LIVERPOOL GROUP AGM

Meeting of the 30th Annual General Meeting at 8.00pm on Thursday 27th October 2011 in the Quaker Meeting House, School Lane, Liverpool 1.

1. Welcome: The Chairman welcomed the 51 members who attended.
2. Apologies: These were received from: D Southerden, Gloria Thayer and Bill Howden
3. Minutes of the Previous Meeting: These had been circulated on the coach for several weeks after the last AGM and before this one and were accepted as a true record. Proposer: J Hughes. Seconder: P Sullivan.
4. Matters Arising from the Minutes: Last year the Webmaster Glyn Williams retired but no one was put forward to fill this place. During the year the General Committee decided to write to Brendan Murphy and ask him if he would take it on. Brendan had been interested in starting a website several years ago before people were aware of their usefulness. He agreed to take it over and it is now running and everyone is recommended to check it out at liverpoolramblers.co.uk
5. Chairman’s Report: The Chairman started with a minutes silence for all those members who had died during the year; Terry Dunn, Les Taylor and Ray Stacey. His report is attached.
6. Treasurer’s Report: A sheet of the last year’s accounts was circulated with the Treasurer’s comments. These are attached. The Secretary also read out the Treasurer’s Report.

   It was pointed out that the reserves have increased this year due to increased charges on the coaches and clubroom . It was also pointed out that the Main funding runs the club and the Self funding parts are for running the coaches and the clubroom. Comments were made that the coaches were supporting the clubroom but it was pointed out that at one time these were all one account so one supported the other. The Ramblers had said that this is how the accounts should be shown, but as the Clubroom is used for introducing people to the club it had been allowed to run at a loss. JH said that she was shocked that anyone should be asked to come to the clubroom and pay when they were selling seats. It was pointed out that no one was expected to pay to come to the clubroom and sell coach seats, putting the £1.50 in the accounts as such was accounting for their sale there, recce fees were accounted in the same way. It was agreed that the club had done well this year as unlike the HF that we were being compared with we had more than broken even with £1 per member that we were getting back from the Ramblers to run the club as opposed to £5 the HF charge.

   He sent his thanks to all those who had helped him during the year, particularly Ella, Joyce, and Sue on the financial side. Thanks also go to Ken McKelvie for auditing the accounts.

   The group is grateful for the work done by the Treasurer during the past 8 years and in the light of no one coming forward to do the job he has agreed to do it for another year. Ken McKelvie has agreed to be the Auditor for the next year, thanks go to Ken.

7. Election of Officers: All the officers were returned unopposed. Ella Swarbrick has said that she will be stepping down as one of the Rambles Secretaries next year, it was also pointed out that we still need a new Treasurer as Dave Southerden is still doing it in the absence of another candidate. Members were asked to think of doing these jobs.
   • Officers:
   • Chairman: Charlie Walker
   • Treasurer: Dave Southerden
   • Secretary: Maggie Hems
   • Rambles Secretaries: Joyce Hughes and Ella Swarbrick(Sunday coaches). Beryl Wilson(Tuesday walks)
   • Membership Secretary: Joyce Hughes
   • Footpath Secretaries: Ingrid Donakey, Dave Dent(Knowsley)
   • Social Secretary: Sue Jones
   • Recreation Secretary: Albert Rose
   • General Committee: Barry Davies, Yvonne Gordon, Irene Kinsella, Sylvia Malvern, Jim McCann, Brian McKay, Terry McKenna, Pat Sullivan and Tom Thompson.
   • Rambles Committee: Chris Barton, Clive Beury, Barry Davies, Dave Green, Bill Howden, John Mason, Terry McKenna, Tom Thompson and Peter Urmston.
   • Recreation Committee: Doreen Bird, Alan Cunningham, Marje Forster, Sue Jones, Hilary Williams and Margaret Williams.
   • Social Committee: Viv Clarke and Linda Mitchell
8. Resolutions: There were no resolutions presented either affecting the constitution or not.
9. Any other Business: A Cunningham pointed out that we fill the requirements for the 5 PCT initiatives and we don’t publicise this link.

   G Williams asked us all to support and contribute to the new website and give it feeds of information. He commended it to us all. It has the same name as the previous one. J Hughes pointed out that John Marnell had set up a Facebook page for the club and commended him on it. It is proving useful for selling seats on the coaches and is an instant chat about the walks.

   Thanks went to Dave Dent for his circulated report of the Knowsley Footpaths and he reminded us that he is producing 10 walks for the Festival of Winter Walks over the Christmas period which he will be putting on the Ramblers website.

10. Date of Next AGM: It was agreed that it should be Thursday 25th October 2012.

The meeting closed at 9.10pm.