AGM 8 November 2024
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on Friday 8th November 2024 at the Old Loughtonians Hockey Club
The President Gary Bridger welcomed everyone to the Annual General Meeting & said how much he had enjoyed his year as President, which had been a fairly quite year.
There were a total of 22 OLA Members present.
SILENT TRIBUTES:
The Secretary Malcolm Trowbridge confirmed that the following members had sadly passed away in the past 12 months
William Gellar (1943) David Kempton (1949) James Webber (1971)
Graham Bradley (1953) John Hart (1957) & Alan Rowett (1954)
Members were requested to stand for a moments silence
APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE:
Roland Brown, Bert Speller, Andrew Kaye, Natalie Avvoltoio & Graham Vine.
TO CONFIRM THE MINUTES OF THE LAST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The minutes & agenda’s were laid out on the chairs at the meeting.
They were Proposed by Bill Bennett and Seconded by David McAdamsand all members were in agreement.
There were no matters arising:
The President was asked to sign the 98th AGM minutes
PRESIDENT’S REPORT:
The President again thanked all members present at the AGM, saying how much he had enjoyed his year as President & was pleased with the success of the Clay Pigeon shoot at the new venue & afterwards at Andrew Gemmill’s barn for the prize giving & buffet.
All that remains for me to say, is to wish you a pleasant reunion dinner.
TREASURERS REPORT:
The Treasurer circulated copies of the Income & expenditure sheet and said he would like to go through some of the points in the balance sheet.
The subscriptions and donations which are still healthy although year on year they are decreasing, you will note that in 2022/23 we had £1,831 and in the year 2023/24 these reduced to £1,616, this in some part due to the sad loss of members and unfortunately this will continue but it has to be said considering how long the school has been closed, we still are able to have a dinner with nearly 60 ex pupils.
The dinner has shown a surplus of £92:00 which by good management by Malcolm, as it was sailing close to the wind which is why we increased the cost to £45 per head.
All outings & activities made profits, but we had had a Legal Fee of £238 in respect of advice & wording that we presented to the hockey club regarding the £5,00:00 loan.
With regard to the cost of the website we were able to take advantage of a reduction if we paid for two years at cost of £238:00 and our thanks to Stefan for all his hard work.
You will notice that we have ended the year with a surplus to the General Fund of £10:00
The Treasurers report was proposed by Derrick Wallace and seconded by Richard Oakman and unanimously agreed
After the Treasurers report a lengthy discussion took place with regard to The Old School Room, the loan to the hockey club, as well as some members suggesting that if the room was rented out when not in use that the Association should receive 25% of any income,
After further discussions it was agreed that the committee would report back on any developments and no final discussions would be made without the consent of all members.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS FOR 2024/2025
The Secretary asked that this whole item of Officers & Committee members be taken “En Bloc” This was proposed by Keith Pye & seconded by Paul Hough and was unanimously agreed.
At this point Gary Bridger handed over the chair to the new President Chris Tomkins who was presented with his badge of office, as well as the customary school cap and thanked everyone for electing him as the President for the coming year
ANY OTHER BUSINESS
The Secretary informed the meeting that the AGM & Reunion dinner would be held on Friday 7th November 2025. He also thanked Tony Mullins for another fantastic magazine
The meeting closed at 7.45 pm with a vote of thanks to Gary Bridger who should have been presented with a past presidents badge and a warm welcome was given to Chris Tomkins
The 100th AGM & Reunion Dinner Friday 7th November 2025
The laying of the OL wreath will take place on Remembrance Sunday 9th November 2025 at the Loughton War memorial
Signed…………………………….President Date………………………
That concluded the formal AGM & at this point the President was handed various presents as well a tray of loaves of bread & a chef’s outfit, mixing bowl & flour.
Which he thanked everyone for!
