Firstly, a reminder that the AGM takes place on Monday 17th March, starting at 7pm. The bar will be open. And further to last week’s documents, below is the committee nominations for the 2025 senior captains:

1st XI – Alex Walker. (vice – Stef Bartlett)
2nd XI – Ian Gilmour. (vice – Kiran Vadlamani)
3rd XI – Ashish Mehta. (vice – Gaurav Mehta)
Women 1st XI – Emily Brown. (vice – Emma Braddock)
Sunday XI – Luke Marsden. (vice – TBA)

Secondly, we are asking all members whether they would consider taking up a role in various teams to help run various aspects of the club.

Our wonderful club has seen unprecedented growth over the past few years. Credit goes to everyone at the club for facilitating this, but special credit goes to the management committee for working so hard to develop and grow the club.

The downside to this is that the workload upon the committee has also grown such that it is no longer possible for our officials to cope and run the club efficiently or effectively.

We are therefore appealing for members to come forward to help.

The first appeal is for someone to take up the position of Sponsorship Manager: Sponsorship is a significant yet untapped opportunity for funding at our club. We are looking for someone to manage and nurture our existing sponsors, and to proactively work to develop new sponsorship partnerships. The role could easily be shared among 2 or 3 people. If you are interested please speak to Dave Brown or Simon Hargreaves.

Our mantra is ‘many hands make light work’ and we are looking for 2, 3 or 4 people in each of the following areas to form a small team working with the committee member responsible for that area. None of these are committee positions so you don’t have to worry about coming along to meetings; all we’re asking is to get involved and help out in a way that suits you:

Area	Committee Member	No. People required
Pavilion	Sam Brown	Up to 5
Website / Membership	Dave Brown	2-3
BFN & Events, plus planning for the club’s 150th Anniversary	Rohin Modasia	3-4
Funding / Grants	Nick Walker	2-3

Lastly, we have our pre-season working parties coming up. We have picked 2 weekends to give as many of you as possible the opportunity to come along.
The dates are 22nd & 23rd March and 5th & 6th April, from 10am-3pm on all 4 of these days. You do not have to be there the whole time, just come along for a couple of hrs.
It would be great to see all sections and teams / age groups within the club represented, including parents, players, other halves etc so don’t let your team mates down, make sure you come down and do your bit.