0 Post a comment Friday, 4 January 2019 - Local People by Contributed It’s always a pleasure to find a new edition of Slapton Lines in the letterbox, bringing reports of past events and news of prospects ahead. The January-February issue of the community magazine arrived on Christmas Eve, so hats off to the editorial team who managed to get that ready for us amid the usual hustle and bustle of their own Christmas preparations. Thanks also to stalwarts of Slapton Lines for keeping this column going over the last few weeks while I have been out of action.The new year will have begun by time this is published and no doubt many happy celebrations will have taken place and many resolutions made. Keeping in good shape is definitely on the agenda, with three classes a week at the village hall advertised for the Metafit addicts, and keep fit classes going from strength to strength. Check the parish notice boards and online Events Calendar for details.The Christmas wreaths … [Read more...] about Community shop holding AGM
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Falkirk chairman Margaret Lang up for re-election at AGM
Falkirk shareholders will be presented with a review of the club’s strategy at the annual general meeting on Wednesday. Much has changed in the past 18 months at the Bairns following managerial ins-and-outs, academy closures and financial reviews. An update on the club’s machinations and aims will be delivered at the AGM next week, as well as the company accounts which detail a club profit for the year to May 31, 2018 of £143,261 and an increase of turnover to just shy of £2.8m.In the chairman’s comments Margaret Lang says: “Decisions taken in the past 12-18 months have not been easy, but they have been necessary in relation to football and non-football matters. This period has led us to review our club strategy and the agreed form will be presented at the AGM.” She added: “The poor financial performance of the club led to a full financial review in December 2017. “Over the past few seasons our cost to income ratio had become … [Read more...] about Falkirk chairman Margaret Lang up for re-election at AGM
Lambert’s plea for fans to drop ‘animosity’ at end of tense shareholders’ AGM
PUBLISHED: 21:28 04 December 2018 | UPDATED: 21:33 04 December 2018 Stuart Watson Paul Lambert applauds the Ipswich Town fans following Saturday's 2-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest. Photo: Pagepix Pagepix Ltd 07976 935738 Ipswich Town manager Paul Lambert pleaded with fans to drop any animosity they feel towards the club at the end of a tense PLC AGM tonight. More than 100 shareholders were in attendance at Portman Road after the club had earlier revealed their accounts for the financial year ending June 30, 2018.In what is a continuation of general themes during Marcus Evans’ decade-plus ownership, a pre-tax loss of £5.2m was posted and the debt – owed exclusively to 87.5% majority shareholder Evans – increased to £95.5m.MORE: Catch up on what was said as Lambert, Milne and O’Neill faced questions at PLC AGM“I sense a bit of animosity towards the club, I can feel it,” said Lambert, after watching managing … [Read more...] about Lambert’s plea for fans to drop ‘animosity’ at end of tense shareholders’ AGM
Michael Bailey: A Norwich City AGM – but not as we’ve known it
Opinion Norwich City's key personnel were on hand at the club's annual general meeting at Carrow Road. Picture: Denise Bradley Archant In his weekly column, Norwich City correspondent Michael Bailey colours in the AGM lines and looks forward to renewal in Swansea. So often Norwich City’s annual general meeting has come with a sense of trepidation – and yet the 2018 vintage never felt likely to join them.By the time the shareholders were arriving, there was never any doubt.The sight of Delia Smith, Michael Wynn Jones and other board members greeting people was the first sight that something had changed around both the event and the club. I’d almost become attached to the idea of City’s top brass being locked safely in a room deep in Carrow Road waiting for the guests to arrive, before they took their lengthening parade to the top table – generally in silence.Derby manager Frank Lampard will be among those now hunting down Daniel Farke's … [Read more...] about Michael Bailey: A Norwich City AGM – but not as we’ve known it
Michael Bailey: Sales, signings, sausage rolls and Stone – six things we might learn from Canaries’ AGM
Opinion Sausage rolls - they have their own unique place in Norwich City AGM folklore. Picture: Archant Archant It’s annual general meeting time but what will we learn from 2018’s effort? Norwich City correspondent MICHAEL BAILEY wonders aloud… Sporting director Stuart Webber will still have plenty of Norwich City questions to answer - but surely this year they will come with a significant degree of optimism? Picture: Denise Bradley1 – Taking Norfolk’s optimism temperature It has taken years of work to get the Norwich City annual general meeting to where it is now – something that for some, generally sends a shudder down the spine.Not many clubs do it the way the Canaries do – the official business, followed by an open question and answer session that has both helped build careers and reputations, and torn them down. Quite clearly, Glenn Roeder’s was never the same again.I remember asking Jez Moxey two years ago – … [Read more...] about Michael Bailey: Sales, signings, sausage rolls and Stone – six things we might learn from Canaries’ AGM