Notice is hereby given that an Annual General Meeting of Ringwood SEALS will be held at 7pm on Friday 8 November at the Freedom Cafe, Ringwood Health & Leisure, Parsonage Barn Lane, Ringwood, BH24 1PX to conduct the following business:

1. to receive the Chairperson’s report of the activities of the Club for the year ended 31 December 2023;
2. to receive and consider the Club’s accounts for the year ended 31 December 2023 and the report on the accounts of the independent examiner of the Club and the Treasurer’s report on the financial position of the Club;
3. to remove and elect the independent examiner (who must not be a member of the Committee or a member of the family of a member of the Committee) or confirm that he/she remain in office; 
4. to elect the Executive Officers and other members of the Committee;
5. to decide on any resolution which may be duly submitted in accordance with Rule 9.6;
6. to elect or reaffirm the Custodians of the Club.

Nominations for election of members to any office (Chairperson, Treasurer or Secretary) or for membership of the Committee shall be made in writing by the proposer and seconder to the Secretary (Diana du Luart) not later than 21 days prior to the published date of the meeting (18 October 2024). 

Both proposer and seconder must be a fully paid member of the Club and Swim England at the time of nomination. The nominee shall be required to indicate in writing on the nomination form (see link below) his/her willingness to stand for election. 

Any member shall be entitled to put any proposal for consideration at an Annual General Meeting provided the proposal in writing is received by Secretary (Diana du Luart) not later than 21 days prior to the published date of the meeting. 

No less than 14 days before the published meeting date, together with the resolutions to be proposed, a list of the nominees for the Committee posts and a copy of the examined accounts will be circulated to all Club members.

All the results from the Home Championships are now in the Members Only section.

The Club held its AGM at 7pm on 5th December 2023 at Freedom Leisure Centre, Ringwood. Minutes of the meeting and the 2022 accounts are now available on the Members Only page.

The company that handles your direct debit payments, London & Zurich (through Love Admin), has a major IT issue and has been unable to handle any transactions since 8th November (and perhaps earlier). The problem will also affect anyone trying to set up, cancel or amend direct debit payments. Hopefully the problem will be sorted out in a few days but it may take L&Z a while to get back to normal service. Your payments may be taken later than normal and it may be necessary for us to reissue requests for your November subs.

Tuesday 21st                                   Friday 24th 
Frontcrawl and Butterfly                  Backstroke and Breaststroke 

Tuesday 28th                                  Friday 1st December
Individual Medley                           200m Frontcrawl

Help Needed (Ringside View!)

We need 5 timekeepers for each session so 10 each night. If you can push a button you can do this – the stop watches start automatically, you just have to stop them. Times go to computer automatically.

All swimmers to attend. It is good for everyone to have a go at all strokes but if there is obviously someone who does it really badly they may be disqualified. The youngest swimmers only swim 25m (1 length) of the 4 main strokes.

Trophies

Would all trophy holders please return them clean and shiny bright.

DO NOT USE ANYTHING ABRASIVE TO CLEAN THEM. DUST OUT THE INSIDES.

If you have a number of trophies please wrap them up loosely as Anne has to remove any packaging. Remove the label with your name on it please BUT do not remove the number on the inside or back of the trophy.