It has been announced today that the Club will be holding a ceremony to commemorate the opening of the new nets facility at the Club on 31st March 2022. Angus Fraser will be our special guest for the ceremony, which is planned to start at 6.00 p.m., followed by drinks and canapes in the pavilion. The Club’s 2022 AGM will then follow, starting at 7.00 p.m.

All members are invited to attend both the nets opening ceremony and the AGM. Hopefully both events will provide a forum for members to ask questions of the Trustees regarding matters pertaining to the running of Ealing Cricket Club.

It would also assist us if members could send an email, by Monday 28th March, to louise.chippendale@ealingcc.co.uk if they are intending to attend the nets opening ceremony so we can ensure we are catering for the right number of people.

The Notice of the 2022 AGM is posted on the Club’s website, www.ealingcc.co.uk

Financial Results

One of the main items on the agenda of the AGM is to review the Trustees Annual Report for the year ended 30 September 2021, which includes the unaudited financial statements of the Club for that period. A copy of the Trustees Annual Report for 2020/21 is now available on the Club’s website.

We have also uploaded three additional documents to the Club’s website:

1. The financial statements for our subsidiary, Ealing Cricket & Social Club Limited (‘ECSC’) for the year ended 30 September 2021 - ECSC carries out all our non cricket related commercial activities

2. The financial statements for our subsidiary, Premier Cricket Coaching Ltd (PCC) - for the year ended 30 September 2021 - PCC now undertakes all the coaching activities run at the Club, including the Summer and Winter holiday courses, the Summer Sunday Coaching club and our comprehensive winter training programme. PCC also now provides coaches for all the Club’s own coaching activities, including our Boys and Girls Academy activities.

3 The report from the Hon. Treasurer summarising the results of all three companies and providing some commentary on the highlights of the year from a financial perspective.

All the documents referred to above are available to be viewed and downloaded by clicking on the AGM 2022 tab on our website, www.ealingcc.co.uk. Click on the INFORMATION tab along the top of the page. Click on the DOCUMENTS section and then click on the 2022 AGM tab across the top of the page where the documents are available.

If you don’t have access to the internet, please contact the Club on 020 8997 1858 and we can arrange for any of these documents to be sent to you.

Trustees

A number of changes to the Board of Trustees of the Club are being announced.
John Poore has been President of Ealing Cricket Club since 1996 and has overseen an unprecedented period of success and development at the Club. John had already served on the Club’s Committee for many years prior to his appointment as President and had been captain of the Club in two separate stints from 1978 to 1980 and from 1984 to 1986. John has decided, with the Club’s 150th anniversary celebrations coming to a close at our many times postponed Long Room dinner at Lord’s on 18 March 2022, that he is going to retire at the forthcoming AGM (‘2022 AGM’). John’s service to Ealing Cricket Club cannot be adequately described in words and it is fitting that so many members, including many people who John played with and have been involved in running the Club for so many years, will be at Lord’s next month and we are sure that appropriate tributes to John will made on that evening and at the 2022 AGM.

John’s impending retirement has led to a re-consideration by the Trustees of the structure of the Board of Trustees.

A number of changes are being made as a result. The Trustees believe that, as happens at many other Clubs, the role as President should now be split into two, with Bob Fisher being appointed as President and James Grigg becoming Chair of Trustees and assuming all of John’s current executive responsibilities.

This change will require some amendments to the Club’s Articles of Association, which are being proposed at the 2022 AGM. A comparison between the existing articles of association and the proposed amendments to the articles of association has also been uploaded to the Club’s website and can be found by clicking on the AGM 2022 tab, as above.

In addition, with a number of other current Trustees wishing to step down, the number of Trustees will be reduced and each remaining Trustee will have an area of activity, for which they will have a responsibility to oversee and to report back to the Board of Trustees on a regular basis.

In addition to John Poore, the following Trustees will retire at the 2022 AGM and will not be seeking re-election:

 Andy Scott, who is the Club’s Safeguarding Officer and Fixtures Secretary, has also been a very long serving servant of the Club, both as 1st XI captain from 1987 to 1989 and as a member of the Club’s Committee and subsequently as a Trustee.

 Charles Dewhurst ,who was a player at the Club and subsequently a highly successful Age Group Manager, with both of Charles’ sons being excellent Junior players at the Club.

 Vikram Patel who was Chairman of Hanwell Cricket Club at the time of the merger between Ealing CC and Hanwell CC in 2013 and became a Trustee at that time. Vikram was a long term player at Hanwell CC and also a member of their Committee for a considerable period.

Andy, Charles and Vikram have all made substantial contributions to our Club over a long period of time and the Trustees wish to express their gratitude for their service to the Club.

As Andy Scott is the Club Safeguarding Officer and it is a requirement of our Articles of Association that the Club’s Safeguarding Officer must be a Trustee, it has been decided to appoint Penny Lewis as a Trustee as from the commencement of the 2022 AGM. Penny is already actively involved in the Club as a Junior parent, as a Junior Age Group Manager and as our Deputy Club Safeguarding Officer. Penny will assume the role of Club Safeguarding Officer as from the 2022 AGM.

Following the 2022 AGM, the Board of Trustees is proposed to be comprised as follows:

Bob Fisher – President
James Grigg – Chair of Trustees
Mark Grafton – Treasurer
Caroline Artis
Penny Lewis – Club Safeguarding Officer
Kristian Martin
Martin Turner
Colin Wheeler

James Grigg will continue to fulfil the role of Secretary of the Club.