Don’t miss out!
With only a few games left the L1 and L5 have must win matches in their pushes for promotion and there is a tasty M7 derby against East London 6. Looking forward to the end of the season there’s a link to EOSD tickets, a chance to give feedback on coaching and a shoutout to the City and Wharf Hockey League that will kick off in April.
End of Season Dinner tickets
A note that End of Season Dinner tickets are now for sale on the Wapping webshop here. Early birds of the club have already snapped up the discounted tickets, so make sure you get your hands on one (and a raffle ticket to be in with a chance to win a piece of Simon Wright Jewellery) before they sell out or it reaches the deadline - 31st March.
Event details below:
Date: Saturday 20th April
Location: The Great Hall, Leyton - 1A Adelaide Road, London, E10 5NN
Time: 6pm arrival for a 7pm start
Dresscode: Black Tie
Dinner: 3 course Indian meal
Coaching feedback
With only a few weeks left of the 23/24 Season, the Exec are looking to the horizon and the first signs of 24/25. No rest for the wicked 😉
To help us make informed decisions, please can you fill out our anonymised player feedback form:
https://forms.gle/zf9xBUQeD97KzvKu7
Any player from any team can submit. The more thoughts and opinions we can get the better! So please share with your teams!
The Passing of the Sponsorship baton
As the season nears its end, I’m sad to say it’s likely we’ll be saying a (hopefully temporary) goodbye to one of our most impactful volunteers, Irini Kounoupias. Irini only joined Wapping a couple of years ago, having never played before, but in her time has not only become a cracking ladies and mixed player but also one of our most dedicated, and much loved, volunteers.
Irini took on the revived role of Sponsorship Sec and has knocked fundraising out of the park. I could wax lyrical about her efforts all day but a small roundup of some of her hard work, and testament to her efforts, is below.
Secured a £4k+ grant from Sport England to help take our junior goalkeepers to the next level
Won Wapping Kidds a tidy £1k from Tesco
Secured funding for loadsa new balls and the kit room refurb (thanks to Swike and Chambers)
Along with our main Kit Sec, Rob, helped secure a fab partnership with Salmon hockey who provided shirts for our dev team
Nurtured our existing relationships with much loved sponsors Simon Wright, Feeneys and The Moretown Belle.
Set up two fab social partnerships with Leyton Orient and El Tab
And brought in a whole lot of dosh. Money without which we wouldn’t have been able to do half as much as we have this year.
In true Irini style, she has prepared a thorough handover, including pitch deck and templates, and is ‘happy to offer loads of support’ for whoever can take this role on, so if you’d like to get involved or have a chat through what being 'Wapping’s Sponsorship Sec’ might entail, please drop her an email.
The role in brief:
sourcing new sponsors
agreeing deals and making sure all the the commitments are upheld
acting as a point of contact and promoting them over the season
applying for grants
it’d suit a people-person especially someone with marketing/sales background but not essential
City and Wharf Hockey League
If you’re already devastated about hockey coming to an end then hopefully the first Back Post notice about the CAWHL can ease that pain. For those who didn’t play last year, the City and Wharf Hockey league (CAWHL) is an East London mixed social hockey league that Wapping run every summer to raise funds for club initiatives like Back2Hockey which help towards our mission of access and inclusion. It runs from April to August, is loads of fun, a great way to keep fit over the summer, and culminates in a fantastic end of season social.
Games are held at the John Orwell Sports Centre (Wapping, E1W 2QD) and the Mile End Leisure Centre (Bow, E3 4HL). Teams are a combination of corporate London hockey teams and social collectives!
If you/your company are thinking about entering a mixed hockey team please email cityandwharfhockeyleague@gmail.com for more info. The more the merrier!
More details to follow on how to get involved if you’re not part of a corporate team, follow @citywharfhockey on Instagram to be the first to hear any news.
As it stands:
Last week in a line: LLLLLWDWDDDLWLDWL
Fixtures this week:
Member discounts:
Check out our Members' area (Password: whc1989) which has all of our available offers, including:
20% off NuSmile dentists
A free Psycle session
Grubby: 50% off + free delivery on 1st box, plus 30% off for the rest of the month
2 weeks free trial of El Tab app giving members 4 free drinks in London nightly
20% off Sharp Movement
10% off all beers at Tap East
Discounted club trip to Leyton Orient on February 13th 2024
