ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19

TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents

Bowls Tasmania Information _____________________________________________________________________________ 1

Annual General Meeting Agenda ________________________________________________________________________ 2

AGM Minutes 2017/18 ____________________________________________________________________________________ 3

Presidents Report __________________________________________________________________________________________ 6

Treasurers Report _________________________________________________________________________________________ 8

Independent Aditor's Report ______________________________________________________________________________ 9

Honour Roll 2018/19 ____________________________________________________________________________________ 20

Sponsors ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 22

BOWLS TASMANIA INFORMATION

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Bowls Tasmania Information

Address: 2b Invermay Rd, Invermay, Tasmania 7248 (Entrance off Forster St.) Correspondence to: PO Box 4041, Invermay Tasmania 7248 Tel: 6331 7436 Mobile: 0447 722 128 E-mail: exec@bowlstasmania.com.au Web address: www.bowlstasmania.com.au

OFFICE BEARERS 2018 - 2019

President Sue Ross CEO Rebecca Van Asch 6331 7436 0447 722 128 (maternity leave 11/12/18) Treasurer Bob Clifton 6247 6065 0418 262 646

BOARD OF MANAGEMENT

Sue Ross (Chairman) Bob Clifton Margaret Cornish Deeann Harman Graham Hay Liz Rickards Nick Lee

BOWLS AUSTRALIA STATE CONSULTATIVE BODY

Sue Ross Rebecca Van Asch

LIFE MEMBERS

Pat Gourlay* Alice Tomlin* Joan Middleton O.A.M Trevor Roach* A.M Leigh Bishop* B.E.M Jack Clarke* O.A.M. Bill Palmer* Max Minns* Patricia Bennett

AUDITOR

Mal Matthews Crowe Horwath

REGIONAL BOWLS MANAGER

Simon Morrison 0427 150 918 smorrison@bowlsaustralia.com.au

STATE SELECTORS STATE TEAM OFFICIALS

Chairman of Selectors Phil Hobbs Mens Head Coach Grant Allford Mens Manager Trevor Docking Women Mens Leonie Price Darren Monks Womens Head Coach Chris Dudman Sophie Fletcher Graeme Burnie Womens Manager Leonie Price Gwenda King Trevor Docking U18 Head Coach TBA

Over 60's Women Over 60's Men U18 Manager David Minns Ailsa Milburn Bill Butler Margaret Cornish Lyn Vodak TBA Senior Men’s Manager Chris Dudman Deeann Harman Chris Dudman Senior Women’s Manager Deeann Harman Under 18 David Minns Max Amos

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AGENDA

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Annual General Meeting Agenda

10.30am, Friday May 24th, 2019.

Longford Bowls Club

1. Welcome

2. Apologies

3. Confirmation of minutes of previous meeting

4. Business arising from previous meeting

5. Reports

President

Treasurer

6. Election of Directors

7. Appointment of Auditors

8. Close Meeting

AGM MINUTES 2017/18

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AGM Minutes 2017/18

Annual General Meeting 10:40am Friday May 25th 2018

LONGFORD BOWLS CLUB

MINUTES

PRESENT: Garry Beven

- President Dee Harman

- Board Bob Clifton - Board Nick Lee - Board

Max Amos Sue Ross

- Board Margaret Cornish - Board

- Board

Rebecca Van Asch - Chief Executive Officer

Voting Delegates

Bob Franklin – Bowls North West Marleen van den Bosch – Bowls North

Peter Kirby - Bowls South

Other Attendees

Gwenda King – Bowls North West

1 Welcome The President welcomed the attendees to the AGM for season 2017/18.

2 Apologies Gaylene McNabb, Shirley Hay.

3 Confirmation of minutes of previous meeting The previous minutes were accepted as read from the previous AGM.

Proposed by Marlene van den Bosch to accept them as a true and accurate

record of the meeting.

Seconded by Peter Kirby.

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4 Business arising from previous meeting Bowls Tasmania confirmed the rotation of Board Directors due to the Special

Resolution extending the term of Elected Directors to 3 years.

5 Reports President Garry Beven read his report to the attendees. Proposed to accept the report, Garry Beven. Seconded by Peter Kirby. Chief Executive Officer The CEO read her report to the attendees. Rebecca thanked Gary for the work he has done as President of Bowls

Tasmania.

Proposed to accept the report by Garry Beven. Seconded by Gwenda King.

Garry congratulated Rebecca on her work through the year and in particular

the Live Streaming of all state events.

Treasurer Bob Clifton read his report and summarised the financial report.

Peter Kirby noted that he believed there must be a move to a fixed fee

capitation model. Peter asked that this keep being discussed at RCC

Meetings.

Proposed to accept the reports by Bob Clifton.

Seconded by Bob Franklin.

Garry thanked Bob Clifton for his diligent work throughout the year.

6 Announcement of Directors Bowls North - Male Vacant, Female Sue Ross

Bowls South - Male Nick Lee, Female Vacant

Bowls NW - Male Vacant, Female Dee Harman

Bob Clifton - Appointed Director (1 year)

7 Appointment of Auditor

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Bob Clifton moved that Crowe Horwath remain as the auditors for the following season. Seconded Peter Kirby.

