Posted: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:30

After a few years break Corby Hockey Club is reforming and starting back by offering sessions for boys and girls aged 7-11. These will be held at Corby Business Academy on Thursday evenings starting on the 30th March 5:45pm – 6:30pm. The first two sessions will be free and then cost £2 per week after that.

The sessions will be delivered by qualified coaches and involve lots of fun skill based games. No previous experience, or equipment is required, so just turn up with a drink and have fun!

Participants aren't required to book on in advance, but if you have any further questions regarding the sessions prior to them starting then please call Sarah Ward on 07887 500545.

Hockey is currently one of the fastest growing sports in the country and especially for women following on from the gold medal winning success of Team GB at the Rio Olympics last year. Corby Hockey Club will soon be organising some sessions for adults to join in the fun too, so if you would be interested in playing then please also contact Sarah Ward using the same phone number shown above

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From: Bob Dabbs
Sent: 21 Feb 2017 08:08
Topic: General enquiry

Contact email address: radabbs14@gmail.com
Contact phone number: 07810430242

Just wondered if your ladies might be interested in joining our summer league which starts in May.
Teams limited to 12 so a quick decision might be required.
Tuesday's, £20 per team, per match. 7a side.
Best wishes,
Bob Dabbs.

Wrenn School, Wellingborough

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I have arranged two evenings at Kettering Hockey Club to run a Club Chair Forum on the topic of Leadership in our clubs, as one of the 7 elements of “What makes a great club” identified by club members in our 2014 survey.   We are inviting Kettering HC, Long Buckby, Northampton HC,  Oundle HC, Welford HC, Wellingborough HC and Wootton Wanderers HC.

First evening – Wednesday 22nd February 

Follow up evening – Tuesday 28th June

One of the most significant challenges we face in clubs is the reliance on a few volunteers to manage the whole club, this workshop is designed to help us plan a way to inspire a broader range of volunteers to support us in our desire to grow, develop, manage their activities and generally run their clubs.

I would like to invite you and key volunteers from your club to attend these two evenings, the first is to explore the topic of Leadership:-

• What Leadership  means to us
• How we lead our clubs
• Examine practical examples of how we us Leadership in our clubs
• What can we learn from each other
• How we change the way we Lead and Inspire volunteers
• What are going to change.

 

The second workshop will be to review our progress and share how we have increased the pool of volunteers at our clubs and reduced our workload! 

Please email Melanie on east@englandhockey.co.uk to say if you can attend on the 22nd and who you will be bringing to the workshop.  The second workshop will be to follow up on the progress in time for the off season when we will be trying to recruit a new cohort of volunteers.

 

 

 

 Andrew Dale
 Relationship Manager

Direct: +44 (0)1509 228676 | Mobile: +44 (0)7725 432013

England Hockey The Hockey Pavilion, Loughborough University Ashby Road Loughborough LE11 3TU

Tel: +44 (0)1509 228676| www.englandhockey.co.uk

 

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Hello Ladies

 

The Ladies Midland's O40, O45, O50, O55 and O60’s trials are to be held on Sunday 12th March 2017 at Hampton Hockey Club (www.hamptonhockey.org.uk). Address Shadowbrook Lane, Hampton In Arden, B92 0DQ

 

Registration is from 11.15am. Trials will start at 12pm and will finish between 3-4pm depending on numbers attending.

 

Please ensure you bring dark and white shirt/socks. A numbered bib will be provided.

 

If you are interested in trialing for any of the above age groups, please complete the attached Expression of Interest form and send to Cheryl McCulloch (cheryl.mcculloch@yahoo.co.uk) as soon as possible

Please note that whilst we will consider your preference for a particular age group squad, if selected, we cannot guarantee that you will be placed in your chosen squad.

If you wish to be available for selection and are unavailable to attend the trials, due to injury, prior commitments (cup game, re-arranged league game) or illness, please still let us know of your wishes to be considered.  If one of the selectors has been able to see you play, or knows of your ability from previous squads this will be taken into account when selecting this year's teams.

