• Kat Heaton 185
• Lucian Evans 167
• Tom Campbell 163
• Jonathan Benton-Hughes (aka Jonny Trunk) 160
• Vivian Jeffryes 70
• Ron Jeffryes 49

Total Votes: 213;  Total Voided: 4; Total Counted: 209

Congratulations to Kat, Lucian, Tom and Jonny who have been re-elected to serve on the Committee for a further two years.  Thanks to all those who took part.

Approved by Peter Snell (Club Secretary)

These results have been posted on Club notice boards.

Big thanks to the scrutineers and team of helpers for their smooth running of the vote: David Dade, Chris Paul, Helen Gorry, Flis Premru, John McNeive, Sally Peters, Betty Scott-Dade and Gary Reynolds.

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Notice of Special General Meeting to amend two rules in the rulebook, one on dissolution and one of licensing

17 July 2024 @6.30pm, Small Hall

Change 1

Rule 30 on dissolution currently states:

 “The club may at any time be dissolved by the consent of three-fourths of the members, testified by their signatures to an instrument of dissolution in the form provided by the Act, or by winding up in a manner provided by the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014. The remaining assets, after the payment of all liabilities, shall be distributed amongst the members in equal shares. A member joining the club on or after the date of registration of this rule, must have been a member and remain a member for at least 5 years before they become entitled to a share of any surplus assets on dissolution.”

The proposal from the committee to go before the SGM is to adopt an alternative to the wording in bold above. This would remove a potential barrier to the Club applying for charitable funding.

The new Rule 30 on dissolution (with the new wording highlighted) would be:

“The Club may at any time be dissolved by the consent of three fourths of the Members, certified by their signatures to an instrument of dissolution in the form provided by the Act, or by winding up in a manner provided by the Cooperative and Community Benefit Act 2014. The remaining assets, after the payment of all liabilities, shall not be paid to or distributed among the Members of the Club, but shall be given or transferred, to a charity or charities or other not-for-profit organisation(s) serving the local community chosen by a simple majority of members who have been a member for at least five years before the resolution to dissolve.”

Change 2

The Mildmay Club currently has authority to sell alcohol under a Club Premises Certificate. To increase the range of activities we can provide to our Members and to the local community the committee has decided the Club should seek to obtain a Premises License (like the license a pub would have). To ensure our rules reflect this change we need to expand Rule 37 (‘Interpretation’) to include a third sub-clause as highlighted below:

37. Interpretation

(1) In these rules, words denoting the masculine gender shall be deemed to include the feminine.

(2) Any reference to the Chief Registrar, Registrar, Central Office, Assistant Registrar (for Scotland), includes reference to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) or any other statutory successor carrying on the relevant functions of any of them.

(3) Any reference to a Club Premises Certificate includes reference to a Premises License or any other similar License granted to the Club by a statutory authority.”

A copy of the current rules can be requested via email to ‘secretary@mildmay.club’ or by asking the secretary for a copy via the bar.

Please come along to the meeting and support the proposals from the committee. We need a vote in favour by 75% of those attending.

 Peter Snell (Secretary)

2nd July 2024

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We are casting for all roles, experience welcome, but not necessary, any specialist skills, puppeteers, jugglers , gymnasts etc we would love to hear from you.

Audition dates are 17th/19th/22nd and 24th June, please get in touch no later than Friday June 14th if you would like an audition slot.

If you don’t want to join the cast, then join the crew, our fab team that work tirelessly behind the scenes.
We are looking for costume designers, and makers, people with sewing and sequin sticking skills no matter how basic…

We will also need prop makers and set designers/ builders/ painters (again, experience would be fab but not a deal breaker)

We need a Musical Director too! and ANY Musicians.

If you would like to get involved auditions will be held at The Mildmay Club, and you would need to be available for weekly rehearsals from early September through to Christmas, performance dates are December 12th/13th/14th/15th

This is a community event and we will be unable to pay the cast, but it will be great fun, and you’ll get a chance to tread the boards at the Mildmay Club…

Here’s what some of our panto alumni had to say:

“Got booed on stage and people stop me in the street and tell me I’m evil”
Abanazer

“Made new friends and shared so much laughter! Fantastic sense of community”
Ugly Sista

“Gained so much confidence, pushed myself out of my comfort zone and reignited dormant creative passions”
Buttons

“The most fun I’ve had in twenty miserable years as a writer”
Pet Brown, Writer

Please Email your interest to sammenezes@icloud.com and we will send you further information

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The Mildmay committee team put in a valiant performance – but were firmly middle-order performers in this one!

Do come and join in the next one later in the year – we’ll keep you updated in the newsletter and on the website.

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So after lots of discussion about the best way forward, we got the experts in to do a proper job sanding and revarnishing our historic dance floors.

We now have two fabulous looking dance floors, ready for for the whole Mildmay community to enjoy – whether it’s the regular swing dance on a Tuesday or the Friday bingo or members’ night on a Saturday.  Great progress in restoring the club to its former glory. Plenty more to come!

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We will hopefully have many more regular sessions like this to encourage anyone and everyone to come and play at the club and you can bring along your friends as guests to take part.

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He’s tackled three so far, but we’ll get them all done in turn to make sure your snooker experience at the Mildmay is equal to the best in London.

By the by, Keith’s brother Steve has been known to knock a few balls into pockets from time to time.

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It’s a great place to come together and meet friends.

Every Friday night at the club from 7.30pm and you don’t have to be a member.

So dabbers at the ready, eyes down and let’s play!!

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