Foots Cray Lions Junior Football Club
London FA Charter Standard Development Club of the Year 2012
Honorary Life President - Bernard Justham
Established 1977
LYFA Affiliation
MYY 0442
CLUB COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mike Hanaway Club Secretary: Jacqui Herridge
Registration Secretary & Treasurer: Denise Forde :
General Manager: Darren Shaw Club Strategy Officer: Clive Marks
CLUB OFFICERS
Head of Coaching: Ian Cogswell Health & Safety Officer: Alison Ellison
Child Welfare Officer: Barry May Parents Representative: Michael Blakesley
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TUESDAY 7 th JULY 2015 at 8:00pm
At Sidcup Conservative Club, Oxford Road, Sidcup DA14 6LW
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MINUTES
Apologies for absence: Mike Mannion, Joe Bishop, Ben Tipp, Nathan Hutchon, Rob Mitchell, Paul Boyd,
Darren Shaw, Stephen Allen, Rob Herridge
1. Chairman’s Report to the Meeting
2014/15 has been another excellent season for our club, but as we focus on potential future developments
it is sometimes easy to overlook the simple things that get done each year.
Over 350 boys and girls played football each week for the club in a safe and friendly environment. Pitches
were booked, fixtures got planned, training sessions were carried out and matches played every week. Our
county FA health check was passed with flying colours as all our teams have CRB checked and trained
coaches. We ran three successful presentation events and sent 25 boys to France to play football.
On top of this we continued to provide coaching to the local Royal Park Primary school and continued to
support our chosen charities The Jimmy Mizen and The Aiden Goodwin Foundations.
I am particularly proud that we have been able to give our young people the opportunity to become
referees and coaches and to give something back to the club. We have now seen over thirty 14-18 year
olds get into coaching or refereeing through the Club since we started our Junior Coaches and Referees
schemes.
Our coaches benefited from our new Head of Coaching being in place with courses and CPD events
organised and a special coaches evening taking place just for FCL members. We also continued with our
reduced subs scheme for coaches - designed to help and reward our volunteers for the tremendous
amount of effort that goes into running teams.
All of these things didn’t just happen on their own and everyone involved with the Club should be proud of
the amount of time and effort that they put in to helping our young people and to making our Club a great
club to be part of.
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Foots Cray Lions Junior Football Club
London FA Charter Standard Development Club of the Year 2012
Honorary Life President - Bernard Justham
Established 1977
LYFA Affiliation
MYY 0442
CLUB COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mike Hanaway Club Secretary: Jacqui Herridge
Registration Secretary & Treasurer: Denise Forde :
General Manager: Darren Shaw Club Strategy Officer: Clive Marks
CLUB OFFICERS
Head of Coaching: Ian Cogswell Health & Safety Officer: Alison Ellison
Child Welfare Officer: Barry May Parents Representative: Michael Blakesley
As we start the 2015/16 season we have a record number of teams (30) including 5 girls teams and 2 brand
new under 7s. Thanks to you all, we are in a great position to take this club forwards.
We will continue to work with the local authority and the Football Foundation to develop Baugh Rd and will
continue with our partnership with Kemnal School that we hope will deliver us access to improved training
and playing facilities. We will also continue the push towards Community Club status with the London FA
as well as further developing our community links with local schools.
I am very proud to be the Chairman of FCL and proud of the people who give up their time to organise the
Club and who coach it’s teams. I would like to take this opportunity to say a special thank you to my fellow
committee members who do so much work behind the scenes and in particular to Barry May who is
stepping down as Club Welfare Officer having done a fantastic job in helping us get the CRB register
organised and up to date.
I look forward to working with all the new and existing coaches and volunteers and to another successful
season in 2015/16.
Mike Hanaway – Chairman, Foots Cray Lions JFC
7TH July 2015
2. Treasurer’s Report to the Meeting
2014/15 was another excellent season for the club financially.
