We are delighted to announce that for the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons we have a new club sponsor, Jeremy Unsworth. Jeremy has sponsored a number of our teams over the past ten seasons and has been a great advocate and friend to our club.
Club Chairman, Peter Easter, said "we'd like to thank Jeremy for his ongoing support. It's only with the help of local businesses and our community partners that we're able to provide the coaching and factilities that we provide."
Supporting Hayfield Football & Community Sports Club's Bank Vale Development Project
Event Sponsor: Slater Financial - Independent financial advice in Buxton and the High Peak
Tickets: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/hayfield-pitches
Legend, household name, national treasure, King of the Jungle! Call him what you like but he really needs no introduction. Phil Tufnell will be joining us for lunch at The Royal Hotel in Hayfield on Friday July 23rd.
Phil is supported by Ian Stafford of The Sporting Club who will be the event host.
Phil is an English former cricketer turned popular television personality, featuring as team captain on ‘A Question of Sport’ as well as popping up on a host of other shows.
Tipped as the most talented English spinner of his generation, Phil took over 121 Test wickets over his career, placing him 35th in the list of most wickets by an England bowler. He played 42 Tests and 20 One-Day Internationals for England between 1990 and 2001, and 316 first-class matches, mainly for Middlesex.
Phil retired from professional cricket before the 2003 season in order to participate in the reality television show ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’ which he won, and was a team captain on the sports quiz show ‘They Think It’s All Over’ until 2005.
Tickets are £90 per person and includes a three course lunch. All are welcome but children should be aged 16 or over. Dress code is smart casual.
The Club greatly appreciates your support!
We're delighted to announce that The Flower Fox in Hayfield have sponsored and provided water bottles for all of our members. Due to the current health crisis it is really important that the children do not share water bottles so it is a very timely and kind gesture.
“The Flower Fox” are a recently opened (11 weeks ago), independent flower shop run by husband and wife team Darren and Naomi Greaves right here in Hayfield in the High Peak.
We love all things floral and plants alike, we try to run our small business as sustainable as possible using floral techniques that are foam free (foam is non biodegradable, toxic for both humans and animals and not recyclable) so we use chicken wire, moss, twine, water tubes, all our bouquets are wrapped in either paper or hessian come with a 100% biodegradable water source no cellophane or Sellotape we use paper tape.
This is why we wanted to get involved and help to sponsor our local Hayfield Junior Football Club so that they would be able to get the chance to each get their own reusable biodegradable sports drink bottles instead of keep buying and then throwing away numerous other bottles and try to keep the waste management down.
The Flower Fox is on Market Street in Hayfield. They are open from Tuesday to Saturday, 9am to 5pm. You can also buy online from their website: www.theflowerfox.co.uk.
The football club held its first ever golf day last week at New Mills Golf Course. Over 80 golfers came together to enjoy the course's spectacular views and challenging holes on what was a barmy late summer's day.
Over £1200 was raised and the club would like to thank Callum Clarke and Alan Peatfield for organising the event along with Sam Shaw from NMGC.
Our new sign has just been installed at Bank Vale and it looks wonderful. Thank you, as ever, to Jane for organising this and also to Andy at the PC for making sure we weren’t going to upset anyone by putting it there!
Also, to everyone who has helped raise money these last few weeks and in particular to Bob Heaps who has managed to persuade his employer, HSBC, to invest £1000 in us.
To help ease Coronavirus boredom and to raise some much needed funds for our clubhouse project we're challenging all teams and all players to help us complete a run to Wembley and back (560Km / 350 miles).
Essentially it's a sponsored run (or walk if you prefer) and there are prizes for:
The challenge runs for a month from 15th June until 15th July and we want to track everyone's progress using the challenge on the Nike Run Club app.
For details of how to get signed up just download our sponsorship form here.
Sadly, but inevitably, all grassroots football has been suspended by the Football Association. All leagues that we participate in have suspended fixtures, all training has ceased and as such Hayfield Football & Community Sports Club is now in hibernation.
At this time we aren't certain if league fixtures will be able to resume. We will keep all members posted here and on social media channels when anything changes.
Unfortunately this also means that our Quiz and Curry Night planned for the 27th March is also postponed. We're hoping to re-arrange that for September and all tickets sold will be valid for the re-arranged event. If you have a ticket and would like a refund please contact the club.
However, it's not all doom and gloom...
