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2025 Committee:

Chairman – Steve Kilner

Vice-Chairman – Martin Butcher

Treasurer – Valerie-Anne Barrow

Secretary – Kate Poyser

Ladies Shooting Reps – Valerie-Anne & Kate

Trophy Manager – Matt Pickford

Committee Member - Paul Bailey

Committee Member - Simon Cox

Committee Member - Adam Gutteridge

Committee Member - Ian Hull

Committee Member - Neil Hastilow

 

2025 Team Managers:

All Round:  Steve Kilner

Automatic Ball Trap:  Ian Hull

Clubman:  Matt Pickford

Double Rise:  Valerie-Anne Barrow

Down The Line:  Valerie-Anne Barrow

English Skeet:  Kate Poyser

English Sporting:  Martin Butcher

FITASC Sporting:  Steve Ward

Helice / ZZ:  Paul Bailey

Olympic Skeet:  Simon Cox

Olympic Trap:  Adam Gutteridge

Single Barrel:  Valerie-Anne Barrow

Super Sporting:  Neil Hastilow

Universal Trench:  Adam Gutteridge

 

Staffordshire CPSA AGM on 18^th January 2025

Chairman’s Report

I’m delighted to report on 2024 being another very successful season for Staffordshire and our shooters.  I’d like to thank everyone on the Committee who has helped to ensure that continued success.  It’s a true team effort and the fact that we work so well as a team is born out by our results.

It was confirmed at the last West Midlands Area meeting that we had successfully defended the Lyalvale Trophy.  We also defended the Gun Up Trophy and came joint second in the Gun Down Trophy.  This is not only good for the County but provides important funding for a range of activities, such as updating trophies, supplying the Staffs polo shirts and supporting initiatives such as the Staffs CPSA business cards and Ladies development days.

The polo shirts have been an excellent initiative and have proven to be extremely popular.  I’d like to thank Valerie who sourced a reliable supplier in Elite Logos 4U and has subsequently put in a lot of work to get those shirts to the various recipients.  I’d also like to thank our sponsors, Solware and Lyalvale Express. It’s been so nice to see so many people wearing them with pride.  This has particularly shone through out at the Inter-County competitions and Clubman event.

Regarding our County Championships, we ran events in every discipline, eleven in total, with the exception of Double Rise, which I’m delighted to say is back on the menu for 2025. 

There is a table on our website which shows all of the winners across the various disciplines and categories.  Trophies were shared out across the Seniors, with the exception of Adam Gutteridge who won the All Round, ABT, OT and UT – an outstanding season for him.  We’ve had 9 different Veteran winners and it’s been encouraging to see five different women winning County championships.  Our leading Junior, Archie Tromans had a terrific season, winning five competitions.

On the Inter-Counties front, we’ve competed in ten championships, winning 4 Golds, 3 Silvers and 2 Bronze and we’ve finished 4^th only once.  We’ve had 63 different people shoot for Staffordshire this year (that includes the Clubman).  It is heartening to see that level of involvement. 

I’d like to thank all the Team Managers for their hard work in putting the teams together and for organising the County Championships that were so well run and supported.

We also entered Senior and Veterans teams to the National Inter-County All Round with the Seniors finishing just outside the medals in third.   

There is still more to do to encourage more junior and female participation, but I feel that we’re doing as much as we reasonably can do to encourage this, including working closely with the Ladies Clay Shooting League to help develop and support more women shooting in Staffordshire.

We continue to have strong engagement on social media with just over 1000 followers on Facebook (up from 409 in 2019) as well as a thriving Instagram account with 307 followers and over 500 posts to date. My thanks again to Valerie for managing that.

Our website has up-to-date news, fixtures, results, features across all disciplines and a section specifically for anyone who is new to shooting. We also have full representation in every county round-up of ‘Pull! Magazine’.

It just remains for me to say thank you to everyone who has supported me in my first year as Chairman, not least my fellow Committee members. I’m looking forward to doing whatever I can to help make 2025 another successful year for shooting in Staffordshire.

Steve Kilner

Chairman, Staffordshire CPSA

Staffordshire CPSA AGM on 18^th January 2025

Treasurer’s Report

Our opening balance at 1^st January 2024 was £2469.16.

Total income received in 2024 was £2087.00

Total expenditure for 2024 was £2282.71.