8 Special Business

Life Membership proposal for Patricia Bennett, passed by unanimous consensus.

9 Close of meeting

President Garry thanked everyone for their time while he was Bowls Tasmania President.

Peter Kirby moved a vote of thanks for the work Garry has done for bowls in Tasmania during this time, which was unanimously supported.

Meeting closed at 11:25am.

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President

PRESIDENTS REPORT

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Presidents Report

As my term of office on this board concludes at this AGM, I have the honour of presenting

my first and last President’s report.

This year has been a challenging one for Bowls Tasmania, with the absence of our CEO on

maternity leave for the past six months. It has certainly shown us how much we rely on

Rebecca Van Asch’s knowledge and know-how when she is at work. I am very grateful that

she has continued to make herself available to answer questions when needed. Thank you

Bec.

Before Bec took her maternity leave she had further successes on the green, following her

Commonwealth Games success of the previous season. Bec won the Australian Open

Women’s Singles title and the Australian Indoor Women’s title, before arguably her greatest

success of the year, the birth of the beautiful Alexis May (Lexi). Many congratulations Bec.

Only a few short weeks after Lexi’s birth Bec went on to win a bronze medal at the World

Cup, a remarkable effort. Bec, you have made Tasmania very proud and we are lucky to

have you with us at Bowls Tasmania. We eagerly await your return to work.

There were other successes on the green during the year. Our Juniors won their test match

against Victoria in July and Jorja Maughan and Lauren Banks came home with a gold medal

from the Junior National Championships. Lee Schraner won the men’s Australian Champion

of Champions competition, which was held very successfully at Kingborough Bowls Club,

and Lauren Banks was runner-up in the women’s competition. Lee also won bronze at the

World Champion of Champions event, and he and Lyn Triffit won silver medals in the

Australian Championships Singles. Rick Ormerod and Alan Ryman won gold at the Multi-

Disability Nationals event.

After a somewhat disappointing performance against Victoria in the French Holbrook Test

series in December, though the men’s side put up a valiant effort narrowly losing the final

deciding test, both Open sides bounced back with emphatic victories against ACT in January.

The men won 5-0 and the women 4-1. At the Sides Championships in Ettalong NSW in April,

the men finished fifth on the ladder, while the women finished fourth, a good result for them

which included a victory against Victoria. Three juniors Josh Walker-Davis, who won the

men’s player of the series medal, Lauren Banks and Jorja Maughan, were included in the

Open sides, which bodes well for the future.

There is now 18 months before the next Sides Championships, which will be part of The

Nationals, a new concept from Bowls Australia whereby the Junior Nationals, Open Sides,

Senior Sides, Australian Championships and Champion of Champions event, and possibly

the Multi-Disability Nationals, will all be included in a two-week competition. This will present

challenges for Bowls Tasmania, especially coming right at the start of our season, but work

is already underway to re-vamp our High Performance Calendar to give our sides the best

possible chance of success.

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Bowls Tasmania produced its new Strategic Plan this year and looks forward to working to

achieve the KPIs therein. It is very much based on the Bowls Australia Strategic Plan, in

order to achieve a whole of sport approach.

Another attempt was made this year to achieve one set of Conditions of Play to cover

pennant for the whole state. However after discussion between the three regions it was

decided that it would be pointless to disrupt a system that works perfectly well for 18 weeks

of the year, in order to satisfy the demands of the 6% of players who make it through to the

State Pennant finals. Open Gender pennant on Saturday has now been embraced by all

three regions.

We are very grateful to our partners, especially the contribution and support of the Tasmanian

Government and Community Sport and Recreation Tasmania. We also acknowledge and

thank WIN TV, Henselite, Aceit, BCIB, ANZ and City Club.

The new website is up and running and the new database has just been activated. Clubs

need to be reminded to ensure that all information about their members is correct, particularly

contact details. I should like to thank David Genford for his help in posting information on the

website for us during the year and for writing some wonderful articles.

I should like to thank the board for their support this year, particularly Bob Clifton our

Treasurer, who has been the source of much sage advice, as well as continuing to do such

a great job with the finances. Sadly Nick Lee resigned from the board, due to medical

reasons, but we welcomed back Les Harrison, to fill the vacancy created when he previously

resigned. Les will resume his portfolio of Officials and Umpires, as well as taking the Bowlers

with a Disability and Bowlers with a Bowling Arm under his wing.

I also thank Warren Groves, who has helped enormously with the organisation of events,

especially during Rebecca’s absence, and Kim Saunders, who has helped out in the office

and been a great support for our administrative assistant Nadene Graham. Nadene has

been on a very steep learning curve, having no previous knowledge of bowls, but has been

willing to learn and I thank you for your efforts and your cheerful patience Nadene.

