2025 Annual-report

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB 2025 ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS 60 The expansion into new areas of the city was a key part of our strategy to be a recognisable presence across the area, including in pockets of Nottingham where there might be more deprivation. By placing a fresh focus on these areas, MsWright believed we could have the most impact on the lives of residents. Our Forget Me Notts sessions for those living with dementia and their carers were as well-attended as ever. This year, the team had acted on the feedback received from carers to provide them with relaxed opportunities to network and gain insight from dementia charities, while also introducing a Forget Me Notts volunteering network. Most importantly, the sessions gave those with dementia and their carers something to look forward to each week – and with average attendee numbers having increased from 40 to 70 per session, Ms Wright knew that the work was appreciated. As we moved into the summer of 2025, she was working to bring our recreational cricket and Community Trust arms closer together. After all, even if programmes like Positive Futures and ourWicketz sessions involve different activities, they often engaged with similar groups of young, vulnerable people, and deliver similar outcomes. By bringing the Trust and recreational arms of the club under one roof, our teams could learn from each other, sharing ideas and expertise to ensure we were serving people in our communities to the best of our abilities. It would also allow us to spread the word of our Trust and recreational projects to new audiences, joining the dots between our cricket and non-cricket activities and strength- ening the link between the Trust and the club. Much of that work was only possible, of course, because of the generosity of our partners. MsWright wished to extend thanks to John Pye Auctions for their continued support of Forget Me Notts, a project for which the club again hosted a wonderful Christmas event at the end of 2024. Russell Scanlan had namedTrent Bridge Community Trust as its charity partner for 2025, and MsWright was looking forward to working with them to further expand our outreach into local communities. And Rushcliffe Borough Council had recently confirmed three further years of funding for Positive Futures, taking their support to 2028. MsWright wished to express her gratitude to them for their ongoing support, and look forward to reshaping a new-look programme in 2026. But as we looked to the future, we must also preserve the past – particularly as our venue underwent significant changes at the Stuart Broad End. Our heritage team had painstakingly catalogued the removal of heritage items from the Pavilion, ensuring we could honour our venue’s rich history once the building’s redevelopment had been completed. The repair of books and documents in theWynne-Thomas Library had continued, while talks and exhibitions on cricketing pioneer EileenWhite, Nottinghamshire’s connections to WorldWar I, and the links between West Indian cricket andTrent Bridge, were all positively received. As the past few minutes had no doubt proved, there are countless ways in which we could look to embed cricket into our communities. MsWright was hugely proud of the work her teams did, and she was excited about a future in which we worked closer together to impact the lives of people in Nottinghamshire. 8. TO ANNOUNCE THE RESULT OF THE VOTE ON PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION The Chair began by saying that the General Committee had proposed a set of changes to the constitution of the club (known as “the Rules”). The General Committee were submitting the resolutions to the membership under 9.4.1. The changes the General Committee were proposing consisted of: • changes generated by learning from experiences after four years of running the Nominations Panel; • areas where the constitution could be tidied up for consistency with other areas of the Rules, or where wording could be made more user-friendly. The proposed amendments were as follows: Amendment 1 Rule 6.3: The relevant clauses in the Rules currently read as follows: 6.3 The Nominations Panel will consist of five members as follows: 6.3.1 the Chair; 6.3.2 a member of the General Committee; 6.3.3 two members of the club that are not on the General Committee; and 6.3.4 one member who is neither on the General Committee or a member of the club. The General Committee proposed to remove the requirement for the Chair to sit on the Panel by amending 6.3.1. This allowed for greater flexibility when making Nominations Panel appointments (and appointments to other sub- committees). It was important, when the Panel was new, to have the club Chair as a member, especially as Richard Tennant, then our Chair, had led on the modernisation of our constitution and therefore understood the rationale behind and the purpose of the Nominations Panel. Now the Panel was well established and its raison d'être well understood, the club could change this requirement to an option. This would also assist in situations where the Chair was conflicted due to being up for reelection/ reappointment. The General Committee had therefore proposed changes to the Rules to amend 6.3.1