Sussex Cricket AGM 2025

Sussex Cricket Limited General Annual Meeting 2025

The 9th Sussex Cricket Limited Annual General Meeting took place on Tuesday 25th March 2025 at The 1st Central County Ground.

Hosted by the Sussex Cricket Chair, Jon Filby, the Annual General Meeting was also led by Chief Executive, Pete Fitzboydon and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee, Glenn Douglas

Glenn Douglas presented a summary of the 2024 Annual Report and Accounts, reporting the financial position of the organisation, which has been a challenging year managing cost inflation across the board although significantly benefitted by hosting a T20 Blast quarter final at The 1st Central County Ground.  

The group operating loss for the year ending 31 October 2024 stood at £162k.

The full report and accounts can be read here.

Following the financing reporting, the members ratified the appointment of Simon Crundwell and Fiona Richards as Board Members. Members also ratified the re-appointment of co-opted Board Members, Jon Filby, Chaira Khan and Jatin Patel.

There was also an update from Gary Wallis-Tayler, Community Cricket Foundation who highlighted the key success stories of the Sussex Cricket Foundation and its 2024 Impact Report.

Members then heard from Head Coach, Paul Farbrace, who discussed progress on the pitch in 2024 and his objectives for the 2025 season.  

Members will be notified when the full minutes from the Annual General Meeting will be available.

Speaking after the AGM, Chair Jon Filby said: “I am very grateful to all those members who attended the AGM last night for their outstanding support for Sussex Cricket. 

“I know that all who attended will have enjoyed hearing from Paul Farbrace and Alexia Walker about the exciting season ahead for our men’s and women’s teams and will have been pleased to hear from Pete Fitzboydon about the huge amount of work that is going in to improve the ground for our members and about our ambitious plans for the ongoing redevelopment of the ground.

"We really can’t wait for the season to get started and I look forward to seeing our members and supporters at Hove for the County Championship games against Somerset and Surrey.

"These are exciting times for Sussex Cricket."