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Your Club Needs Your Help

Your Club Needs Your Help

David Hainsworth4 Sep 2019 - 09:19
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We need your help to run and keep developing your club for all the members.

As the season starts back you will return to see that a huge amount of work has taken place around the club during the summer with some more planned in the clubhouse in the coming weeks - the running of the club is now coming into focus and we need more people to help in any small way.

A survey was undertaken during the summer and the feedback has been taken on board and much of the work requested has happened or is planned in the coming weeks. The spectator facilities have been improved, parking has been extended (due to be completed shortly), walking track installed, toilets have been updated (phase one of plan to overhaul), clubhouse painted outside, clubhouse being painted inside in the coming weeks, new floodlights for 3rd pitch on order, new training area beside the shed being developed and much more smaller things ... so much work to improve the club for everybody but to keep going we need more help.

Please contact me - David Hainsworth - chairman@portarlingtonrugby.com / 086 2395614 - if you can help in any of the following areas :

1. Club Café : There is a commercial opportunity for somebody to come in a run the club café. It will operate on Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings supplying refreshments to parents and children of the minis. The scale of what is offered will be open to whoever would like to run it and the club will not look for any financial return but a service return to the minis instead - contact me to discuss.

2. Coaching / Team Management : Each year we look to build the number of people active on the pitch either coaching the minis and youths teams or helping with the admin of the teams, linking in with parents and helping out on match days. We are especially looking for help with the younger age groups (under 9) - coaches will be trained so don't feel like you need to be a budding Joe Schmidt.

3. Club Admin : Behind the scenes there are a small but dedicated group of people running the club for you and your children but we need your help. If you can help out with player registration and/or collecting membership on training nights we would appreciate your help.

4. Match day catering : We have a history of providing refreshments to our visiting teams from minis to senior teams and we want to gather a team of people together to co-ordinate this task - the more the merrier on this.

5. Social / Fundraising : Work has taken place over the summer to improve the bar facilities with the installation of quality draught beers and a new till system. We want to be able to use these facilities to host social events but again we want to get a team of people together to look at putting a social calendar together and working with our house manager and bar team to best promote and develop the facility we have.

6. Grounds / Facilities : The place is looking great and you can see all the work that has been done but we need people to help around match days in marking the pitches, helping with parking on busy days, putting out pitchside flags, emptying the bins, lighting the fire etc. All small tasks if it is spread between a few people so if you can help we would appreciate it.

As you can see, it takes a lot of people to keep the club operational and we will all enjoy what we have if we can get help from as many people as possible. Please let me know if you can be part of the team in any small way.

Regards,

David Hainsworth
Club Chairman

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