Subs continue to be collected extremely effectively, and we hope to see this continue.
During the Financial year June 2014 to May 2015 we collected over £43.5k in subs and spent £38.5k on the
running of the Club.
The accounts for the period to 29th May 2015 show the club recorded a surplus of income over
expenditure of £5,014.88. This was a bit lower than our budgeted surplus of £7,205 which was created by
many different factors in the budget.
Football pitch hire came in under budget as the council have allowed us to only pay for pitches we use (i.e.
not during bad weather or no home games) this resulted in us paying £1100 less for Sidcup Youth Centre.
In addition due to Seven Acre and Sidcup pulling out of Oxford Road we paid £1000 less than we budgeted
for. We are also now using Green Court Sports Club for our Kent Youth League (KYL) games, which added
£475 to the budget; we will be charging slightly higher subs for KYL to cover extra costs in 2015/16.
Club Website : www.footscraylions.com Twitter : @fclnews
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Foots Cray Lions Junior Football Club
London FA Charter Standard Development Club of the Year 2012
Honorary Life President - Bernard Justham
Established 1977
LYFA Affiliation
MYY 0442
CLUB COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mike Hanaway Club Secretary: Jacqui Herridge
Registration Secretary & Treasurer: Denise Forde :
General Manager: Darren Shaw Club Strategy Officer: Clive Marks
CLUB OFFICERS
Head of Coaching: Ian Cogswell Health & Safety Officer: Alison Ellison
Child Welfare Officer: Barry May Parents Representative: Michael Blakesley
We have again far exceeded the budgeted figure for the cost of training courses due to a continued
crackdown on managers and coaches Level 1’s and expired Emergency First Aid and Safeguarding Children,
leading to us running another 1st Aid Workshop in February, as well as a major change on new
managers/coaches.
The increase in numbers of teams and agreeing to provide (where possible) referees for all home games
saw our referee costs exceed the budgeted amount again this season even though we more than doubled
the amount from last season.
Training equipment exceeded the budget but we have seen most teams benefit from spending their £100
bonus on extra equipment.
We are holding over £1000 in reserve for Harris Academy as there are outstanding bills to pay due to an
error in their accounts department.
Players’ trophies showed a surplus as we still had a bill to pay of £1,864 which has now been paid.
We are awaiting funds from Royal Park for the community after school club scheme that we provide.
Soisy tour came in under budget and is showing a credit in the accounts. We were therefore able to refund
each person on tour £15, but this will show in next year’s accounts.
There has been a great effort from all teams in keeping league fines to a minimum, only £220 for the whole
season, a great improvement on previous years. However, we have seen a significant increase in the
number of FA fines this season which reached £125, for inappropriate behaviour on the pitch or towards
the referees. This is an area we will be monitoring more closely next season.
Our main areas of regular, budgeted expenditure for the season can be seen on the Budget and Accounts
Summary and are available to view in detail after the AGM.
In brief they were as follows :
Hire of Football Pitches: £7,289
Referees Fees: £7,435
League Admin: £2,851
Kit, Equipment & Clothing: £6,600
Training Courses: £2,664
Player Trophies: £2,975
Club Website : www.footscraylions.com Twitter : @fclnews
Please visit the FA Respect guide for Parents and Carers: www.thefa.com/respectguide/
Foots Cray Lions Junior Football Club
London FA Charter Standard Development Club of the Year 2012
Honorary Life President - Bernard Justham
Established 1977
LYFA Affiliation
MYY 0442
CLUB COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mike Hanaway Club Secretary: Jacqui Herridge
Registration Secretary & Treasurer: Denise Forde :
General Manager: Darren Shaw Club Strategy Officer: Clive Marks
CLUB OFFICERS
Head of Coaching: Ian Cogswell Health & Safety Officer: Alison Ellison
Child Welfare Officer: Barry May Parents Representative: Michael Blakesley
In addition to these we spent part of our surplus on the following areas during the season:
Electrics, Baugh Road: £2,280
Groundworks at Baugh Rd: £1,000
Club Branded Gazebo: £760
We ended the financial year with a bank balance of £17,695.71 with outstanding cheques totalling £198.
