Minutes from the Meeting of Sport
Kingston held on
4th October 2011, Malden
Wanderers, New Malden |
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Present: |
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Adrian Pearman (Chair); George Noble
(Vice-Chair); Roger Corry (Treasurer);
Hedley Featherstone; Satinder Sehra; Marcus
Cabeca; Gillian Libretto; Sandie Barker
(RBK); Terri McAllister (Secretary). |
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In
attendance: |
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Mrs Franzi Marks (Malden Wanderers) and
Marcus Greatrex (NoTanx) |
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1. Apologies |
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Apologies were received from Cllr Marc
Woodall and Eileen Gray CBE. |
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2. NoTanx Freediving Club. |
2.1 MG outlined to Committee how the
pool hire charges vary and why it is of
concern to the club. A background paper was
circulated prior to the meeting and
discussed in more detail with MG:-
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MG - the club has approx 100 members with a
waiting list
• Members pay an annual
membership of £140 which allows them to use
two venues
• Members pay the same
membership regardless of the venue they use
• The club caps the number of divers in each
session to 20
• Particular concerns are
that DC Leisure run both the Tooting and
Malden Centre pools but the hire costs vary
considerably - Malden Centre charge 111.27
(133.53 incl vat) per session for the whole
pool which equates to £18.55 (22.25 incl
vat) per lane and Tooting charge 22.50
(27.00 incl vat) per session for 2 lanes
which equates to 11.25 (13.50 incl vat) per
lane, even an earlier time slot would cost
the same amount
• The cost of hire at
Malden Centre has risen by 6.95 (incl vat)
per session
• MG informed that he has
spoken to Malden Centre about the fees but
has heard nothing
• MG - the increase in
charges could result in the club leaving the
Malden Centre
Committee asked further
questions and made a few suggestions:-
• Why not increase the membership fees?
MG - fees rise annually and it wouldn’t be
fair to ask members of Tooting/Kentish Town
to pay more as they might feel they are
subsidising the other venues.
• Why not
have separate membership costs for each
venue to at least cover the pool hire costs?
MG - not possible
• Are there any
additional costs to members? MG - no, they
only pay membership/pool fees of £140
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The difference in price could be due to
Tooting pool being more subsidised than
Malden Centre
Committee agreed that
the next steps would be to write to DC
Leisure to ask why the fees between Tooting
and Malden Centre differ so much and decide
on further action following this reply. AP
to write to DCLeisure.
MG left the
meeting - normal Agenda resumed. |
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3. Matters Arising
from previous meeting. |
3.1 Item 4 - SB - the Cycle Race Test Event
was a success, lots of lessons learnt and
are now planning for 2012. AP - attended a
Cultural Olympiad meeting recently and
confirms that a lot of preparation and
thought is going into planning for 2012.
3.2 Item 7.1 SB - Playing Pitch Strategy
- consultant has nearly completed the report
but it needs tidying up which will cost -
the document is needed and will be very
useful when applying for future funding.
3.3 AP informed that MC had recently
received Kingston University’s award for
Coach of the Year. Congratulations were
extended to MC who informed that there is a
Brazilian show this Sunday at the
University. |
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4. GK 2012 Update |
4.1 SB circulated the GK2012 newsletter and
structure chart and explained the roles of
the groups and how they link together.
The Torch Relay is due to come through
Kingston the week beginning 23rd July 2012
and lots of activity is needed along the
route.
The Cultural Olympiad is
pulling together a programme of events and
will focus on 5 main events in Kingston. SB
informed that all clubs will receive
notification soon of how they can be part of
the celebrations.
Look and Feel -
each local authority has been awarded £50k
to dress the town - although it sounds a lot
of money the cost of merchandise is high and
won’t go very far.
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5. Budgets |
Committee need to decide on projects to
support now that the Good Sports Project
which is coming to an end.
