HORNBY HAPPENINGS
May 2015
Fun sticks on Fridays
Hi again everyone. This is quick fire Newsletter No 2 as we
update you on various aspects of our operation and some of
the difficulties that we face. The last one was about our umpiring issues and how we intend to solve them with the Team
Buddy system etc. I’m pleased to report that there has been
general acceptance of the innovation and we had a good
turnout to our first Umpiring Skills Skool on Friday, so we’re
well on the way to getting this under control. Thank you.
Cont from previous column.
We have some fundraising activity in
the planning. The “100 Club” will be
back again soon and of course there
will be the popular annual quiz evening. These are regular activities and
there is also a major social occasion on
the cards as well. We need your support with these initiatives.
This issue attempts to acquaint you of our money issues and
Finally a regular visit by you and your
how you can help lessen the pain.
team to the clubrooms [apart from
Over the past three years the club has had 2 major items of Team Duty night] on a Saturday eveexpenditure. Our new uniform, some $46.000.00 and the re- ning would be appreciated. There’s
placement turf at Wycola approx $80.000.00. Whilst both of always something on the go, Lucky
these projects had been to the foremost in our planning and draws for team and player, hot food,
fundraising arena for a number of years and we have received cheap drinks, the obligatory raffle and
quite a bit of support through various grants from our local a chance to catch up on all the hockey
hotel trusts to enable us to complete these projects debt free goss. It’s a pleasant way to while away
our reserves are now no more and we have to start building an hour or so. Support here is really
them up again from scratch. You can expect a tightening of appreciated.
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the financial belt for a couple of years. Already this year we
have had to fork out over $2.000.00 for balls and approx an- Speaking of clubrooms and team duty
our Premier boys the Vipers set the
other 3 grand for goalkeepers kit. We can’t keep that up.
standard last week with a great turnHow can you help lessen the impact? Firstly paying your club out of players and supporters. Well
sub on time or even early is a huge help. Thanks to those that done to them. Let’s see if we can keep
have paid already you’ve helped immensely with our cash the standard up.
flow. Invoices for the club subscription have been issued to
all our senior teams over the past 2 weeks and the juniors in- This week it’s our special Mothers day
voices will be handed out this coming week. Your early atten- draw so kids bring your mum along for
the fun.
tion to them will be greatly appreciated.
Secondly you can take good care of all club property. Make See y’all there
sure you retrieve all the balls your team has been allocated
after practices and games and keep our goalkeepers gear
clean and tidy so hopefully we can extend its life for a year or
two.