The Sussex Gymnastics Committee Meeting was held on Wednesday 16th October 20:30 at The Jack & Jill Inn, Clayton, BN6 9PD.
Present
Mike Gevaux
Dawn Hyland
Emily Knight
Beth Burchett
Lisa Jestico
Sally-Anne Warner
Richard Keasley
Kim Mirceta
Heather Sampford
Kim Kennedy
Sarah Dyson-Bottle
Apologies for Absence
Keith Walter
Emma Ballancore
Charlotte Wynne-Pennels
Nikki Huggins
Mark Poore
Julie Belchamber
1. Minutes of the last meeting
The minutes from the last two meetings were reviewed.
Funding of welfare officers attending events was bought up, a topic which had only been touched upon briefly in previous meetings. As a committee we agreed that we would encourage the welfare officers to approach the region first as they also act as welfare officers for them. It has been agreed that Emily (Secretary) will put together a letter that we can use to support our welfare officers, should the SE region decline funding for welfare to attend events.
2. Chair's Report
No report given so was unable to be discussed.
3. Treasurer’s Report
Report Attached4. Discipline Reports
General
Acrobatics
Trampoline/DMT
No report was received for this discipline. A brief discussion was had, 4 competitions have been run, however numbers have not yet picked up to those before COVID-19.
Festival
Report AttachedTeam-gym
No updates since previous meeting. Sussex currently have 12 gymnasts representing Team-Gym at the European Championships in Azerbaijan.
Men's Artistic
Report Attached6. Any other business
6.1 High Performance Funding Proposal
As proposed at the last two meetings, Lisa Jestico (WA representative) came to this meeting with her final application form for the funding. It was confirmed that . this funding would only be available for those gymnasts representing GB or a home nation.
This form had been created through liaison between the WA representative and the treasurer. We made a couple of adjustments of wording, with the final form shown below. Clubs will fill this in on behalf of the gymnasts.
We agreed as a committee that we would trial this, with receipts having to be provided for proof of funding claim. The year would run as a calendar year, with a start date of 1st January and a cut off date of 31st December. This would work retrospectively, with the first trial run occurring for the year of 2024. This will be revisited prior to the next AGM in May 2025, to see how successful it has been and whether the clubs are applying for this.
6.2 Meetings
It was agreed that there could potentially be a day time and evening meeting to ensure everyone was able to attend. Zoom/video call was suggested for those who were unable to physically make the meeting.
Emily (Secretary) is to collate previous responses of suitable days and times for meetings, as well as send out a google form, to gauge an idea of availability and thus arrange the next committee meeting. Venues suggested were John Selden, Worthing GC, Wickers GC or the Jack & Jill inn.
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 5th February, venue and time TBC.
The meeting closed at 21:32