Board Meeting Summary – July 2017
Chairman’s Report
The Chairman reported on the meeting of the Divisional Chairs and Deputy Chairs, some of whom were newly appointed, which had taken place on 29 June 2017. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the Alliance’s new strategy and the role of the divisions within the organisation. The Chairman felt that it had been a worthwhile experience to have everyone around the table. The Chief Executive explained that it was harder for those larger Divisional groupings to have an agenda with common ground and the meeting discussed how better to serve these constituencies. The Chairman felt that there had been a few things to take from the meeting which would be included in the membership review that was currently underway.
CEO’s Report
The Chief Executive provided her report which also had a separate paper on the progress on the Operational Plan, quarter one.
A Key Performance Indicator (KPI) ‘snapshot’ paper was tabled for information and highlighted performance at the end of the first quarter; although some KPIs were only captured at the year end.
Financial Report
The Board discussed the paper to be shared with Sport England in order to secure confirmation of funding for the duration of the new strategy. The Chairman would contact Nick Bitel to arrange a conversation to let him know that the Alliance’s funding proposal would be arriving in the next couple of weeks. EB confirmed that Sport England had sent the first two quarterly payments of contractual funding based on the 3% reduction offer they had made.
The Board received the management accounts for the two-month period ended 31 May 2017. Although the budget was broadly on track the two areas of income that remained an area of concern were that from events and commercial income.
Governance
The Board approved the timescales for election of a new Senior Independent Director for 2017 now that Mike Power had retired at the AGM held earlier in the day. The Company Secretary would circulate the nomination form in August in order that the new SID was duly elected and in place for the October Board meeting.
The Board approved Monica Shafaq to be the Director to lead on equality and agreed how Board members would link up to the objectives in the new strategy and provide attendance at divisional meetings in the Autumn.
The Board approved changes to the Rules document which reflected the decision to retain all current Honorary Members but not appoint any further ones (current Rule 47), and to remove Rule 64, which made reference to two Community Interest Companies which had been dissolved. A new set of Rules would be uploaded to the members’ area of the website accordingly.
Date of Next Meeting
The date of the next scheduled meeting was confirmed as Tuesday 5 September 2017. This was the annual strategy meeting with the Senior Management Team.
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