I wish my successor every good fortune. There are challenges ahead with the new set-up

of the Nationals and there are KPIs to achieve, as set out in our Strategic Plan, but I am sure

that Rebecca’s return to work will help ease your path.

Thank you

Sue Ross

President

TREASURERS REPORT

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Treasurers Report

A Surplus of $2,911 was achieved for the year. The result was slightly under our

projected surplus but after achieving our Financial Plan.

Revenue was consistent with last year but fell short of our budgeted amount in

Capitation Fees $8,000 and Sponsorship $6,000 with these shortfalls being

offset by savings in other areas.

The continued support from Sport & Recreation is noted and much appreciated

and I thank Rebecca & Sue for their efforts in once again securing this grant.

This result has been achieved with a lot of effort from CEO Rebecca and Nadene

who has filled in while Rebecca is on maternity leave and thanks go to our

sponsors for their support.

The Board has considered our program for the coming year and factored in rising

costs, particularly with representative teams, and other financial risks and

recommends that the current Capitation Fees be increased for the 2019 /20 year

by $2 for both Adults & Juniors to $52 and $37 respectively.

In closing and on behalf of the Board, I would like to pay tribute to Sue Ross for

her service on the Board and in particular for her efforts as President over the

last 12 months in which she not only performed the usual duties associated with

the role but has been very involved in assisting Nadene run the office during

Rebecca's leave.

Bob Clifton

Treasurer

HONOUR ROLL

SEASON 2018/19

TASMANIAN WOMEN’S OPEN CHAMPIONS 2019

WINNERS RUNNERS UP

SINGLES Lyn Triffitt Amity Booth

PAIRS Lyn Triffitt (S) Jenny Tirant (L)

Jorja Maughan (S) Lauren Banks (L)

TRIPLES Candice Hodgetts (S) Kim Saunders (2) Jenny Tirant (L)

Dee Harman (S) Alison Venn (2) Mary Beaumont (L)

FOURS Maxine Monson (S) Judy Gurr (3) Madge Strochnetter (2) Sophie Fletcher (L)

Christine Dowl (S) Di Peck (3) Lyn Barlow (2) Anne Hinkley (L)

TASMANIAN MEN’S OPEN CHAMPIONS 2019

WINNERS RUNNERS UP

SINGLES Josh Appleyard Robert McMullen

PAIRS Gene Ayton (S) Tristan Bakes (L)

Connor Munnings (S) Paul Williamson (L)

TRIPLES Greg Douce (S) Aaron Jago (2) Phil Mundy (L)

Lee Schraner (S) Michael Sweeney (2) Grant Allford (L)

FOURS Lee Schraner (S) Robert McMullen (3) Josh Appleyard (2) Brad Johns (L)

Daniel Baker (S) Josh Baker (3) Joey Thomas (2) Matthew Jackson (L)

TASMANIAN WOMEN’S SENIOR CHAMPIONS 2019

WINNERS RUNNERS UP

PAIRS Kim Saunders (S) Gaylene Elsworthy (L)

Barb Smith (S) Madge Strochnetter (L)

FOURS Gail Thow (S) Shiron Beavis (3) Janenne Thompson (2) Val Carey (L)

Maxine Monson (S) Judy Gurr (3) Madge Strochnetter (2) Sophie Fletcher (L)

HONOUR ROLL

SEASON 2018/19

TASMANIAN MEN’S SENIOR CHAMPIONS 2019

WINNERS RUNNERS UP

PAIRS Ralph Tieman (S) Geoff Doyle (L)

Peter Barrett (S) Don Campbell (L)

FOURS Wayne Manson (S) Peter French (3) Trevor Docking (2) Peter Zoon (L)

Bill Butler (S) Warren Groves (3) John Sutcliffe (2) Peter Thow (L)

TASMANIAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONS 2019

GIRLS BOYS

SINGLES Lauren Banks Isaac Maughan

PAIRS Blake Sculthorpe (S) Noah Sculthorpe (L)

TASMANIAN DISABILITY CHAMPIONS 2019

Alison Westwood (Women – BWD Singles Champion) Rick Ormerod (Men – BWD Singles Champion)

Alan Ryman & Colleen Fellows (Open – BWD Pairs Champions) Shane Van Riel (BWD – Visual Impairment Champion)

Daniel Smith (BWB – Intellectual Champion) Peter Thow (BWBA Singles Champion)

Kevin Bowkett & Jeremy Bracken (BWBA Pairs Champions)

TASMANIAN PENNANT CHAMPIONS 2019

THURSDAY SATURDAY

PREMIER Kingborough

DIVISION 1 Sandy Bay Dover RSL

DIVISION 2 Sandy Bay Sheffield

DIVISION 3 Trevallyn Ridgley

DIVISION 4 Ravenswood Howrah

DIVISION 5 Midlands

DIVISION 6 Glenorchy City

STATEWIDE CHALLENGE CHAMPIONS 2019

WOMEN’S MEN’S

OVERALL Bowls South

OPEN Bowls South Bowls North West

SENIOR Bowls North Bowls North West

JUNIOR Bowls North West

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