Apologies - Bernie Kelly (Membership Secretary), Claire Whetstone, Catherine Richardson, Leslie Cohen, Malcolm Springthorpe, Graham Bint, Mick Lyath, Ray Waller, Mick Collins.
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Welcome, Introductions and Apologies |
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| Simon welcomed everyone to the meeting and thanked Martin Baker (Enfield Ignatians) for hosting the meeting. Martin welcomed everyone and gave a brief synopsis of activities, developments and initiatives affecting the club. |
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Minutes of the last General Meeting on 7th March 2018. |
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| Firs Farm development, changing rooms re-build is on-going. |
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| Mayor of London’s new sports strategy will be published in September, funding streams to encourage social cohesion and integration. |
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| Garfield Weston had 2,000 applications for £5m |
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| GDPR - privacy policy, template available from Simon if needed. |
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| CS to write to Montel |
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Finance Update |
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| £727.39 balance - no commitments |
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Update on Enfield Sport Membership 2018 |
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| A discussion on the value of membership took place. Martin Baker highlighted the power of the collective voice. |
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| Affiliations are coming in slowly and a discussion on what could be done to publicise and highlight the value of membership. Publishing testimonials was put forward as a suggestion. |
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| Chris Gill suggested space for each club on the website to publicise aims of clubs, sessions being run, what clubs have to offer . |
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| It was pointed out that clubs can put themselves on the BBC ‘Get Inspired’ website. |
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| A discussion took place re the website and how to raise in search rankings. Key words were suggested. Other social media options were discussed. SP to speak to Bernie Kelly. |
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Web Site update |
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| Request for photographs of club activities to be sent to Bernie Kelly. (Membership Secretary) |
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Funding Opportunities |
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| Sport England have a number of funding programmes, details available from website https://www.sportengland.org/funding/ |
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| London Sport have a funding search tool https://funding.londonsport.org |
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| The National Lottery offer funding via 12 organisations https://www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/funding |
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| A number of councils are facing extremely difficult circumstances. |
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| Simon is hoping to meet the new leader of Enfield Council and Yasemin Brett, the lead cabinet member for health. |
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Enfield Playing Pitch Strategy. |
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| Enfield Council have approved a “Playing Pitch Strategy.” Simon urged clubs to read. “Protect and enhance” are the main themes. The strategy sits under the local plan. |
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| Enfield Ignatians R.F.C. is mentioned i.e. pitch enclosure also Southgate Hockey Club. |
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| Enfield council is running events in park spaces which affects club operation. |
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| Council to re-circulate notices re incursions from travellers |
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Significant issues facing individual clubs |
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| Trent Park Running Club - costs for events are rising, in the process of making the case to the council for a freeze on all charges. Simon to write letter of support. Extra costs - have received an email, detailing charges to businesses for putting up banners for events £500 for 6 months. Charges for banner flag advertising also received by Enfield Drill Hall. |
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| Old Ignatians (O.I.’s) - working on lease related matters. O.I.’s are half way through a 35 yr lease. Developing a new model. O.I.’s receive no legal or financial help from the National Governing Body to buy a lease. Useful to know length of leases offered to clubs and how many clubs have leases for their facilities. Clubs please let Simon know a) If you have a lease with the council? b) The length of lease? |
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| Northampton Exiles - most recent issues have been to do with environmental health. Has been dealing with Massimo Avrili, Enfield Council’s Parks Business Development Officer. |
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| Enfield Cricket Club - drought situation, cost to all clubs, council also because have to seed, general issue to ask about preparedness |
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| Southgate Hockey Club - Berkeley homes almost finished building car park. Hockey side of things ok, both teams still in national leagues. Issues when events are held in Trent Park, the club has to shut down. |
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| Enfield Drill Hall - in process of negotiating a new lease, attempting to meet CEO of Enfield Council. Free council access to the hall is part of the current lease. Applying for CASC accreditation and negotiating on rent increases. Accessing funding will be next priority as have committed to replacing the floor but also need refurbishment of other areas. Simon to write in confidence to support. |
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| Ellenborough T.T. & Winchmore Hill C.C. nothing to report |
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Hazelwood Sports Club - nothing new or significant to report
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AOB |
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| None |
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Date of next Meeting |
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| Tuesday 9th October, 7.30pm at Enfield Drill Hall, 1 Old Park Avenue. EN2 6PJ |
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