Future Is Now
The Future is Now and the Fundraising Has Started!
Welcome to this section of our website. Surbiton Hockey Club has launched a massive and exciting fund-raising initiative and we want you all to be part of the action!“The Future is Now” is our campaign title and you are all our futu
re. We have a target to raise £1million to allow us lay new pitches and to rebuild our clubhouse. We have started the improvements but still have a long way to go.We are now the largest hockey club in the UK and we aim to be one of the best hockey clubs in Europe, so we need your help. Whether you are a playing member or a social member, an old member, a friend of Surbiton HC, a Colt, a parent, a supplier, or just someone who loves watching hockey, then please log into our “Just Giving” donations page and buy a piece of the action!
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Keep watching this website for more details of our fund-raising programme and let's see if we can achieve our targets in record time!
SHC has signed up to the Sport England/Just Giving initiative to make giving to sports clubs simple and painless and allow us to promptly claim Gift Aid tax relief from the Exchequer. The future starts now, so let's start giving….
Surbiton Hockey Club is an England Hockey ClubsFirst accredited Club.
New Pitches
The Right Playing Environment
Surbiton Hockey Club has two pitches that are used by members throughout the season every weekday evening and on Saturdays and Sundays. The facilities are also hired to external local clubs and schools. With these pitches in constant demand for matches, tournaments, festivals and training at all standards up to international level, it is important that our pitches are maintained to the highest standards. Whether we have an England player or a six year old, we want to ensure that Sugden Road provides the right playing environment.
Resurfacing The Waterbased PitchThe existing waterbased pitch, which was laid in 2001, has now been relaid and recarpeted to meet the requirements of both the Men’s Hockey League, and the Investec Women’s Hockey League . It opened for play on 23rd October 2010.Replacing Sandbased Pitch
The existing sandbased pitch was laid in 1995, does not meet the current England Hockey regulations and it is well beyond its intended lifespan. This pitch will be removed and a new artificial based pitch will be laid in its place. This will employ the latest in sand-dressed artificial grass technology with run offs that meet updated regulations.
Floodlighting
We currently have floodlighting on the waterbased pitch. This has been upgraded. Planning approval has been granted for the installation of permanent floodlighting to the second pitch. Work will commence on this during the summer months and be ready for action in September 2011.Refurbished Club House
The Idea
At Surbiton Hockey Club we are fortunate to have a clubhouse on our site. However, the facilities are almost 30 years old and are no longer fit for purpose or large enough for the number of players enjoying hockey at Sugden Road. Our existing buildings house the club bar, function room, changing rooms, two squash courts, stores and a first floor flat.The proposed building redevelopment will meet the current and future requirements of Surbiton Hockey Club, as well as meeting the demands of external sporting bodies that use the club for events and matches. Whether we are hosting a national hockey tournament or a local school, we aim to provide them with the very best facilities both on and off the pitch.
Existing Club House
What it Means to You
Whether you are a member of the Club or a visitor, the clubhouse will be undoubtedly be an important part of your visit to Sugden Road. We want to ensure that the facilities are right for you.It is intended that the rear of the building housing the changing rooms will be demolished and rebuilt, while the main part of clubhouse is retained on the site. This will be modernised and upgraded to give better kitchen facilities, a more welcoming bar and function room and improved storage.Refurbished Club House – What it Means to You
Proposed Club House
It is intended that the rear of the building housing the changing rooms will be demolished and rebuilt, while the main part of clubhouse is retained on the site. This will be modernised and upgraded to give better kitchen facilities, a more welcoming bar and function room and improved storage.
The Club will gain…• 4 male changing rooms/showers
• 4 female changing rooms/showers
• Club office
• Club shop
• First aid/physio room
• Toilet
• PlantroomThe Design• will minimise any additional building within the Green Belt
• will follow existing buildings and boundaries
• will be a sustainable building design
• will minimise any building running costsGet Involved- Smarties Fundraising Race For All Colts!
