TREASURER’S STATEMENT TO AGM 2106

Date: 12th January 2016

CLUB IMPROVEMENT GRANT SCHEME JANUARY 2016

Since the League became the only fully accredited ECB Premier League in Lancashire in 2000, over £125,000 in ECB grant money and over £30,000 from our sponsors has been received.

This money has been ploughed back into the clubs through

The direct annual grants paid every September to all clubs in our League
Prize money to the clubs that are successful in our League competitions,
Pitch Quality Studies by qualified groundsmen for all but 2 clubs in our League
The provision of laptop computers and dongles enabling Premier Division clubs to participate in live scoring
Support for representative cricket across 3 age groups and at senior level

At the same time the Management Committee has maintained the League on a financially secure basis maintaining a balance that equates to 2 years expenditure to cover any unforeseen eventualities whilst keeping the annual subscriptions at a constant level for 6 years and reducing the contribution made by clubs towards the cost of producing the annual handbooks.

Recognising that clubs are constantly seeking to improve their facilities and that there are significant costs associated with this, the Management Committee has decided to release some of the League’s accumulated funds to assist in this process. I am tonight announcing that the establishment of the Club Improvement Grant Scheme.

£5,000 will be made available over the next two years in 5 grants of £500 in each year.

All Full and Associate Member Clubs can bid for one of these 5 grants to help fund any form of improvement to their ground or facilities and there will be no exclusions, other than retrospective schemes, and no requirement to match fund. The application form may be found at:

http://www.lpoolcomp.co.uk/uploaded_files/documents/Application_Form_3_Club_ImprovementGrant_Scheme_2016.doc

For the 2016 tranche of money, the application form must be submitted to alanjbristow@gmail.com no later than January 31^st and will be submitted to the Cricket Committee in February for approval. Once approved it is intended that the grant will be transferred to the club before the end of February.