The date of the Annual Hockey Club Dinner and Awards Evening will be Saturday 28^th April 2012. Tickets will be available shortly for purchase but in the meantime please put the date in your diaries and start promoting the event around the club. Last year we had our most well attended dinner and it would be great to see even more members and parents there this year.

There is a fundraising race night at the club on Saturday 10th March. Please support this event if you are able to. It's events like this that bring extra funds into the club that help us to cover costs and prevent subs and match fees increasing. Entrance is £10 to include a meal (choice of meal on the night). Tables of 8. A series of races will take place across the evening with minimum bets of £1 and prizes given out for the winning owners of each race. You can support the event in several ways: 1) come along on the night and support the event, 2) buy a horse in advance of the night at a cost of £5, 3) sponsor a race at £30 plus £10 for a prize (or supply the prize yourself). If you’d like to own a horse you can leave a cheque(made payable to Stourport Hockey Club) behind the bar in our membership box for £5. Please support this fun event if you can. For more details please contact Holly Lashford.

Once again there are MRM Hockey Coaching Camps being hosted at the club over the Easter Holidays. The dates are Tuesday & Wednesday 3^rd & 4^th April and Wednesday & Thursday 11^th & 12^th April. The cost is £25 per day, £40 per camp or £70 for all 4 days.  There will be advanced, intermediate and beginners groups for all activities so there will be challenges and tests for everyone. Both camps will feature different skills and games, so book on to both to avoid missing out as you will not be doing the same thing twice. Each camp will have different challenges and activities to keep any player hooked on hockey! For full details and information about how to book a place please see the junior section of the club website (under hockey).

This Sunday (6^th November) sees Stourport host 3 National Cup matches. If you are free to go up to the club and watch please offer your support to our Men’s Masters, U18 Girls and U18 Boys who are all competing in their respective Cup Competitions. The details of the matches are as follows: Men’s Vets vs. Loughborough Town at 12.30pm, U18 Girls vs. Shrewsbury at 12.30pm, U18 boys vs. Old Hales at 2.30pm.

The deadline for payment of annual subscriptions is Monday 31^st October. By this deadline members must have either paid their first subscription instalment or paid in full for the season. Members can pay in full or in instalments via the website (once they have registered) or by leaving a cheque for full payment behind the bar at the Sports Club in the SHC membership box.  After the 31^st October all annual subscription fees will increase and payment of the discounted rates will no longer be possible. The membership box will be emptied on the 31^st October and any cheques received after this date will be considered to be late and members will be eligible for the extra amount (amounts payable on the website will automatically increase). Members who have not paid their annual subscription will not be covered by the clubs insurance and will be unavailable for selection from the weekend of 12^th November onwards.  Subscription amounts are as follows: Full adult - £125 (increasing to £150), U21/Student/Unemployed - £90 (increasing to £115), U18  - £60 (increasing to £85), and additional U18 sibling  - £30 (increasing to £42.50). THANK YOU TO THOSE MEMBERS THAT HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED THIS PROCESS – YOUR CO-OPERATION IS MUCH APPRECIATED.

There is 1st aid course running on Thursday 22nd September at Stourport Sports Club 18.30-21.30pm.

If any coaches or volunteers are in need of updating their 1st aid then get yourselves booked on the course asap. If you are a volunteer for the hockey club this will be subsidised by the club.

To book on you can go on the Sports Partnership's website www.morethansport.com

The recent EuroHockey Nations Championships held in Monchengladbach, Germany saw many Stourport players representing England in their respective Masters age groups. Congratulations to the following:

Masters...Over 40’s...David Stokes...silver

Masters...Over 45’s...David Knott...gold

Grand Masters...Over 60’s...Neil Stone...gold

Great Grand Masters...Over 65’s...David Read...gold

This season the deadline for completion of membership forms and payment of annual subs is 31^st October 2011. Those members that have not completed by this deadline will not be eligible for selection.

Membership forms are completed electronically via the registration page of the club website. If you are an U18 member you will also need to download and complete an U18 declaration form. These can be left behind the bar in the clubhouse in the SHC member’s box. Annual subs can also be paid electronically via the website (you can set up part payments if you want to) or a cheque for the full amount left behind the bar in the SHC member’s box. The full payment or first part payment must be received by 31^st October 2011 (after this date subscription amounts increase and non-payers will not be available for selection).

This season the team sheet and other very useful information will only be available on member’s pages of the club website (it will be moved very shortly). You must have completed a registration form in order to get login details for this area. Once you have these details you will be able to login and view protected information and once you have also paid your subs further pages will become accessible (happening shortly). The club also uses the registration database for communication with members so if you want to get the latest information get filling in the form. If you completed a form last year you will have to do it again this year as we have adopted a new system.