MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF
THE ERHA MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE HELD ON
WEDNESDAY, 21 MARCH 2007 AT 7.20 PM AT THE HILTON
HOTEL, STANSTED
PRESENT:
ERHA Management Counties
Ros Marsh, President [RM] Dave Burt, Cambs
[DB]
Bill Felton, Deputy President [BF] John
Adams,
Catherine Lymer, Secretary [CL] Jill
Warrick, Lincs [JW]
Loraine Bant, Competitions [LB] Peter Wright,
John Hendy, Performance [JH] Richard West,
Herts [RW]
Russell Nutter, League [RN] Judith Krone,
Essex [JK]
1 APOLOGIES
FOR ABSENCE
Rob Oakley, Beds; Margaret McCall,
Treasurer; John Helliwell, PR & Appeals; Mike Trett, Umpiring; Charlie Farrow – England Hockey,
2 MINUTES
OF THE MANAGEMENT MEETING HELD ON 13 DECEMBER 2006
Minutes agreed as an accurate record.
3 MATTERS
ARISING FROM THE MINUTES
[a] Venue
for East Camps 2007 – Culford – BF asks that info on the camps comes out as
soon as possible. Everything picked up
from Ian le Page in
[b]
Criteria for Welfare Officer – to discuss with CF at the next Management
meeting.
[c] Single System – to discuss at Management on 9
May after the EH Roadshow meeting on 19 April at
[d] Womens Vets, 1 April 07,
4 HANDBOOK
2007-08
CL cannot do the handbook this year as she
has other commitments, CL is happy to guide the process. RM to ask Trevor
Williams if he would be interested. RM
suggested that Men’s and Women’s Vets and Indoor Hockey information be included
in the 07/08 Handbook.
5 EAST
AGM-Thursday 5 July 07
Quy Mill,
6 Indoor
Hockey – past, present and future
RM presented a paper (see appendices) on
behalf of the Indoor Working Group.
Indoor competition was a success, thanks to all the officials who kept
their expenses down. Need to buy a new trophy for the women’s competition.
Trying to find other venues to host indoor hockey. There is a need to promote
indoor hockey back to the clubs – to get them interested and playing again.
7 COMMITTEE REPORTS
[a] Finance (Report in appendices)
·
[b] Competitions (
Report in appendices)
·
Congestion of calendar –
girls want the 1st weekend of December for Junior Indoor and Boys
want the first 2 Sundays – how will this effect adult East Indoor?
·
People on the committee
feel that playing midweek undermines the importance of the game.
·
Is it possible for a
bigger contribution from the East to help fund the Indoor? MM to be asked to consider.
·
Teams are dropping out of
league matches and the Committee are considering a fine system. To be discussed at the next Competitions
meeting.
[c] Performance
(
No report in appendices)
·
Ian
le Page has now left, everything was picked up from
·
Staying
at Culford for this year looking to move next year. Had to pay VAT which
previously we did not, to cut costs, staff are being kept to a minimum. Half
way through the camp there will be a coaching weekend. Miche Bloch is going to
be the Camps co-ordinater and Manager. To break even 448 children need to attend. Prices are 3 days £150 and 4 days £200.
·
JH
to send the budget for Culford to MM.
·
Counties
are being informed currently by Miche Bloch about Summer Camps. LB asked if the info could possibly come out
by February next year as all the county coaches are still working with their
squads at this point so the information would be easier to disseminate and
collate.
·
There
was attendance at all county competitions for talent identification purposes.
·
The
interviews for the Centrally Contracted Coaches have taken place, there were 7
candidates from the East. Hopefully one CCC will attend the Performance
meetings.
·
The
decision has been taken to create a new website which will have a link to the
East website on it. There will be a section specifically for the young
players. Check with Trevor Williams a
final time to see if the issue can be resolved about putting the Performance
minutes on the East page direct.
[d] League
(Report in appendices)
·
Cambs
Umpire Association have allowed for Cambs Uni to umpire matches without that
person being qualified, if any opposition had appealed they would have
won. Plashet have the same problem.
·
The
umpiring complaint form (which is for the umpires) is still in draft form.
·
League
has asked the Umpiring association for a list of level 1 umpires which the
league can then check but have not had a response so far.
·
Single
System survey response it is believed that East would lose 250 teams, the South
are reporting the same number.
·
RN
- EH has sent out a survey which is complicated and can be interpreted anyway
it needs to be.
·
RM
– Until development leagues are in place, EH cannot expect children to leave
established teams.
