The AGM on Saturday 7^th July was opened with Chair Brian Rogan welcoming and thanking everyone for all the hard work during  the past year. There was a special thank you to Mike Prior for all his hard work with the merchandise.

And an Apology was received from Mike Inglis.

One change to the committee Craig Bennison stepped  down as club secretary due to family and work commitments, a big thank you to Craig. The vacant position has been filled by  Rose McEwan, Rose will also continue to help with the social events. When Rose is unable to attend Alex Lindsay will take the notes. The committee is as follows.

Chair                            Brian Rogan

Deputy chairman            Stuart Donald

Finance                        Andrew Murray

Secretary                      Rose McEwan

Webmaster                   Mike Inglis 

Travel                           Alex Lindsay

Hibs liaison member            Tony Connor

Football team               David Drysdale

Apfscil rep                    Grant Ramsay

Treasurer’s Report

Although our turnover decreased this year by £500, we ended the year with a surplus of £9.80. Subscriptions remained over £1,200 and our annual POTY turnover increased to over £2,100. Our new venture in mail order merchandise was a great success. We advertised in the Fanzine and on our Web Page, this brought in over £500 in sales to places such as Germany, Canada, USA as well as in the UK.

Our profit came from Subscriptions of over £1,200, POTY of over £600 and our Hibs Score Prediction competition made a profit of over £80 as the prizes were paid for in the last financial year. Our Fanzine made over £100 with stock in retailers to be collected when the next issue is produced and our Burns Night broke even.

Our main expenditure this year was in Merchandise, on which we spent over £2,000. We still have a supply of stock in hand which will raise revenue next year. As ever, Hibernian F.C. were well-supported in 2000/01 by investments of £1,083 in direct purchases which included Season Tickets, Player Sponsorship and Almond Suite membership and with indirect purchases of our POTY bash of over £1,700. Our postage costs were down as we now only post to members who do not have e-mail.

We also donated £50 to charity.

The cash available at 1^st June is £780.94.

Apfscil/Football Team 

No update  from APFSCIL and Grant Ramsay continues to be our representative and Kevin Robertson continues to be on the APFSCIL committee.

The APFSCIL league Division one shield was proudly displayed at the meeting which the London Hibs football team won for the second year in a row. David Drysdale will take over the management of the football team from Kevin. Kevin will continue to report back the progress of the team during the new season. Good luck lads we want another 100% which we hope will include the Cup. For all you fit London  Hibee’s out there the team is always looking for new players.

Fanzine

Mike Inglis was given a 100% vote to carry on with the great work on the fanzine. (But if anyone is dying to take over and avoid a divorce (mine that is) email mike.inglis@londonhibs.net) Rose and Alex will also help with collecting articles. If you have any articles etc please do send them to us. Due to the internet coverage it has been decided to have one issue in the year. 

Many thanks again to everyone who contributed and sold the last fanzine. Why not try to beat Rose’s record of selling twenty fanzines in five minutes. Mind you the low cut top did help....More

Player of the Year and Burns Night

Social time again and out with the diary.

The POTY will be held on the 24^th November 2001 up at Easter Road. Hibs are playing Livingston at home that day. A sub committee has been formed which includes Andrew, Tony, Alex and Rose to help with the arrangements. Further details will follow shortly.

The Burns night we are down to three dates either 19^th or 25^th January 2002 or 2^nd February. As with the POTY a sub committee has been created who will discuss the dates and arrangements. The committee includes Alex, Stefan, Rhian Jenkins and Rose.

Player of the Year vote

The votes were cast for the POTY and in reverse order 

3^rd place Ulrik Laursen

2^nd place John O Neil 

1^st place Frank Sauzee

Frank won it by the length of Easter Road.

1^st time somebody has retained the trophy as in previous years those who won it ******** off soon after i.e. our friend Russell "Lapaty", Darren Jackson, Michael O'Neill and Darren Dodds. It got so bad that in previous years members were voting for Alex Miller to see if he would ******** off as well.

Free Raffle for the signed, framed Tam McManus Away shirt

Dave Smith won the raffle for Tom’s signed shirt.

“Jimmy Lindsay” Memorial Golf Trophy

Golf will be on Saturday 11^th August 2001 at Borehamwood. It will be £25 for the golf, food and some drinks. Contact Alex Lindsay for details: corbyalex@hotmail.com . See separate email for entry form.

Itinerary:

08:30                Coffee in the club house.

09:00                First Tee off.

12-13:00   Plated Ploughman’s.

13-14:00   Drinks in the Bar.

14:00                Tee Off.

16:30                Drink in Bar Check HIBS score.

17:00                Prizes and Hot Finger Buffet.

THE BIG PRIZE DRAW TO BE HELD IN THE BAR AT 17:15

1^ST PRIZE: A TRIP TO EASTER ROAD  FLIGHT, HOTEL AND GAME TICKETS FOR TWO Plus other great prizes

If you wish to enter the raffle but cannot go on the day please contact Alex as soon as possible.

Rose