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Market Harborough Indoor Sports Survey

As you may be aware, Harborough LC Junior Badminton Club has recently been asked by Everyone Active to move our sessions from the newly refurbished sports hall at Harborough Leisure Centre into The Arena, so that the sports hall can be used for other activities.

Members of the club committee have inspected and trialed the arena and have raised a number of issues concerning it’s suitability for badminton with Everyone Active and Harborough District Council. There is also a wider concern about the reduction in overall capacity for indoor sport if the use of the existing sports hall is changed from a mixed use sports hall to something else.

As there has been very little consultation with users and clubs, we have put together a survey regarding indoor sport at Harborough Leisure Centre, with a focus on the existing sports hall and arena. Further background information is provided at the beginning of the survey.

We would be very grateful if you could complete this survey at the link below. It should take less than 5 minutes to complete and will close on 16th May.

https://tinyurl.com/mh-indoor-sports-survey

Please share this link with anyone else that uses the leisure centre for indoor sport (not just badminton) as we would like as many responses as possible.

AGM – Tues 4th July

The club committee again invites you to the ninth AGM of Harborough LC Junior Badminton Club to be held on Tuesday 4th July 2023 commencing at 7:30pm.

The meeting will be at The Three Swans (21, High Street, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 7NJ) and we should be in the small ground floor area to the rear of premises adjacent to the car park.

The meeting will be hosted by the current club chairperson (Steve Chapman). All committee member positions are up for election/re-election with a current vacancy for “Parent Representative”, “Welfare Officer” and “First Aid Officer”.

It would be appreciated if you would please advise the club secretary Lynda Haynes (lindahaynes@harboroughlcjuniors.org.uk) if you are able to attend this meeting and also whether you are interested in volunteering or in any committee member positions.

A copy of the agenda is below. Please see here for details of Club Constitution, Minutes of last year’s AGM etc.

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The BIG HIT Junior Coaching – Free Sessions

The club will be offering FREE one-hour sessions on Wednesday 15th March 2023 from:

  • 4:00pm to 5:00pm (school years 3 to 10).
  • 5:00pm to 6:00pm (school years 6 – 11).
  • 6:00pm to 7:00pm (school years 10-13).

These are part of Badminton England’s The BIG HIT Week – YONEX ALL England Edition. These sessions are targeted towards Juniors as a free trial session for those new to badminton. The junior coaching session will be fun, engaging and encourage juniors to play badminton more regularly.

Please see the poster below and contact Ray Phipkin (rayphipkin@harboroughlcjuniors.org.uk) to book a place.

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Yonex All England 2023 – Free Tickets

Harborough LC Junior Badminton Club have obtained 20x complimentary all day Category C tickets for the Yonex All England Championships for Thursday 16th March 2023. For more information see https://www.allenglandbadminton.com/.

These are being made available to Junior Members of the club including their parents and will be allocated based on first come, first served basis.

Initially the free tickets will be restricted to two tickets per application (i.e. the Junior member & their parent). If any tickets are still left over would be made available to the people who have already been allocated tickets.

Below is a suitable letter that as a parent/carer you could use to seek permission a child to be away from school to attend this event. If you would like tickets, then please contact Ray Phipkin (rayphipkin@harboroughlcjuniors.org.uk) as soon as possible and certainly by Wednesday 8th March 2023.

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AGM – Tues 22nd Feb 2022

The club committee invites all parents, carers, volunteers and memebrs to the eighth AGM of Harborough LC Junior Badminton Club to be held on Tuesday 22nd February 2022 commencing at 7:30pm.

The AGM will be held at The Three Swans, 21 High Street, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 7NJ and we will be located in the small ground floor area to the rear of premises, adjacent to the carpark.

The meeting will be hosted by the current club chairperson, Steve Chapman.

All committee member positions are up for election/re-election with a current vacancy for Parent Representative.

It would be appreciated if you would please advise the club secretary Lynda Haynes if you are able to attend this meeting and also if you are interested in any committee member positions.

Phone/Text: 07901 935105

Email: lyndamckeown@harboroughlcjuniors.org.uk

A copy of the agenda is available below. We hope to see you there.

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Christmas Party – 15th Dec

Season’s greetings to all our players and parents.

It’s evident from the shops and the advertisements on TV that Christmas is already upon us. So what better time to let you know about our plans for some festivities at Harborough LC Juniors on Wednesday 15th December.

We try to do something every year. However, the last time we were able to enjoy a festive celebration was two years ago as Covid put paid to last year’s coaching and festivity plans.

You may remember that in 2019 we invited parents to come along and join in with some fun badminton and larking around. We intend to do that again as everyone appeared to enjoy the light-hearted challenges that included cramming far too many people onto one court and a curious version of the game that involves kneeling down when you miss a shot – as if that’s going to make it any easier. I won’t be asking Badminton England for clarification of those rules.

The fun stuff will take place before we serve the food, which will be the ever-popular individual boxes of pizza and chips with a soft drink for the youngsters. The kind members of the club’s committee also lay on plenty of crisps, nibbles, mince pies and cakes. What’s not to like?

For our young players, this will also be the last coaching session for the year.

It all starts at 4.00pm in the main hall at the Harborough Leisure Centre and will finish by 7.00pm. The food will be served at 5.30pm. As before, we really don’t expect you to stay for the whole thing, but we would be delighted to see you.

Please see the invite link below and RSVP to Lynda by 1st December.

Steve Chapman

Assistant Coach & Club Chairman

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Christmas Party Photos

Many current members of the club attended the Christmas Party on 19th December 2018.

Club Christmas Party 2018
Club Christmas party 2018

There was also a presentation of the new club tournament trophies to some of the current and previous winners in attendance.

Past Tournament Winners with Trophies
Past tournament winners with their trophies

The club trophies will now be on display in the club trophy cabinet, outside the sports hall at Harborough Leisure Centre.