WSCSC OPEN MEETING, Monday 29th August, Emerald Club, 8pm

In attendance
Phil Kelly
Peter Willis
Karl McAuley
John Parsons
Roy Simpson

Apologies
Eddie Drummond

Attendance
Phil expressed his annoyance at the lack of numbers and the lack of apologies from the missing committee men. He did appreciate, in hindsight, a bank holiday Monday was not the best of dates, but in his defence this was the deadline day for names and monies for the proposed club trip.

Newsletter
Phil thanked Peter and (himself) for the effort put into producing and sending out over 70 newsletters, which took two nights to complete. Phil explained what an arduous task the first newsletter was and this was due to the fact everyone gets a newsletter and a renewal form, as opposed to the normal way when quite a few members would receive the newsletter via email.

Memberships / next newsletter
Phil explained that memberships were up to 45, with many still to come from last year’s hard-core members and from fellow committee men. Phil asked for more help from fellow committee people, in helping with the next newsletter.

Central, South West and Wales Association
Our own supporters club were host to the newly named Central, Southwest and Wales Association of Celtic supporters clubs. Phil was extremely disappointed by the lack of our own committee in attendance, but thanked Peter, Roy and Joe for flying the flag. Again, the bank holiday weekend probably did not help. Five clubs were in attendance and the main discussion was the ability, as an association, to order tickets for all away Celtic games, which included the previous weeks game at Ibrox. Hopefully this may also be the case for any home games v Rangers.

Treasurer report
John said at present we had £2,700 in the bank. Phil suggested the club shirts, of which a number are still left, should have been put on the end of season balance sheet, as club assets. If any left come next season, this will be looked at again.

Next Club trip
At present we have around 16 people wishing to go on trip. This would mean running the bus at a loss of around £350.
It was stated with so much money sitting in the bank the club could stand this loss, and to enable the members who wanted to go to the game to actually go to the game via our supporters club, which, as was stated was why the club was started. A vote was taken and all voted in favour of the trip going ahead. It is hoped a few more people may decide to travel nearer to the game to reduce the loss the club may face.

AOB
None

Next Meeting
To be decided by committee when one is required