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AREA 35 UPDATE REPORT. JANUARY 2008

For those of you who were unable to attend the Area 35 AGM held at The David Broome Event Centre on 22^nd January, this report will hopefully give you some background to what was discussed. These are not the full official minutes, just a “flavour” of what happened on the night.

Between 40 and 50 people attended and the meeting lasted just over one and a half hours

As with all AGMs there is an agenda to follow. Ours consisted of :-

Apologies for non attendance
Financial Report
Area Representative’s Report
Training Report
Regional Representative’s Report
Junior Academy
Any Other Business

Apologies were noted and then Ian Parker presented his financial report confirming that he was stepping down from the role he has occupied for a great many years. (He resigned 3 years ago but had to stay on as we had no one to take over from him.) Basically the area is in the black with a small amount of money in the bank.

Martyn Edwards gave his final report as Area Representative as he too has stepped down and is leaving the committee. Martyn was presented with a gift by David Broome who thanked him for all his hard work in the past.

Your new Area Representative, Steve Lynch, then took the chair for the rest of the meeting. Steve announced that the committee would comprise the following-

Kirstie Davey Training co-ordinator
Paul Taylor Riders liaison officer
Lynne Bevan Trainer
Jan Rees  Junior academy
Julia Keates Area points co-ordinator
Sian Price and
Kirstie Davey Joint social secretaries
Ed Williams Shows liaison officer
Griff Griffiths Under25 representative

Pauline Parker gave a report on the training scene in our area. The split between juniors and seniors is about 50 % – 50% and most courses fill up very quickly.

Pauline paid tribute to our two resident trainers, Lynne Bevan and Ros Morgan, who do a super job and also gave information about the UK Coaching certificate.

David Broome gave his Regional report. He is responsible for areas 35, 36, 33 and 25 and talked about a move to amalgamate us with the rest of Wales. He believes this would be a backward step as it would be virtually impossible to find convenient venues for training etc, and would be too big and diverse to manage.

He talked about our success at international level and also gave information on the new amateur classes for 2008.

It was announced that one of the junior parents, Jan Rees, had volunteered to try to get the Junior Academy up and running and she will now make contact with all juniors in the area to generate more interest.

The meeting concluded with Any Other Business. A number of things were discussed including the following.

Area Show. The dates are 21^st and 22^nd of June, venue to be decided but Martyn Edwards and family kindly offered to host it again. It was pointed out that it cost £8,000.00 to run last year and it needs someone to come forward and offer to organize it and to raise the sponsorship. A decision needs to be taken within the next month to enable marquees etc. to be booked.

Annual Dinner and Dance. Will have a different format this year with perhaps a guest speaker. More information to follow.

Area Points. Rules will be simplified and brought into line with other areas. The main change is that the riders will be responsible for obtaining their own printouts from the BSJA website and sending these to Julia Keates who will collate all the information. Closing date to be confirmed.

A junior parent expressed thanks to Sunnybank E.C for running some bigger classes for juniors. Terinna Pesci-Griffiths said that she intended to run more 1.20m classes in the future.

There was a final vote of thanks to Martyn Edwards and family and also to Nick John and family for all their hard work in the past. Both Martyn and Nick and Jayne John now step down from the area committee and take a well earned rest. Ian Parker will be leaving us as soon as a replacement can be found; we thank him too for his sterling efforts on the financial side.

So that’s what happened at the AGM. Perhaps a few more of you will attend next year. If you would like the official minutes, they will be available prior to that meeting along with copies of the balance sheet.