·
RN
–
·
Broxbourne
has 37 yellow cards – when a umpire questioned this, it was found that the team
fined their members heavily if they did not receive a yellow card. League are
seeing what action they will take about this.
[e] Umpiring (Report in appendices)
[f] Development [BF] (No
report in appendices)
·
Meeting on 14th
May
[g]
RDM (Report in
appendices)
·
[h] Regions’
Consultative Committee (Report in appendices)
·
The Men’s County
Championship Finals on 17-18 May 2008 will be held in the East and it was
agreed that Old Loughtionions,
·
New FIH GK rules – the
East strongly recommend that fully equipped GKs are used at U18 level and
below.
·
East to host England
Hockey AGM in 2008 – Between now and the next Management Meeting Counties to
ask clubs to see if any want to host.
·
Men’s U21 County
Championship – 3 Counties (Essex, Herts,
7 ANY OTHER
BUSINESS
·
RM - Child Protection issue - should know where we
are at start of next season. To discuss
at next meeting.
FULL COMMITTEE
REPORTS APPEAR ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES.
The meeting closed
at 10.20 pm.
President
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ERHA MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
MEETING............ Wednesday 21
March 2007
Agenda Item 6 - Indoor
Hockey - past, present and future
Past
The winners of the ERHA Indoor Tournaments held on
Sat/Sun 16-17 December 2006 were Ipswich HC (Women) and St Albans HC
(men). There was no promotion this
season to the National League. As can be
seen from the Hon Treasurer’s report the only money outstanding is £100 from
Chelmsford HC. It was also decided to
buy a new trophy for the Women’s competition.
Present
We held a meeting of the Indoor Working Group on
Thursday, 15 March to look at the tournaments recently held and to plan the
future. Charlie Farrow, Brian Perks,
Mike Trett and myself are looking to see if there are any other venues we could
use (in addition to Bethnal Green and Rickmansworth). The East teams in the England Hockey
(EH) Indoor League next season are:
Women: Premier -
Div 1 - Old
Loughtonians, Sevenoaks
Div 2 -
Harleston Magpies
Men Premier - Old Loughtonians
Div 1 -
Harleston Magpies
-
Div 2 -
None
Chelmsford HC (women) came 6th in the
European Indoor Clubs tournament in
Future
In the draft EH Fixture List 2007-08, the whole of
December and January has been allocated to indoor hockey - 01/02 and 08/09
December to Regional Leagues, plus 15/16 December (although Premier NL will be
held on this weekend). 5/6 January NL
Div 1, 2S, 2N, and 12/13 January Premier, Div 1 and Div 2. Euro Indoors at
There are 5 teams in Div 2 in the men’s and women’s
league. There are to be 12 teams in each
league (divided into 6 teams in the North and 6 teams in the South). Each Region will have 1 automatic place in
Div 2, with the regions having the most teams, taking the other 2 places. Therefore, our East region round will be
important as the winning teams will have automatic entry to Div 2 of the
National League. They will play on the
5/6 January and the top 3 teams (out of 6)
from the North and South, will form Div 2 for 12/13 Jan with the top 5
teams (out of 6) remaining in Div 2 for the following season (only 6th
place team losing out).
Our next meeting is on Thursday 31 May 2007.
Ros Marsh for Indoor Working Group e:\marshwp\eastindoor.update
Honorary Treasurer’s report to ERHA Management – 21st March
2007
Items for information:
1.
Affiliation fees: Have had club fees
from all Counties, and school fees from all Counties but Cambridgeshire. Thanks to County treasurers for collecting
the East fees.
2.
Camps account: Final accounts for the
2006 camps show a deficit of £452.41 plus associated costs of £2375 for the
chief coach and £3435 for the Leadership course run in conjunction with the
camps. Additionally £380 was spent
supporting East coaches taking Level 2 and 3 coaching courses and £301.48 on
Youth Performance staff visiting Ian le Page to complete the hand-over of camps
administration. Balance in camps account
at the beginning of the year was £7179.86.
Current balance is approximately £1000 (£250 + £700 interest).
3.
East junior squads 2006: All squads’
expenditures were within budget. Some
pitch invoices still to come and hopefully a further refund on cancelled
accommodation at the boys’ Regional Tournament.
Thanks to the managers and coaches who collected the money and produced
budgets. ***** Have received the boys’
U14 2007 budget but need budgets for other squads*****
4.
