Burghfield FC Committee – Summer Report
Dear All,
I wanted to reach out to you all as members of Burghfield FC, to update you on recent activities at the Club, and to ask for your help on a couple of important items coming up in the near future.
The new Committee is starting to settle into their new roles, and we have just completed our 4th Meeting as a group.
The Committee is currently as follows:
· Rob Cheshire – Chairperson
· Mark Williams – Vice-Chair, Membership Secretary
· Natalie Foote – Treasurer
· Viv Harris/Alice Valentine-Willis – Joint Child Welfare Officers
· Gary Chaplin – Communications Officer
· Jim Telford – Football Development Officer
· Vacant – Secretary
· Luke Bishop - Purchasing Officer
· Vacant – Sponsorship Officer
We are thrilled to report that the Membership Subs have been collected with splendid efficiency by our new Membership Secretary, Mark Williams. We would also like to thank you all for cooperating with Mark to get this task completed so effectively.
This week at the Committee Meeting we received the first reports from two of the new Sub-Committee heads that we have appointed:
· Julie Telford, as Schools Liaison Officer reported on her plans to initiate closer contact with all of the local schools, to attempt to step up recruitment of new players, particularly from the younger age-groups. This first campaign that Julie will launch is a “Bring a Friend to Training” initiative, to start later this month.
· Graham Rutland, as Tournament Officer, reported on his ambitious plans for Burghfield to run the biggest and best Club Tournament in Berkshire next summer. We will be announcing the date of our Tournament during the next week, and then embarking upon an aggressive advertising campaign to drive the highest possible attendance levels.
In order to run a great Tournament and achieve the other objectives of the Club, we need volunteers to help run the club. The most important thing is that the Club is yours and to get the most from it for your children the Committee, coaches and volunteers need your help.
As you can see above, we currently have three vacancies on the Committee. . If you think you have something to offer, why not let me know and I can let you know exactly what the various jobs entail?
1. Club Secretary - the Secretary’s job involves coming to maybe 8 evening meetings spread through the whole year and drawing up the minutes. The rest would be dealing with Club Correspondence that can be done from home at your convenience and might need the odd phone call to the Chairman or Treasurer to sort out any questions.
2. Purchasing Officer – this role involves coordinating a quarterly equipment order, as well as an annual order of new kits each summer.
3. Sponsorship Officer – this role involves working with the individual age-groups to ensure that as far as possible each team has a kit sponsor. The Sponsorship Officer will also be responsible for working with both the Tournament and Presentation Day Sub-Committees, to drive as much sponsorship revenue as possible for these two key dates in the Club Calendar.
4. Tournament Sub-Committee. In the next few weeks, Graham Rutland is going to be looking for volunteers to help him run an incredible Tournament. Lots of volunteers! Whether you can help with the setup, tear-down, run the beer tent, scoring tent, direct traffic in the car park, help-out with first-aid, cook burgers, sell ice-creams (etc. etc. you get the idea) Graham will want to hear from you.
Best Regards,
Rob Cheshire |
