My last post was about getting the main batch of papers out for the WCF Council meeting scheduled for the 17th July. That was in May - the second (and final) batch had to go out by 17th June and took a lot of effort to finalise.
There were no formally-submitted amendments to the Management Committee's proposals and resolutions send in the first batch, but there were a number of extra papers and some whoppers from the new Croquet Federation of India and Latvian Croquet Federation, supporting their membership applications. These are all to be found at http://www.wcfcroquet.org/Council_2011/CouncilPapers.php.
One disappointment was that we didn't receive a finalised information pack from the Pakistan Croquet Federation - hopefully things will be sorted out there before too long.
I had some fun drafting for the MC our MC Report and a new Business Plan. The first gave me a chance to reflect on all the stuff that's going on and to survey wat we've achieved in the past year. The second was an opportunity to think further about where we should be going. Our last Business Plan was very thorough - tying everything back to many objectives stated in our Statutes - but as a result was 25 pages long and not very readable. I did my best to write our new plan in 4 pages - but subsequent edits took it up to 5. Still I'm very pleased with this straightforward top level plan (both available at the link above).
The bit of the plan that looks tricky is getting Development rolling. Indeed, reading some past Reports and Business Plans reveals this has been continuing lament for many years - so we need to really ask ourselves how can we make more Development progress. Once the Council meeting is done, we'll turn more attention to this topic and see if we can make some decent progress.
Of course, we're also in the thick of the UK croquet season now, so July for me consists of:
> playing in the British Opens 3rd - 10th
> helping at the Under 21 GCWC 11th-15th
> Council Meeting 17th
> attend a bit of the GCWC say 19th or 20th
> son's graduation in Swansea 21st/22nd
> Compton tournament 30th/ 31st.
...so my apologies now if I don't get much time to post anything in July!
I hope you have the chance to play in, spectate or help with any of the WCF events in July - hope to see you there.
Martin French
