Minutes for the Annual General
Meeting (Saturday 15th May 2004)
The meeting was held at the
Hertfordshire Sports Village, Hatfield Herts, prior to
the team foil. The meeting was opened at 12.25 p.m.
Present
Thirteen fencers were present. The following clubs: were
represented : St Albans, Watford, University, Dacorum
Apologies for Absence
James Lee (St Albans), Jason Fox (Watford)
Chairman's Report
The competition calendar had followed the same order as
last year. All the usual competitions had been run in the
previous season, at the Hertfordshire Sports Village. The
team foil was due to take place after the A.G.M. The
entry in the age group competitions was up by 10% due to
an increased attendence by the TRYB and St Albans Girls
School. The numbers in the novice adult competitions were
similar to the year before, but numbers in the senior
events were down. The event winners so far were as
follows:
Men's Foil: Andy Doherty
(Watford)
Ladies' Foil: Lauri Cox (St Albans)
Men's Épée: Andy Tucker (St
Albans)
Men's Sabre: Andy Aitken (North London Sabre)
Ladies' Épée: Jenny Rowe (St
Albans)
Ladies' Sabre: Claire Winzca (North London
Sabre)
Master at Arms: Paul Cramphorn (Watford)
Courses
No courses had been run during the year. It was hoped
that number and variety of courses being run could be
sustained with the renewed level interest coming from
fencers in the county especially among the junior
fencers. Douglas Gordon (St Albans/Watford) proposed that
we try to get a presiding course run during the age group
competition as county is the lowest level and we would
then already have a venue and people to preside which is
always a problem at that competition.
Treasurer's Report
The problems with the account have been resolved and the
account now in use. Over the course of the year a profit
of around £300 has been made. The main outgoings
being hall hire and medals, and the income from the
counties competitions. The age group in particular made a
decent return.
Committee Motions
A proposal
was made to take profit from the age group competitions
to buy trophies for the age groups with the most
entries.
Tony Conyard (St Albans) may be able to supply details
of someone we can get a deal with on the trophies. This
motion was unanimously carried.
An open discussion on Youth Fencing
then took place. It is the general opinion that we should
talk to the BFA, other counties and Graeme Reid (WH) to
discuss youth fencing and what they are doing and where
they see it going.
The impact of the New Kit Regulations
was discussed. Clubs are slowly beginning to replace
their kit with new regulation kit. Duellist currently
have a deal where jackets can be purchased for £45
and an old jacket. They are likely to extand this to
masks in a couple of months. The university have asked
the committee to write a letter to the Student Union to
clarify their position.
Election of Officers
The commitee had all agreed to stand for their current
positions for a further year. Nominations were taken from
the floor and there were single candidates for each post
who were then elected unopposed.
The new committee was as follows:
Chairman:Paul Cramphorn (University)prop. Philip Allen
(St Albans), sec. Douglas Gordon (St Albans/Watford)
Treasurer:Philip Allen (St Albans) prop Paul Cramphorn
sec. Chris Goodman (Dacorum)
Secretary:Jason Fox (Watford)prop. Tony Bardell, sec.
Douglas Gordon
The meeting was closed at 12.55
p.m.
