Girls Footie Fest and Club Trip to Swindon Town FC

Kit Order Deadline
Friday 23rd October
Remember to place your order for Club kit from Catherine Saville before 23rd October. This is the last opportunity to order kit and receive it in time for Christmas.

View our range of Derry Hill badged extras online. If you need kit or clothing for the winter please go to the website to find the relevant order form. Then follow the instructions on the order form to send it and the relevant payment to Catherine Saville our Kit Co-ordinator to reach her before Friday 23rd October.


Girls Half-Term Footie Fest
Friday 23rd October
Following discussions with local youth football clubs; Calne FC and Bromham, Derry Hill United FC is now the designated girls development Club within Calne and district. Our role is to encourage, support and develop girls football from the ages of 6 through to adult football at 16. We are delighted and excited to have reached this accord and want to use this opportunity to increase the number of girls who choose to play football as part of their leisure activity.

To celebrate our role, and encourage more girls into football, we are working with the Calne Town Sports Development Officer to provide an exciting and enjoyable, fun football event during the school holiday. This girls only event has been advertised to all of the schools across Calne and to other organizations in and around the area.

If you know of a girl who is not going away for the holiday week, and will be in the area on Friday 23rd October, then get them and their friends down to Calne's super new sports facility at Beversbrook. Not only is the event completely FREE but it will be a great day, and a brilliant opportunity to make new friends and develop football skills at the same time.


Watch Swindon Town FC Play
Saturday 5th December
For those of you who enjoyed the Club's recent trip to the Wildcats Ice Hockey I am pleased to say that we have been invited to take in another game in January. Let's hope it is as exciting as the last one. Keep an eye on your mail for more details of the date and how to book.

In the meantime I have been able to secure discount tickets to Swindon Town FC under the Football League's "Fans Of The Future" programme. Tickets, are heavily discounted at £11 for adults and £1.50 for children.

We are scheduled to see the Swindon versus Leyton Orient League One match on Saturday 5th December at the County Ground, Swindon, kick-off 3pm. Go to the on-line form to book your tickets. Deadline for booking your seats is Monday 9th November. All bookings will have to be paid for as we have to prepay the seats we have reserved, so please don't book unless you know you can come.


No Training this Weekend
Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th October
Remember, no training this weekend, Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th October as it is the first week of a school holiday and in-line with our usual practice all our venues will be closed to Club activity. No matches, no training and a rest from football for everyone, players, parents and coaches alike.


Clubhouse Opening
Saturday 31st October
I am delighted to tell you that we've finally got there and on Saturday 31st October we shall be opening our new Clubhouse.

We will open the Clubhouse at 11am on Saturday 31st October, everyone is invited to come along and look around. We do hope you'll be able to join us and be proud of the facility that we have built. One word of caution, we expect the ground to be extremely busy, can I ask that each of you consider walking, riding, or car-sharing. If you bring your car please consider parking at Pine and Cane or the Soho Inn for the morning.


New Club Coach
I would like to congratulate Kevin Beresford of the Blaze who has recently completed his Level 1 Certificate in Coaching Football. Kevin becomes the third person this season to complete an FA coaching course, and I would like to thank him for his time and commitment to advancing his knowledge of football and how to coach and develop young players.

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, 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.