## Thames Valley kings – Wheelchair Basketball Club AGM Thursday 21.07.2022 7.30pm Holiday Inn Padworth Minutes Present: Jacqueline Scoins-Cass MBE (CHAIR) (minutes), Grant Barker (VICE CHAIR), Dave Carter (Head of Finance) Lou Barker, Patrick O’Donovan, Chris Nash, Peter Rapley, Liam Barker, PJ O’Donovan Alice Minchin – via phone Apologies: Peter Scoins, Steph Trotter, Denise Drammis, Melanie pitches, Wayne burton, Heather Hutchins, Nicola Geary Minutes of last AGM: Agreed as correct (1[st] Peter Rapley , 2[nd ] , Patrick O’Donovan) ## Chair person report: ## **Chair person report 2021-2022** - Kings achieved Charity status in March of 2020 this is our third AGM as a CIO. - Kings returned to the court post covid restrictions with a bang into the British Wheelchair Basketball league season with 3 adult league teams and one junior league team, the largest amount of league teams the club has run and being the biggest club in the South East Region. We had teams in the Premier league - which is the top league in the British wheelchair basketball league structure , Division 2 and 3 South. The Premier team has matches as far as way as Glasgow and Exeter. They played London Titians, Sheffield Steelers, CWBA (Coventry), Tess Valley Mohawks, The Owls (Oldham) Glasgow Rolling Rocks and Exeter Otters winning 3 out of 14 games scoring 568 points The Division 2 South team played matches against, Sussex Bears, Plymouth Fusion, The Bears (Warwickshire) Blackhawks (Woking), London Titians, Swansea Storm and Cardiff Met Arches winning 3 out of 14 games and scoring 542 point. The Division 3 South team played matches against Brixton Ballers, Folkestone Arrows, Hampshire Harriers, Aylesbury Aces, Windsor Monarchs and Sussex Bears winning 9 out of 12 games scoring 513. This secured the Division 3 team a spot in the national league finals weekend as we were runners up in the South Division 3 league. The team played against Tess valley Mohawks and Brixton Ballers in the player off and finished 3[rd] overall in the Division 3 table of the weekend. Kings junior league team played in 3 rounds of junior league against The Bears (Warwickshire), Aylesbury Aces and London Titians winning 6 of their 6 matches and scoring 371 point securing their place in Elite 8s. The played Kings met the Tees Valley Mohawks juniors in the quarter finals and after a hard fought first half, Kings where able to slowly pull ahead in the 2nd half with a solid display and took the win 61-37. In the Semi final, Kings met North Wales Knights took an early lead but the resilience of the Kings saw them fight back and the teams were 21 all at half time. Both team fought valiantly in the second half but it was Kings who opened up a sizable 12 point lead and held on to to take the win by 5 points, 54-49. This saw the junior league team go undefeated and secure themselves a place at the national league final to play against Wakfield Whirlwinds with the match broadcast on BBC Sport. Unfortunately it was not to be for a undefeated season and they took home the silver medal. We are proud of our junior players for making Kings history to be the first kings match to be broadcast by the BBC. Page **1** of **4** AGM Thursday 21[st] July 2022 - Minutes - Thank you to the Co-op for selecting us as one of their charities of the year this year and raising funds for the club. We were also able to secure funding from Arnold clark to help with club funds. Thank you to everyone for using amazon smile and easy fundraising to also help with keeping cost to players as low as we can. A massive Thank you to everyone how has helped out with the club over the last year, it’s made a big difference. The club is run by 100% volunteer time; thank you to the Trustee and other volunteers within the club. Thank you also to the coaching volunteers Grant, Pat, Peter R, Reece, Liam and Denise who give up so much of their time to coach. Thank you to Dave for processing all the finical information. A massive thank you also to Peter S for all his hard work on the social media front for raising Kings profile, the awesome award night and the amazing Match day experience provided online. Thank You to you all for making Kings what it is today. ## Accounts: Dave explained the accounts as below and stated that there was a full itemised accounts if anyone wanted to look at them. Page **2** of **4** AGM Thursday 21[st] July 2022 - Minutes Accepted as accurate accounts. 1st Jacqueline scoins-cass 2nd , Patrick O’Donovan – Subscriptions per month paid as a standing order This includes Saturday training session fee, league fees and match fees. £40 for those who do 2x sessions a week, £35 for those doing one session and week Both of these figures would be for league players To start from October when the league starts. £15 for none league players all paid as a standing order for all players on the 1st of the month With a note that anyone struggling to pay for training could speak with trustees. As the club is 100% volunteer run the money from subscriptions is used for the purpose of running the club. Dave Carter discussed 4 options with regards to our monthly fees with those present – do nothing – use the funding / apply for funding -Increased £50 per month to those who do 2 training sessions a month -Increase everyone by £5 a month Discussed players with regards to None payment for 2months – the player should not play matches or come to training sessions until payment of arrears has been made / a payment plan is in place. Payment for pay as you go to £6 Outcome: From 1[st] September this season price to go up 1[st] Grant Barker, 2[nd] lou Barker ## Election of Club Officers: (names are current position holders) at present the Event co-coordinator role would remain vacant due to covid-19 restrictions and unsure of the number of events that we maybe able to be involved with . all the following will remain in their current positions without re-election as they are mid-term of appointment - there were no objections - Chairperson - _Jacqueline Scoins-Cass MBE_ - Vice chairperson - _Grant Barker_ - Secretary - _Peter Rapley – said that it would be his last year in this role – need to source replacement over the next year._ - Head of Finance – _Dave Carter_ - Head of Marketing – _Peter Scoins_ - Player’s spokesperson / Club Captain - _Chris Nash_ - Events Coordinator - vacant - Welfare officer - _Lou Barker_ Page **3** of **4** AGM Thursday 21[st] July 2022 - Minutes - Members without Portfolio – Pat O'Donovan and Alice Minchin total number of committee members not to exceed 12 people All members elected – 1st Liam Barker, 2[nd] PJ O’Donovan Any Other Business: Clockify – app for tracking volunteering time – can do it respectively PJ to investigate Email out to all – skill set – want to learn in these areas – where the club needs help Fundraising role to be organized to help rise club funds Chris hunt – to investigate training t-shirts on the front with his logo recognition ## Date of next meeting: to be confirmed Next meeting will be after year end of June for the accounts. To have the AGM in early July to coinside with the new financial year due to CIO status; which will also allow the subscriptions per month to be set before the start of the season. Page **4** of **4** AGM Thursday 21[st] July 2022 - Minutes