Team Newsletter - July

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Burhill Team News July 2022

Colin Mayes Chief Executive

This month we also held our annual Suppliers Golf Day here at Burhill Golf Club, the team here did a fantastic job, and we had some wonderful comments and letters of thanks and appreciation from many that attended on the day. It’s a great way to say thank you for the support we get from our suppliers and a chance to speak / catch up with them all and hopefully also get some business done throughout the day as well.

Thankfully June has been yet another busy month for us all within BGL. The directors had a board meeting and the Annual General Meeting for all the family shareholders which was held at the Royal Automobile Club in London on the 14th June which, I am delighted to say, was very well attended. Importantly for us all the shareholders have been hugely supportive of the business over the last couple of years and particularly over the very difficult Covid period. Our shareholders have not taken any dividends out of the company which has allowed us to continue our investment in both our existing sites and supported the continued development of new Adventure Leisure businesses as well as our more recent acquisitions of Ninja Warrior UK venues. On the subject of new sites, I am also delighted to report that both Worcester, where we are developing the next Mulligans, and Swansea our next Ninja Warrior UK venue are both broadly all going to plan despite a number of setbacks with contractors and issues such as lifts breaking down at Worcester which is a first-floor site. Our contractors need it to be working to get everything to the site. As you can guess having two big projects all running at the same time is not easy for Andy Scholey and the AL/ NL team, but we are overcoming the issues and very much looking forward to getting the sites open and trading.

We also kicked off our fundraising for the Burhill to Paris Charity Bike Ride in aid of the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. Our suppliers were very generous, and we managed to raise just over £1,300 on the day and to date £1,030 on the JustGiving donation page. I am also trying to encourage all our General Managers to do some sort of fundraising event themselves. The family directors have also said that whatever funds we raise they will add another 50% to the total so hopefully we all should be able to make a real difference and present a pretty sizeable cheque to the British Red Cross in September. My bike ride training has


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