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Committee Changes

Last season Dave Mullins retired as Society Chairman after 23 years of Service. Andy Coles joined the Committee at the 2024 AGM & in September 2024 Roger Middleton & Andy Lacy joined the Committee. Now with the Committee back to full strength the December 2024 meeting asked current Treasurer Peter Fawke to take on the role of Chairman.

Peter has been a member for over 40 years, a Committee member for approx. 15 years and the current Treasurer for eight seasons, he also became a Trustee in June 2024. The obvious candidate & Peter kindly accepted his new role while continuing as Society Treasurer. Peter will be welcomed as Chairman at the January 2025 AGM meeting


January 2025 AGM – a review of the 2024 season

We have booked the “Village Inn at Beorley” on Wednesday 22/1/2025 for the AGM which will start at 7.30pm. All members are invited and we are currently accepting items for AOB.


General update 17th of November 2024

Season Update;- Now with the Aggregate & Canal Series completed we have 2 matches left this season to complete the Winter League although there is a final Scramble arranged at Lower Park for 23/11/2024.

Match Turnout;- We had 12 out for the third WL match on the Canal & 13 out for the scramble at TBF, both November matches when generally turnout has been down for the Aggregate Series.

Full Membership;- We lost 13 members last season & recovered with 8 new members all fishing the matches, we already have 2 new full members for 2025.

Fishery;- The Fladbury pegs are in great condition although we need to strim the Lock stream pegs.

Committee;- Now back to full strength there is a committee meeting arranged for 11/12/2024 & we are preparing for the AGM held in January 2025. Now’s a good time to get you AOB requests in, date & venue TBD.


2024 Cutters Cup - Eligibility

The Cutters Cup is a sponsored match for the guys that helped with fishery maintenance, this season 12 members are eligible.


Frank Bagley, Peter Fawke, H. Potter, Peter Whittingham, Keith Smith, Andy Lacy, Martin Cox, Roger Middleton, Andy Hammerton, Gary Buzzard, Chris Gregory, Dave Underhill.


Following five months of flooding the amount of help this season has been incredible in possibly the most demanding season since we sorted out the fishery back in 2017/18. Well done guys & see you on the 21st of September.