Present Alan Grunwald, Arthur Jones, Ken Eaton, Alan Parker, Keith Robbins,

Peter Cecil

Apologies Lyn Morton, Avis Roberts, Jonathan Robinson

Ken Eaton reported that the club had £2100 in hand at present. He had investigated the moving of this cash into the Nationwide Building Society which should provide about £35 per year. It was agreed that this should be done.

The possibility of buying a Bridgemate scoring system was considered. For £1500 we could get a server plus 5 outlets but we would need extra outlets. Currently the club could not justify such expenditure.

Arthur and Virginia Jones were thanked for updating the address list of members on a regular basis; they were asked to indicate on the list which players had paid their annual membership fees.

It was agreed to donate £250 to the Wantage Nursing Home appeal.

1. The EBU directives on alerting seems to be working fairly well – discuss again at our next meeting.
2. It had not been possible to fit in team practice sessions prior to the start of our Wessex League programme.
3. Curtain cards for the duplimate boards are now supplied on a regular basis.
4. Keith Sadler will organise the Christmas party to be held on Thursday December 14^th. (change partners each round?).
5. Avis Roberts is still trying to organise sessions for juniors in conjunction with Alison Nicolson (discuss at next meeting in January).

A one-off event to introduce ‘social’ bridge players to duplicate bridge was discussed again. We should try to hold this on the evening of Wednesday April 18^th 2007. Keith Robbins and Alan Parker would liase with Alison Nicolson to publicise this once the date is finalised.

Some problems had arisen with entry to the club. Entry requires a key fob (supplied to members only) and only a few of our bridge club members also belong to the Comrades Club. It was agreed that we would pay for two of our committee (Keith Robbins and Lyn Morton) to join the Comrades Club. (A.P. to arrange this).

• Directors were to be asked to remind players that they should have convention cards, particularly if they were not playing standard Acol.
• Alan Grunwald would Email a list of directors to those concerned plus a list on the notice board.
• In the Wessex League, level 4 conventions were allowed in Divisions 1&2 with level 3 in the lower divisions.
• The Ridgeway Cup (summer mini-league) had been won again by Highworth Bridge Club while Wantage were bottom. Alan Parker would discuss with the other clubs the difference in standards between them. Next year we favour the use of Victory Points as in the Wessex League.
• Alan Grunwald suggested that on one Thursday night teams should be split so that a pair from the highest ranked team would play with one from the lowest etc so that teams should be more even.
• Ken Eaton would contact the Grove Newsletter to gain more publicity for our club.
• Peter Cecil would attend a further Directors course in the New Year. It was hoped that Jonathan Robinson would also attend a training course.

Monday 15^th January 2007 at 7.30 p.m.

Alan Parker

20^th October 2006