Wellington & District Sports Federation

Our proposed quarterly meeting schedule for 2012 is as follows with each meeting starting at 8.00pm,

Spring – Wednesday 4th April at Wellington Football Club

Summer – Wednesday 4th July at Wellington Cricket Club

Autumn – Monday 1st October at Wellington Rugby Club

Confirmation of these dates and venues will be sought and confirmed in due course.

Today Federation Executive members Roger Nunn and David Derrick met with Louise Treacher from the 4George funding organisation; Louise is working with the Federation and Taunton Deane Borough Council to secure funding in addition to the Section 106 finances that are related to the Cade’s Farm 1 housing development.

A value of £460k has been put on the work required to complete the Federation’s ideal solution to this matter and Louise will be working to secure the gap in funding between this figure and what the Cade’s Farm 1 pot is worth.

Time is of the essence and work has to be completed by April for submission of a grant application to Sport England.

More details as and when they are available; stakeholder Clubs are asked to give of their time and to supply information in this respect if required.

Confirmed membership of the Federation for 2012 to date is as follows,

Wellington Bowling Club, Bowmen of Wellington, Sampford Arundel CC, Sampford Blues AFC, Tae Kwon Do, Wellington CC, Wellington AFC, Wellington RFC, Wellington Tennis Club and Wellington Swords Fencing Club

The Federation’s membership fee for 2012 has been pegged at £20 and already nine Clubs have paid up.

All other Clubs who wish to join the Federation for the new session should send their membership cheque (made payable to Wellington and District Sports Federation) and Club Details form to David Derrick ASAP.

Nick Buttle of Sampford Blues AFC joins us as Vice Chairman for the 2012 session in succession to Joe Conway of Wellington AFC in the major appointment to be made at the Federation’s AGM.

A thorough and well attended meeting was held at Wellington AFC this evening and set the agenda for the New Year; meeting minutes and other items will be issued soon.

Paperwork for this meeting (except that relating to finance) has been sent out today via e-mail to all Club contacts.

Those who require paper copies will be catered for on the evening.

Finance related material will be sent out under separate cover.

A reminder to all current and potential member Clubs that we hold our AGM at Wellington Football Club on Tuesday 10th January, starting at 8.00pm.

Paperwork for this meeting will be sent out in the next day or so.

We have received positive responses from all five of our Honorary Office holders for the 2012 session; thus the Duke of Wellington KG, Martin Pipe CBE, Cllr Andrew Govier, Jeremy Browne MP and Richard Fox Esq. are all prepared to continue in their current positions as Federation President and Federation Patrons respectively.

We meet at Wellington CC at 5.15pm on Monday 19th December to review and sign off our selected plans that will be submitted to the Local Authority for the development of facilities at Wellington Playing Field and Wellington Recreation Ground; all stakeholder Clubs are asked to attend.

It is announced that four of our five honorary office holders have agreed to continue in this capacity for the 2012 Federation session; the Duke of Wellington will continue as President and Martin Pipe CBE, Cllr Andrew Govier and Richard Fox Esq. will all be continuing as Patrons of the Federation next year.

A reply is awaited from Jeremy Browne MP in respect of his continuing as our fourth Patron.