From the 2023 AGM - 13 March

President Terry-Anne Maunsell presented her report at the AGM:

"It is wonderful to be able to hold an AGM in a relatively restriction free atmosphere.

"Last AGM we had resumed Monday and Tuesday sessions albeit with small numbers and were still negotiating with Easts Club re the resumption of Wednesday sessions. Thankfully we were able to resume Wednesday sessions fairly soon after. Over the year the number of tables at each session has slowly been increasing and it has been wonderful to see so many familiar faces returning.

"Numbers are not yet back to pre Covid levels for a number of reasons including many of our members taking the opportunity to again undertake overseas travel. Our experiment of Tuesday night sessions was not very successful but may be revisited in the coming year.

"Our Beginner's classes have been popular with the latest commencing a week ago with 20+ participants. Some are people who had their previous course curtailed by Covid but most are those who have heard by word of mouth from members or previous students.

"We now have 114 members and our financial situation is recovering after the losses incurred during lockdowns etc. We have been able to resume offering free game tickets to monthly winners and to the top pair (N/S or E/W) when there are 10 or more tables.

"A big occasion during the year was the 100th birthday of Maurice Steinfeld. We were honoured to be able to celebrate this big day with Maurice and his family. Many members attended to wish him all the best and enjoy the pizza and drinks we funded with him. There was also a delicious cake supplied by Easts Club who also arranged a photographer to record the occasion. Many thanks to Nicoleta who together with the family arranged a slide show of photographs of Maurice's life.