Heswall Rackets Club
Gayton Playing Fields, 12A Brimstage Road • Heswall, Wirral • CH60 1XG
Tel: 0151 342 2817
Treasurer’s Report 2024
Following on from a few volatile years to begin this decade, 2024 could be remembered as something of a less eventful year – but a positive one, in which the club continued to make progress towards a sustainable future.
Much of this progress can be attributed to growth in several areas within the club.
The Juniors are very much our future, and for the sport in general, and it is fantastic to see them go from strength to strength.
Racketball has continued to grow, and the creation of a vibrant culture within this section has continued to attract new members.
Functions have also been on the up, from a combination of new enquiries and positive experiences from previous bookings – these have helped to attract further interest in the club generally.
We owe a special thanks to everyone for their tireless efforts to drive progress at the club – it’s really making a difference. This can be seen in the financials, with revenue growing across the board. Cost pressures have remained, generally – though gas and electricity contracts are up for renewal in mid-2025, and are likely to result in some upside going forward.
Overall, the club made an £8.7k loss – whilst this is another difficult result, it is a further improvement on prior year.
Again, I would like to provide some reassurance – with the depreciation charge being £9k, the club actually made a very modest cash surplus of £0.3k on ordinary activities. What this means is that we can pay all usual bills as they fall due – however, at present, we’d struggle to afford yearon-year to invest money to improve the general facilities.
This is why we haven’t done so in the shortterm. Ultimately the club is perfectly solvent, with cash reserves effectively only declining (£13.8k in 2024; £9.3k since the pandemic) by the ongoing investment into our exciting new future involving Padel.
This is a huge move towards further boosting the membership book, participation and general footfall within the club, which is key to our long-term survival.
Moving into this year, the outlook continues to improve – notably, with the club steadily attracting new members. With general activity continuing to grow, we move closer towards a sustainable future.
Jeremy Heywood
Treasurer
July 2025
18/02/2026
March 2026
February 2026
January 2026
December 2025
November 2025
October 2025
September 2025
August 2025
July 2025
June 2025
May 2025
April 2025
March 2025
February 2025
January 2025
December 2024
November 2024
October 2024
September 2024
August 2024
July 2024
June 2024
May 2024
April 2024
March 2024
February 2024
January 2024
December 2023
November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
August 2023
July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
March 2023
February 2023
January 2023
December 2022
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
August 2022
July 2022
June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
March 2022
February 2022
January 2022
December 2021
November 2021
October 2021
September 2021
August 2021
July 2021
June 2021
May 2021
April 2021
March 2021
February 2021
January 2021
December 2020
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
August 2020
July 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
Hotmail/Outlook Users
GMail Users
Other email service providers may have similar settings -- please follow their instructions. If not, contact their support desk and request delivery of messages from heswallrackets@no-reply.mycourts.co.uk.
