CONTENT Notice of Annual General Meeting AR1 President’s Report AR2 The General Committee AR5 The Executive Staff AR6 SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS Games Control Board AR7 Finance Subcommittee AR9 Establishment Subcommittee AR15 Food & Beverage Subcommittee AR18 Marketing & Communications Subcommittee AR21 Member Engagement Subcommittee AR24 Property Subcommittee AR27 Rules & Membership Subcommittee AR30 Social Subcommittee AR33 ACTIVITIES OF THE YEAR Social Events AR38 Sports Events AR82 SPORTS SECTION REPORTS Balut AR48 Billiards & Snooker AR50 Bowls AR52 Bridge AR55 Cricket AR57 Darts AR60 Football AR62 Golf AR64 Hockey AR67 Netball AR70 Rugby AR72 Squash AR75 Tennis AR77 Wine Circle AR80 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 1 - 38 Reciprocal Clubs AR126 Past Presidents AR129 Annual Report Cover More than 35 trees hug our Clubhouse, some planted over 20 years ago and 15 newly planted in 2020. They epitomise our deep roots in the historical ciy centre and pay homage to the making of a greener Singapore. Pictured on the cover is the Samanea Saman, commonly known as Pukul Lima or Rain Tree. It towers to nearly 21 metres, or approximately six storeys high, along Connaught Drive. Our enviro-conscious values also extend more broadly to our operations. PRESIDENT’S REPORT Members of the General Committee elected for 2020/2021 were: President Zoher S. Motiwalla Deputy President Rangachari Raghavan Chairman, Games Control Board Martin Goerojo Finance Member Victor Olsen Committee Members George V. Abraham (Property Subcommittee - Chair) Anwar Gaffoor (Social Subcommittee - Chair) David Jones On behalf of the General Committee, (Establishment Subcommittee - Chair) “ it is my privilege to present to you Paul Lawlass the Singapore Cricket Club’s Annual (Food & Beverage Subcommittee - Chair) Report and Financial Statements for Mathavan Devadas the year ending 31 December 2020. (Rules & Membership Subcommittee - Chair) Margaret Cunico ” (Marketing & Communications Subcommittee - Chair) Fathima Mohietheen (Member Engagement Subcommittee - Chair) Samuel Sharpe (Committee Member) Firstly, I would like to express my immense gratitude to past President F&B revenue streams (F&B drive-through and takeaway deliveries), Sher Baljit Singh and the previous General Committee for continuing repurposing various facilities (Courtyard, Gilmour Terrace, Padang to serve the Club for an extended term of almost 16 months as the Restaurant Landing) and creating new virtual online events and Club had to postpone its Annual General Meeting from April 2020 activities to ensure that the Club could continue to serve our to the end of August 2020 due to the COVID-19-related Circuit Members’ interests and expectations. Breaker and subsequent social distancing measures. While delivering on the above, the Club had to ensure that we were Apart from the pandemic-enforced closure of the Club for over always operating within the stringent government guidelines on safety two months, COVID-19 restrictions placed many obstacles on and safe distancing measures. The Management and Staff have done maintaining the normal operations of the Club. I am thankful to an excellent job in ensuring that proper guidelines were established the General Committee (GC), the Subcommittees, management and monitored. We thank you, the Members, for your continued and staff for their many initiatives and tireless efforts to create new cooperation in ensuring that the SCC remains a safe place for all. AR2 SINGAPORE CRICKET CLUB PRESIDENT’S REPORT Financially, thanks to the very generous support from our government, Apart from Sports, the F&B offerings have been as much of an the many new revenue-generating initiatives we undertook, coupled attraction to Members. If Members could not come to the Club to with measures to rein in operating expenditures, we managed enjoy their favourite fare during the Circuit Breaker, the Club ensured to remain in the black with a net surplus for the year ended it would get it to them through the SCC drive-through option or 31 December 2020 of $169,138 (2019: $394,778). have it delivered to their homes. The financial health of the Club remains strong with the total cash Members would have noticed the many takeaway promotions of resources at $27.04 million – a notable increase of $3.30 million. F&B items. These, along with the extended range of Festive offerings, have been extremely well received by the Members and has turned The quiet period of the Circuit Breaker offered an opportunity to the takeaway service into almost a business unit on its own with the attend to many of the back-end administrative and operational Oval takeaway sales registering $377,000 (2019: $0). Even with most matters. of the F&B outlets nearly brimming to capacity with in-house diners, the takeaway sales continue to be popular. The Sports Review Group was set up to review various aspects of sports covering sport funding, sport expenses, Junior Sports From the time the Club partially reopened in July with just the Membership & Sports Memberships, Sports Administration and an Oval