East kit: Have spent £2490 on squad kit
(belongs to East) less £885 commission – net £1605.
5.
Clubs Indoor: Current net income from
the event is about £300 (includes £100 still to come from Chelmsford HC). Trophy to be purchased for the Ladies
competition. Thanks to all who ensured this ran within budget.
6.
Mini hockey: No money received from
England Hockey for 2005/6, Stephen Barlow investigating.
7.
East Young umpires course run in conjunction with U13 minis : Change of organiser this year – in future need to be sent details of
expenditure.
8.
League fines: Used to subsidise 2 young
umpires courses run by the Counties. Thanks to the League.
9.
All other expenditure: currently on
target.
Margaret McCall
Honorary Treasurer ERHA 20.3.2007
Competitions
League Report
There are a few points to flesh out the dry
content.
Umpires -
1. Some umpires are still not qualified or not
members of their county associations, but it is difficult to police
when some county HUA's seem not to have lists of their umpires that
the league managers can use.
2. The "umpire complaint form" has
just had its second anniversary and is still not available
3 Cambs Uni have no Level 1's at all, as they
have been allowed to "get away with it" for some years by Cambs
HUA. We agreed to allow them to continue this season, but they must
provide Level 1's next season.
4. Some clubs are failing to contact their
umpire assuming that the website is enough - IT is NOT.
Discipline:
1. The match
2. Broxbourne have 37 yellow cards - nearly
twice as many as any other Premier club, with 5 people having been banned for 3
or more cards.
Presentation Day:
1. It will be either at
2. We hope as many ERHA as possible will attend.
I apologise for being unable to attend the meeting.
The Umpiring Committee met on Thursday 8th March and minutes of the meeting are posted in the web handbook of the ERHUA website at www.erhua.co.uk
Although umpires have been supplied to all fixtures to which ERHUA appoints, this has been because of the hard work of the Appointment Secretary in ‘shuffling a diminishing pack’. We continue to experience a shortage of suitable umpires. There remains a significant challenge in recruiting umpires from clubs, even though league rules require it. Several County umpiring associations are concerned that the ‘naming of umpires’, required of clubs by the League rules, is increasing the workload of their appointment secretaries without providing any benefits.
After 13 years as Secretary to an East Umpiring Committee Sheila is to retire at the end of this year. We are grateful for the solid foundation that she has helped to lay for the Umpiring Association I would like to take this opportunity to wish her well in whatever role she adopts in hockey in the future.
Mike Trett
March 2007
UPDATE MARCH 07
England Hockey is a company limited by guarantee.
1 HOCKEY
DEVELOPMENT OFFICER UPDATE
The recruitment process for the new Development
Officers is coming to an end with the new team due to start with England Hockey
on the 16th April. I am delighted to confirm that Sapphire Cutting the current
Suffolk HDO and Catherine Lymer our current Beds HDO have been appointed to
work here in the east region. Sapphire will cover Essex,
2 OTHER STAFF
NEWS
A number of staff changes have taken place in recent
weeks. Firstly since the last meeting we have welcomed Fiona Robson as the new
regional administrator of course. I can report that Fiona is settling in very
well and joins us tonight. We said a goodbye recently to Simon Letchford the
Regional Manager in the South, whilst Michael Baker has joined the competitions
and events team full time. Congratulations also to Alex Teasdale, Lewis Butcher
and Sarah Capel who have all recently been promoted.
3 MAN GROUP
SPONSORSHIP MATCHED
The sponsorship from the Man Group has been part
matched funded by the National Sports Foundation (NSF) which will significantly
increased the funding available to support the implementation of the Single
System and for national youth competitions over the next twoyears.
4 LTAD / SINGLE
SYSTEM QUESTIONNAIRE
A questionnaire / impact study is being sent out to all
affiliated clubs to look at the impact of potential restrictions on under 14
and under 15 players in adult leagues. The results will go to the May EH board
meeting.
5
This years Roadshow will feature a Strategy Update and
details of the Euro Nations. The Dates / venues are as follows, East – at
Saffron Walden Thursday 19th April, West –
6 EURO NATIONS
UPDATE
Tickets are selling fast and planning for the event is
moving forward rapidity. Volunteers for the whole event 18th 26th August are
being sort and interested volunteers are being encouraged to apply online on
the event website, which can be accessed from the home page of the
Englandhockey website.
