Wednesday, August 9, 2023

HTC Committee Minutes - July 2023

Henley Tennis Club [‘HTC’] Committee Meeting
Date: 26th July 2023
Venue: Bird in Hand
Attendees: Colin Main, Chair
John Tamplin, Facilities Manager
Mike Pugsley, Treasurer
Dan Barr, Membership Secretary
Tom Scott, Head Coach
Jeremy Wright, Match Secretary
Julian Evans, Communications Officer
Apologies Fred Clifford: Secretary, Allen Levy: Special Ops
Time: Started: 20:00, Ended: 22:00
 
Current membership: 382
Facilities -
Lights and surfacing progress

  • Repair fence posts on court 3/4. Replace with sturdy round ones like bottom court.
  • Repair fence clips on courts 1 and 3
  • Court issues on new courts 1 and 2, court concrete kerbs breaking up, court slippery. Need to get contractors down to see and fix.
  • Suggested alarm for doors being left open. No agreement as could be difficult.
  • Suggested signs on courts 1,2,3, to ask members to check club doors prior to leaving, and communication to members to remind them to check prior to leaving. ACTION - JE
  • Master set of keys required to go to Jim Neal for, club house doors, club House windows, coach Storage. ACTION - JT
  • CM reminded all about the club contacts via Google Contacts List. CM to show John T ACTION - CM
  • Club house tables and chairs… Tom to follow up. ACTION - TS
  • Court cleaning. Last cleaned Oct. ACTION - TS
  • Weed killer needed on courts. ACTION - TS
  • Grounds update. To be completed. Plus carpark. ACTION - JT
Membership – Dan B
  • Latest membership stats. From Dan. Growing club. Prob higher than last year. Revenue up 8-10%.
  • Audit of unpaid members. To be done. ACTION - DB
  • Leavers survey. To be done. ACTION - DB
  • Renewal update. See Stats sheets. ACTION - DB
  • New price membership packages to be created. ACTION - DB/CM
  • Invoices for Invesco. Col and Dan to chase ACTION - DB/CM
Coaching – Tom S
  • Date for completion of Levi’s coaching. ACTION - TS
  • All good. Good numbers. ACTION - TS
Communications Officer – Julian Evans
  • Checking inbox required more regularly. ACTION - JE
  • Whats app group. Flier to say about joining. ACTION - JE
  • Remove weather info from club session ACTION - JE
Next Lease - ALL
Date for start of discussions. Lease runs out end of Feb 2033. Start discussions start of 2024 . Maybe get to governors meeting. Suggested we find out how other organisations connect with the governers.
Club Events
  • Planned. Finals day Sept 23rd. Return trophies by end of August. Comms required by JE and TS ACTION - JE/TS
  • 22nd inter school finals day. Press release. LTA President for Oxford will attend.
  • Social organiser found at the end of meeting. Need name? ACTION - DB
  • Xmas meal needs planning. ACTION - CM
Welfare Officer – Col M
  • Nothing to report.
  • Move all notice board notes to a folder
Health and Safety – Col M
  • I suggest that we ask all injuries to be reported via the book and via email.
  • Find book, for injuries book. Send out message re-injuries add to blog. ACTION - JE/TS
Teams – Jeremy W
No report.
Accounts – Mike P
  • Current bank £33,000 approx.
  • Any planned big expenditure. Just Toms invoices.
  • Looked quickly at 10 year projection figures.
  • Going forward, need collated hard copy expenses for Mike P.
AOB
  • Ball machine booking ACTION - CM
  • Suggested AGM for prize giving.
  • Thursday club session. October half term change of club sessions for Winter program.
Club Championship
  • No issues?
  • Date of finals set.
  • Volunteers for finals. To be sourced. ACTION - CM/JT

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