Clubs 1st Accreditation for HMHC

We have now received official confirmation and congratulations from England Hockey of our Clubs 1st accreditation and I am pleased to repeat here what I have said on the Active Norfolk website (please see LINKS at the bottom of the Home Page of the Club's website) . "We are delighted to have received this accreditation and I thank our youth development officer Nick McAllen and the youth committee chaired by Helen Barber who worked so hard to achieve this recognition on behalf of the Club. I also thank Charlie Farrow and Connie Bedingfield of England Hockey for all their help and guidance during the preparation process".

I take this opportunity to remind members that Clubs 1st is part of Sport England Clubmark, a nationally recognised accreditation for sports clubs with the aim of club's demonstrating that they provide a safe, effective and child friendly environment for their membership. The scheme has four main focus areas - i) duty of care and child protection, ii) the coaching programme, iii) sports equity and ethics and iv) club management. This status is not awarded without an enormous amount of work and comes as another boost to the Club.

The official presentation of our Clubs 1st award together with our Community Clubs Development Programme award from Sport England (which amounted to an invaluable grant of £35,000 towards the re-carpeting of the sand-based pitch) will be made at 9.30am on Saturday 22 September 2007 during a youth coaching session.

Strawberry Luncheon
This was a very successful social event held in the lovely surroundings of Gawdy Hall and I thank everyone who supported the event. I also thank, of course, our hard working hosts David and Wendy Green and members of the organising committee led by our president David Alexander and secretary Daphne Beckett for all they did to make the luncheon so enjoyable. The event, which was blessed by surprisingly good weather, raised the excellent sum of £1130 for Club funds.

Update on ground and clubhouse upgrades

1. The testing of the upgrade of the floodlights on the two pitches was completed last night (Wednesday 11 July).

2. Work will begin on the building of the disabled toilet next week.

3. The old balcony is now just a memory (many thanks to Andrew and Richard Longe for its removal thereby saving the Club a considerable amount of money) and its replacement will be installed in early August, after which the stairlift will be fitted to the main staircase to the balcony.

4. Harrod UK Limited has very kindly provided the Club with a set of new goals and LMB Services has very kindly donated a set of wheels for goals on the sand-based pitch. The continuing support of these businesses is much appreciated.

Drainage of the road outside the car park
The Club continues to co-operate with Mid Suffolk DC and by extension Weybread Parish Council to solve the flooding problem on the road outside the entrance to our car park. For the next few days a trench is being dug, at no cost to HMHC, across our car park for the installation of a bigger pipe to solve the problem. I thank David Cobbald for all the liaison work he has undertaken on this project in addition to all the other jobs he has carried out at Weybread in recent weeks.

Congratulations to Carl Sitch who is currently playing for England U18s in the EuroHockey Youth Nations Championship in Edinburgh and to Tristan Baynes and Leigh Sitch who have been selected to play for the England Mixed team against the Combined Services and Wales in Southampton this coming weekend.

GOLF DAY - STILL TIME TO ENTER!
Thursday 23 August 2007 - Bungay GC
If you would like to enter a team of four (men, women or mixed) for 18 holes of golf, luncheon and the chance of prizes please contact me (Mike Denham) on 01603 506925.

SOCIAL AND FUND RAISING ACTIVITIES 2007-2008
The Fund Raising and Social Committee has finalised the programme for the coming season as follows. Please put the dates in your diaries! More details will be issued in due course.

2007
Saturday 1 September BBQ after pre-season training matches
Saturday 6 October Family Quiz Evening
Friday 2 November Fireworks Spectacular (gates open 6.30pm)
Saturday 24 November "Cocktail" Evening
Saturday 29 December Fancy Dress Inter-Club Mixed Hockey

2008
Saturday 2 February Social Evening
Saturday 1 March Race Evening
Saturday 12 April Silent Auction and Spring Prize Draw
Saturday 3 May End of Season Bash
Sat/Sun/Mon 3/4/5 May Magpies Tournament
Summer Five evenings of mixed hockey
Sunday 29 June Strawberry Luncheon
August Golf Day (tbc)
Saturday 13 September Summer Ball

The training/coaching programme for the forthcoming season can be accessed from the Home Page of the Club's website. www.magpies-hockey.co.uk

With kind regards and best wishes to all members, supporters and friends of the Club.




