Key Parent Info 25-26

1. Wilberforce Road Sports Ground - our main home venue. All Sunday training will be here (unless otherwise stated in Teamo) & U16s Wednesday training.
2. Perse Upper School - U12s & U14s mid-week training, Indoor

●   Pre-Christmas Dates (U12s & U14s start 31 August)

• U6, U8 & U10 - Sunday 7 September to Sunday 7 December inclusive
• U12s & u14s - Sunday 31 August to Sunday 7 December 2024 inclusive
• U16s - Wednesday 3 September to Wednesday 3 December 2024 inclusive

NO routine training on Sunday 26 October, Tuesday 28 October, Wednesday 29 October & Thursday 30 October 2025 (HALF TERM)

Please note if you also partcipate in senior training, this continues as normal throughout half term.

●   Post-Christmas Dates

Sunday 4 January to Sunday 29 March 2025 inclusive

• NO routine training on Sunday 15 February, Tuesday 17 February, Wednesday 18, & Thursday 19 February 2025 (HALF TERM)
• Please note if you also partcipate in senior training, this continues as normal throughout half term.

Training Times & Venues can be seen below, or follow link to the website training page.

UPDATE

U12 Tuesday training starts on 30th September! Sessions 6-7 pm at the Perse Upper School. Please see the event inTeamo for access arrangements & parking information.

If you have any questions or concerns about your child’s participation in hockey, please do not hesitate to contact their team manager, coach, or the Club’s Welfare Officer Sharon Ely (welfare@cambridgecityhc.org).

You can always message key team contacts through Teamo.

Open the ‘Club’ section of the App. You will see your young person’s teams listed under the ‘Teams’ section at the bottom. Open the relevant team page. All key contacts are listed in the ‘Messaging’ tab, including all team managers and lead coaches.

General Enquiries - Message CCHC Youth Section

For most queries, the easiest way to get in touch is through your team manager, via the gmail for your age group squad:

We use 'Teamomail' for our bulk communications. Emails will be sent to the parent email you used to register, & will appear as coming from updates@teamomail.com.

We will try not to bombard you with too many emails, but please never mark us as spam or you will block all further email communications.

It is worth adding updates@teamomail.com to your contacts and safe senders lists.

As a club, we want to keep costs down for parents. Therefore, we have tried to keep mandatory kit to a minimum on the junior side & provide the numbered shirts for our fixtures.

For more information check out our junior kit page here:

New Joiners at U6, U8 & U10 ⭐First Training Shirt Free⭐

U6 & U8 players joining the club for the first time get their first CCHC training top for free. These will be available for pick up at your first training sesison on 7 September 😀

There is a size guide on the website which can be found here, but players can try for size on the day.

Training is 9.15 to 10.15 on Sunday, Pitch 1, Wilberforce Road

Equipment

• Dress for the weather - layers are good!
• ALL players must have shin pads & a mouthguard to participate.
• Sticks - we have plenty of junior hockey sticks available to borrow for initial sessions, and to try for size. Just let us know.
• We will try to keep a small stock of mouthguards (sold at cost) should a player forget their own - please ask your team manager.

Pick up & Drop Off

• Please sign in your young person with their team admin at the first gate on pitch 1 before they enter the pitch area.
• 🚨 Parents are required to stay for the duration of their young person's session 🚨
• Players will be signed out to their parent/guardian at the gate.

The site gets very busy, especially at changeover times, so please be careful when walking to and from the car park area. Drivers, please observe the speed limit on the Wilberforce Road Sports Ground site at all times.

New Joiners ⭐First Training Shirt Free⭐

U6 & U8 players joining the club for the first time get their first CCHC training top for free. These will be available for pick up at your first training sesison on 7 September 😀

There is a size guide on the website which can be found here, but players can try for size on the day.

Teamo

This is our main point of contact with you. Please check Teamo regularly and confirm attendance/availability in advance. This can always be changed at a later date if your plans change, but is vital to allow the coaching team to staff and plan sessions effectively.

Weather

The artificial surfaces used for hockey 'freeze' as temperatures approach zero. This means that, over the winter months, cold weather may mean we have to cancel training, or move training to a later time. We will do our best to contact those players affected with as much notice as possible. Please check twitter, Teamo & email before setting out for training when the temperatures drop!

Training is 9.00 to 10.15 on Sunday, Pitch 2 (Girls) & Pitch 3 (Boys), at Wilberforce Road Sports Ground

• returning players, please note the EARLIER start to the session

Equipment

• Dress for the weather - layers are good!
• ALL players must have shin pads & a mouthguard to participate.
• Sticks - we have plenty of junior hockey sticks available to borrow for initial sessions, and to try for size. Just let us know.
• We will try to keep a small stock of mouthguards (sold at cost) should a player forget their own - please ask your team manager.

