CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN
by Samir Patel Chair of the Board of Trustees
By the 6me you read this our playing season will be coming to a close. I hope you have had some successes. I would like to thank all the volunteers who have been essen6al to these events – coaches, managers, referees, hoop se7ers, caterers, lawn carers, gardeners, bar teams, and those who do all those unseen tasks to maintain club houses, deal with the washing, take away rubbish, lock up each day, manage finances, and so on. Many of Croquet England’s commi7ees will be working over the coming months to arrange the year ahead. If you have any sugges6ons for changes or improvements please do contact the relevant commi7ee chair (you can find their details at the back of each Gaze7e). More immediate is our Annual General Mee6ng, on 11th October. This is our formal forum for trustees to report on our ac6vi6es each year, and for members to ask ques6ons and have a say on important decisions. General Mee6ngs are open to all Vo6ng Members of Croquet England. This is the subset of associates who have confirmed their agreement with the relevant condi6ons. If you simply wish to play and do not intend to engage with mee6ngs or exercise your vote, then that is fine ‐ the sport is nothing without people playing it. However, we are primarily a volunteer organisa6on, and the more people who are willing to play their part in our administra6on, the more effec6ve we can be. You can find more informa6on about becoming a vo6ng member of Croquet England on the website: h7ps:// www.croquet.org.uk/?p=members/Vo6ngMembership
Samir Patel & Edward Patel, winners of the Wa-ord GC Open Photo by Eddie Chung
WELCOMING COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK The Gaze7e is a place to showcase our sport, filled with welcoming pages sharing stories and inspira6on for our clubs and ourselves……all coming together to bring news from croquet travels far and wide.
I am so very grateful to all of you who contribute to our magazine, to those of you who are regular readers and write in with your comments, your praise and yes, some6mes your cri6cism. Something can only be
Please keep sending your comments and sugges6ons, and help me improve your Gaze7e issue by issue.
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