 If you have any queries please get in touch with

 

Midland O40s Management Team

 

Manager - Cheryl McCulloch

Cheryl.McCulloch@yahoo.co.uk

07749277397

Assistant Manager – Nik Baker

superkeeper_5@hotmail.com

Coach – Sue Sutton

suesutton77@gmail.com

Midland O45s Management Team

 

Manager - TBC

 

Midland O50s Management Team

Manager - Caroline Frye

Carolinefrye@blueyonder.co.uk

07717777904

Midland O55s Management Team

Manager - Cheryl McCulloch

Cheryl.McCulloch@yahoo.co.uk

07749277397

Assistant Manager – Nik Baker

superkeeper_5@hotmail.com

Midland O60s Management Team

Manager- Jean Scott-Miller

jean.scottmiller@googlemail.com

Kindest Regards

 

Midland Masters Management Team

 

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Hi All I am contacting you to inform you that the Midlands Masters Trials for the 2017 tournaments are to be held at Hampton Hockey club on Sunday March 12th from 2-5pm. If you know of anyone who is interested in coming this year in ANY age group please get them to get in touch. This year we are holding trials for all of the age groups at the same time so that we may firstly get enough numbers to make trials happen. this will mean that you may end up playing against some youngsters! but it will be a good test. Please could you let me or Cheryl Mcculloch know if you are going to attend or are interested in playing this year. I need the following - again!! Name DOB Club Shirt no (if you have one) email mobile no. position/s Look forward to hearing from you soon. there is also a potential for a mini tournament against the England O55's and a team from Gibraltar on 29/30 May - so please also let us know if you are interested in this. Caroline Frye [mailto:carolinefrye@blueyonder.co.uk]

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England Hockey have just organised this course at Moulton College please see below:-

Coaching For Talent

By the end of the workshops coaches should be able to:

Understand the principles for developing talented hockey players

Understand the priority hockey themes for talented players

Consider the most effective way we can develop talented players through delivery priority themes that allow the players to learn and apply skills, through:

                   - Player centred, coaching approach

                   - Games rather than drills culture

                   - Questioning style

 

This workshop is designed for coaches that:

 

Coach within the lower end of talent pathway (ie. JDC/JAC, 360 Centres, District Programme)

Coach 1st XI teams within Regional/County leagues

Want to deliver player centred sessions

Want to deliver positive learning environments for talented players

Coaches that attend this workshop will get:

 

Pre-course information

Information on Player Centred coaching approach, Games rather than Drills culture and questioning style

Theoretical background plus 60 minutes observation of National Age Group Academies/360 Centres/District Programme

 

Please be aware for courses introduced from 16th May 2016 there will be a members and a non members price. For more information and how to purchase coaches membership please click here.

 

The cost to book on is £38 for members and £48 for non members

 

To book a place and to see dates and venues of all the workshops please see the following link.

 

find a course

 

Andy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Andrew Dale
 Relationship Manager

Direct: +44 (0)1509 228676 | Mobile: +44 (0)7725 432013

 

 

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England Hockey have organised Club Forums to discuss umpiring across the region. They would like to invite you to the final one in our region.   The meeting will be a chance to network with other club colleagues and to share ideas / good practice. You will be joined on the evening by England Hockey Officiating Officer David Elworthy.  David will also share with you some live examples of clubs developing their own umpires and other details of central support available for you and your umpiring team. 

Please invite the person most involved in developing umpiring at your club.

The agenda for the meeting is as follows

 

·        7pm Welcome introductions (over tea, coffee & biscuits.)

·        7.20 EH focus on Club Umpiring

·        7.50. Developing and deploying club umpires / updated national guidance and good practice.

·        8.30 Open discussion.

·        9pm Depart

 

Venue and Date:-

Monday 30th January 2017 – Kettering Hockey Club, off Lake Avenue, Kettering. 

NN15 7JT

 

Please RSVP to Melanie Hart east@englandhockey.co.uk  if  you are attending.

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Sport England and UK Sport Funding Sport England has announced significant investments into a number of sports as part of their new strategy for sport. As part of this investment, England Hockey has been awarded £9.03m for the four years from 2017-2021.

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Hi Everyone,

During the Christmas break the committee decided regrettably to pull Wellingborough 2nds out of the league. This decision wasn't taken lightly but the struggles Wellingborough had putting out a 2nd team was proving increasingly difficult & financially costly. However I would ask all fixture secretaries to liaise with Wellingborough in the hope that, without the constraint of league rules, the fixture could be played as a friendly.

Best wishes for the new year,

Val

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Dear All

Sadly, I have had reports of unacceptable behaviour by some of our hirers:

• I would like to remind you and ask your supporters / spectators to respect that we are a strictly no smoking site. Anyone found smoking will result in their group being banned from hiring our facilities with immediate effect.

• Secondly, parking is to be kept to the car park. Under no circumstances, other than a medical emergency, may cars be driven alongside the astro pitches or parked on the grass. This is a safety issue and we cannot allow it.

• Finally, please respect our staff. It's not easy for them to constantly approach people and ask them to keep to the rules, particularly when they are alone and faced with a group of people. We will not accept any rudeness to our staff and will ask your group to find an alternative venue.

Thank you to those of you that this does not apply to, it is much appreciated.

 

Kind regards

Jackie Cliffe

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