Storks call members to April meeting on budget, logo and investments

Storks used its homepage as a live club bulletin, and the clearest signal was the general members’ meeting on Tuesday 21 April at 20:00, with an inloop from 19:30. The agenda was not routine housekeeping. Members were asked to look at the budget, investment proposals, a presentation of the new logo and proposals from the sports technical advisers, which put money, identity and on-field direction on the same table.

That mix says a lot about where the Hague club stood in 2026. Budget talks pointed to financial planning, investment proposals suggested possible work on equipment or facilities, and the new logo hinted at a broader refresh of the club’s look. The sports technical advisers’ proposals added a baseball and softball layer to the evening, showing that Storks was not only managing the books but also formally weighing the technical direction of the club.

At the same time, the club was already deep into spring operations. Storks said the information letter for Storks Jeugdkamp 2026 had been sent and the registration form was available, but the camp notice came with a blunt reality check: volunteers were still needed to run it smoothly. That matters at Storks because the club says it is fully run by volunteers and that members are expected to help with bar duties, umpiring and other tasks. The volunteer pages also say vacancies remained because not everyone was carrying their share.

The need for hands is not abstract. Storks recently replaced the batting-cage net because the old one was unsafe and had holes. Material commissioner Vincent Rozenboom led that job, with HB1 players coordinated by Joost van den Bergh and technical support from Spijker Klimaatservice BV. It was a practical reminder that even the smallest piece of infrastructure can become a club-wide project when the work depends on members stepping in.

Storks’ leadership has also been in motion. Richard van Soest was unanimously chosen as chairman on 21 December 2025, and the club says his involvement goes back about 50 years. That transition followed the death in January 2026 of Luc Vanderveken, a former board member and chairman who had been closely involved in the design and realization of the current Storks complex. Against that backdrop, the April meeting looked like more than an AGM: it was a checkpoint on how Storks plans to carry its identity, facilities and youth programme forward.

The club’s teams page underlined the scale of that task, with senior sides in Heren 1, Heren 2, Dames 1 and Dames 2, plus youth teams from U21 down to BeeBall. From Schapenatjesduin 9 in Den Haag, Storks was showing a club trying to keep competition, volunteer work and long-term planning moving at the same time.