Mike Denham (Chairman)
Tel: 01603 506925
E-mail: MDenham975@aol.com
12 July 2007

What makes Harleston special?

The A B C of distinctiveness

Last autumn Harleston Development Partnership held an event looking at what makes Harleston special.

A group of people got together to consider things that made Harleston unique and tried to come up with something for every letter of the alphabet.

A B C

We thought about things that can be seen and also those that are unseen such as friendliness and maybe ghosts!

There were many suggestions including ‘M’ for Magpies and ‘S’ for Stone, ‘I’ for independent shops and ‘A’ for atmosphere.

It was such an interesting, fun thing to do we have decided to do more work on this and prepare postcards, a wall chart or booklet with the complete A B C.

However, before we do this we would like your help, could you spare a few minutes to prepare your own A B C ?

Maybe as you fly off on your holiday or as you sunbathe in the garden(!) there will be time to think about what is special and distinct about the town?

We would also like children and young people to give us their Harleston alphabet, this could be words, pictures or photographs.

Blank A B C forms are available from Harleston Information Plus, (or just jot your thoughts on a piece of paper).

Completed A B Cs should be returned to:
Harleston Information Plus at 8 Exchange Street by 1st September.

Or send us an email:

hip@harleston-norfolk.org.uk

We will keep you posted and put the final A B C on the Waveney Valley Blog.

MAGPIES YOUTH
SUMMER TRAINING CAMPS 2007

THURSDAY AUGUST 16th

FRIDAY AUGUST 17th

MONDAY AUGUST 20th

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 22nd

For Boys and Girls, 9 to 14 yearolds

COST:
£12 FOR ONE DAY AND
£7 FOR ANY OTHER DAY

10.00am-4.00pm Each Day

This is for outfield players only. Regrettably no Goalkeepers on this Course

DETAILS: Please meet in the Clubhouse at 9.45am with the intention of starting on the pitch at 10.00am. Depending on the weather conditions, we will normally work for one hour on the pitch followed by a break. The emphasis will be on practising the skills of the game as well as a variety of fun games.
Please bring your own packed lunch although soft drinks, crisps etc can be purchased from the Clubhouse. Please bring appropriate clothes for the weather conditions. As the sessions are held on artificial surfaces (water based and sand based pitch) trainers or astro shoes are essential. No studs.
Organiser Nick McAllen (01508 493269).

DO NOT JUST TURN UP ON THE DAY – PLEASE BOOK IN ADVANCE
USING THE FORM BELOW

>> Click here for application form <<

Magpies Club Training/Coaching
Programme 2007-2008

Mondays
Boys 6.15 – 7.45pm STARTS: 3 September

Men’s Club 7.45 – 9.15pm STARTS: 20 August

Men’s 1sts & 2nds 7.45 – 9.15pm STARTS: 6 August

Tuesdays
Ladies’ 1sts 7.00 – 9.15pm STARTS: 31 July

Ladies’ 2nds & 3rds 7.00 – 9.15pm STARTS: 14 August

Wednesdays
Boys 6.00 – 7.30pm STARTS: 22 August

Men’s 1sts & 2nds 7.15 – 9.15pm STARTS: 1 August

Thursdays
Girls 6.15 – 7.40pm STARTS: 6 September

Girls 7.30 – 9.00pm STARTS: 23 August

Ladies’ Club 7.30 – 9.00pm STARTS: 23 August

Fridays
U11 Girls & Boys 6.00 – 7.15pm STARTS: 14 September

Saturdays
U11 Girls & Boys 9.00 – 10.30am STARTS: 8 September

Harleston Magpies Hockey Club have achieved the England Hockey Clubs’ 1st Accreditation.

Clubs’ 1st is the England Hockey version of Clubmark, which indicates that a club offers safe, child friendly playing opportunities. The club have put a lot of hard work into achieving this accreditation and are to be congratulated on their success!

Mike Denham, Chairman of HMHC, says: “We are delighted to have received this accreditation and I thank our Youth Development Officer Nick McAllen and the Youth Committee chaired by Helen Barber who worked so hard to achieve this recognition on behalf of the Club. I also thank Charlie Farrow and Connie Bedingfield of England Hockey for all their help and guidance during the preparation process.”

Their Clubs’ 1st certificate will be presented to them alongside their Community Club Development Programme Award on Saturday 22nd September 9.30am at their club ground in Weybread.

To find out more about Harleston Magpies Hockey Club visit our web site.