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Cheltenham League Notice
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- 03/08/2007 - July 2007 Newsletter
1 Affiliation Numbers
All clubs are reminded that they must forward details of their GFA Affiliation
Number to the League's General Secretary by August 31st at the latest.
This affiliation number can be found on the receipt that the GFA will
have issued to each club in acknowledgment of their completed "A"
forms and, this season, this number is prefixed "EAN".
2 Club Accounts
Clubs are also reminded that they must send a copy of their accounts to
the League Secretary in advance of their first fixture of the season.
3 Handbooks
The 2007-2008 handbook is currently being printed and should be available
at the end of next week. One copy of the handbook per club will be posted
to each Club's Secretary as soon as they become available. The remaining
allocation of Handbooks will be distributed at the Clubs Meeting, which
will be held at the Victory Club on September 26th. However, if your club
requires their full allocation in advance of this date, please contact
the League Secretary to arrange a mutually convenient time for the extra
handbooks to be collected.
The League Website will be updated as soon as possible to reflect the
details contained within the new handbook.
4 Result Cards
The League was unable to distribute Result Cards for the new season at
the Annual General Meeting as these cards carry the Name & Address
of the Registration Secretary and, following the resignation of Terry
Onions, this was not known until the meeting itself. Now that Phil Tustain
has assumed the duties of Registration Secretary, these cards can now
be distributed and 6 cards per team, enough to last until the end of September,
will be sent out to Club Secretaries along with the advanced copy of the
handbook at the beginning of August. The rest of each club's allocation
of cards will be available for collection at the club's meeting at the
end of September.
5 Ground Directions
Directions to most grounds used in the League have now been entered on
to Full Time and it would be enormously beneficial to all prospective
visitors if all venues could have directions attached to them. At the
moment, the grounds that are missing directions are as follows:- Bredon
Playing Field, King George V Playing Fields (Northleach),
Priors Farm Playing Fields, Siddington Recreation Ground, St Peters Field,
Swindon Village Playing Fields, Tewkesbury School, Winget (Tuffley Park)
and Whitbread Sports Field. If your club uses any of these venues, please
will you let the League Secretary have brief directions to the ground
as soon as possible - a suggested starting point for these directions
is the League's Headquarters at the Victory Club - along with a local
post code, so that the directions, when entered into Full Time, can be
further enhanced by the addition of a URL for a map indicating the area.
Finally, thanks to all those clubs who have already responded and made
their contribution to a significant enhancement to the usefulness of Full
Time.
6 Fixtures
All fixtures, both for all divisions of the League and the Charities Cup
Competitions, can be viewed via the Cheltenham League section of the FA's
Full Time facility. The League's Assistant Secretary, John Hunt, is responsible
for the maintenance and administration of the fixtures throughout the
season and all queries, acknowledgements and requests for amendments to
fixtures should be directed to John in the first instance.
7 Players of Former Member Clubs
Please note that three clubs who terminated their membership of the League
at the end of last season - namely Belmore Jags, Naunton Park and Tewkesbury
YMCA - still owe substantial sums of money to the League. As a consequence,
an embargo has been placed on the registration of all players who were
associated with these clubs last season. This does not mean that the players
cannot sign forms, just that the forms, when submitted to the League,
will not be processed until the debts have been cleared. It should be
noted that, during the course of the time that it takes for a particular
club's debts to be cleared, if a player who was associated with that club
last season signs forms relating to the new season for more than one new
club, only the form that was completed first will be registered once the
debt is paid off.
Any secretary who is in any doubt about the processes or rules that apply
in this instance, or whether or not a player wishing to join their club
for the new season, used to belong to any of the three clubs named at
the beginning of the previous paragraph, should contact Phil Tustain,
the registration secretary, in the first instance.
8 FA Flood Fund
Following the recent bad weather the trustees of the FA Sports Centre
Trust have decided to operate a flood fund for those clubs affected, under
the FA Discretionary Grant Aid Scheme.
The maximum grant available is £1000 per applicant for repairs
and the replacement of kit following flood damage. Please note however
that applicants must prove that the costs for which they are applying
are not covered under their insurance policy, or if they are not insured,
explain fully the reasons behind this.
Both the Application Form required and the Guidance notes are available
to download from the GFA website. All applications should be returned
direct to the Gloucestershire FA Office, not The FA in London, as the
GFA are required to complete Section 2 of the form before it is then fully
processed by the FA.
9 Referees Course
The Gloucestershire FA is planning to run courses for new referees that
will begin on Wednesday, 5th September, 2007 at both the Oxstalls Campus
and the Park Campus of the University of Gloucestershire. A further course
will be run at the Park Campus from November 20th. The GFA is also looking
into running a course specifically aimed at those persons who fulfil the
duties of club referee, as and when required, but who have no particular
desire to take a full referee's course.
For further details, please apply directly to the GFA's Referee Development
Officer, Richard Melinn either by post, telephone or email to Richard.Melinn@
Gloucestershirefa.com
10 General Secretary on Holiday
The General Secretary will be on holiday from August 8th to August 22nd.
During this time, the first point of contact should be Les Fisher, the
League's Treasurer, or Gordon Cook, the League's Chairman.
Thanks,
Nick Oram
General Secretary,
Cheltenham Association Football League
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