June 2007 Board Meeting

Monday 11th June

Present: Brian Lomax (BL –Chair), Yvonne Fletcher (YF – Joint Vice Chair), Steve Powell (SP – Joint Vice Chair), Joe Bourke (JB – Treasurer), Philip French (PF – Chief Executive), Dave Boyle (DB – Secretary), Laura Knewstub (LK – Minute Secretary), Rob Bradley (RB), Sean Hamil (SH), Kris Stewart (KS), Tony Taylor (TT)

In attendence: Bob Booker (BB – Representative from the Football Foundation)

Apologies - Neil Le Milliere (NLM) and Joe Hill (JH) - Both on holidays arranged before meeting date was set), Ian Todd (IT)

BL reported the very sad passing or our Treasurer, Richard Lillicrap.

Finance

JB would act as Treasurer until the AGM; alternative arrangements will be examined if needed after then. Draft Accounts were approved to be sent to the Auditors

UEFA study

Good progress was being made and recruitment had been completed with the two officers starting in July.

Recruitment

There would soon be two new recruits to the staff team. An Admin Support Officer would provide support to the other staff, especially on meetings and conferences. A Research and Membership Officer would be contacting Trusts not in regular contact with SD and would be the first point of contact for trusts. They would also be researching Trust issues and capturing key trends.

Sponsorship

Discussions would be continuing with potential sposnors and the Board were hopeful that SD could agree a deal which would be brought back to them for final approval.

Members Services:  

Website and database - has been broken into three parts, all parts have been tendered for, and further updates will be provided at next meeting.

Sharesave scheme - progress was possible and a way forward had been identified and DB would update at the next meeting.  

Co-op Bank - There was still ongoing issues yet to be resolved in terms of the service some Trusts had reported to us.  

Insurance – Heath Lambert had then been selected as company we would use.

Legal Support - a package of basic legal advice for member trusts was being investigated and a further report would be made to the Board when discussions had concluded.

Development Group - An ad hoc advisory group would be set up of Trust representatives to share ideas and best practice. RB, YF and BL would attend.

Scotland

The Conference was coming up in Glasgow at the end of the month and organising it had been the main focus of the team.

Scottish budget: costs for central services received from at SD to be revised to more accurately reflect the level of support received.

Board Issues

IT’s co-option ends at the end of June and the FSF needed to inform SD if they wished IT to continue as their rep. Karen Matthews had formerly resigned from the Board and BL had written to acknowledge this.

Director profiles: All Directors needed to submit a picture and biography for the new website.

Publishing Board Minutes: Board agreed NLM’s proposal that the minutes should be made available on the SD website as soon as the next meeting of the Board had approved them.

Membership: Each Trust would now be contacted two months before their membership expired reminding them of the need to renew, to help give them time to organise their renewal application.

NEXT MEETING - Monday 3^rd September 2007