Gosport Borough Hockey Club

Committee Minutes for 10/06/2008

Present

• Nigel Williams
• Luke Tickner
• Tracy Webb
• Paul Webb
• Terry Coughlin
• Alan Higgins
• Sandra Vidler
• Joni Duffus

Apologies

• Stuart Davies
• Carol Masson

Previous minutes – actions, matters arising

• Terry is to meet with St Vincents in regards to dug out on 19^th June. We also need to discuss condition of pitch and goals.

Correspondence

• Pre season Hockey tournament at Southampton - 16^th – 17^th August
• Hampshire AGM June 23^rd - Nigel, Luke and Terry to attend
• Hampshire Youth committee meeting – Nigel and Tracy to attend

Treasurer’s Report

• Account - £11,663
• Building Society - £1869
• Shares have dropped to £879.50
• Astro fees for May have been paid.
• Islanders money to come in
• People need to pay on Thursday nights to cover hire of pitch.

Report of the HHWL AGM

• Umpires can still be level one on division 3, Girls are staying in same league.

Junior section stix day

• About 20 juniors attended the event. There will be another event later on this year. Photos can be viewed on the GBHC web site.
• Gosport are holding an ‘Alive and Kicking’ event on Saturday 26^th July. We need representatives at the event to advertise the club.
• Gosport Youth Festival – The club is not attending this year.
• Summer play scheme – Tracy is getting a team of members together to deliver a taster of hockey at various play schemes within the first few weeks of the summer holidays.
• Still waiting on club 1^st response.

Islanders

• A good time was had by both teams. Mr Men Avengers got into the cup, got knocked out early Sunday, but a good time was had by all.
• The first has a good weekend apart from Andi Houston’s red card incident due to him knocking onto an umpire. This incident has now been sorted. Andi has been given a 9 month ban and will help with the u16 training.
• Luke is already organising a team for next year.

Open Day

• 6^th September. We are hoping for adult help, with the adults staying for a 12o clock session. We are hoping the Mayor can come along to the event about this time when the younger members are awarded their open day prizes.

Fixtures

• These have not been published and we hope they will be available by the end of June.

ULO Report

Coaching next season.

• We are still looking for a coach. Possibility of Andi taking the men’s training.

AOB

• Stix day, 19^th July
• Xmas function combining Adults and Juniors, possibly Masonic halls like the presentation evening – Either Saturday 13^th or 20^th December
• AGM Thursday 23^rd April
• presentation evening – 1^st or 2^nd May 5:30 for 6:00 start. Again hoping to include the Mayor from 6:30 onwards.
• Letters will need to be sent to Mayor.
• There will need to be a constitution change to add committee members. This is to be done by next year AGM.
• Mike is looking into match refreshments at The North Star
• A company called Oak Leisure is looking at developing Bayhouse School Pitch. This could be a facility we may possibly use in the future
• Also approached again by Doug Lease of Locks Heath FC. They are looking into using part of Deadalus and developing a ground due to Hook not being successful.
• Membership starts 1^st July
• We are looking into a newsletter for all members and possibility of introducing membership cards with member number etc
• Youth Games 21^st June – 2 teams have been entered
• Club looking into refreshments
• Tracy delivering taster sessions at various play schemes

Next meeting Tuesday 29^th July.