Chairman’s report
Good evening ladies and a big welcome to our 32nd LVLTA AGM, dinner and prize giving.
It’s so lovely to see so many of you and hope you all enjoy your meal and the wine provided. There are charity nomination forms on your tables and ask you to fill in your choice for the draw later.
Before we eat can we have a moment of reflection……
While we are here enjoying the pleasures of being together in celebration let us give thoughts to those who are experiencing the terrible atrocities of war in Ukraine, their suffering and fear is unimaginable. We must be grateful for the privileges we enjoy.
We hope you’ve all enjoyed your meal, and I take this opportunity to say a big thank you to John and his team for looking after us so well again.
We’ve certainly had an extraordinary 2 years, sadly we missed celebrating our 30th anniversary and had to hold that meeting via zoom. So here we are back at the Cricket Club and it’s really good to see so many of you. Covid is still with us but thanks to the amazing scientists we can hopefully learn to live reasonably safely with it. Sadly some ladies had to drop out today and we wish them well.
We are lucky to have a sport that we can play outdoors that has enabled us to continue relatively safely and we trust that you have all had good matches, we thank you all for your continued support and welcome to new members.
Last year we had 98 entries for the super vets and 222 for the vets which we were pleased about. The leagues do take many hours to organise and so a HUGE thank you goes to Alison and Val for this. As always we do urge you to arrange your matches in good time to avoid late submissions.
I would like to thank all the committee who continue to do a stirling job, as already mentioned Val Noble and Alison Trafford for their hard work. Liz Fazackerley who took over from Lizzie Harris as another very competent secretary, Barbara Williams for her skills running our website and Lynn Norwood our treasurer and of course their roles in helping to successfully organise this evening.
This year we will be donating £300 each to 3 charities of your choice and we will be collecting your nomination forms and will do the draw before the prize giving.
Our regular photographer Steve has unfortunately succumbed to Covid but we are very pleased that Jeremy Trafford has kindly offered to help us out so thank you Jeremy and hope you appreciated Steve’s menu choice! This year the prizes will be brought to your tables and Jeremy will come to you to take photos.
Lynn will now do the treasurers report.
I’m delighted to introduce our speaker tonight, Alis
