Notes from the AGM held 22/1/2025
AGM minutes
Committee back to full strength
At the start of the season the Committee comprised of Frank & Pete while Andy (Coles) joined at the AGM. That left the Committee unbalanced. In September Roger & Andy (Lacey) joined the Committee, now with a balanced Committee Peter Fawke accepted the position of Chairman & chaired the AGM meeting.
Balance Sheet
An enormous amount of work was required to sort out the fishery after prolonged Flooding October 2023 to February 2024, the fishery was ready for the start of the season but improvements continued creating an over spend of Fladbury Income. At the September meeting the Committee took measures to ensure that the Bank Balance at the January 2025 AGM was unchanged from the AGM twelve months previously.
Membership
We took a hit at the start of last season with thirteen lapsed Members, eight new members joined throughout the season & we have five further new members joined & fishing the matches in 2025.
Points Format
Match Points format for 2025 is one point for a win etc. & 15 points if you miss a match. The change only affects the Aggregate series, matches on Pools remain 15 points so we now have one system across all matches.
The other change is we will now allow two matches dropped on the 10 match Aggregate Series & one match dropped on the each of the five match Series on Pools so eight from ten & four from five. If you fish all of the matches you can drop your worst results.
BAA Affiliation
Gary Buzzard raised the point of “is it worth staying in the BAA” where over the last few seasons the venues have been overgrown & we have had to transfer, adding that the £30 could go to pay peg fees on other venues, this is really an issue for the river matches.
The Society has been affiliated to the BAA since the 1940’s but there has been a decline in the service the BAA provides.
The Committee response was “matches are booked & cards obtained for this season, we should consider the issue for next season”. So River guys, please have a think about it.
Fladbury Weed & Predation.
On the 3rd of February we have representatives from the Angling Trust visiting Fladbury to advise us how to manage the predation from Cormorants. That’s at 1pm & any concerned members are welcome to join us.
