Mark Sampson has checked the paint situation. Plenty of white paint for sightscreens. Not enough green paint to do the pavilion floor – leave until the end of the season.

Solid wheels for covers are now available – just need fitting.

A Night at the Dogs has been organised for Friday 5th April – tickets available at £5 each from Mark Sampson.

Groundwork:

Steve Weightman said that the outfield had been cut before the snow has arrived. Also the square had been rolled and reseeded. No other work carried out due to weather conditions.

The Nottinghamshire Olympic Legacy Fund has provisionally offered the Club £11,000 towards projects of replacing the fencing around the ground and outfield drainage. It will leave the Club to find the remaining monies. Divert the money set aside for the barge boards to the fund. Any other monies to be added into fund. Rae Shaw has said that she would offer to pay upto £1,000 (interest free) to the Club if that was the final figure to be found – Paul Burns is contacting the Legacy Fund again to see if we can get anymore money from them. The fencing will take approximately two days to complete. The electric fence will be removed and new fencing to be monitored for damage by cattle. Steve Weightman has asked for another gate (sliding if possible) to be situated elsewhere within the fencing. The soak away for the drainage will be behind the scorebox in the field – Paul Burns to contact drainage company to see if the ground does require the full amount of drainage corridors to main soak away pipe.

Pavilion Matters:

Delay work on barge boards.

Paul Burns said that the water in the pavilion as not yet been turned on. Will decide, weather permitting next week.

Playing Matters:

Joe Richardson sent a message to the meeting via Mark Sampson informing the Club that Arpan Desai would not be returning this season – he has joined Radcliffe On Trent.

Jordan Whitehead is definitely back for this season.

A cousin of former player Usman Kappaya has arrived from Pakistan and has signed on for the club. Usair Naveed is a 15 year old bowler.

Another potential player, Sam Freeman from Lambley has expressed an interest in joining the Club but he has had a knee operation but is hopeful he will be ready for the season.

Another new player has attended nets (saw flyer in local Co-op in West Bridgford), contacted Paul Burns who told him where and when the nets were. Richard Clay is a senior player (has played in the Derbyshire League for Denby) and is a batsmen/wicket keeper.

Dominic Thelen is going to be missing for the first 10 weeks of the season due to his commitments in Africa.

It has been requested by players to see if the nets can be extended for another 4 weeks (starting Good Friday, missing the following Friday and then recommencing 12th April till 26th April) – Paul Burns going to contact Becket School to see if possible.

Fixtures:

All Sunday/Friendly fixtures are now complete.

The Becket School is unavailable for a 3rd XI fixture against Hucknall. Paul Burns has spoken to Hucknall with regards to moving the fixture to Saturday 27th April at Thrumpton (ground is available due to an away friendly fixture).

Youth and kwik fixtures have just been produced.

Treasurers Report & Funding:

All senior net monies handed in.

Rae Shaw received a donation of £500 from Michael Dunn in memory of Margaret Dunn (a Canadian Cousin of Geof Shaw). Rae Shaw will officially Thank them on behalf of the Club, also offering a position of a Vice Presidency in return).

Fire equipment serviced.

2 Electric bills have been paid.

Water rates paid.

Septic tank emptied.

Alarm has serviced.

Cheque given to Steven Pick for Match Ball collections and Team League Registration Fees £570. These will be collected on Tuesday 26th March.

Clubmark:

Mark Sampson has started to produce file in preparation for Clubmark assessment.

The junior membership form has been slightly amended. Mark and Kieran Clark are looking to amend the senior membership form.

Mark and Kieran have done a risk assessment at the Becket School, just leaves Thrumpton main ground to be assessed.

The Club have got a Level 4 qualified coach (only about 120 Level 4 coaches worldwide) namely Andy Pick.

Child Protection:

Kieran is chasing all CRB’s. The CRB forms have changed and are now called DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service). He is going to contact everybody either via mobile (SMS) or email.

Youth & Kwik Cricket:

The kwik’s have been going for 5 weeks. They have also been invited to a tournament at Ellerslie with the winners getting 10 tickets to the Ashes Test at Trent Bridge.

A new player arrived yesterday (24.3.2013) and he seems very keen.

The kwik’s are looking at a pool of between 10-20 players.

The youth’s are producing good turn outs.

The current coaches appreciate Josh Scully on board, his different training schedules have put a different prospective on coaching.

Mark Priestley is going to speak to Andy Pick regarding the forthcoming Cricket Camp.

AOB:

Rae – Nothing to report

- Recommended co-opting Josh Scully onto the committee – this was agreed by the committee.

Stuart – Has spoken to Ray Smithson – he is willing to stock bar and do midweek matches. Need to sort out bar rotas for weekends.

- Attended Nick & Cat’s wedding and he was complimented by two separate people on the behaviour and presentability of our players.

Steve W – Nothing to report.

Kieran – Nothing to report.

Paul – Nothing to report.

Mark P – Has had a request from a member of the village to hire the cricket ground on August 10th for a 30th birthday party.

Mark S – Organising with Josh to have a viewing of the samples of the new kit.

- Adult membership forms to organised and once received back pass to the secretary for safe keeping.

- Considering revamping this season’s fixture card/handbook – removing all player details from handbook due to data protection.

- Asked Steve Pick to check the minutes from the AGM to find out associate membership prices.

- Change family membership wording.

Steve P – Nothing to report