5.1 SB put
forward a proposal:-
• One of the
main events in 2012 will be Kingston’s
Alternative Games on 5th August, it will
take place in 5 areas in Kingston town
centre and give clubs the opportunity to
have a stall or hold taster sessions to
increase their membership, raise awareness
of the variety of sport we have within the
borough and also be part of the Olympic
celebrations. The proposal is that any clubs
that participate in this, or any of the
other main events, will be given the
opportunity of funding a 6 week coaching
course for newcomers that sign up on the
day, costing approx £300 per club. Sport
Kingston could fund the cost of coaching
adults and young people under 14 years and
over 25 years of age.
Committee
discussed this further and voted on this
proposal as no others were put forward. The
Committee agreed.
5.2 SB - a 24
page full colour programme of events will be
published and circulated in May 2012, around
60,000 copies will be printed. There is an
opportunity for Sport Kingston to sponsor
the back page at a cost of approx £1000.
This advert would promote the Committee,
highlight the website and how we support
sport in the borough.
5.3 Website
costs - TM explained how the website has
grown considerably and the volume of work
now exceeds the agreed 2 hours a week
undertaken by Chris Grace to upload and
update content. Chris also spends time
improving the sports directory etc, and is
always helpful when creating new pages and
ideas, at the moment he is working more than
the agreed 2 hours for no extra money.
Content on the website will increase in 2012
and TM requested an increase in the hours
from 2 to 4 a week. The cost of this would
be £2850 p.a. for 3 hrs a week and £3450
p.a. for 4 hours, this includes hosting the
website, we currently pay £1900 p.a. for 2
hours.
Committee discussed:-
• Budgets are very tight and are likely to
be reduced over the next few years due to
cuts in the RBK grant, a commitment to
increase the hours to 4 may limit any future
projects we may wish to support
• The
website is an important part of Sport
Kingston and our main communication tool
• The website should start paying for
itself, perhaps local businesses could pay
to advertise. It would be better to charge
businesses to advertise rather than charge
clubs an annual fee to be a member of Sport
Kingston
• Committee are cautious to
spend all funds on the website
Committee did not agree to increase the
hours at this stage.
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6. RBK Grants |
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SB reported that RBK Grants will be changing
from 2011/12. The criteria will change and
organisations will have to show an element
of fundraising in their application. Sport
Kingston have to apply by November 2012 for
funding for 2013/14. This will be discussed
more in depth at future meetings. |
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7. Good Sports Update |
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HF informed that the project will end in
December. To date 25 clubs and 100
volunteers have registered. More time is now
being spent on the GK2012 Volunteer project
which is looking to develop a team of
volunteers for events leading up to and
beyond 2012. |
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8. AOB |
8.1 TM asked if someone could offer a lift
to Eileen Gray for the Borough Sports Awards
on the 20th October, AP offered. SB
suggested that a special award be given to
EG for her outstanding contribution to sport
- Committee agreed.
8.2 RC - informed
that Tolworth Gym Club has a 22 year old lad
who has performed for Ireland and became a
Bronze medallist in the world championships.
8.3 RH - informed Committee that the
plans to rebuild Chessington & Hook Utd’s
facilities have been cancelled, all
applications have been withdrawn. RH is
often asked by members the reason why,
unfortunately he cannot answer them. There
are many contributing factors and Committee
agreed to take the following steps to find
out why the plans have been cancelled:-
1. AP to speak with Andrew Ellis
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AP to contact RBK planners - Kerry Barratt
in the first instance
3. Meet with Cllr
Woodall to discuss and then meet with Cllr
Simon James if appropriate.
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9. Date of
Next Meeting |
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The date of the next meeting will be Tuesday
29th November, 12 noon in Guildhall 2,
meeting room F on the first floor. |
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Agenda for the Meeting of Sport Kingston. |
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1. Apologies |
5. Good Sports update |
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2. Minutes of the Last Meeting (accuracy) |
6. Club Night |
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3. Matters Arising from the last meeting |
7. Any Other Business |
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4. Go Kingston 2012 update - Sandie Barker |
8. Date of next meeting |
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