National Stoolball Association becomes Stoolball England

The National Stoolball Association (NSA) held an Extraordinary General Meeting in the Renshaw Room at Wivelsfield Village Hall on Sunday 28 September 2008 at 11am.

Present

NSA Officers:

• John Price (Chairman)
• Kevin Hilliard (Vice-Chairman)
• Kay Price (Hon Secretary)
• Rick Mason (Website Administrator)

Vice-Presidents:

• Delia Saunders
• Richard Emsley
• Mick Cawley, who was accompanied by his wife Janet

Leagues, associations and clubs represented:

• Chanctonbury Stoolball League (Vic Laker)
• Coastal Stoolball League (Pat Wyatt and Kaye Turner)
• Mid Sussex Mid Stoolball League/Lewes Mixed Stoolball League (Rick Mason)
• Sussex County Stoolball Association (SCSA) (Kay Price)
• Central Division (SCSA) (Elaine Berry)
• Mid Division (SCSA) (Daphne Hunt, Pauline Hurley and Trevor Parsons)
• West Division (SCSA) (Kevin Hilliard)
• North Division (SCSA) (Sybil Voller and Marion Campbell)
• Sussex County Umpires Association (Fred Newland)
• West Kent Ladies Stoolball League (WKLSL) (Richard Emsley)

Apologies for absence:

• Shirley Reed (NSA President and Wessex Friendly Group)
• Peter Cheesman (NSA Treasurer)
• Michael Ledwich (NSA Insurance and Rules Co-ordination)
• Melissa Mantle (NSA Coaching Development Officer)
• Toni Wheatley (NSA East Sussex Friendly Teams Co-ordinator)
• Barbara Fitzpatrick (NSA Marketing and Publicity)
• John Fitzpatrick (NSA Umpires Officer)
• Marion Stanbrook (Vice-President)
• Anne Peck (Vice-President)
• Gwyn Griffith (Vice-President)
• Brian Johnson (Vice-President)
• John Pritchett (Vice-President)
• Michael Hearn (East Division, SCSA)
• Joy Mans (Mid Division, SCSA)
• Jenny Keates (West Kent Ladies Stoolball League)
• Mandy McGachie (Surrey Ladies Stoolball Association)
• Sally Morris (Hailsham Mixed Stoolball League)
• Pam Wood-Hill (Mid Sussex Mixed Stoolball League)
• Cindy Cavie (Eastbourne Red Triangle Mixed Stoolball League)

Chairman’s welcome and introduction to the revised constitution

The Chairman welcomed everyone to the Extraordinary General Meeting of the National Stoolball Association which was being held to approve the newly revised Constitution which would replace the document approved earlier in March 2008. This document had previously been circulated to all the Officers of the Association, Vice-Presidents and affiliated and associate members. In opening the meeting the Chairman explained that all the proposed changes being made were at the request of Sport England.

At the request of the meeting, the Secretary quickly went through each item of the new Constitution and expanded on the reasons for the amendments. There were no requests for further elaboration and accordingly a vote taken showed a large majority in favour of the new Constitution with only 1 representative voting against.

In view of the governing body name change, it was agreed to minute the following statement:

“All documents, rules, literature, electronic media or other material issued by the National Stoolball Association shall be read and treated as if issued by stoolball England. All references to the National Stoolball Association in such documents etc should be deleted and stoolball England should be inserted”.

The Chairman thanked everyone for their attendance. The meeting closed at 11.20am.

Kay and John Price

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