Wildfire - Club Newsletter for May '09

Chair's Report
I am both proud and delighted to provide you with this season's Chair's Report, which was presented at last week's AGM. You can download your copy here. The 2008-09 season has been exceptionally busy with many, many great successes, achievements and challenges. The report highlights just a few of these.

I would like to express my sincere thanks to all those dedicated volunteers and officials who have given their time freely to support the development of this Club, and in so doing offer healthy, energetic and essential social sporting activity to the youngsters within our community.



Bill Reed, Club Coach
Congratulations go to Bill Reed who has successfully completed the FA Level 1 course. Bill's daughters, Katie and Emma, play in the Phoenix squad and he now takes his place alongside the existing coaching team who support this growing and enthusiastic group.

This nationally recognized qualification, comes with the title 'Club Coach'. To achieve this standard, Bill has completed modules in Emergency Aid, Child Protection, Club Administration, Mini-Soccer Ethics (Soccer Parent) and Football Laws, as well as considerable practical instruction on how to organize and facilitate training sessions.

Our thanks go to Bill for putting in the time and effort to improve his knowledge of the game as well as for the commitment he makes each week to facilitate football for your children.

If you fancy the opportunity of helping our players develop their football skills then join our coaching team. Derry Hill United offers free access to Level 1 courses and subsidized access to those who want to take their coach education beyond level 1 as well as mentorship and support. Coaching is a great way to widen and develop your own skills and is extremely rewarding. Contact coach@dhufc.org for more details.



Clubhouse Update
Construction is moving on apace and as you can see we are now close to putting the roof on the Clubhouse. There is still much to do, with services and fitting out to complete, but we are still hopeful that the Clubhouse will be complete and ready for use in September.



BSG Closed This Weekend
Next weekend, Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th May is the first week of a school holiday and in-line with our usual practice Bowood Sports Ground will be closed to all Club activity. No matches or training. The Club resumes it's activity on Saturday 30th May. Have a good break



Derry Hill United on Twitter
Now you have three ways to keep in touch with activity at the Club.

1. Club Hotline
- Pitch and Club Event Status messages available on 0845 5272 886
2. Pitch Status Banner
- Pitch Status information available at www.dhufc.org
3. DHUFC on Twitter
- Follow DHUFC_Tweeter to receive Pitch and Club Event Status messages on your mobile phone

These facilities let you know what is going on at Club level, for squad information be sure to read your team's mails. Remember all of the Club's newsletters are archived and available for reading at your leisure at DHUFC News.

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