{"id":11843,"date":"2025-07-04T08:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T07:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=11843"},"modified":"2026-01-29T20:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:26:33","slug":"annual-general-meeting-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=11843","title":{"rendered":"Annual General Meeting 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The AGM took place at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/maps\/place\/Holiday+Inn+Guildford+by+IHG\/@51.2369048,-0.6055038,17z\/data=!4m9!3m8!1s0x4875d0e6b3c80b39:0xd737b400e07514d4!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d51.2369015!4d-0.6029289!16s%2Fg%2F1tdzqlv7?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDUwMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holiday Inn Guildford<\/a> on Tuesday 24 June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1036 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/ACM-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/ACM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/ACM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/ACM-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/ACM.png 358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/>The meeting discussed the county activities from the previous year. The report is <a href=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/Annual-Report-of-County-Activities-2024-25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/Emma-France.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emma France<\/a> (Guildford City Swimming Club), <a href=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/Justine-Ryan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justine Ryan<\/a> (Guildford City Swimming Club) and <a href=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/John-Tripp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Tripp<\/a> (Hart Swimming Club) were made honorary life vice-presidents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/Max-Morgan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Max Morgan<\/a> (Reed&#8217;s Swimming Club Cobham) was made an honorary life member.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/PresidentsPlate2025.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Francisco Diaz Romero<\/a> (Star Diving Club Guildford) and Andy Hewat (Star Diving Club Guildford) were joint recipients of the president\u2019s plate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The meeting reviewed the <a href=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/AGM-finance-report-24.6.2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">treasurer\u2019s report<\/a> for the preceding year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The following were elected committee members for 2025-26:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2022 Alan Thurlow (Wandsworth Swimming Club)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2022 Carole Chaplin (Surrey Schools\u2019 Swimming Association)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2022 Christina Victor (Guildford City Swimming Club)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2022 Francisco Diaz Romero (Star Diving Club Guildford)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2022 Hannah Davies (South Croydon Swimming Club)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2022 Justine Ryan (Guildford City Swimming Club)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/ChristinaVictorAGM2025.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Christina Victor<\/a> (Guildford City Swimming Club) was installed as the president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The following were elected executive officers for 2025-26:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2022 Chair: Diane Gamble (Croydon Borough Swimming Association)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2022 Secretary: Irene Holden (Woking Swimming Club)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2022 Treasurer: Jim Boucher (Guildford Water Polo Club)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The draft minutes of the meeting, to be ratified at next year\u2019s AGM, are <a href=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/AGM-minutes-draft-24.6.2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AGM was held at the Holiday Inn Guildford on Tuesday 24 June. The treasurer\u2019s report for the preceding year was reviewed, the committee and executive officers elected for 2025-26 and the new president installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-executive","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11843"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12436,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions\/12436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}