Tuesday, May 17, 2022

AGM: Tim Court awarded Jessop Shield for Outstanding Achievement 2022

 


The Chairman spoke to commend Tim Court as a very reluctant but worthy recipient of the trophy and outlined his numerous contributions to the life of the club.

He was recruited early to the vital post of club secretary, succeeding Pete Barnard

If that wasn’t enough, shortly after he took on the task of organising our competitions and prizes, from Mike Morley.  Since when he has been a very busy man

The role of Secretary is the highest profile in the club. It is the principal contact with CTC, named on the CTC website and in Cycle with his home phone number too. So, he is the first person an outsider would contact, and therefore a very public person. As well as being an active secretary. he has made a major contribution to modernising our website and keeping it relevant.

As competitions organiser he revitalised the photo competitions, using his IT skills to bring them into the digital world. At a more down to earth level he is the custodial of our crown jewels, the club trophies, keeping them intact with quantities of Blu-Tack, and nursing them carefully as he transports them around in his panniers.

In addition, he found time to organise at least one club holiday in northern Spain.

After about 7 years he successfully handed over his Secretaryship to Dave Ferrett, who thanks Tim for his considerable assistance during a long handover period. He might have become less busy. If anything, the opposite is true. He remains on the Committee to help represent the views of B and C group riders. His name constantly crops up in connection with club activities, be it competitions, promoting women in the club, helping recruit new ride leaders, and most recently organising the publicity around the Hilly 50.

But above all, we all know he gives generously of his time and knowledge to all of us who need help, advice, or encouragement.

I commend to you and propose Tim as a worthy recipient of this year’s Arthur Jessop Shield for Outstanding Achievement. The motion was duly approved by the AGM.


3 comments:

Fixie-Dave said...

For he's a jolly good fellow.

Brian Bent said...

So say all of us.....

Steph said...

And he s helped mend punctures. Notably today when Tim Gibbons got a nail in his tyre. His explanations as he went along made us all regret we hadn't filmed it for youtube. Also Paul Day's gadget was demonstrated successfully placing the last bit of tyre on the rim with ease.