Therefore, for 2024, we had a net loss of £195.71.

This left us with a closing balance at 31^st December 2024 of £2273.45.

Our main source of income in 2024 was levies received from the nine ESP selection shoots, 7 of which we could collect levies at, that were very kindly organised by our ESP team manager, Martin Butcher.  These realised income of £931.00.  We also received £350 from winning the Lyalvale Shield and £125 for the Gun-up and Veterans wins.  Well done to all those who shot for Staffordshire.  A special thank you to the Chairman for his help and of course, a big thank you to all the Team Managers.

There was significant expenditure on the Staffordshire Polo Shirts with 63 shooters representing the County across various team shoots this year.  I’m sure you’ll agree that this has been money very well spent.  My sincere thanks to Phil and Matthew for all their help and support at our suppliers, Elite Logos.4U.

There was also expenditure on updating or replacing a number of existing trophies and in providing new ones, particularly for the Class and Category winners at our ESP selection shoots.

In 2025, there will still be some expenditure on polo shirts, although this should be significantly less, as it will only be for new caps in the various Inter County or National Inter County squads.

Rather than having specific development days for Staffordshire ladies, we intend to work closely with the Ladies Clay Shooting League to help develop shooting for women in Staffordshire.

I anticipate that ESP selection shoots will again realise a significant amount of income, similar to last year.  We will continue to support these by again providing trophies for the various ESP selection shoot winners, which proved to be popular.

I will be monitoring the effects of increased entry fees and cartridge costs on our members and their ability to participate, which could impact on our income from levies at both selection shoots and County championships.

As before, my intention is that we will maintain a closing balance of at least £2000 at the end of the year.

Valerie-Anne Barrow

Treasurer, Staffordshire CPSA

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2024 Committee:

Chairman – Steve Kilner

Vice-Chairman – Martin Butcher

Treasurer – Valerie-Anne Barrow

Secretary – Kate Poyser

Clubman Manager – Paul Bailey

Ladies Shooting Reps – Valerie-Anne & Kate

Trophy Manager – Matt Pickford

Committee Member – Ian Hull

Committee Member – Neil Hastilow

 

2024 Team Managers:

All Round:  Steve Kilner

Automatic Ball Trap:  Ian Hull

Clubman:  Paul Bailey

Double Rise:  Ian Hull

DTL:  Valerie-Anne Barrow

English Skeet:  Kate Poyser

English Sporting:  Martin Butcher

FITASC:  Steve Ward

Helice:  Paul Bailey

Olympic Trap:  Ian Hull

Single Barrel:  Valerie-Anne Barrow

Super Sporting:  Neil Hastilow

Universal Trench:  Ian Hull

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2023 Committee:

Chairman – Ian Hull

Vice-Chairman – Steve Kilner

Treasurer – Valerie-Anne Barrow

Secretary – Steve Kilner

Clubman Manager – Paul Bailey

Ladies Shooting Rep – Valerie-Anne & Kate

Membership Secretary – Martin Butcher

Trophy Manager – Kate Poyser

 

2023 Team Managers:

All Round:  Steve Kilner

Automatic Ball Trap:  Ian Hull

Clubman:  Paul Bailey

Double Rise:  Ian Hull

DTL:  To be confirmed

English Skeet:  Kate Poyser

English Sporting:  Martin Butcher

FITASC:  Steve Ward

Helice:  Paul Bailey

Olympic Trap:  Paul Bailey

Universal Trench:  Ian Hull

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2022 Committee:

Chairman – Ian Hull

Vice-Chairman – Steve Kilner

Treasurer – Valerie-Anne Barrow

Secretary – Steve Kilner

Clubman Manager – Paul Bailey

Membership Secretary – Martin Butcher

Trophy Manager – Kate Poyser

 

2022 Team Managers:

All Round:  Steve Kilner

Automatic Ball Trap:  Ian Hull

Clubman:  Paul Bailey

Compak Sporting:  Lara Dale

Double Rise:  Ian Hull

DTL:  Ian Hull

English Skeet:  Kate Poyser

English Sporting:  Lara Dale

FITASC:  Steve Ward

Helice:  Paul Bailey

Olympic Trap:  Paul Bailey

Universal Trench:  Ian Hull