Arbr(kith & District Athletics Club
Charity No SC043413.
TfUStg08 Annual Report
Year Ended 31" December 2025
Reference & Administrallve Information
Charlty Name
Charlty No
Locauon
Arforoath & Distrjct Athletic Club
SC050821
Arbroath sP￿ts Centre
Keptie Road
Arforoath
DD113EW
Contact Name
Tamara Kemy
Contact Address Artroath Sports Centre
Artjroath
ArKJUS
DD11 3EW
mail.
E mail adacweb13QknWll

Commlttee
Chairperson
Vice Chairperson
Secretsry
Treasurer
Membershlp secretsry
Minute Secretary
Chief Coach
Welfare 0ffi¢or
Recording & Publicity:
Soclal Convener.
Fund Raiser
Tamara Kenny
Lyndsay Dale
Neill Bawour
Anne Cruickshanks
Dougl85 Cru1cksh￿ks
Neill BaKour
Gkn Laskiewicz
Simon Reid
Douglas Cruickshanks
Salina Robertson
Salina
RotertsorVAnn
MulgrwlLynn
Mulgrew
Jim Thomson
Hillary Lackie
Committee members
Governance & Managernent
Constitutton
The charity is an uninCC￿￿r8Ied association. 11 is govemed by rts constilulion, which was last mised
in November 2022. The club was granted charity status by OSCR in March 2012.
Appointment of Trustees
The management commrttee is elected at the Annual General Meeting and members are invited to
become trustees of the dub. The membership of the management cc¥nmittee is open lo all senior
members of the dub.
Objectives & Activities
To promote. foster, encourage partiapaticffl in track and field athletics. cross country, road running
activities .within the Arbroath and Dislricl area. Improve the Momance of interested athletes and
the general enioymenl of athletics. Aso the dub aims to provide aFvropriate competition pathways for
interested athletes with league and other compelitiorts.

AGM Chair Repjrt 2025
Good evening everyone. Welccane along lo our Annual AGM and Trophy Presentation
Disco. I hope everyone has warned up their vocal chords and put on their dan¢ing
shoes. We have Kennws Disco and karaoke starting soc￿. Before we gel to the fun
stuff we will give you a little run ¢JJwn on hcw the club has been perfonning on and off
the track.
As you're all aware the dub suffered a terrible loss back in November. Not only was
nston a highly qualffied coath trmjt he was also our dub Chaiman. Wn was part of
this club for 35 years so his knowledge and expertise was second lo none. H8 wasn't
the best al sharing this knowledge and he often fo￿￿ il easier to do every job himse
so the coaches and committee are still trying to find our feet without him. I dm't think we
will ever manage to replace him but we will ¢kn our best to keep the dub up and running.
We know how much he loved his athlete5 $0 the best way lo honour his memory is to
go oul and smash the UFthning Season and make him proud.
Overall the club ha5 had another successful year in tems of new membws and new
coaches. Numbers continue to rise steadily, I don't think we had as much of a rise in
numbers last year as the year before we are still going in the right direction. We know
more could be done to promote the dub and this is something we are WOTking on.
Wè have also welcomed 8 few new coaches. Neill BaKour, lan Lackie & Kayleigh
Simpson. Huge thanks to you all for coming on board. lan and Neill have been helpers
for some time and decided it was lime to become official coaches. Kayleigh is a
competing athlete has t£en a greal helper for the younger athletes for many years so
ivs great she now has this qualrfication under her t£lt. Many hands make light Wotk as
they say and il means coaches can work rotation.
Now, as positNe as that is, we still have a shortfall in level 2 coaches. Without a level 2
coach we are not insured to run a session. So when you hear that a session is
cancelled due to a lack of coaching availability that usually ffleans we have no level 2s.
Again, this is something we are WOTking on but it does lake time to gain a level 2
qualrficalion. Neill has kindly put himseff forward for Ihe level 2 so we would like to wish
him the ￿st of luck with this but a the same time can you hurry up because Glen and
Simon needs a break If anywe is interested in rxjathing please let us know. The dub
will pay for the course. The level one is just a day of training and the club pays for this.
You don't need lo kn¢YN a lot aw athleliGs, just be frieThlly and enthusiastic. Other
)ach8s are a￿ayS available tr) help and to guide Yc￿1 through.
On lop of coaches we need officials for each club competition we enter, we require
minimum of 3 officials order to compete. Neill is now wr only qualified official. We relied
very heavily on Wn to fu￿11 this role. W you don't want to become a qualrfied official
that's okay but if you're child is ccrfnpeting you may be asked to help out in some
Capacity. We used lo have a parent rota and Ihis is something that may be reintrrlduced
rf we don't get enough volunteers for future cnmpetitions ft)Iks.