Restaurant, Victoria Room and The Padang in operation, in in-depth look at the support of the competitive league playing Sports the following three months to September, we recorded in excess of Sections and also the social sports section to continue with our aim $1 million in F&B sales, a 24% increase for the same venues compared of being a premier sport club. to the corresponding period in 2019. The Sports Review highlighted the success of SCC’s sports The Club’s F&B revenue for the pandemic-affected year was $6.05 development programs with almost 40% of the top two league million (2019: $9.76 million); the shortfall - mainly attributable to playing teams comprising of our Junior Sports Memberships. Add to the extended closures to December of the Main Lounge, Stumps Bar that, the SCC Sports Academies have over 900 children enrolled in and Terrace, Men’s Bar and the Deli which led to a F&B revenue fall the Rugby, Cricket, Football and Tennis programs and we continue of $2.18 million while banqueting dropped by $1.8 million - was to attract new Members to the SCC on the back of the above. offset by the new Takeaway sales of $337k. Our deepest gratitude to our Members for continuing to support the Club and to the staff for The F&B Department set about on a menu re-engineering project tirelessly serving our Members. and the new menus have been very positively received by Members. We retained the more popular dishes and added many new and exciting dishes including a broader breakfast selection, a lighter range of dishes with a Mediterranean theme and also many more vegetarian dishes and healthier options. The Finance Department continued with its work on achieving greater efficiencies through the digitization of more of its processes and activating more of the features of the current accounting software for improved departmental reporting and also improved front-end Member experiences for restaurant and banquet bookings. While full team sports and competitions have not resumed, the various Sports Sections together with the Sports Department have worked tirelessly at setting up safety procedures and protocols in line with government measures and devising many new formats of the games and training routines so Members can continue to participate in matches and training to maintain that edge for when the national leagues programmes resume. Our Membership figures remain robust with just a slight dip in numbers; SCC welcomed over 300 new Members looking for a comfortable and safe club to call their second home, enjoy premium facilities and services, and socialise over recreational activities – particularly at a period of travel restrictions. The F&B menu re-engineering project saw the addition of a lighter range of Mediterranean- themed dishes and many healthier vegetarian options. ANNUAL REPORT 2020 AR3 PRESIDENT’S REPORT Staff and Members alike toasted and cheered towards the end of 2020 when our licence application to ‘Pivot to Permissible Activities’ was approved, enabling us to open up the Main Lounge, Stumps and the Stumps Terrace with safe measures in place. Slowly but surely, we are also seeing banquet facilities bookings return to the Clubhouse and look forward to many more to come as safe measures continue to ease. Working around the physical capacity limits, many social workshops and talks were held virtually instead or off-site so Members continued to have other avenues to interact with one another in meaningful ways. A new portfolio was introduced this year – Member Engagement – with the twin mandate to enhance Member interaction through more participative events, activities and hobby groups, and additionally tasked to set up programmes to foster a more caring SCC by giving something back to the larger Singapore society through Community Outreach Programmes. By the end of the year, we had the frameworks in place for the SCC Book Club and the SCC Running & Brisk Walking Club and I am pleased to note that they have been well-received and participated in by the Membership. The pandemic did not deter us from engaging with the community Our Members continued with the Club’s community engagement initiatives after safe at large. Once we were allowed to do so within the safety parameters, measures were eased - we organised five Sports Clinics for SportCares’ community partners, including two coached by the Bowls Section, and also donated over 300 pairs of used sports SCC continued its support for SportCares, a charity for which we shoes to Sport Singapore for recycling into useful materials for sports infrastructure. had raised $700,000 in 2019. In December, we organised a total of five Sport Clinics for SportCares’ community partners to provide the children in their care with the opportunities to try out sports they This GC entered its term during a time of uncertainty over the may otherwise not have the chance to play and to share our love for duration and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic; I am proud sports – I am proud of our Members for volunteering their time and of them and thankful for how they guided the Club through this energy for this.