM, we reported a membership of 42. Since then, we have welcomed 4 new
members: Mark Knight, Mark Murrall, Kevin Masefield and Tom Allanson-Smith. And we
welcomed back 2 returning members: Clem Peake and Carl Freeth.
However, Carl Freeth did not renew for this year and Ted Parry formally resigned after many
years’ membership of the Club. We thank Ted for his support over the years, particularly as he
stood as a committee member for much of that time.
The Club therefore now has 46 current members and new membership continues to be
restricted to residents of Kings Bromley.
The 46 current members are made up of:
2 Life Members
9 Patrons
4 Regulars
31 Casual Members
Peter Rose - Secretary
Treasurer’s report and presentation of accounts:
If you have sight of a copy of the accounts, I will briefly run through the key items:
Subscriptions: £480. This represents £15 from 31 Casual Members and £7.50 half year fees from
the 2 returning members, with the remaining 13 being exempt (Life Members, Patrons and
Regulars).
Table fees: £3,133. Fees are now back to pre-pandemic levels, but slightly lower following the
committee decision to reduce fees for most Club session attendees and fees relating to
foursomes in private bookings.
Subscriptions and table fees were supplemented by income from Peter’s bread pudding sales,
for which we thank him as usual, and donations for keys. Income from keys will, of course, not
appear in future years because of our introducing the key box. So, our total income for the year
to £3,736.
Room Rental: £1,800. There was no increase to our room rental charge of £150 per month and
we extend our thanks to the Village Hall Committee for their continued support. The Club had
offered to make a donation towards increased heating cost, but this was not taken up –
although there is a possibility that the Village Hall Committee will increase our rent in the new
year.
AGM Costs: £159. This represents the cost of food and a drink for all attendees and the
Committee felt that the AGM here was a big success – hence holding it here again.
Equipment & Repairs: £2,066. Recovering the tables cost £1,770. The bulk of the remaining
cost related to the fitting of the key boxes and the repair of the window. Many thanks to Keith

for all the work he has done in liaising with all the suppliers and the work he does generally in
keeping the snooker room in good working order. It is much appreciated.

Trophies and Engraving: £100. No engraving of trophies had been done since the start of the
pandemic, so this cost relates to the catch up of engraving several years’ names of competition
winners.
Sundry: £56. Two main elements here are cost of cutting keys (£31) – which should probably
have been netted off key deposits – and frame fee books (£25).
So, total expenditure of £4,181, which leaves us with a deficit for the year of £445. This is a very
good outcome in a year where we recovered both tables. The deficit takes our total funds to
£7,835. Given that we have maintained this level of funds after refurbishing the tables, we will
now look to transfer a proportion of it to a savings account, which we believe Lloyds Bank now
offer to Clubs.
That concludes my run through and, following any questions there may be, I submit these
accounts for approval and acceptance by the members.

Tony Rich
Honorary Treasurer
Acceptance of the accounts:
It was proposed by Richard Nightingale and seconded by Dennis Starkey and all members
present agreed to accept the accounts as a true record.

Election of officers. Chairman, Treasurer, and Secretary:
Nominations Received: K. Wildgoose - Chairman, A Rich - Treasurer and P Rose - Secretary.
The Chairman asked the members present if there are any other nominations from the floor.
There being no further nominations it was proposed by Neil Crawley and seconded by Paul Till
that, Keith Wildgoose as Chairman, Tony Rich as Treasurer and Peter Rose as Secretary, be
nominated.
All members present voted in favour of the motion.

Election of General Committee members:
Nominations Received, K Armitt, D Starkey and Peter Sheldon.

The Chairman asked the members present if there are any other nominations from the floor.
There being no further nominations it was proposed by Colin Davies and seconded by Neil
Crawley that,
Kevin Armitt ,Dennis Starkey and Peter Sheldon be nominated as general Committee members.
All members present voted in favour of the motion.

Appointment of Auditor:
Nomination Received: Lynne O Dea.
It was proposed by Dave Higgins and seconded by Richard Nightingale, that Lynne O Dea be
appointed as Auditor. All members present voted in favour of the motion.
Vote on amendment to the club constitution concerning membership renewal date and keys.
Membership Renewal:
Clause 13 of our constitution states that “Any membership not renewed by the time of the
Annual General Meeting will be deemed to have lapsed.”
The Committee would like to bring forward the deadline to 31 October each year, thereby giving
members two months to renew. It is therefore proposed to amend Clause 13 accordingly:
Keys:
Clause 13 also states that “Anyone ceasing to be a member of the club must return the keys for
the village hall and club room to the Secretary or other member of the General Committee.”
As members no longer hold keys to either the village hall or the snooker room, it is proposed
delete this wording and replace it with wording that reflects that only Officers of the Club hold
keys and that these should be returned once a member ceases to be an Officer.
Vote:
Rather than vote, could I ask if anyone has any objections to these changes being made.
(Thereby “unanimous” unless anyone objects) There were no objections.

There being no further business the meeting closed at 7.24pm
Peter Rose - Secretary