## Nessclife YFC’s Trustees report for 2021-2022 

Nesscliffe started the year with 45 members and started the year by running the bar at the local Cruckton ploughing match, this was a great success and a good advert for the club.  We held our new members evening in October where we had 35t attend. 

Nesscliffe have always been a very social club, attending other club events when we can but we also hold very well attended events for ourselves, including pumpkin carving and our annual harvest supper, and in November a bonfire night, which was also open to the public. Public speaking has always been a really beneficial thing to get involved with and 2 of our teams were successful and 2 members also received special awards.  Other competitions that we got involved in are the bowling competition, the pantomime competition and float building for the Shropshire Show.  The pantomime was a really fun thing to get involved with and we were a club with one of the youngest cast but after lots of rehearsals, our performance of Mother Goose had some of the biggest laughs on the night and although did not progress further was a great way for the club to come together.   One of our big charity fundraisers is our carol singing nights where this year we had 2 groups out on 3 nights and where we raised a fantastic £1120.31 for our chosen charities this year, which are Shropshire Rural Support and.  December also brought wreath making, a trip to the pantomime at Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury and our annual Boxing night Ball which this year was held at The Great Barn, Walford and was sold out and a great success. 

Other trips that we held as a club ranged from a visit to Powells pies in Whitchurch to a fun evening at Flip out the trampolining warehouse.  Other club’s events that we attended were Shawbury’s rounders social, bubble football with Dorrington, a car treasure hunt at Rea Valley, Oswestry’s after show dance and a slip and slide with Alberbury.  We held a clay pigeon practice morning ahead of the competition where one of our members achieved a first place.  Members are always happy to get involved in the sporting events so teams attended the Ulitimate Frisbee, hockey and dodgeball competitions, where we progressed to the west midland round.  We also hosted the 5 aside football competition in June where there were a great turnout of teams from all round the county. 

One of our biggest fundraisers for the club was a new barn dance, held in June, aptly named the Royal Rave.  After holding a beacon event in honour of her Majesty the night before for the village of Nesscliffe we held the rave the following night and welcomed over 400 people to our special barn dance.  It was an overwhelming success with the advisory manning the bar and club members helping with the set up and clearing up.  An amazing total of £12,213.31 was made. 

Involving past members is very important to the club and it was at a Sunday lunch event, held after a member’s 21[st] , that we presented our charity cheques of £3820 our charities, Rural Support and Bloodwise.                                          . 

A very successful year was rounded off by a bbq social for all the members who helped make the year so special. 

Tom Everall, Nesscliffe YFC Chairman, 2021-2022