TOPICS:
1. Presentation Details
2. Fees for 2024/25 Season
3. Subscriptions
4. Coaches Roles and Responsibilities
5. Pre-Season Friendlies
6. Season Training Schedules.
PRESENTATION
🏆 Presentation Update 🏆
⏰ Time: 3pm to 5pm
🏟 Venue: Sawbridgeworth Memorial Hall
📆 14th July 2024
The official 2024 SK Sports, End of season and start of pre-season presentation day has been set.
Please can you give your team managers £10 per player. This will contribute towards the facility hire, medals, photographer, inflatable and Pizza for kids.
Deadline for payment and attendance is June 1st 2024 to give us enough time to plan effectively.
This date will also signify your intent to sign for the new season. more details will follow regarding fees and teams for the new season as we will have the luxury of a Brand new, state of the Art AstroTurf to play and train on from September.
Regardless of whether you are leaving for another team next season, we welcome both managers and players to this event to celebrate their efforts this season.
FEES FOR 2024/25 SEASON
New season Fee’s
As the season is ending, we would like to make you aware of some new details that we as a club and business need to make you aware of ahead of time to give you the customers an opportunity to review to see if SK Sports are the club for you next season.
Signing on Fee’s
For The past 3 seasons our Signing on fee’s have been set at £100. This has contributed towards facility hire fee’s, players registration, team registrations, insurance, coach courses.
Now we have the option of moving our training and matches onto the new “state of the art” AstroTurf the estimated season cost of Hire has tripled from previous years. This is due to several factors:
- Demand in the area from other user’s pre-booking the facility
- Cost of Astroturf compared to Grass
- Alleviation of Cancelled season during the winter due to unplayable surfaces.
As SK Sports is long-standing customer, we have been given the opportunity to book what we require before the facility fills the spaces around us (mostly). The new seasons schedule is stated in this newsletter. Therefore, is important for you, to inform us of your intentions for the upcoming season.
As a result the 2024/2025 signing on Fee is £110 (new kit would be available to purchase through Create Identitee for around £35). Totalling £145. (more info on kits will be available next month).
Intentions Date Deadline: May 31st, 2024 (£30 Deposit)
Deposit of £30 per player is required. This is refundable should the team NOT form by July 8th. The remaining Balance is due on July 8th. These Dates are set in stone, and we will not have any flexibility payment dates. This is so we can plan effectively and give the parents the knowledge 2 months prior to the seasons first game to give them the appropriate time to find another club should their team not secure enough players. (Should any teams not form due to insufficient players, we will continue coaching development and assess the team formations later, however there will not be a guarantee that a team will form for the upcoming season.)
Due Date Deadline: June 1st, 2024 (£80 Balance to be settled). Payment Link available from June 1st 2024
SUBSCRIPTIONS
For the past 4 years the clubs subscription fees have been set at £40 per month (£50 – siblings). This has contributed towards covering coaches’ wages, equipment, marketing, admin, technology systems, coach kit and referees.
However due to the increase’s and factoring in the “Cost of living” the Subscription Fee is increasing from September 2024 to September 2025 to £50 per month or £60 per month for siblings. Increase will come into effect in September 2024.
Parent Managers and their Coaching staff, roles and responsibilities.
Since the formation of SK Sports, we have offered parent managers the opportunity to coach and manage their teams. By doing so we have sponsored them for their courses and DBS checks in guidance with the FA policies and ensured they are equipped with the skills and knowledge to perform as SK sports coach. We have also not applied any fees for their children’s football. As a result of the increase in costings to run the club, we have decided that if your team has two coaches available on a match day, we will NOT offer a paid referee as it is a duty for grass roots coaches to provide this service on matchdays.
Pre-Season / During Season Friendlies.
The club will not pay for any additional pitch bookings for friendly matches as this is not accounted for in the season budgeting. If teams wish to book friendlies, they will need to fit in with the current training schedules and use the pitches and space available. Friendlies can be scheduled from the start of September when we move onto the Astroturf.
Season Training Schedules.
Development: Led by SK Sports Coaches open to all ages and abilities
Team and Development: Led by SK Sports Managers, open to players trialling
Team Training: Led by Managers, closed to squad players that have signed on.
MAY 2024
Tuesdays at Mark Hall Sports Centre (Astro) – 5:00 to 5:50pm – Development – (Term time only)
Thursdays at Leventhorpe Leisure Centre (Grass) – 6pm to 6:50pm – Teams & Development
Saturdays at Leventhorpe Leisure Centre (Grass) – 10:00 to 11:00 – Team Training
JUNE 2024
Tuesdays at Mark Hall Sports Centre (Astro) – 5:00 to 5:50pm – Development – (Term time only)
Thursdays at Leventhorpe Leisure Centre (Grass) – 6pm to 6:50pm – Teams & Development
Saturdays at Leventhorpe Leisure Centre (Grass) – 10:00 to 11:00 – Team Training
JULY 2024
Tuesdays at Mark Hall Sports Centre (Astro) – 5:00 to 5:50pm – Development – (Term time only)
Thursdays at Leventhorpe Leisure Centre (Grass) – 6pm to 6:50pm – Teams & Development
Saturdays at Leventhorpe Leisure Centre (Grass) – 10:00 to 11:00 – Team Training
AUGUST 2024
Thursdays at Leventhorpe Leisure Centre (Grass) – 6pm to 6:50pm – Teams & Development
Saturdays at Leventhorpe Leisure Centre (Grass) – 10:00 to 11:00 – Team Training
SEPTEMBER 2024
Tuesdays at Mark Hall Sports Centre (Astro) – 5:00 to 5:50pm – Development – (Term time only)
Thursdays at Leventhorpe Leisure Centre (ASTRO) – 5:00pm to 7:00pm – Teams & Development
Saturdays at Leventhorpe Leisure Centre (ASTRO) – 10:00 to 12:00 – Team Training & Matches
OCTOBER 2024 to APRIL 2024
Tuesdays at Mark Hall Sports Centre (Astro) – 5:00 to 5:50pm – Development – (Term time only)
Thursdays at Leventhorpe Leisure Centre (ASTRO) – 5:00pm to 7:00pm – Teams & Development
Saturdays at Leventhorpe Leisure Centre (Grass / Astro from 19th October) – 10:00 to 12:00 – Team Training & Matches
