University Hockey Club

Hello Everyone,
Hope you're all enjoying the start to the season. The committee would like to pass on the following brief messages...

:Subs
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Thanks to everyone who has got at least the 1st installment of their subs paid. The committee has decided to extend the deadline for the 1st installment to Sunday April 13th. Our clubs survival is highly dependant on collecting all sub money in and for this reason it has been decided that a $20 penalty will be applied to your subs if not paid by this date. Also players that have not paid will not be able to take the field on the following weekend.
Direct debit details:
If you want to pay your subs using this method the club account number is: 03 1555 0091780 000. Please ensure you put your full name as a reference and team name, and e-mail Megan on treasurer@varsityhockey.co.nz to let her know you have paid.

If you are a coach or an umpire you are required to pay full subs, but you will then be reimbursed at the end of the season.

These are the fees for this season:

No uniform bond to be charged this year. Subs can be given to Megan, myself, Brendon or through the following team reps:
Prem men: Craig Hardman
Prem Women: Megan Leach
Reserve Men: Geoff Hurst
New World: Ben Franks
Reserve Women: Brendon Jones
Challenge: Dave Selby
Video Ezy: Ben Walsh
Inkfish: Paul Kelly
Admor: Allan Mckie
Creative Plastics: Jeff Wigg

AGM
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The AGM will now be held on Tuesday 29th April 2008. It will be at 8.30 following trainings at St Pauls pavillion. We encourage everyone to attend. Remember there are some executive positions up for grabs, and as I keep saying if someone else doesnt put their hand up for president theres a real danger I will be voted in.

Fundraising
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Without a decent amount of fundraising this year we will be forced to substantially increase fees next year. This is mainly due to the club being required to contribute money to the new pavillion being built at Gallagher Hockey Centre. Raising subs is something we really dont want to do so we are going to kick off with some fundraising straight away, the first thing being selling Entertainment Books.

For those of you who dont know what Entertainment Books are, they are a book full of huge discounts for restaurants and cafes and heaps of other stuff. They cost $50 to buy of which our club receives $10 for each book sold. They are really good value and so you get your $50 back pretty quickly.
The books will be distributed this week, you will recieve a letter explaining everything and one book to use as a demo. We will have prizes for the team who sells the most and individual who sells the most (we'll let you know what they are when we know).
We really need everyone, and that includes mens teams, to get behind this and sell as many books as possible.
You will have approximately 3 weeks to sell them.

Thats all for now
Cheers
Geoff Hurst
Acting President
Waikato University Hockey Club