Roy Kimberley has formally advised that he will step down as BWPPA president after many successful years in the role. Tony Southern will take over the role (but will be chairman/administrator as he doesn’t want the title of president, as he holds this with the British Pool Federation (This has been cleared this with EPBF)
Roy has accepted the title of ‘Life-President’, and will remain a committee member.
Tony and the committee would like to thank Roy for all his years working as president.
Other committee members are Danny Luton, Matthew Lester and Dan Lee.
Tony’s wife (Brenda) will take over the treasurer role from Judy Kimberley as (Brenda) is a part-qualified accountant.
From 2018 all prize monies will be sent by bank transfer or PayPal and you will have the option of paying event fees by either method, or by cash at the event.
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In 2018 we will be introducing an ‘Open’ event, which will be at the summer event at Stoke Mandeville, which will be open to all disabilities. Further information will be available soon.
In 2018 we will have 4 ranking events instead of 5 to accommodate the open event. After event 1 the rankings will be based on the best 3 from 4 ranking events.
Confirmed dates for 2018
07-08 April Stoke Mandeville
12-13 May Barnsley
11-12 August Stoke Mandeville (Open Event)
15-16 Sept Barnsley
03-04 Nov Stoke Mandeville
Prize Money for the 4 ranking events will be as follows:
Winner: £250
R-up: £125
S/F(*2) £60
£50 to the challenge event pot.
Entry fees same as 2017, your first ever BWPPA event is free
(A small fee will apply to the open event)
Main Event
Ranked 1-4 £30
Ranked 5-8 £25
Ranked 9+ £20
Challenge Event £10 entry
£5 per ranking event membership fee or £20 full season.
THE TABLES AT STOKE MANDEVILLE WILL HOPEFULLY BE RECLOTHED/LEVELLED AS REQUIRED BY EVENT 1.
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BWPPA launches ** search for a Q-star(s) 2018 **
In order to move forward, the tour is inviting applications from any player outside of the top 10 as of the end of the 2017 season, or any former or new players to put their name forward for a sponsorship award.
** This is limited to GB players only. **
This will involve approximately £1.8k of BWPPA funds, being used to help at least 6 players towards their costs of attending the tour in 2018.
For example player x (a northern player) would receive appox £100 an event when attending an event at Stoke Manderville and player y (a southern player,) would receive £100 for attending an event at Barnsley. There would also be a ‘midlands’ band.
Payment would be made following the completion of an event, in the event of a player not being able to attend, the funding for that event would pass to the 1st reserve etc.
We envisage being able to support at least 6 players in total in 2018, and hope to expand that further in 2019, as funds permit. We will select from new players, players who appear on the tour occasionally and former players.
To register your interest in this, please send an email to the tour chairman/administrator at tonysouthern@msn.com, this is the only application method, posts on here, texts and PM’s will NOT BE ACCEPTED. Feel free to ask any questions via any method.
**THERE APPEARS TO BE AN ISSUE WITH EMAILS COMING THROUGH SO COPY TO TONYSOUTHERN@ME.COM PLEASE**
Once all applications have been received (closing date: Feb 28 2018), the decision on who to support (inc. a reserve list) will be taken by a full BWPPA committee vote, and all those considered informed, within 14 days.
** there will be no appeal process **
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We have launched an online survey which we encourage all current/former/new players to fill in.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCj1WdlC0sYBhKjiSVB7hr4SEyy7rwaJQAgGr6XfWqt7yXyg/viewform
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Lots of information to digest, see you all in 2018
Tony Southern
BWPPA Chairman/Administrator
