New Season
Dear Players, Parents, Coaches & Supporters of CCCFC - The 2011/2012 season has just begun. Traditionally this is a time of great excitement and anticipation - you have my word that everyone involved with this great club will be pulling together to ensure that those hopes will be fulfilled and we all have a fun, rewarding and succesful season.
All Change!
This is an organisation that embraces change - some of these are made to make things better, equally some of these are forced upon us by key and invaluable people retiring as they conclude that they have done their bit. There is a whole raft of new people involved in your club this year. I am not going to itemise those changes here, suffice to say we have had to say goodbye to a lot of talented people amongst our coaching and committee bodies. The great news is that a big number of you have stepped up to plug those gaps - on behalf of the whole club, I thank you all wholeheartedly. We will try to help these new guys bed in as quickly as possible - but I do ask players and parents to respect this commitment and bear with us for a while (if required). We are all volunteers.
We are always on the lookout for new people to assist in the running of the club - 'more hands make lighter work' - this needn't be a full committee role, there are lots of less 'onerous' ways to help. For further information on this or to register an interest - please contact me.
Volunteers
We are a non profit making organisation -solely in existence to provide football for kids in a pleasant, positive environment. Although costs have gone up (hasn't everyones?) -we have been able to hold our training and joining fees at one of the lowest levels you will find in Wiltshire. We are able to do this through the hard work of your committee and parent volunteers. A few set piece fundraisers are put on each year - volunteers are required to staff them. I thought I would try and illustrate the importance below:
Tournament - 50 volunteers = Car Park improvements paid for in one go
Race Track Car Boot Sale - 35 volunteers = New training kit (balls/cones/bibs etc) paid for in one go.
This enables us to keep fees low and use them for training venues, ground maintenance etc. The next time your manager asks for volunteers please, please do your bit - otherwise its the same old faces doing the work - and that is not sustainable.
We value Your Feedback
We always welcome your feedback - about any aspect of the club. So if you have any comments about what we do well, and probably more importantly - what we could do better, then please let me know.
Respect
We have seen how important respect (or indeed the lack of it) is whilst having to witness some terrible scenes in some of England's inner cities this summer. We can't pretend to have the entire answer to a society issue of this magnitude, but we do believe we can improve things by engendering a culture of mutual respect, and also guidelines for how people should behave around a sporting field. This is obviously done in minority support of the more important parents mentoring role, but we sincerely believe that this can provide a key building block of a young person's citizenship values. We are very proud of being an FA approved Charter Standard Club -once again we have adopted the FA's Respect Codes of Conduct. By the end of September 2011 you all should have studied these codes and signed to accept that you will abide by them. Please use these guidelines, adhere to them and maintain the good reputation that Castle Combe Colts enjoys. You can find out more about the Respect programme at www.thefa.com
Dates for the Diary
We have set some dates and will agree others in the coming months - I will edit this newsletter on the website as the remaining dates (TBA) become agreed:
Mini-Soccer Xmas Party – DONE!
Presentation Evening - 18/19 May 12 at Neeld Hall
Registration Event - 10 June 12
AGM - 13 May 12
Tournament - 23/24 June 12
Car Boot Sale Fund Raiser - TBA
Please make a note of these dates in your diaries and keep them free.
Here's hoping that we all have a rewarding season this year - actually we can do more than hope though really, can’t we? Together we can make it happen.
Best Wishes
Trevor Newman
Chairman - Castle Combe Colts FC |