Everyo￿ you see at the club is a voluntegr, withtxjl parent volunteers the club
ultimately can't SU￿1Ve and thal would mean travelling out of t¢Jwn for 8lhletics rf your
child wants to rJJmp6te. We don't want this to happen. We are all busy and cwld all do
without the added jobs coachiro and being on a commsttee brings bul w8 do it for the
kKls and cmjr love of the swt.. Just saying...The Hawk Hill Harriers havé a loThJ warting
Okay. lectur6 over....
Financially the club is doing fine. you should all have 8 cyjpy of the treasurers rewrt. We
have continued to UP3rade equipment plan on replacing more of the old trophies.
We are considering a little increase on club fees. 11 won't be by much but we haven't
increased fees for a long long time and wè are paying more and more for training
facilities and buses to lake us lo competitions etc. No change for now bul these
changes will be announced prior to our amual ￿0$S cnunty and club signing day in
March.
We haven't had anyone wilhin the committee realty commrtted lo fundraising this past
year bLrt this is something we are hopefvl someone can lake this on. Any suggestions
are aNvays welcomè, even from those not on the committee. It may be a one-off event
that can be ￿ganised by anyone without expectation of having lo do il another times.
Salina has the title of fund-raiser lyJt she is the l&Jy that is responsible for catering at
fund-raisers. Salina had a family emergency and cwldn't make tonight sends her
apologies. Salina like many oth￿S on the committee no longer has children that are.=
involved in th8 club. Like everyone she is extremely busy but doesn't want lo let the club
down. Ideally we want a committee of parents and woukl like to rotat8 Wsltions
annually.
We desperately need improved facilities and this is something that has been ongoing
since I was a young athlete. More b'mè is required on this. Hillary has off8red to invest
some lime on this going forward. Our aim is to eventually have our own all-wealher
track but I'm not surè this will haFpen in our lrf&time.
So that was a little report of what goes on off the track and now we are going to give
you a litt18 summary of our perfomarKe last season.
Some of you may wondw why we have wailed so long to hand out thesè awards. In
years gone by the trophy disco was held in September al the end of the season with the
AGM al the tum of the year. However, numbers at the AGM were p￿r so w8 thought
we would trick you all and combine them! Once we have given you a little run down of
the Seas￿ it is my plan to get the AGM out of the way first but rf we don't gel any new
volunteers I plan to get you all drunk first next year then run the AGM at the end of the
night.
All presentations ￿arded lonighl are based on alhlele wfomanc8s over the course of
the season wrthin our leagues and inlerclub Frances 09g Competr(ion.

So for t￿Y new members we have 3 main summer leaguès that run frun April- August.
For the yO￿g cnes we have the YDL otherwise kTrJYn as th8 youth d8v8lopment
leaoue- the lovely Simon 15 the team manager for this one.
The YDL gNes U1> U15 athletes the chance lo C￿pete in all events whth is why the
league is limited to yOUTh3er athleles. Th￿e wouldn'l be lime in one day lo offer all
events to all age groups. In yèars gone by we haven't had great club success al these
competrtions, wrely kcause of a shortfall in numbers competing I do bel$8ve we have
had a lot of irvjividual success last season and we will talk about this in a bit
l am the team manager for the RAM. The RAM league is open to all ages groups whth
means OAPS like Myse￿ and Glen will sometimes comFele. This league limits the
number events available to allcw all ages to compete. so that's un11s- senior5 . E%h
comFelition will hav8 drfferenl events. So for example, the first ccfflp of the season may
have U, the next one will have HJ. This is the same for SFKints and thrthvs.
Finally, we have the Scoltish Nati(Mal League. This is Glen's League. This is a league
for older athletes. U15s - Seniors come from all over Scotland. There is a high caliber
of wmpetrtion with some of the best in the country competing. Unfortunately this season
the older athletes suffered a lot of injuries and many have Saturday jobs so this league
didn't see muth action last summer.
Each competition works on an accumulaion of points and most are ran over 3 or 4
league matches. It is important we fill the age groups with as many athletes as possible
so we can cover all events and gain as many points as wssible. Points are added up
over all competitions to detemine whith age groups make it to the final.
There are competttions where athletes can compete for themsefves wrth a thance for
medals. Glen usually post5 these dales up on ts group chats bul it is the athletes
resFA)nsibility to enter themselves.
Now l am the designated t8am manager for the RAM league but I was on loo many
holidays this year so didn't 9) along lo all of the competitions. So On￿ l allctated
events ar¥J made 1 ￿ changes I handed it over to Simon. Simon will now give us a little
summary of how the knds got on within both of these lea3ues.
Thanks Simon
So in summary, as a dub we ab)ve our weight against the bigger clubs. We aro
at a major disadvant4e wth numbers and facilities. however we a￿vayS Ferfomi very
well. Athletes have been working very hard this winter so we exF*t to see gxm
results this summer.
Befor8 we get to the ￿￿eSenta￿)n5 we are going to dissolve the okl commrtee which
means all positions are open rf anyone woukl like to themselves ￿ anyona

81$e.
I will run thrO￿h each position rthv.
Finishing off I would like to thank everyone that helps the club in anyway. A hwe thank
you to the Cruickshanks for their continued SUPFXJrt over ts years. We cannot thank
you enough.
Signed
Date Mar 21Y25
Tamara Kenny