On 17 October the Colts’ section kicked off its fundraising campaign for Surbiton HC’s “Future Is Now” initiative with a “Smarties Fundraising Race.” On 3rd March the results of this were announced and the U16 Girls Cup squad won the competition. A massive £2,248.30 was raised from the 20p pieces in Smarties tubes. Well done everyone in the Colts’ section.
Team Challenge
The Challenge is for every team in the Club – from the Men’s 1st XI to the Colts Junior Academy – to raise £1000 or more. Can you motivate your players to raise the money?Mobile Phones
We are currently collecting redundant mobile phones – in a box in the bar. These can be recycled for cash, so please put your old phones in the box.Your SkillsCan we use your skills to help this project? If you have prizes your can donate for events, facilities for printing or advertising, contacts in industry, or indeed any other skills that might work for the Club, then please let us know. This is a campaign that should involve every member, so stand up be counted now!Get Involved
We Want Your Help!
We need to raise £1 million for this project and we can’t do this without your help!It is our mission to provide a social and family environment for all to learn and play hockey from grass roots to international level. Surbiton Hockey Club has over 550 Colts members and over 390 adult members. We have 18 senior teams and 19 Colts teams in national and local leagues and we have a number of international players at senior and junior levels. We also have lots of social members who enjoy the game and the community involvement.Support this fund-raising project and work with us to raise funds needed to put Surbiton Hockey Club on the map!
Fundraising Activities
There are many ways to raise money and we welcome them all. A £1 donation is as valuable as a £50,000 donation!
- Donations to the Club
– Donations via “Just Giving” on our SHC website
– Fund-raising events – raffles, cake sales, sponsored walks or hockey matches, parties, car cleaning, quiz nights, auction, coffee morning etc
– Sponsorship of adverts, events
If you have a fundraising idea, then let us know.Project Timeline
Ready To Go!
The Future is Now! It is finally here. After months of discussions and drawings, agonising over finances and gazing at layouts, the campaign is underway.
Planning
During discussions it was decided that it would be too costly for the Club and too disruptive for the members if the pitches and the clubhouse were done at the same time. Therefore the plan is to tackle the pitches first, then the clubhouse the following summer:• Pitch 1: September 2010 - Done
• Pitch 2: 2011/2012 – Floodlighting to be installed July/August 2011. Pitch resurfacing to wait until significant funds are in place.
• Clubhouse: 2011/2012More details about the individual stages will be released as the campaign progresses.Read The Full Planning Document
Please have a read of the full planning application document (PDF):U12 Girls Win National Title
The U12 Girls from Surbiton HC took the National title at the EH Championships in Cannock on Saturday, winning every game in the competition. They opened the tournament with a game against the North regional winners, Kirby Lonsdale and won 2-1. This was followed by an impressive victory with a 4-0 win against Rugby and East Warwickshire before beating Cambridge City Hockey Club 1-0, despite missing a multitude of chances in the game. They finished the group stage with a 2-1 win against ISCA, which saw them into the National Finals against arch rivals Beeston. Surbiton went on to win 2-0, with goals from Fifi Robinson and Abbie Strachan.
Coach Will Fulker said “It was a superb display of hockey from all the girls, who were by far the best technical players in the tournament. They did a wonderful job to defend the National title which had been won by last year’s U12 girls. This win is the result of hard work from every single girl in the performance group and huge strides have been made this season resulting in many high quality players in that age group.”
The team comprised Ellie Shahbo (GK, Vice Captain), Yasmin Chahal (Captain), Esme Cosham, Maddie Patterson, Caroline Zoet, Abbie Strachan, Freya Gladstone, Eloise Pheasant, Zoe Allchurch, Fifi Robinson.
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SURBITON L1′s SILENT AUCTION RAISES £7,539!
Surbiton Ladies first team’s Silent Auction closed at midnight last night (27 April). The final total raised was an amazing £7,539, which as previously stated, will go towards the “Bye-Bye To The Beach” appeal.