Pick up & Drop Off

• Please sign in your young person with their team admin at the pitch gate before they enter the pitch area.
• Players will be signed out to their parent/guardian at the gate.

The site gets very busy, especially at changeover times, so please be careful when walking to and from the car park area. Drivers, please observe the speed limit on the Wilberforce Road Sports Ground site at all times.

New Joiners ⭐First Training Shirt Free⭐

U6 & U8 players joining the club for the first time get their first CCHC training top for free. These will be available for pick up at your first training sesison on 7 September 😀

There is a size guide on the website which can be found here, but players can try for size on the day.

Teamo

This is our main point of contact with you. Please check Teamo regularly and confirm attendance/availability in advance. This can always be changed at a later date if your plans change, but is vital to allow the coaching team to staff and plan sessions effectively.

Weather

The artificial surfaces used for hockey 'freeze' as temperatures approach zero. This means that, over the winter months, cold weather may mean we have to cancel training, or move training to a later time. We will do our best to contact those players affected with as much notice as possible. Please check twitter, Teamo & email before setting out for training when the temperatures drop!

Note your first sessions:

U12s

• Sunday training starts on Sunday 31 August
• Tuesday training - start date TBC - U12 midweek training is moving to Tuesdays at the Perse from 6-7 pm. We are waiting from the school for the date the Tuesday sessions can start - possibly not until end of September. Sessions will go up in Teamo as soon as the start date is confirmed, and we will communicate access arrangements etc at the same time.

U14s

• Sunday training starts on Sunday 31 August
• Wednesday sessions follow on Wednesday 3 September. CHECK YOUR VENUE - Boys are now at Perse! Girls stay at Wilby.

U16s

• Wednesday 3 September

Equipment

• Dress for the weather - layers are good!
• ALL players must have shin pads & a mouthguard to participate.
• Sticks - we have plenty of hockey sticks available to borrow for initial sessions, and to try for size. Just let us know.
• We will try to keep a small stock of mouthguards (sold at cost) should a player forget their own - please ask your team manager if you forget yours.

Penalty Corner Face Masks

• These are provided by the club for age group training and fixtures.
• If your young person is regularly involved in penalty corner defence, we strongly reccommend they get their own - hygiene, fit, & player's visibility (safety).
• Our policy is that it is MANDATORY for all U18s to wear a penalty corner face masks if they are defending at a corner. No U18 player will ever be asked, or allowed, to defend a penalty corner withut one in either age group or senior hockey.

Pick up & Drop Off

• Please sign in your young person with their team admin at the pitch gate before they enter the pitch area.
• If your player travels to and from hockey unaccompanied, or is dropped off to walk over to the pitch unaccompanied, they should arrive at the designated time for training. 
• U18s are NOT ALLOWED TO WAIT UNACCOMPANIED at Wilberforce Road Sports Ground if they arrive early (or at the end of their session) - this is both a Cambridge City HC & Cambridge University Sport policy.
• Players should be collected promptly, within 10 minutes of the scheduled end of their session.
• If players are cycling home, please make sure helmets are worn and bikes have lights - take care when leaving the site at night.

The site gets very busy, especially at changeover times, so please be careful when walking to and from the car park area. Drivers, please observe the speed limit on the Wilberforce Road Sports Ground site at all times.

Teamo

This is our main point of contact with you. Please check Teamo regularly and confirm attendance/availability in advance. This can always be changed at a later date if your plans change, but is vital to allow the coaching team to staff and plan sessions effectively.

Weather

The artificial surfaces used for hockey 'freeze' as temperatures approach zero. This means that, over the winter months, cold weather may mean we have to cancel training, or move training to a later time. We will do our best to contact those players affected with as much notice as possible. Please check twitter, Teamo & email before setting out for training when the temperatures drop!

For England hockey league & cup fixtures we now need to submit all our information including team sheets online. This means as a one off, all our players need to register on GMS (Game Management System) which is the England Hockey fixture and results system, so they are eligible to play. Please can you take a few seconds to read the info below and action as appropriate.

Any queries, or if you think that your young person is already registered on GMS - either with CCHC or with another club please email Message CCHC Youth Section or contact Sharon Ely via the contact card at the bottom of the page.

A) If you already have a GMS account as a parent (another child with CCHC or another club) or as a player then please login to your existing account, open ‘My Profile’, and in the ‘Relations’ tab there is the option to ‘Add Dependent’. It will also list any children already registered.

Otherwise:

B) Please can you register on GMS using the following link: https://gms.englandhockey.co.uk/

• Select the Parent/Guardian option, fill in your email, and you should then receive a verification code (can take a few minutes!)
• You complete your details first to create a parent account.
• The club will ‘approve’ you and you can then add your young person(s) as a dependent.
• Please be sure to select Cambridge City HC from the 'clubs' dropdown box (there are a number of similar Cambridge clubs).

