NZ Bridge AGM

Chris Farrow and I represented the club at the NZ Bridge AGM held at the Wellington Bridge Club on Saturday 13th June.

Points of interest included the following:

• NZ Bridge is still running at a (small) loss, despite passing on increased costs to clubs: cost-cutting measures are being examined "line by line" on a monthly basis in an effort to ensure that the organisation can break even by the end of the current financial year
• a proposal to prepare a 5-year financial plan was agreed: this should be available to clubs by the end of this year
• of NZ Bridge's over 12,000 members:
• 1,047 (8.2%) are Open players
• 4,230 (33.1%) are Intermediate
• 7,505 (58.7%) are Juniors
• NZ Bridge is now required to provide a Statement of Service Performance as part of its audited financial statements
• the "Toolkit" is available - approximately 75% complete - on the NZ Bridge website portal
• Also available through the portal are a range of teaching materials.  Teachers are being kept up to date via a dedicated Teaching and Learning WhatsApp group
• this year's Congress will be held in Palmerston North (please refer to previous separate post here)
• the new NZ Bridge website is not yet ready
• a report on the Tournament Review is expected shortly: this is expected to remove all restrictions on clubs relating to the scheduling and delivery of tournaments.

The papers for the meeting can be found here in the unlikely event that anyone wants to read them in detail.

If anyone would like further information please do not hesitate to contact either me or Chris Farrow.