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A BIG Thank You to everyone who supported the auction, since the auction was launched back on 13 March.
The successful bidders will be contacted over the next week to arrange collection/ delivery of the prizes.
The winning bids are as follows:
Item
Bid
Winner
4 VIP tickets with Full Hospitality in the O2 box at The O2 Arena for BEYONCE on Saturday May 4th.
£ 2750
Tommy Alexander
Signed GB training shirt by the Women’s Olympic Bronze medallists.
£ 275
Kelvin Briggs
A weekend in a chalet in the Swiss Alps (Wengen) for a maximum of 6 people between 1st June & 30th September. (please email if you would like further information)
£ 1500
Simon Jackson
1 x signed Premiership Rugby shirt by any club you ask for.
£ 170
David … read more
Waitrose Surbiton – SHC become part of community charity scheme
Waitrose Community Matters
Last week, Surbiton Hockey Club’s “Bye Bye To The Beach” campaign was given a boost when it was registered with Waitrose’s community charity scheme. We would like to encourage members to shop at the Surbiton branch of Waitrose and drop their green tokens into OUR box at the shop. Many thanks to Sophie Tait for her efforts in getting us registered – now it is down to you to help raise money through the supermarket!
Waitrose Surbiton opening hours: www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/bf_home/bf/232.html
Waitrose Community Matters
Every month this branch will donate £1000 between three local good causes that you choose. How does it work? At the checkout you’ll receive a token, which you then place in the box of the good cause you’d most like to support. The more tokens a cause gets, the bigger the donation they receive. www.resourcecentre.org.uk/funders/general/waitrose.asp
Community Matters launched in Waitrose branches in 2008. All 271 Waitrose shops select three … read more
Surbiton’s Dream of a New Clubhouse Set to Become a Reality
Surbiton’s Dream of a New Clubhouse Set to Become a Reality
Elmbridge Borough Council has approved the plans for refurbishing our Clubhouse. It will now be “all systems go” so that the rebuilding work can start at the end of the current season.
Work will involve demolishing the existing changing rooms and expanding the overall footprint to include four female and four male changing rooms, new showers and toilet facilities and an extended and refitted kitchen.
The approved plans were drawn up by Club member and Architect, Myles Taylor of Kirby Architecture. If you would like to see the plans please click on the following links (Proposed Changing Rooms) and (Design and Access Statement). Display Boards showing the new designs will shortly be put up in the Bar and will be on show at our Fundraising Evening at Naturally Chinese on 29th November.
And there is more good news! Two weeks ago we were … read more
Phone Recycling
What do you do with your old mobile phones? Our phone recycling scheme is up and running so if you have any old handsets lying around at home drop them into the box in the bar this weekend and we can make money from them! Lets see if we can raise £1000 before the end of the season. Drop your phones off this weekend!.
(1) Club members are requested to bring their old mobile phones to the Club, in an envelope marked with the make of the phone, the model number and whether it works or not, plus a note of which team/group they belong to.
(2) The phone is deposited in the box which will be in the bar in Clubhouse, clearly marked.
(3) From there we will be collecting the phones and Tony Portelly has kindly offered to bag them up and send them off for recyling.
The Club will receive a donation for each phone sent off and this will be put … read more
Emma Broad
We have been overwhelmed with the messages of support sent from near and far which we have passed on to Emma’s family.
Click to read tributes from SCH and the Hockey Community:
Emma Broad – Tribute from SHC and the Hockey Community (PDF)
I have been contacted by Phil Broad on behalf of his family, to express their thanks for the messages of sympathy and support they have received from the members of Surbiton Hockey Club, the wider hockey community and from all walks of life following the tragic passing of Emma at the weekend.
In acknowledgement of the role of the Club in Emma’s life, the family have asked that donations, in lieu of flowers, should be made SHC’s ‘The Future Is Now Appeal’. Their hope is that this may assist young players of the future.
