Ambleside Price Rise
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Clubhouse "Jobs"
A list of 21 "minor" jobs has been drawn up and volunteers are required from members to undertake them - thereby saving club monies - list to be posted in foyer in due course.

NOTICEBOARD

Applications are sought for (insert county) Youth Coaching Posi

BIRMINGHAM AND WEST MIDLANDS COUNTY HOCKEY ACADEMY (BWMHA)

Applications are sought for Youth Coaching Positions.

BWMHA is looking to appoint coaches to work with their Schools and Youth squads, both boys and girls. In the first instance we are seeking coaches for the U13 Boys and Girls Junior Development Centres planned to take place from 27 – 30 May 2008 (inc). There are two centres planned and further information is provided below:

27 – 30 May

The centre will be open to U13 boys and girls. We are seeking a head coach (must be level 2 or above) and 2 assistant coaches (minimum level 1). The centre will be held at Wyndley Leisure Centre from 27 – 29 May (1-5pm) and at King Edwards Girls High School, Edgbaston on 30 May (10am – 4pm). The final day will be a coaching/competition day for both centres combined.

28 – 30 May

This centre will be open to U13 boys and girls. We are seeking a head coach (must be level 2 or above) and 2 assistant coaches (minimum level 1). The centre will be held at King Edwards Girls High School, Edgbaston (10am – 4pm). The final day will be a coaching/competition day for both centres combined.

Length of appointment

The Coaching Teams will take up their role on 26 May 2008 and will run until 30 May 2008 but with the option of an extension for a further 12 months (subject to satisfactory performance and mutual agreement). The Coaching Teams will work in line with England Hockey’s Single System.

The closing date for applications will be 15 May 2008.

Applicants will be notified about interview arrangements at a later date.

For the Job Details and Specification please contact Inge Kettner Wood, 6 Bracebridge Rd, Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield B74 2SB, 07763 071113 (inge.kettner@virgin.net)

Please reply in writing or by email enclosing your CV to Inge Kettner Wood (as above)

Summer Residential Hockey Course with International Players and Coaches in the Cotswolds!!

This summer Hooked on Hockey will be running their first Residential Hockey Camp in the Cotswolds. (Warning!  Price £315.00 - from webmaster).

Please see the link - http://www.hookedonhockey.co.uk/070810A5resbro.pdf for further information. If this doesn't work please go to our homepage www.hookedonhockey.co.uk and then click on courses & venues then click on Residential Course 2008.

It is to be run 3 days post Olympic Games - 27th-31st August 2008 at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester.

This course is aimed at 15-19 year olds. Younger players can enquire to come on the course but have to apply with a hockey CV and a reference from a club or school coach.

Head coaches Simon Letchford (England U18 Coach, England 'A' Coach, England Hockey Centrally Contracted Coach East region and Chelmsford Ladies 1st XI coach) and Lisa Wooding (Great Britain and England International Player.) will be joined by Stuart Hendy (England U16 GK coach) & other international coaches and players who have been invited but not yet confirmed - Alex Danson (Great Britain & England player), Alan Lindsay (Scotland U21 coach, England Hockey Centrally Contracted Coach East Region) & Emer Harte (Irish Senior International Player & Qualified Physiotherapist). Their wealth of experience at the top end of the game will ensure all participants leave satisfied that they have learned lots about the game.

There are a limited number of places on the course so players will need to book early to avoid disappointment. 

 

The course has been designed in such a way that replicates the same hockey and theory content of an England performance hockey camp, but adds more of an enjoyment element to the structure. For example some evenings will be themed with planned social activities.