MINEHEAD AFC are keen to hear from anyone interested in becoming club secretary for the new 2013-14 season, with their Somerset County Premier League season starting on August 10.

The two most critical positions are Secretary and a new manager for the proposed Under 18 floodlit league team, but there are plenty of other areas where Minehead Football Club need voluntary help.

Brian Walder has been acting as secretary on a temporary basis – an extra position which he took on at the start of the 2012-13 season.

However the club’s constitution dictates that no one person can hold more than two club officer positions at any time, and Walder is already club Chairman as well as Treasurer.

He said: “Nobody picked up on this fact when I agreed to the secretary’s job 12 months ago, but it came to light at an extraordinary general meeting late in June, when wording was changed to suit the attempts to change the entity to a Community Amateur Sports Club.

“There are lots of tasks I’d willingly relinquish should keen and suitable persons step forward.

“I’m currently also responsible for press releases, writing match reports, producing the matchday programme, fund raising and sponsorship, updating the website, buying stock for the bar, food and drink for the canteen, and seemingly organising everything that happens off the pitch.

“I’m not asking anybody from the existing committee to take on more responsibility, we all work hard and tirelessly, but we do need new blood to come in, along with new ideas, to help share the workload.

“Much of this would be purely on matchdays when an extra half a dozen pairs of hands would not go amiss, “I seem to make a passionate plea for help every pre-season, but now really is the time to get involved.

“We are no longer in the doldrums either on or off the pitch. The first team were runners up last season and had the ground met with grading requirements would now be back in the Toolstation League.

“The Reserve team, virtually full of the previous season’s Under-16 squad, had a successful season after a poor start, and will this season be going all out for their own promotion.

“Our successful youth section, the envy of many bigger clubs throughout the county, are this season entering a Minehead Colts team in the Taunton and District Sunday League, which will be run by last seasons’ U-16 Manager, with the team based largely on his successful side.

“As well as this there will be the creation of a new U-18 team which will play friendlies this season and hope to play in the Somerset County U-18 Floodlit League in 2014-15. For this side the club are keen to hear from anyone who would like to become the new manager.

“However more importantly than all this success and excitement after several barren years, the best news we have had for decades was the granting of a new 25 year lease back in April.

“There is now a huge feeling within the club that our future has become so much brighter, but this is really where the hard work begins.

“Before major re-development work can start in May 2014 there is a large amount of planning, organising and pursuing grant funding to keep us and many others busy.

The first team now have to prove that last season was not a flash in the pan and that we are good enough to go back up the pyramid.

“Though the club have a huge and very enviable history, it is only the future that is of interest, and only the future that we can now affect.

Anyone interested in becoming involved is welcome at the clubs’ AGM at Minehead Football Club on Monday 22nd July at 7pm, or if they want more information Mr Walder can be contacted via email on brian.walder@mineheadafc.co.uk or by calling 01643 706850.