7 TALENT
FUNDING - NOW CLUB AND COACH FUND
Like my fellow Regional Managers I recently submitted
detailed additional informational to Sport England to support our national
application for Club and Coach funding. This funding (originally Talent
Funding) if secured will support the developed of our Single System model, in
particular for player development centres and coach development. In truth the
application process has been a frustrating one it now appears at least that we
will not secure funding for HDO posts from this route. However we asking Sport
England for further guidance in this area and anticipate that by working
closely with CSP’s we could still be able to access funding in partnership from
the local CIF / Building Capacity funding. We should hear by the end of March.
8 CENTRALLY
CONTRACTED COACHES
The regional interviews for these posts took place in
late Feb, early March. The new CCC’s will work closely with our Performance
Coach Manager Jane Powell and support the regional associations with the
development of regional player development centres. Coaches will be employed
between 50 / 80 days a year and are expected to start in April. Thanks are due
to
9.
This year’s event takes place on the weekend of the
11th and 12th May. We are currently advertising for potential young leaders and
indeed young umpires to support the event. (Details on the website) The event
will feature the finals of the Yazoo Mini Hockey Championships on the Sunday
and on the Saturday the European Nations themed Under 9 Festival open only to
accredited clubs. CLOSING DATE IS TUESDAY 24th APRIL 2007 Locally the regional
mini finals of the Yazoo Mini Championships held at Bedford and Redbridge over
the last two weekends were supported by young leaders and young umpires whilst
four of our HDO’s attended the events. The
Plans for next year include the further development of
the East event(s) in line with the national festival. As previously reported we
are forming an East Youth Panel to work alone side the ERHA competitions
committee in achieving this.
10. COACH EDUCATION
A full programme of level one courses has been arranged
across the region, all courses are on the England Hockey website.
The level two courses will this year take place over
two weekends in July, with a follow up day in October to assist candidates to
complete the award.
I can report that we have recently run several
successful Coaching for Teachers courses which will support the teaching of
hockey in schools and that the new England hockey Leadership course aimed at young
people 14 / 18 is proving very popular.
11. CLUB
SUCCESSES!
Congratulations to Stevenage HC, Bury St Edmunds HC,
Pelicans HC Bedford HC and Bishops Stortford HC all of whom have achieved Clubs
1st Accreditation in the last period. We now have twelve accredited clubs in
the region (excluding
in terms of resources offered but also offers them long
term support in recruiting young people and developing their junior programmes.
12 CCDP
Projects for pitch refurbishment (funded by EH under
the CCDP) are progressing. Refurbished pitches are hoped to be in place at Bury
St Edmunds, Dereham and Bedford by the start of next season or soon thereafter
whilst facilities have already been improved at Harleston Magpies,
EAST HOCKEY MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE........................ 21 March 2007
Notes from the Regions’ Consultative Committee held at
$ In season 2007/08 the Regions have been
asked to host the following events:
Women’s County
C’ship Finals WEST 17-18 May 08....................................................................... 1
pitch
Men’s County C’ship Finals EAST 17-18 May 08...................................................................... 1
pitch
Men’s U21 County C’ship Finals NORTH
?................... 1 pitch
Boys U15/U17 County C’ship Finals MIDLANDS
19-20 April 08................................................... 2
pitches
Girls U15/U17 County C’ship
Finals SOUTH 19-20 April 08................................................. 2 pitches
Do we ask our water-based clubs ie Old Loughtonians,
$ The
Regions and Counties have been asked to encourage clubs when returning their
affiliations, to fill in the information requested on the back of this
form. These details (eg gender/young
people/ethnicity) are needed by EH for Sport England and help to get the
necessary grants for the grass roots eg HDOs and RDMs.
$ New
FIH GK rules. Do we play to these
rules but strongly recommend that fully equipped GKs are used at U18 level and
below?
$ Future
of Men’s U21 County Championship.
Some Regions want to continue, do we?
Felt that as there is nothing else to put in its place, we should
continue. Also good opportunity for
umpires and coaches for development.
Next season there will be no clashes with senior events (because of
$
$ HDOs
– 9 out of 12 posts now filled. 3
unfilled posts in Middx/Berks/Hants,
$
$ Child
Protection – Alison Hogg, EH, has, with the help of a sub-group of NSPCC
and EH’s lawyers, drafted a new policy and procedures to be approved by the
Child Protection in Sport Unit. This
intermediate standard was submitted at end of January 07 and she is now
awaiting feedback. Training and education
of Regional Officers would be given and there would be a central reporting system. Everything should be in place by September 07
and EH’s insurers would expect this to be so.
Ros Marsh
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