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Month: January 2016

Open Letter to Residents of Hardwick

You can Download the open letter, written by Steve Chamberlain, by clicking here.

Hardwick Football Club

The purpose of this letter is to inform you that I will be resigning my position as Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary and Reserve team manager of Hardwick Football Club at the end of the current season and to enlist your help and support to find suitable successors that will enable one of your community clubs to continue and be successful in the future as well as to seek your input into what you would like from your club.

I have played for Hardwick FC since 1986 – almost 30 years – and been involved with the Committee for many of those years, latterly being Chairman for the last five or so. Due to a combination of illnesses and personal reasons I have also picked up the roles of Treasurer, Secretary and Reserve team manager in the last couple of years.

For those of you that know me you will know that I have invested a huge amount of time and effort into the club and so my resignation comes with a very heavy heart. However, I am about to take on additional personal commitments that mean I can no longer give these roles the time they need.

My successors will be joining the club at an interesting time as it has reached a pivotal point in its future. We currently have three Saturday teams in the Cambridgeshire League as well as a team playing on Sundays.

We have been incredibly successful over the last few years and have established our first team in the Kershaw Premier. This represents Step 7 of the Football League and hence there are certain mandatory requirements which strain the facilities at Hardwick. To ease this situation the first team play their home games at Girton College with the Reserves and A team playing at Hardwick Rec.

I have not been particularly happy about this and I know a number of you are not also, but it was necessary to enable the club to continue at that level. The facilities at Hardwick are not good enough to support three teams and, whilst we are working with the Parish Council to improve them, I am sure you can appreciate it will only provide a solution in the longer term.

We are planning a Fans Forum in February to enable you to come along and share your views to help us ensure we are delivering a football club that gives you what you want. I am hopeful that the process will also help us identify people that are willing to come and help run the club.

If anyone is interested in helping to run one of Hardwick’s key institutions then please do not hesitate to contact me (steve@thechamberlainfamily.co.uk). I would be delighted to hear from anyone and look forward to providing more background and context at the Fans Forum in February.

Yours faithfully

Steve Chamberlain

Chairman

Parish Council Meeting Papers 2016

January 2016Meeting Papers

January 2016  (budget meeting) – Meeting papers

February 2016Meeting papers

March 2016Meeting papers

April 2016Meeting Papers

May 2016 APMAgenda – Reports

May 2016 Meeting Papers

June 2016Meeting Papers

July 2016 Meeting Papers (Tree Survey) (Grace Crescent Response)

August 2016 Meeting Papers (Hill Presentation for Hardwick PC)

September 2016Meeting Papers

October 2016Meeting Papers

November 2016 – Meeting Papers Additional papers

December 2016 – Meeting Papers Additional papers

 

December Parish Meeting Report

The Parish Council meeting was attended by 7 councillors and 4 villagers including the District Councillor.

Grenville Chamberlain our DC first informed the PC that the local plan will be going out to consultation in the new year and the bus route plan is already in the consultation stage.

If anyone is not getting the South Cambs magazine , which keeps us all up to date with such matters and the bin collections, please let Grenville know.

The next Village Plan meeting will be in January with Pauline Joslin attending from the PC with a view to joining the Steering Committee.

The vacancy on the PC following Jim Coe’s resignation was voted upon and filled by Barry Skingle.

The PC would like to thank the other candidates for their interest in the position.

Decisions were made to replace the rotting porch over the entrance to the HSSC and to address the treatment of the football pitches by following a cycle of work recommended by the Football Association and approved by the PC and football clubs of Hardwick.

The next Parish council meeting will be brought forward to 19th January so that the Local Plan can be discussed with time to reply to it. The budget meeting will therefore be on 26th January.

There is a panel of plastic missing from the bus shelter nearest Meridian Close which we will repair as soon as possible. These panels will be replaced with solid ones which are less likely to be stolen.

Written by Jane Jumphries

Parish Council Meeting now on 19th to allow for Precept Meeting on 26th Jan

The normal meeting for the Parish Council which would have been on the 26th January has been brought forward to the 19th January. Amendments to the SCDC Local Plan will be on the agenda. A meeting on the 26th will now be used to agree the Parish Council Precept (the request for local government funding) for the year ending 31 March 2017.

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