Minutes of the 39^th Annual General Piss-Up held on Saturday, 2^nd April 2022.
At The Stag and Hounds, Old Market, Bristol.
Minutes Secretary: Wolfie.

Massive, the current Grand Master, opened the formal meeting by welcoming those present. He was, he said, surprised by the appearance of so many old faces. He also commented on the way free pizza has the ability to unite people who, otherwise, have very little in common.

1. Apologies for absence had been received from Puki and Soprano. Regular, live, apologies were received from Sir TFC concerning the appalling state of the local bus services, particularly on the Gloucester Road section of North Bristol. He arrived about twenty minutes after the start of the meeting.

2. Minutes of the last meeting held via Zoom on on 5th June 2020 were approved unanimously.

3. Matters Arising from the minutes. There were none.

4. Outgoing officers' reports.
   1. Grand Master. Massive said that it had been an interesting two years and that we should feel proud that, mainly due to the the vast infrastructure of officers, officers' assistants, volunteers and a network of administrative systems and procedures, typists, filing clerks, messenger boys and girls, drivers, carpenters, mechanics and telecommunication engineers, rivalled only by the British Raj in the first half of the twentieth century, plus his own strict but, he hoped, fair hand on the tiller of command, had we managed to come, relatively unscathed, through the rigours of the pandemic.

   2. Hash Cash (including Bristol and Allied Hashers' Pension Scheme, BAHPS, report). Sleepy distributed a statement of finances to the end of 2021, (see below). Following a brief discussion, the financial statement was accepted by a narrow, disgruntled, majority. Wolfie asked who, in addition to Sleepy, were the official signatories to the BH3 bank account. Sleepy was not sure but would check.
       
      Wolfie, delegated by Puki, enquired about the current state of the Bristol and Allied Hashes Pension Scheme (BAHPS). Sleepy reported that, following further "careful management", it was proposed to maintain the qualifying pension age at 97 for the financial period 2022/23, on condition that beneficiaries were still running at least 25 hashes per year.

   3. Stats. Wolfie reported that the average number of hashers per run in 2021 had been 24, up from 23 in the previous year. He added that the highest number of runners on a "non-event" run was 32 from Ladye Bay in Clevedon, hares KC and Cinders. The fewest was 14, shared, coincidentally, by two consecutive runs from railway stations (Yate and Bitton) in January. The most active hares were Eager Beaver, Sir Spiderman, No Shirt and Le Caniveau, setting four trails each.
       
      Wolfie reminded the meeting that further reports could be found on the website.

   4. On-Sec. Wolfie, as On-Sec, or club secretary, said that, due to various missing documents from the end of the 'nineties, the post of Recruitmant Officer had not been voted on and that, officially, one Winslow Holmes was still the incumbent officer. He proposed that Winslow should be stood down and thanked for all his hard work. The proposal was seconded and passed.

   5. Hare Raiser. No Shirt was not present but had sent a message to the effect that, like the previous year, hares had run like clockwork. Geddit?

5. Resignation of Officers. In accordance with Hash AGPU rules, the officers present resigned en masse. Down-downs were downed-downed by the outgoing officials.

6. Election of Officers. The following officers were elected:
   • Grand Master: Massive.
   • Joint Masters: Fruitcake and Il Duche.
   • Hash Cash: Sleepy.
   • On-Sec: Sir Wolfie.
   • Hare Raiser: No Shirt.
   • Religious Advisers: Grouse Sheila and Lightning.
   • Beer Meister(in): Shiggy V. and Sweatmonster.
   • Stats: Sir Wolfie.
   • Webshite: Sir Wolfie.
   • Hash Horn: Il Duche and Sir Lunchi.
   • Recruitment Officer: Stretch.
   • Hash Haberdasher: Fruitcake.
   • Awards Co-ordinators: Fruitcake.
   • Mee Mee: Waynetta, Shiggy V, Kerb Crawler and Walky Talky.
   • Hasherbasher: Shiggy V.
   • Social Committee: Grouse Sheila, Iron Maiden and Stretch.
   • Hash Flash: Hot Fuzz and Walky Talky.
   • Hash Snitch: Waynetta, Princess Leia and Sweatmonster.
   
   Down-downs were downed-downed by the incoming officials.

7. Renewal of Public Liability Insurance. Wolfie reoprted that PLI had been discontinued during the pandemic. Now that things were getting back to normal it was voted (with Wolfie, Spider and Lunchi opposed) to reinstate it. Wolfie said he would try to find a cheaper premium.

8. Proposals for Bristol Hash Charity 2022-23. It was decided, due to the situation in Ukraine, that any charity funds raised would go to recognised charities, such as the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), which supported the country. Lunchi proposed that honorary lifelong Bristol Hash membership should be offered, when the time is right, to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This was passed unanimously. A discusion followed, firstly whether he would be charged (currently £1.50) if he ever attended a run, but then concerning whether it would be better for a delegation of BH3 members to travel to Kyiv to present a certificate to Mr Zelenskyy, or, alternatively, for us to fund his trip to the UK, but it was decided to postpone this until next year when things may have calmed down a bit.

9. Awards policy. It was decided to postpone this until next year.

10. Grande Bru Beer Scandal. It was decided to postpone this until next year.

11. Any Other Business. There was none.

12. Date of Next Meeting: No date was set.

 
 
Appendix: Accounts for the year to 31 December 2021 were submitted as follows:
 

Bristol Hash House Harriers
Accounts for the Year Ended 31 December 2021
Income & Expenditure Account
Income	2019	2020	2021
Membership subscriptions	450	510	570
Weekly run fees	555	319	610
Surplus on haberdashery	0	0	52
Total income	1,005	829	1,232
Expenditure
Down downs	333	83	280
Awards	110	177	443
Haberdashery	0	24	0
Food after runs	8	0	0
Insurance	233	0	0
AGPU	155	0	0
Deficit on Haggis Bash	45	33	0
Deficit on 2000th event	0	0	16
Quizz prizes	0	25	0
Total expenditure	884	342	739
Surplus	121	487	493
Balance Sheet
Cash in hand	0	46	232
Cash at bank	434	743	1014
Total cash and bank	434	789	1,246
Debtors for run money received after the year end	0	132	308
Refunds due for non-attendees at Christmas event	0	0	(140)
Net assets	434	921	1,414
Reserves at beginning of the year	313	434	921
Surplus for the year	121	487	493
Reserves at and of year	434	921	1,414
Note: The £308 upheld as debtors includes only those amounts received up to 31 March. A further £290 remains unpaid at that date and has not been included. Amounts subsequently received will be accounted for in 2022.