Chairmans Welcome

Thank you for registering your role at Thatto Heath Crusaders ARLFC.

Whether you have registered as a player, a parent, a coach or a volunteer, we would like to offer you a warm welcome to our Club and hope that the current season and beyond, will be happy and successful.

Now that you have become a member of the Thatto Heath Crusaders family, here are a few things that we’d like you to be aware of.

The aim of the Club – is to foster and develop our facilities for our members and the wider community for healthy recreation, other leisure time occupation and sport, particularly Amateur Rugby League, at all age groups without discrimination against disabilities, age or gender. Our governing body is the Rugby Football League and we currently operate within the North West Counties Youth and Junior Leagues, The National Conference League, The Women’s Rugby League and Girl’s Rugby League.

How the Club is Organised – The Club is run by an Executive Committee who look after the general management of the Club itself and a Rugby Committee who are both voted on by the members annually at an Annual General Meeting. As well as a Chairman, Vice Chairman and Secretary, each team is represented on the Rugby Committee by Section Managers who cover Tots – U9’s, U10’s to U12’s, U13’s to U15’s, U16’s and U18’s, Open Age Men’s section and the Girls and Women section.

How the Club is Financed – The running costs of the Club (e.g. utilities, bar staff wages, cleaning, league fees, RFL fees, travel, food, etc.) all must be covered by income from members fees, bar, kitchen and commercial hiring out of our training barn and pitches. Within the main Club account, each team has their own fund and do their own fund raising for kit, teamwear and any ‘extras’ that team might require. Full details of the Clubs income and expenditure are made available to members at the Annual General Meeting.
The current monthly Members fees are £5 pe month for Cubs and U11s Girls and £16 per month for everyone else, and £10 per month for any additional siblings. To keep the monthly cost at a minimum, fees are payable for 12 months of the year by direct debit. The Club will always deal sympathetically if anyone is having financial difficulties, but ultimately, failure to pay the fees could result in a player being stopped from playing.
If a player leaves the Club, please e mail secretary@thattoheathcrusaders.org so that our records can be updated and the Direct debit cancelled.

Respect – The Club wants everyone to enjoy being at the Club and being part of it. We ask that everyone is respectful of each other, whatever their role happens to be. There are Codes of Conduct on display in and around the Club and on our club website in the Club Documents section.

Facilities –We are proud of the facilities that we have which took years of hard work to establish. We would like you to be equally proud of what we have and treat the Clubhouse, changing rooms, training barn, pitches and outside areas with care.

Volunteers – On the whole, the Club is run by an army of Volunteers such as Coaches, Team Managers, First Aiders, Committee Members, Groundsmen etc. If you have any skill that might help us, we’d love to hear from you. We are always in need of electricians, plumbers, joiners, fund raisers, website experts, to name but a few.

Suggestions/Complaints – As for hard as we try, we don’t always get thing right so if you have any complaints or if you have any suggestions where we can improve, please let us know. There is a suggestion box located at the top of the stairs in the Club or you can your ideas in by E Mail to the Committee at info@thattoheathcrusaders.org. Any safeguarding issues should be communicated by E mail to our safeguarding team at CWO@thattoheathcrusaders.org

These are just a few brief points for your information. If there is anything else you need to know, please contact your Team or Section Manager, any member of the Committee or Safeguarding team. All the Club policies are found within the Documents Section of the club website at www.thattoheathcrusaders.org. Contact information is also on the Club noticeboards and on our Club website.

Best Wishes

Mike Denning
Chairman
Thatto Heath Crusaders ARLFC