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……

Exciting stuff

Well, i have 13 girls interested in being on the team, which considering i have done nothing to advertise us is amazing!!! i am kinda tempted now to just get going with the girls we have, let people find us by their own interest and then if we have people drop out of the team, consider recruiting at that point (also by then we will maybe have some funding and a more stable set up)

It seems like there might be some issues with the original practice day and making sure we can pay for venue hire and skates.  But have tried to persuade some people to give us some money, so will have to see if anything comes of that – but in these credit crunch times i am not so confident.  Hopefully our fairy gothmother will come along and wave her magic pointy stick

If anyone out there is reading this and has some great ideas for sponsorship, grants or just wants to donate some funds to get your local roller girls on their way, please give me a buzz  nottinghamrollergirls@googlemail.com

off out to look at sparkly explosions and say ahhhhh, oooohhhhh, mmmmmmm now – bye bye!

Derby stance

Ok, so roller skating is getting more comfortable and less wobbly everyday.  Watching a few derby videos online has helped and i think as long as i keep my knees bend and look ahead rather than down, things are doing ok.

Realise i definitely need a proper practice space for the team (who hopefully after a meet and greet next week will start meeting regularly to practice).  Am looking into getting names registered and according to some roller girls actually getting your desired names on the two evils register is taking a v v v long time, so as soon as the team meets and we sort out who definitely wants to commit and who doesn’t, i will get a list submitted.

Some teams also seem to be registered as a not for profit organisation, which makes a lot of sense in terms of organising everything and dealing with funds and stuff, although is quite a formal step so early in the game.  But hey, in for a penny in for a pound?

I have been quite cheeky asking for a few favours from people locally, but in the long run, once we are world famous (:D) it will pay off for them, hopefully.

Need to have a think about fundraising activities that we could do to get some money to buy equipment and fund venue hire and stuff, so many things that i want to do, but logically, one step needs to come before another.