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4^th APRIL 2005

Venue:            Boars Head PH, Dover.

 Present:          Mick Padfield, Tim Padfield, Bill Browning, Gary Cattermole &       Mark Padfield                                               

Apologies:      David Browning, Darren Herbert, Paul Padfield

 AGENDA ITEM 1- There were no matters arising from the meeting of 31^st January 2005. The minutes were adopted. 

ITEM 2 – Mick Padfield proposed that the following amendment to Rule 6 be put to the AGM in June: 

All members of the Dover Gooners who are Bond Holders, Season Ticket Holders, Silver or Red members, Family Enclosure or Cannon Club Members, Junior Gunners or on the Season Ticket waiting list, will  not pay an annual fee. Any member of the Dover Gooners, who is not one of the above, will pay an annual fee of £5. Anybody who joins part way through a season and is not one of the above will also pay the full fee of £5. 

Gary Cattermole said that the money raised from the annual fees could be used to update/ upgrade the website, purchase any gifts, prizes etc. Tim Padfield also raised that if the clubs balance became too large then the club could consider making a donation to charity. The proposal to put the amendment to the members at the AGM was carried.

 ITEM 3 – Mark Padfield was a regular attendee at the Committee meetings and it was felt by both Bill Browning and Gary Cattermole that he could play a useful role on the committee; this was carried by the meeting.

 ITEM 4 – Mick Padfield informed the meeting that the club’s account currently had a balance of £156.82. There were no outstanding bills, Gary Cattermole and Bill Browning verified the accounts. Mick asked Gary if he could supply him with the full amount spent on tickets during the course of the season so that he could include it in his report for the AGM. Gary also informed the meeting that the credit card he was using to purchase the tickets offered ‘cash back’ and so far there was about £23 due, which would be donated to the club funds.

 ITEM 5 – Gary informed the meeting that James had recently designed a website for the local Celtic FC supporters club and had used a hosting site. James had informed him that the space available was ample for what we required and it worked out at about £40 per year. The meeting felt that if Stuart Honey could not find more space for us this was a good option. James would be asked if he could liaise with Stuart to see if we could get more space or how a move to another host could be facilitated. 

ITEM 6 – Mick said that he was looking into having a special polo shirt made for the final season at Highbury; it would be black and white with ‘1913 – 2006’ on it.

 ITEM 7 - Gary informed the meeting that we had so far sold 44 tickets for the FA Cup Semi Final at Cardiff on 16^th April and he was in the process of trying to obtain a further 7 from the club. So far 43 members had confirmed that they wished to travel on the coach.

 ITEM 8 – Mick informed the meeting that he would be looking to arrange the golf day for either 3^rd or 10^th June. He also said that due to us reaching the FA Cup semi final the proposed trip to watch Lens FC would be put over until next season. He also proposed that if we failed to reach the FA Cup Final then following last seasons outstanding success we should have another cultural awareness day to Calais on the day of the final, this was carried!!! 

ITEM 9 – Gary said that so far 25 members had shown an interest in going to the end of season BBQ at Matthew Rudd’s bar on Whit Monday Bank Holiday.

 Meeting closed at 2000.

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