It has gained clubmark and premier club status and has 9 teams in both bury & ipswich divisions making it one of the largest in the region.

It was felt that the only clubs managing to survive where those with junior sections so stowmarket junior section was started 51/2 years ago. Offering hildren, from 8-16yrs, the opportunity to learn this fast exciting sport in a safe fun way and many of it’s junior members have gone on to represent our county and play successfully in the adult divisions. It also won the suffolk badminton association junior league last year and has already won the u17’s section in this year’s league meet, proving that the system works.

The club is keen to put coaches through training and now have 3 level 2 badminton coaches, 7 level 1badminton coaches and some young volunteers who help the junior section every saturday morning.

The club is proud to promote stowmarket and has carried out some demonstration events at the suffolk show and took part in the disability in sport events that have taken place previously in the town. It came 2nd in the suffolk sports awards a couple of years ago too and employs a local firm to supply and logo it’s club shirts.

The club holds adult club nights on wednesday evenings from 8pm and the juniors hold club sessions on saturday mornings at the mid-suffolk leisure centre (if you wish to go on the waiting list please contactthe club).

Janine Simonds

Level 2 badminton coach

Tues 14 Dec at 19:45 Ryman League Div One North NMFC Ware

Sat 18 Dec at 15:00 Ryman League Div One North Ilford NMFC

Mon 27 Dec at 15:00 Ryman League Div One North NMFC AFC Sudbury

Reserves.

Sat 18 Dec at 15:00 Reserve Teams North Division NMFC Walsham Le Willows Res

Volleyball England are asking for a £50 deposit before young volunteers are given a place on any of the courses. This will then be refunded once they have undertaken 20 hours of volunteering with a club. There will be plenty of opportunities with Stowmarket VC over the summer and possibly also with Suffolk’s other clubs. The deadline for applications is 1st January 2011, however, if you want to get on the Leicester coaching course, you should apply to Ilona Berry (i.berry@volleyballengland.org) right now. This sort of funding opportunity doesn’t come around very often, so if you’re interested, go for it!

Stowmarket Volleyball Club – www.stowmarket-volleyball.org.uk

After their Eastern Counties record breaking win on saturday, Stowmarket Town take on Histon Reserves for a place in the Quarterfinal of the League Cup. We have beaten 2 teams from the Prem Division can we make it 3? Histon have confirmed 5 1st team players will be in the squad! If you are unsure what that means, these are players who play in the Blue Square Conference National Divsion, 5 leagues above Stowmarket Town! See our facebook page for more details.

This particular cancer has affected somebody close to Matthew Flynn, which has given him and his brother Adam motivation to raise as much money for this research as possible. They have decided, along with their friends Adam Bennett and Lee Bark, to cycle from Lands End to John O’Groats, this equates to about 900 miles. Matthew and Lee will be trying to make the trip in 5 days, as they are keen cyclists and the two Adam’s will be trying to make the trip for 8 days. If you would like to help this cause and support them in their trip the website is: http://myprojects.cancerresearchuk.org/group-giving/matt– two-adams-do-lejog, any donations will be greatly appreiciated.

Needham Market Football Club is looking to increase its appeal to local businesses and residents. The club has been in existence for many years, the archives show that the club was officially formed in 1919 although records do indicate that games were played in the late 1890′s in the town. The football club will next season be playing at its highest ever level within football within the Ryman Division 1 North league having won the Ridgeons League and Cup last season, this success has been achieved with the support of many local people and businesses. Our focus for 2010/2011 is to grow our involvement with the local community and increase the number of regular attendees to the ground. The club has a record of raising large amounts for nominated charities, last year we worked with the following charities;

•    Breast Cancer (Wear it Pink);
•    Red Balloon Charity for bullied children;
•    Help for Heroes.

Already the club has arranged a Golf Day (August 6th) atHintlesham Hall Golf Club with a donation being made to the East Anglian Children’s Hospice (EACH) Treehouse Appeal, please see our website for all the details and how to join in. Our association with the young footballers in the area has been active for a number of years via the Needham Phoenix Youth Football Club, this will continue to be fostered and thereby establish a regular pipeline of talent coming through. We also recognise the need to make the club’s facilities available for a wider audience and one of the longer term aims is to install an “All weather” pitch on the Bloomfields site which can be used by other clubs and other sports. We believe that, in spite of the gloomy predictions by the government and the media for the UK economy over the next few years, the World Cup and a successful local football team will bring out the best in the local population and provide a positive impetus for us all.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

If you or your company would like to be associated with a successful club and would like to join with us in making the local community proud please contact the club. This can be achieved in a number of ways ranging from sponsorships/advertising at matches, of players or at club level; supporting the Golf Day; regular attendance at our home games and any of the other initiatives to be announced.

PRE SEASON FRIENDLIES.

For the most up to date information log on to the club’s website at www.needhammarketfc.co.uk where you can find full listings of our pre season friendlies and also sign up to receive the monthly newsletter.