Going forward into 2015/16 we are in a healthy position and expect to be able to spend club funds where
they are needed whilst continuing to collect subs effectively, but additionally retaining funds year on year
to be able to take the club forward into the future.
With this in mind we have already moved £10,000 of the above balance to the clubs reserve account. The
total balance on the Reserve Account now stands at £25,003.53. This provides us with a very solid
foundation for our ongoing development plans at Baugh Rd.
Denise Forde – Treasurer
7/7/15
3. Club Strategy and Objectives
 To work with the Football Foundation and Local Authority to develop new infrastructure and
playing surfaces at Baugh Rd.
 To continue to work in partnership with the Kemnal School trust to provide improved training
facilities for our teams.
 To work alongside the Oxford Road Club to provide Social facilities for our members.
 To continue to promote opportunities for our young people to develop within football through
coaching and Refereeing
 To continue to work with our County FA Mentor scheme and Skills Teams to help our own Coaches
to develop.
 To maintain our current team and player levels and provide a range of opportunities for older
players to play at the correct levels.
 To develop the Club organisational structure through the creation of Volunteer Groups to
supplement the work of the Committee in order to achieve a sustainable future for the Club.
Club Website : www.footscraylions.com Twitter : @fclnews
Please visit the FA Respect guide for Parents and Carers: www.thefa.com/respectguide/
Foots Cray Lions Junior Football Club
London FA Charter Standard Development Club of the Year 2012
Honorary Life President - Bernard Justham
Established 1977
LYFA Affiliation
MYY 0442
CLUB COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mike Hanaway Club Secretary: Jacqui Herridge
Registration Secretary & Treasurer: Denise Forde :
General Manager: Darren Shaw Club Strategy Officer: Clive Marks
CLUB OFFICERS
Head of Coaching: Ian Cogswell Health & Safety Officer: Alison Ellison
Child Welfare Officer: Barry May Parents Representative: Michael Blakesley
 To better understand and promote the aspects of our Club that our players, parents, coaches and
managers value.
4. Questions from Members - None
5. Election by Members of Committee Members for Season 2015-2016
The following committee members were voted by members into the nominated roles.
Mike Hanaway - Chairman
Jacqui Herridge - Club Secretary
Darren Shaw - General Manager
Denise Forde - Treasurer
Denise Forde - Registration Secretary
Clive Marks - Club Strategy Officer
6. Election by the Committee of Co-Opted Committee Members for Season 2015-2016
The following members have been co-opted by the above committee
Health & Safety Officer - Ali Ellison
Child Welfare Officer - Ali Ellison
Managers' Representative - Mark Doyle
Head of Coaching & Development - Ian Cogswell
Events Officer (Outdoor) - Mark Doyle
Events Officer (Indoor) - Sophie Johnson
7. A.O.B
None
Club Website : www.footscraylions.com Twitter : @fclnews
Please visit the FA Respect guide for Parents and Carers: www.thefa.com/respectguide/
Foots Cray Lions Junior Football Club
London FA Charter Standard Development Club of the Year 2012
Honorary Life President - Bernard Justham
Established 1977
LYFA Affiliation
MYY 0442
CLUB COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mike Hanaway Club Secretary: Jacqui Herridge
Registration Secretary & Treasurer: Denise Forde :
General Manager: Darren Shaw Club Strategy Officer: Clive Marks
CLUB OFFICERS
Head of Coaching: Ian Cogswell Health & Safety Officer: Alison Ellison
Child Welfare Officer: Barry May Parents Representative: Michael Blakesley
Club Website : www.footscraylions.com Twitter : @fclnews
Please visit the FA Respect guide for Parents and Carers: www.thefa.com/respectguide/