A huge thank you to everyone who came to see our adult team take on Neil Baldwin FC at Silverlands this weekend. Thanks to Eric and Joe for manning the turnstile and flogging scarves. To Pete C and Pete L and all the lads who played. To Neil Baldwin (Nello) and his team for travelling over from Stoke and an especially big thank you to Dave Brownsword who organised the whole thing.
The event was sponsored by Jeremy Unsworth, Thorneycroft Solicitors and Egerton’s and they’ve helped us raise close to a thousand pounds to be shared between Hayfield FC and the Macari Foundation.
Many of you will know Bob as the coach of our Under 9s. Bob works for HSBC, they have a yearly Pound for Pound scheme which supports charitable fundraising and volunteering activities by donating a matching amount to your charity. Bob in his coaching role, submitted his hours he volunteered throughout 2019 and from that HSBC have very kindly donated £1,000 to the Club. Hopefully this can become a yearly donation that will really help towards the fundraising for the new clubhouse and pitches at Bank Vale.
Last week the Club received £1,500 from the Hayfield show committee to help us with our clubhouse planning application. I’ve attached some pictures of what we’re hoping for! An enormous thank you to the show’s committee who have been hugely supportive of the club since the very beginning.
All of the work on our planning application has been carried out, without charge, by John McCall. A big thank you to John.
We are delighted to announce that we are having a charity fundraising match on Sunday 15th March against Neil Baldwin FC. All proceeds to be shared between the Macari Foundation and the Bank Vale project.
Hayfield Juniors are helping out with some research being undertaken by James Barraclough at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN). The research is into how psychosocial skills can be measured and developed as part of development in football. The research is specifically aimed at Under 12 players up to and including Under 18 players.
James is offering all those who complete a survey the chance to win a pair of personalised Adidas Predator 19.3 Laceless boots (soft or firm ground) as well as couple of runner-up prizes of vouchers.
You can find out more details and start the survey by clicking on the link below:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K9MFTYG
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A huge congratulations to our Under 12 Saturday team who have won the Manchester Youth League First Division this weekend. Not only that they will be competing in the cup final in a couple of weeks. Good luck lads and well done Steph and the team.
Tickets for our annual Halloween Disco are now on sale and can be purchased online here.
Season 19/20 is just around the corner. We’ve got twelve teams this season and have finally met one of our prime objectives which was to bring back open-age (i.e. adult) football to Hayfield.
Coaches will be in touch regarding resumption of training and the season’s opening matches.
Subs for the season are as follows:
We’re providing new kit for all players this season which we expect to be returned at the end of the season or should a player leave the club. We’re also providing a mid-layer training top (like this) which will have the players initials as well as the club badge and team sponsor’s logo. This is yours to keep and we’d encourage the kids to wear them as much as possible to help advertise their sponsors (more on them to come).
Until the first instalment and signing-on fee have been paid, no kit or training wear will be issued to players. Sadly we have had issues in the past where player registrations have gone under the club’s radar and as we’re spending a significant amount on new kit we want to make sure everyone is properly signed up. That said if our membership fees do present a problem for your family please do get in touch. We will not prevent any child playing for us because of financial hardship.
In the next couple of days you will receive an email from LoveAdmin, our subs system, with details of the first payment. You can choose to pay in full or monthly. If you want to pay by cheque or BACS transfer just let us know and we’ll arrange that for you. If you set up a pre-authorised direct debit then the first instalment will be taken automatically. If you don’t want this to happen you should log in now and change your preferences (https://app.loveadmin.com/sign-in).
We can Gift Aid some of the payments you make to us (e.g. signing on fee). When you log in to your LoveAdmin account I’d be grateful if you would untick the Gift Aid box if you do not pay UK tax. That way we can make sure our Gift Aid claim is accurate when we do it.
We're launching our new range of team wear with the help of Online Kit in Whaley Bridge...
There has been huge demand to sponsor our races and all races are now sold. Many thanks to our sponsors:
There's still plenty of opportunity and prizes for horse sponsors. You can do that for just a tenner here.
Once again we are very pleased to welcome Derbyshire FA’s County Welfare & Respect Officer, Cath Morton, to Hayfield. Cath will be giving her Respect talk at The Royal on Monday 8th April from 8pm. I’d encourage as many of you as possible to attend – kids too. Cath came up a few years ago so if you missed her then, please make sure you come along in a couple of weeks.
Derbyshire FA ran a competition at the end of 2018 for children to design a safeguarding poster. Here's the winning entry drawn by an 8 year old from Borrowash. A worthy winner...