I know I speak for all the Club members in saying we are honoured and humbled by this generosity.
Donations … read more
Barbeque Season Brings In Funds For Club Refurbishment
The Colts season may have ended at Surbiton, but the Club welcomed hundreds of young hockey players from around the country for England Hockey’s South Finals on the 3rd and 10th April, followed by Surbiton HC’s annual Tony Smith Tournament on 17th April.
Paul Stockden and his BBQ team once again surpassed themselves and worked tirelessly to raise over £2,000 for the Club’s “Future is Now” fundraising during the three weekends. Paul and Jose were joined this year by Jose’s brother who is actually a proper chef! (No wonder there was a queue at the BBQ!). With the enticing smell of bacon butties, hot dogs and burgers, the BBQ was up and running from 8am each morning to welcome the players and spectators to the Club. An additional BBQ cook appeared on the day of the Tony Smith tournament, boosting taking with his wonderful chip making!
A popular addition and many thanks … read more
U16 Girls Cup Squad Win Smarties Fundraising Competition!
Congratulations to everyone in the Colts section. You have raised £2,248.30 from the Smarties competition! A great boost to the “Future is Now” fundraising for our pitches and Clubhouse refurbishment. Give yourselves a round of applause!
A special well done goes to the U16 Girls Cup Squad as they have won the competition by raising £265.50! The girls will be receiving the prize of a special training session with Brett, followed by a pizza supper and I am sure their manager, Camille Cooke, will be in touch to organise the date and time.
Thanks also to our star individual fundraisers – Callum House, Romilly Walden, Kyra Thomas and Lucy Clacher. We had great support from the Junior Academy and from the U14 boys too. Thanks to everyone who supported the initiative.
Keep watching for the next fundraiser…
New Pitch Opens At Surbiton HC
We have a wonderful new water-based pitch! Saturday 23rd October was a thrilling day for Surbiton HC. After months of planning, construction and delays, the new pitch was finished and in action for the first time. Both of the Club’s top teams’ celebrated by winning their matches on their new home surface. After the cutting of the ribbon on Saturday at noon by the England Hockey Board’s newly-elected president, Simon Mason, the Men’s 1st XI defeated Loughborough Students in a thrilling end-to end eight goal battle in front of a crowd of almost 250. Then, in the afternoon, Surbiton’s newly-promoted Ladies’ 1st XI claimed a 1-0 victory over Old Loughtonians. All sections of the Club were represented on this Grand Opening day, with 32 of the youngest players in the Club accompanying the Men’s and Ladies’ 1st XI teams on to the pitch for the line up.
Spectators were treated to food while they watched and the … read more
Fundraising
We have had several (sensible) fund raising suggestions coming to us this week and we are delighted to receive them. Keep the ideas coming – and feel free to get started with your own initiatives if you don’t need Club involvement! We will work with you to co-ordinate the activities that need Club input, so keep watching for announcements! Please contact Gill Griffiths (colts@surbitonhc.com) if you need copies of the logo/letterhead or any other supporting documents to enable you to fundraise effectively.
Use your friends and colleagues outside the Club for your fundraising too – we would like to get them all involved. Perhaps they could sponsor you to compete in a sports event or carry out a challenge?
SURBITON HOCKEY CLUB £100,000 “BYE-BYE TO THE BEACH” APPEAL
A Message from the Club Captain, Rob Dunn
My New Year’s resolution is not to have to play on the “beach” next season!
Amount raised
Use it or lose it – we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to get rid of “The Beach” – but we need to raise the remaining £100k to re-carpet the sand based pitch by the end of the season. So we need to raise 100k in 10 weeks (or at least have it within our grasp) and with over 1000 members that works out at £100 per head or just £10 per week – wouldn’t you pay £10 extra per game for your next 10 games of hockey to get rid of “The Beach” and be playing on a “state of the art” sand dressed pitch next season?
We hope you will not need much incentive to buy a square of our new pitch for £100
How do … read more