Falling behind

Wow – as the team comes together and the practices go into full swing, my time to do other things (like this) seem to become less and less – sorry.

Well, third practice tonight, forming a committee, sorting out a constitution, opening a bank account and generally sharing out the load between the ladies who have come and stayed

we are quite a formidible bunch of girls at the moment, the skating is coming along well and everyone is excitedly coming up with their derby names….

Tonights practice is going to be run by some of the other girls – should be cool.

Am trying to sort out Insurance for the team, but the quotes are either no or really expensive, but we need insurance, a committee, bank account etc, in order to be able to apply for funding, get access to practice venues and so forth, so it is all a balancing act.

Anyway, must fly, work to go to (and that is really hectic at the mo, which isn’t the most helpful) christmas is flying into view and hubbie is in the US for a conference, so pet survival and house not burning  down responsibilities are all with me – yikes.

will try to blog more often….try……

Venue Progress

My visit to Harvey Hadden last night yielded positive results  (despite having to go away and come back an hour later due to the massive youth job fair that seemed to be going on the first time i arrived with about a million cars there.)  They are willing to let us hire the hall for roller derby (yay!) and the size and rates don’t seem to bad (people are going to need to pay subs, but the more people we can get to come the cheaper things will be for everyone).

Also have potentially a coach and another venue option (although from the sounds of it we may need to have both venues due to the pillars in one and have general skate practice in one and derby practice at Harvey Hadden).  I know that Harvey Hadden wouldn’t be the easiest place for everyone to get to if they don’t drive, but it is apparently on a bus route – NCT28 so hopefully this shouldn’t be a problem (if it is people coming to the central practice could always buddy up with others and lift share.  (i would be going there from beeston, so would be able to offer a ride to a few people).

I am planning on sorting out if both venues are viable and then setting a date for first meeting and putting some flyers out – most likely first meeting will be in the next 3 weeks (so that there is time to drum up enough interest to pay the costs, sort out some insurance (we need this for practicing at Harvey Hadden, so am going to look into now) and create and put some flyers out around town and notices on message boards.

If you are still keen to be involved can you post me a comment below – ‘i’m in!’ or something similar  or join the live group here – http://nottinghamrollergirls.groups.live.com/ or both!!!!!

Where to Practice?

So i figure in order to get team members, i need to sort out a venue to practice, figure out what kind of things we need to practice and put up some flyers and hope that people will come.

Am going to put together a list of local lesiure centres and see if i can get an idea of availability and price and then i will have to look into knocking up some kind of flyer to post around town.

If anyone has any good suggestions or wants to volunteer to help me out with any of the above, please just stick your hand up!  (or like message me, that will probably be a lot more effective).

Most of the kit sorted – except helmet and elbow pads.  But the skating is coming along nicely – just need to learn to fall down more, and in the right way