This is our second joint Annual Review and it is a tribute to the success of the first that there has never been any question that we would continue with our joint venturing of the Annual Review and our mid-season Newsletter.

Apart from these joint productions our meetings this year have focused upon a wide range of issues of mutual interest to our two Associations where we can both learn from each other and benefit from shared experience in practical ways - sponsorship, the development of much improved websites, the development of the City Fives Association and One Wall Fives under the auspices of the Fives Federation, exchanging experiences concerning coaching days for Fives' masters, cost and promotional issues relating to the running of tournaments, and a number of other more mundane but necessary administrative matters affecting both organisations.

Whilst there have been some losses of courts, the picture overall in both codes is positive as regards the number of courts being brought back into use or up-graded, although it remains a continuing frustration that at Cambridge, where the funds have been available for many years to build both Eton and Rugby Fives Courts, the University has still not been able to decide on any site that could be made available to us.

Overall we believe there is a genuine feeling of positive momentum for the game of Fives in all its varieties, and we hope you will sense this too as you enjoy reading this second joint Annual Review.

John East
President RFA

Richard Barber
Chairman EFA