BBQ and AGM
Hampshire Whites AGM and BBQ - June 8th 2025
Over 70 members and their families gathered for Hampshire Whites annual BBQ and AGM. Kindly hosted by Jeff and Paula Borg. The atmosphere was cheerful, the food was excellent and everyone was looking forward to next season in the Premier League - with some nerves!
We were delighted to welcome back Alan Sutton and his wife Shirley who were holidaying in the area and were able to join us. Alan came as a speaker last year and Shirley and he have since become very good friends of Hampshire Whites.
While waiting for the AGM to start there was the opportunity to eat! To enter ideas for next year's Hampshire Whites badge! To sell stickers! To decide on next year's team and chat about life in general!
AGM
Steve, as vice chair led the AGM and delivered the chair's report and the ticket secretary's report as both Trevor and Geoff were on their hols.
Trevor thanked all who keep HW running with a special mention for Jacqui for her help over the years as she is now stepping back. HW is a very active group - probably one of the most active of all LUFC groups and only runs well because of the work of so many people.
We had over 200 members by the end of the season with an age range from 3 years old to over 80 years old.
Chris reported that the finances are in a healthy state and we are able to meet our commitments easily.
Geoff managed to allocate a ticket to every one who asked for a home ticket , thanks to ticket buyers (we still need more help with this), season ticket holders, priority members - and LUFC whose system allows us to buy tickets and forward them to other members. Away tickets were pretty impossible and only a few season ticket holders were able to get tickets for most matches.
Kelvin and Steve organised transport for every match - home and away - and made sure that everyone who asked us and had a ticket got to a match. We could not do this without our drivers - who drive the minibuses and /or their own cars! We made a loss on the transport this season which was caused by a number of factors - mainly not being able to fill a minibus because of lack of tickets or so many midweek matches and also because the cost of the minibus varied considerably. This is expected to be less of a problem next season!
Leroy explained that he had now moved into his role of secretary and would be taking over fully next season.
Jacqui was pleased to say HW have donated to a lot of causes this year and a few of our members have raised money for different causes. This is great for the charities and has been noticed by staff at ER which helps raise our profile in other areas.
Candlelighters - to support a child in Alan Suttons village – as a thankyou to Alan for giving his time to us last year.
St Michael’s Hospice, Harrogate - as a mark of respect for Eddie Gray
Candlelighters – the charity for the LUSN Kev and Chris football tournament
Portsmouth Aid for Ukraine – we sold Phil Jones programmes and raised money for aid that he took out to Ukraine himself
Piam Brown Children’s cancer ward at Southampton General – requested by HW member Glen Whiter. To be presented later this year.
We had a good turnout at U18s match against Portsmouth, the U21s against Aldershot and Sutton and for the presentation of the cheque to St Michaels Hospice where Eddie Gray joined us.
David reported that the website is going well and is slowly increasing in its usage. More contributions from HW membes would be appreciated. He is keeping Instagram relevant. Twitter/X has increased its following slightly.
Peter Rowling, on behalf of HW members, thanked all HW committee members for all their hard work and said how impressed he was with the organisation.
Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Vice Chair will be the same people as last year. Committee members covering vital roles will be the same as last year. We are still looking for members to help out with various roles so please contact Leroy if you are able to help.
Last but not least the raffle!
Thanks to Simon, David W, Roy, Paul F-N and Lee who have donated raffle prizes to us this year.
The signed items are always appreciated by members and we were able to run 2 raffles - a signed England shirt and a general raffle. Thanks to all of you who bought tickets - the amounts raised will be in the official summary.
The signed England shirt was donated by David and won by Chloe Bryant.
The general raffle was made more interesting with a 'promotion ' shirt signed by Tony Dorigo and Jermaine Beckford. Donated by Lee Mawson and won by Jeff Borg
