Last Friday’s Times Quick Cryptic Crossword clue – “Make quiet reminder to pay membership fee? (6 letters) – Answer “Subdue” – yes it’s that time of the season when annual subs become payable. The Committee have agreed to keep levels at the same rate as last year, but it is vital that everyone accepts their responsibility as a member of the club and pays their dues, which are vital to us -

Senior Rugby Playing Members - £192 (£165 if paid by 30 September) or £16.00 per month by Standing order. Social Members, Colts and Students - £30 (student = in full time education). Vice Presidents - £50 (donations above this amount optional- you can claim tax relief on donations and the registration form for this is attached blow. Mini and Junior membership is collected separately through the Youth Section. If you have graduated from junior to senior player or if you have been a Family member and want to become a VP you may need to update your membership

Full details are covered in the letter below but if you currently pay the correct amount by standing order – do nothing. If you have not updated your standing order or if you want to change to pay this way – complete the bank mandate attached below. If you want to pay by cheque send it to Charlie Gardner at the address given, or if you want to pay by bank transfer he can provide our bank details. If you need to email Charlie his address is cngardner@btinternet.com.
The first XV kick off with a friendly against Lutterworth at home on Saturday (20th) at 3.00. Drag yourself away from the dressage, clay pigeon shooting and synchronised swimming and enjoy some live rugby. The Colts are away at Lutterworth. The first XV also have a second warm up friendly against Old Coventrians on Thursday 25 August at Coventry, kicking off at 7.30. an updated fixture list, which includes the Colts games and VP lunch dates is attached below.
The Warwickshire Cup draws have now been announced. In the First team Shield we have been drawn away at Silhillians and will be played on 3 September. The Second team are home to Barkers Butts (to be played before 25 September) and if we survive that we will be at home to Rugby Lions.
Most of the free tickets to the Wasps versus Yorkshire Carnegie game on Sunday have gone but there may still be a few left behind the bar so please call in on Thursday evening or Saturday afternoon if you are interested in going. On the subject of Wasps tickets, we mentioned back in January that Wasps have introduced a discount scheme for rugby club members. If you buy tickets from Wasps our club will get a 20% cashback on your purchase. The procedure is as follows. Copy and paste the URL address below. This will take you into the Wasps website. You will then be asked to register or sign-in (if you are already registered). Then go to Buy Tickets to make your purchase. The system will recognise you as a Leamington member and credit your purchases to the club. If you are already registered it will pick up that you are a Leamington member and back track earlier purchases and credit these. This could be a good source of income and we hope you will take advantage of it. With the minimum of effort we made £200 last year with very little effort and could do much better. The URL App is being attached to our website for easy access sometime this week. Any problems, lets me know
https://www.eticketing.co.uk/wasps?groupref=53&digest=ec0a2e2e6cb50b7edeaba9ceeb88266934db9c9a
Regards
John (johnlizlyons@btopenworld)

PS - the enclosures referred to are attached to your email copy of In Touch. if you don't get the weekly In Touch email we may not have your correct address. Email it to me and I will add it into the system