AGM

The  67th  Annual  General  Meeting held at Davyhulme Golf Club 17 October 2025
  1. The meeting was opened by the Secretary Tony Brown at 0900 in the comfy chairs with 10 members
  2. Apologies; Bob Goodman ny John Threapleton cu ( President ) Chris Moreton la
  3. The Minutes of the 66th Annual General Meeting were read.
    Agreed as a true record by Grant Morrow and seconded by Keith Woodhams
  4. There were no matters arising
  5. To elect the officers of the society; The Chairman Kevin Grace ch was elected. The President Grant Morrow sy was elected. The Secretary Tony Brown ny was elected.   
  6. To receive the accounts from Tony Brown, these were presented and accepted by those present.  The balance was £1526.00.       
  7. The Chairman gave an address Thanking John Threapleton wished him good health, he thanked the Society secretaries & Paul Wood for the website. He thanked the Players & was delighted with the attendances; Willow Valley 55, Shaw Hill 64, Leigh 48, Tankersley 52, Fulford 51 & Davyhulme 45. He stated the prepayment          Facility was working well & the National handicap registration was also successful.
  8. Fixtures 2026; May North Yorkshire, June Cheshire, July Lancashire, August Cumbria, September Greater Manchester, October AGM Merseyside.
  9. The recommendations for the event prizes were approved
  10. The trophies were no longer to be presented at the AGM meeting & would be distributed to each Service to use as a compliment to the NFBGS. Other than the Three; Joe Ball, Brian Moncaster & the Alan Mellon.
  11. The meeting debaited the generous gift from Alan Mellon  & made no decision.

        Thanks to Kevin for organising the event.

        Thanks to the members for their attendance & thanks to the contributors to the raffle

        Meeting closed at 0945                                                                

The  66th  Annual  General  Meeting held at Howley Hall Golf Club 14 October 2024
  1. The meeting was opened by the Secretary Tony Brown at 0920 with 11 members present.
  2. Apologies ; Bob Goodman ny Keith Woodham me Grant Morrow sy John Threapleton cu ( President ) Chris Moreton la
  3. The Minutes of the 65th Annual General Meeting were read.
    Agreed as a true record by Stephen Talbot and seconded by Billy Jarrett.
  4. There were no matters arising
  5. The Secretary gave his address; a welcome to everyone, he stated he was delighted with the attendance figures; Tankersley 61, N Manchester 51, Leigh 36, Lytham GD 50, Davyhulme 48 & Howley Hall 63 He thanked the Society secretaries and Paul Wood for their work and the members for their attendance. He held a minutes silence for Alan Mellon the past President .
  6. To receive the accounts from Tony Brown, these were presented and accepted by those present. The balance was £1011.50.
  7. To elect the officers of the society; The Chairman’s position is vacant, Tony Brown as Secretary and John Threapleton as President.
  8. Fixtures 2025; May West Yorkshire, June Lancashire, July Greater Manchester, August South Yorkshire, September North Yorkshire, October AGM Cheshire.
  9. Kevin Grace from Cheshire raised the issue of Prize Awards;
    Award the winners of each division ie 1 up to 9.9,2 10 -16.9. 3 17+
    Then instead of 1,2, 3 in each division the winning score is rewarded. The Winner of the Division then as the scores go down no matter which division the Score is rewarded.
    The proposal was discussed at length & had merits. The third division is a band of Players who it is hoped that the society encourages to go on to improve their Handicap & maybe play in National events. The Society recommends the organising Secretaries distribute the prizes as they see fit. In the past there has been a gross Prize. Not all secretaries award this prize.
    As a follow on to the above Kevin proposed the top two in each division take a prize
    The next three prizes to be awarded to the next 3 best scores no matter which Division. This will be monitored throughout 2025
    Kevin also produced the results of a survey he had conducted over 120 different Players in 5 events; 39 in Division 1, 44 in Division 2 & 37 in Division 3. Concluding that the Handicap ranges that are being used are satisfactory.
    It is hoped that the society keeps evolving & follows new trends as with the Following; At Eden gc & Howley Hall gc the trend has been noticed that winners of Trophies (three in each division per event) have not been available to collect. Which raises the question is this a trend do players no longer need an annual Presentation? Some trophies are not engraved or not returned.
    A proposal from Kevin; that the trophies be reduced to one per event. Thus the best eight be distributed to each Service/member. This trophy would then be used at that event for the home service players for the best score. The Trophy would then remain with that Service for their annual event. The Joe Ball, the Brian Moncaster & the Alan Mellon would be presented at the AGM. Please send me any thoughts you may have to these proposals.

Tony thanked the members for their attendance and Stephen for organising the day.

Meeting closed at 09:45

Raffle – Many thanks to the contributors.

  
Previous AGM Meeting Notes

The 65th Annual General Meeting held at Eden Golf Club 3rd October 2023

  1. The meeting was opened by the Secretary Tony Brown at 1015 with 11 members present.
  2. Apologies ; The Chairman Howard Barker
  3. The Minutes of the 64th Annual General Meeting were read.
    Agreed as a true record by Keith Woodham and seconded by Grant Morrow.
  4. There were no matters arising
  5. The Secretary gave his address; a welcome to everyone, he stated he was delighted with the attendance figures;
    Northcliffe 37, Wheatley 37, Knaresborough 52, North Manchester 19, Prenton 34, Eden 16. He thanked the Service secretaries and Paul Wood for their work and the members for their attendance. He held a minutes silence for Alan Mellon the past President.
  6. To receive the accounts from Tony Brown, these were presented and accepted by those present.  The balance was £1094.00.
  7. To elect the officers of the society; The Chairman’s position is vacant, Tony Brown as Secretary and John Threapleton as President.
  8. Fixtures 2024; May South Yorkshire, June Greater Manchester, July Merseyside, August Lancashire, September Cheshire, October AGM West Yorkshire.
  9. The Affiliation fee was discussed & it was decided to raise it to £175.00
  10. Rob Goodman of North Yorkshire proposed a pre-payment for events to prevent Players pulling out. This was discussed and it was decided it would be too Involved & the nature of the job can mean a late withdrawal.
  11. Keith Woodhams stated there was a problem with vouchers at the NY event the Pro shop was closed & the purchase required an additional cost for postage. It Recommended that maybe cash could be used for prizes.
  12. Neil McFadyen stated that Cumbria were having difficulties with numbers of Players & raising funds the meeting agreed to support Cumbria if the situation Deteriorated 

Tony thanked the members for their attendance and Neil with Dennis for organising The day. Meeting closed at 1045

Raffle Many thanks to the contributors.