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Tudor Squares – Annual General Meeting


Chairman’s Report

Tudor Squares Annual General Meeting 13 October 2016





Tudor Squares continues to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, and most successful square dance clubs in the UK. This is in large part due to the range of callers who provide their services to the club week by week, enabling the club to offer dancing from Beginners through to Challenge.


Debbie Peel did brilliantly, getting her first group of trainees to graduate in December, engendering such enthusiasm that all have maintained their dancing, regularly attending Mainstream.


At the last count the club had 98 members, including the new graduates and the callers. The club is dependent on the membership to enable it, as a whole and each section in particular, to thrive.


Members’ enthusiasm and the expertise of callers have meant that the club has been able to run and host three public dances, plus club socials and a variety of non-dance activities.


The club held its annual Plus and Mainstream dances, in October and April respectively, with the Mainstream temporarily moving back a month in order to invite, the Australian caller, Brian Hotchkies to call for nine squares. In addition, in January, Tudor Squares did the catering for a well attended charity dance in aid of Prostate Cancer UK.


The lead organiser for each of these dances was Andrew Agathangelou (Plus), Mick West (Mainstream and catering for Winter Extravaganza in aid of Prostate Cancer UK), supported by numerous club members.


Other events included the:

New Year’s Eve party – Three squares danced, although there were enough people for four. There was plenty of time for people to dance, socialise and have a fun evening. While committee members organised the event, particular mention should be made of Susie Kelly who not only organised the calling but also prepared the quiz.


Spring Walk, 7 May – Again Ann Reardon and Grant Thorne volunteered to organise a spring walk, which was over Box Moor Trust land, beginning and ending at Little Hay Golf Complex. Walkers were able enjoy the warm weather, see the first signs of spring and take in the views of Hemel! 36 people walked and most stayed for lunch in the clubhouse and on the sun drenched patio.


Barbecue, 26 June – Although numbers were relatively small, two squares, it was a good opportunity for members to relax on a sunny, early summer afternoon and enjoy some dancing, called by Susie & Simon Kelly and Andrew Agathangelou. Members brought their own food with the club providing baguettes, cheese and cakes.


Summer outing, 10 July – The number of members attending was disappointing as only 27 people looked round Petworth House and its parkland, followed by a dance plus ploughman’s tea at Worthing Squares. Particular thanks are due to Andrew Agathangelou who again organised the trip, Eileen Hurst the resident caller and for Maggie Haswell, who’d arranged for the club to host our visit and she laid on the refreshments.


The committee plan the club’s annual programme, ensure that the club is solvent and organise the sections’ dances and club socials, so without them the club wouldn’t function. Therefore, I’d like to thank my fellow committee members for all their hard work throughout the year. However, the committee can’t do everything.


So, I’d particularly like to thank Terry Thirlwell for creating, developing and updating the club’s website www.tudorsquares.org.uk . The website really does convey a very good impression of what the club is all about. I’d also like to thank members of the club for their preparedness to undertake the weekly tasks that enable our sessions to run smoothly, for their willingness to help at events for the benefit of all club members and people’s enthusiastic participation in the club’s activities.


In addition, may I take this opportunity to thank all the callers for their commitment to sustaining square dancing and to this club, and you all personally for your support throughout the past year.


Finally, on behalf the whole club, I can’t let this opportunity pass without expressing our enormous gratitude to Mick West for his years of service as treasurer. The club’s finances have been in very safe hands throughout his tenure, with it maintaining a healthy surplus. Any new treasurer would be delighted to take over in such a healthy situation and to use Mick’s simple, refined recording system.






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