Free Weekend at CLS Leisure Centre
There are fantastic free events taking place at Chester-le-Street Leisure Centre this month in support of Breast Cancer Awareness.
There are fantastic free events taking place at Chester-le-Street Leisure Centre this month in support of Breast Cancer Awareness.
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There will be a number of session cancellations during our Junior Gala.
Friday
Sunday
We need your help in order to raise money for the club at our Junior Meet this month. We’ll be running a Tombola and Cake Stall and would love any donations.
Please pass any Prizes or Cakes in good time to Sarah Fairbairn or Lisa Ward
We are still in need of some willing helpers for our Junior Gala on 28-30 October. The swimmers do their amazing ‘thing’ in the water but behind the scenes there is a team who make it all happen. From the ticket sellers on the door to the tombola stall seller right through to the folk who steer our young swimmers to the correct block to compete. Anyone who helps out is able to access the gala free for that session and the team will ensure that no one misses your young swimmers moment in the pool! You will all get the opportunity to have assistance and guidance. Please can you give your name and the session you are able to help with along with any particular preference of job to Sarah Fairbairn – Jake and Joseph’s Mam.
Jobs available
There are willing volunteers that can slot in anywhere to fill the gaps but if everyone who has a child swimming can help out a little then it makes the whole event run smoothly.
The evening session for A and B squads on Friday November 4 is cancelled due to the NER coaches conference.
All A and B squad members will be expected to train on Friday morning, 5.30-7am, especially those who will be competing at the NER championships.
We urgently need volunteers to help fill the following positions in the club
When a child stands on the blocks wearing the red cap of Chester-le-Street there is an awful lot of work happening behind the scenes to enable it. Without the help and time of volunteers the club cannot function and we need people to step forward and help.
We’d like to especially appeal to the parents of the younger squads. The committee and volunteers are traditionally drawn from the older swimmers parents as they are more comfortable around the place, know more people and have come to realise what is needed to run the club. Occasionally we may be guilty of focusing on the older swimmers, we’d love to rectify that and have more representation from the younger groups, after all they are the future of the club. What better way to help shape that future than becoming involved in shaping the direction we take?
In an ideal world we’d like some of these roles to be shared. A husband and wife team, 2 or 3 friends, what about the grandparents? We see them proudly cheering on gala day but can they share some of their time, skills and experience to support the little ones too? The more hands we can recruit the more we can divide up the work and the lighter the load will be on individuals.
Secretary and Treasurer are the more formal roles but please don’t underestimate the role the sweet shop plays especially on the social side. All the sweet things we do come from the sweet shop revenue. Fun days, presents for the kids, subsidising trips, these are all generated from that little table on a Friday night, plus who doesn’t love a mix up?
Links to the role descriptions are included and will be posted on the noticeboard.
If you feel you can help please contact us by email or speak to anyone below at the pool.
Due to the entry system being used by Tynemouth for their gala, the following information must be supplied with all entries;
Parents are also asked to state whether NER Entries are for the Senior/Junior Competition or the Age Group Competition.
Metafit will be cancelled on:
Due to galas on each weekend.
The draft programme is now available for this gala
