Text Box: Hi and welcome to the first HSSC Newsletter for members in 2009. We’ve got a fun packed year ahead of us, with a variety of fabulous events and entertainment booked for the next 10 months. It gives you even more reason to be part of our brilliant social club. With the economic situation the way it is, it makes more sense to utilise your social club and avoid the additional cost of taxi fares and highly priced ticket prices when we have this wonderful facility on our own doorsteps. By forwarding you this regular newsletter, we hope to keep you posted on everything that is going on at the Club—not just details of our events but, how we are conducting our fundraising, introductions to the Committee, and other issues as they arise. I want to point out to you though that HSSC is your club, and as members should you have any ideas concerning content for this Newsletter or indeed the Club itself, it would be much appreciated. How about members celebrating important milestones, or reviews on events, for example? Text Box: Welcome to the first newsletter in 2009 Text Box: The Club requires a Treasurer to join our new Committee. The position involves providing financial guidance to the Club, to oversee the work of our Book-keeper and regular liaison between our bank and external accountants. The ideal person for this position would already possess some financial experience as an accountant, banker or financial adviser and must have a desire to contribute to the village of Hardwick and its facilities. Please refer all initial enquiries for the attention of Steve Rose, care of info@hardwicksportandsocialclub.co.uk. Text Box: Honorary Treasurer Text Box: Newsletter Date Text Box: Volume 1, Issue

Charity for 2009

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TCT Presentation

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Membership Renewals

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Website

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Event Lineup

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Text Box: Further to our recent Committee Meeting, I am happy to inform you that this year’s chosen charity will be split equally between Headway and Macmillan Cancer Care as per suggestions received from members.   Headway is a charity set up to give help and support to people affected by brain injury. They offer a wide range of services, including rehabilitation programmes, carer support, social re-integration, community outreach and respite care.  We shall be specifically supporting our local branch at Brookfields Hospital, Cambridge. MacMillan Cancer Care exist to help improve the lives of people living with cancer and their families and carers.  Macmillan are a national charity. The forms we received were all considered at the meeting, and we would like to thank all our members who submitted a charity for consideration.  On the forms received, all charities submitted carried a very strong reasoning behind why we should support them.  Therefore, we shall be inviting all members to send in their suggestions for 2010's charity later in the year.   Thank you for your continuing support and help with all our forthcoming fundraising efforts. Text Box: The music of the 70’s helped us to raise £700 for the Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT). Hardwick Sports and Social Club held the charity gig and the music was provided by Fynnius Fogg. The band is made up of four schoolmates who played together until 1978, reformed in 1991 and have been fundraising for various charities ever since. Their music is from the 60’s and 70’s and they try to recreate the typical village hall gig. More than 100 members enjoyed the evening, held last year, and the money was raised from ticket proceeds and a raffle. A cheque was handed over at the Club by committee members to Helen Bearfield-Smith, the TCT’s regional appeals manager for East Anglia. Text Box: HSSC Charity for 2009 Text Box: Presentation of £700 cheque to TCT Text Box: Page # Text Box: HSSC Members Newsletter Text Box: Volume 1, Issue 1 Text Box: Membership Renewals Text Box: A big thank you to those of you that have already renewed their membership for 2009. We have received an all-time record this year for members renewing on time, which is extremely encouraging. Any of you yet to pass on your forms to Diane must do so before the end of February before they must be re-proposed by two existing Club members and Club membership applied for again. Text Box: Event Lineup Text Box: Website Text Box: For those of you who haven’t taken a peek yet, or didn’t even know about it, we have made several changes to our website. It is now being upgraded and is regularly maintained by a dedicated part of the Committee. Please do take a look, www.hardwicksportsandsocialclub.co.uk. You’ll find a downloadable renewal/application membership form, details of events and all the membership information you would expect to find there. Plus, photos of previous events too—if you were at the Indietones gig then you must take a look at the photos—proof of all the fun and exciting atmosphere we pack at each of our events! We consider that the information on our website needs to be relevant to our members, so any ideas on what you’d like to see there are open to suggestion. We welcome your feedback! Text Box: Mar 7th—Fun Quiz (£1 per team member) Mar 28th—The 6T’s (£6/head inc. nibbles) April 25th—Johhny Dee—comedy (you may have heard him on Radio Cambridgeshire?) May 23rd—Weakest Link Quiz and Karaoke June 6th—Pure Pop Trio (£5/head) For more information of how to get your ticket for any of the events above, please speak to Diane in the bar. We can not accept ticket bookings over the telephone or email reservations. Text Box: Page # Text Box: HSSC Members Newsletter Text Box: Volume 1, Issue 1 Text Box: For those of you who may have not yet visited our wonderful village Sports and Social Club, you will find us to be family orientated with many varying facilities catering for all.  We have Sky Digital andall major sporting events, including pay per view matches are shown on the three plasma screens in the main room and one in the smaller bar – The Ken Turner Room.  These wall mounted screens afford good viewing from anywhere on site.  Our members enjoy participating in a wide array of teams, such as the darts, pool, football and newly formed crib team who enjoy their away matches as well as home games. Text Box: The Pavilion Egremont Road Hardwick Cambridge CB23 7XR Text Box: I’d like to say one more note of thanks to all our members who have encouraged and inspired us to make all the wonderful improvements to the communications from the Club. We hope you enjoyed reading this newsletter and are going to take a look at the website if you have not already done so. We are always looking for ideas, whether it be for content for the newsletter or website, or joining our friendly committee. We invite all of you to contact the Committee if you’d like to join us—we are seeking an Honorary Treasurer and would welcome any queries or interest concerning the role to be forwarded to info@hardwicksportsandsocialclub.co.uk. In the meantime, we look forward to seeing you at some of our many planned events coming up over the forthcoming months—don't miss The Weakest Link Quiz on Saturday 23rd May (there’s some “funny” woman pretending to be Anne Robinson)! I couldn’t possibly guess who she is ?!?!?! Regards Helen Andrews Club Secretary secretary@hardwicksportsandsocialclub.co.uk Text Box: And finally ... Text Box: Telephone: 01954 210110 Fax: 01954 210104 Email: info@hardwicksportsandsocialclub.co.uk Text Box:

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