The system is not very user friendly. If you are having problems, instructions from EH can be found on their website here - https://www.englandhockey.co.uk/play/gms-player

Log into your Parent GMS account > My Clubs > Request to join a new club > select which person on their profile is wanting to transfer (parent or child)

• In the Pop Up Box > Which club would you like to join? > Choose Cambridge City HC
• In the Pop Up Box > Where it says 'Will you be leaving any of your current clubs' > make sure they are ticked.

Please ensure you have paid all outstanding fees owed to your previous club, and returned any borrowed kit - this should make the process go quicker. The releasing club do have 10 days to either approve or contest the transfer, but after that it will complete automatically if no action taken.

IS YOUR CHILD:

1/ Already dual registered with Cambridge City HC

or

2/ Moving to Cambridge City HC BUT someone linked to your main parent account (you, another child) is already a member of CCHC

PLEASE CONTACT US VIA THE CONTACT CARD BELOW

• In both these situations Cambridge City HC will not show as a transfer option, so the transfer will need to be completed through GMS support with permission received from the releasing club.

FAQS

Does it cost anything? No - the L1 Theory Course is now FREE!

Do I have to umpire every week? Nope. Whatever you can do is great!

Do you pay umpires? Yes! If you complete your qualification and are assessed, you could earn £15 per game!

Take the Level 1 Umpiring Course

This is an online course (over a single evening) that is easy to book onto via the England Hockey Hub on a date and time that suits you. If you are successful in completing the online course you will be a 'Level 1 - Unassessed Umpire'. The course is now FREE.

In order to take the course, you will need to be registered on the England Hockey Hub: 

• Register here: https://hockeyhub.englandhockey.co.uk/register 
• Find a course: https://hockeyhub.englandhockey.co.uk/umpiring_info



While waiting for the course, you will need to take the "Rules of Hockey" module in your own time.

Once logged into the Hockey Hub select Officiating Tab – Rules of Hockey. You can also download the hockey rule book from there. 

What next?

Once you have completed the course, contact us and we can organise some umpire coaching and opportunities to start practising your umpiring.

You will probably start by umpiring 7-a-side In2, and then progress to 11-a-side. When you are ready, we can arrange for you to be assessed

Tim Ireland & Sam Pettengell coordinate the umpires for senior & junior fixtures respectively, and also liaise with East Young Umpires, who provide junior umpire coaching & support, and opportunities to progress to umpire at both regional and national level.

If your young person is in school years 5 - 10 and does not have the opportunity to play hockey at school, they may be eligible to join our Tuesday evening Junior Development sessions in addition to their regular age group training session.

These are open access, mixed sessions (boys and girls, Y5 - 10) which give players without school hockey an extra opportunity to develop their skills. There's no extra cost. There's more information on our website here:

For more information, please contact our Outreach manager Diana Dai @ cchc.development@gmail.com or via the contact card below:

Teamo is our main communication tool and we use it to manage all our hockey including payments, training & fixtures.

The Teamo mail system, 'Teamomail', is used for our bulk communications. Emails will be sent to the parent email you used to register, & will appear as coming from updates@teamomail.com.

We will try not to bombard you with too many emails, but please never mark us as spam or you will block all further email communications.

It is worth adding updates@teamomail.com to your contacts and safe senders lists.

This guide is quite useful for the basics on how to use the App:

Yes.

U14 and younger we ask that the App is parent only, but U16 & U18 players are encouraged to use Teamo too, so they can start to manage their own hockey. Parents still have full access.

How do I give my child access?

• Open your parent Teamo account > Your Profile > Open Your Profile > Select Child's Profile.
• Use the edit icon (top right) and add your child's mobile +/- email into the relevent fields.
• Remember to Save the changes!
• Your young person can now download the Teamo App & login using their mobile number or email & 2FA.

Volunteers are the lifeblood of community sport – without them, a large proportion of grassroots sport and physical activity simply wouldn't happen. CCHC is no different - we are a club run by members, for the members. 

You don't have to be a qualified coach, or great at hockey, or have always played it, to volunteer. Everybody has something to offer. 

How can you help?

Some people are able to give more time than others, and any help members or their parents can offer is much appreciated. There are a wide variety of roles within the club, and whether it’s organising socials, helping with our PR, pulling on an umpire shirt, or doing the admin, there is always room for more help!

And with the recent and planned growth of CCHC, there’s even more to do.

In addition we would love to see Young Leaders get involved in helping to deliver hockey within the club.

If you would like to get involved email us at Message CCHC Youth Section

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