Flames News

It was great to see so many returning faces at the first training session last night; we hope that those who came enjoyed themselves.

Thank you to everyone who has made their payment to England Netball for this season’s membership. I know that a few of you are in the process of making this payment but may need to speak to England Netball first – they can be contacted on 01509 277850 (office hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm).

Do call them if you are struggling as they are really helpful. 

Next Saturday (16th September), Sophie will be advising the league as to which teams we will be entering for matches this season. This is the league’s deadline day. Sophie will only enter teams where she knows that we can get at least 8 players to play regularly.

We have to work from the ENgage list as this shows us who has paid their membership for the coming season. Only England Netball affiliated players can play on Sundays and the league look at the list to check players are affiliated. 

So if you would like your child to play in a team this season and you haven’t yet sorted this payment, please make it by next Friday evening (15th). 

If your child has decided that they do not wish to re-join us this season, we will be really sorry to see them go, but we appreciate that there are so many other experiences out there and it is great to pursue something new. However, please let us know if that is the case so that we can update our database and also arrange for the return of dresses loaned to you.

Thank you for your patience with the issues we have had around payments for England Netball membership and insurance fees. After a bit of head scratching, England Netball have worked out why our memberships were not showing up on our members’ pages and have corrected things from their end.  

We have now looked at a player in every age group and it all seems ok, so please feel free to make these payments from today.

Please note:

• To buy the England Netball membership for a child, the parent needs to log into their own ENgage account first (https://engage.englandnetball.co.uk/EnglandNetball) and then select the child from their page to make the membership payment. This is a safeguarding precaution introduced this year. If you log in through your child’s ENgage account, you will NOT be able to make the payment as you will not be able to ‘see’ it. 
• If you are a parent and DO NOT have your own ENgage account, please follow this guidance on how to create one and link your child to your account: https://englandnetball.zendesk.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360015647059-How-do-I-buy-my-child-a-full-membership-
• Please make sure you purchase the 2023/2024 fee (it will be the slightly more expensive one!) See below:

Any problems, please call England Netball on 01509 277850. They are very helpful and happy to talk you through the payment system.

Details of how to make the separate Flames Membership fee payment are available on the recent club newsletter which can be found here: https://flamesnetball.co.uk/july-newsletter/.

Our latest newsletter is now available here – it’s quite long, but does contain some useful and important information for the coming season (membership, fees and payments, training dates and times). If you have any queries, please contact us!

All players, family and friends are warmly invited to attend our end of season presentation evening where we will be celebrating another fantastic year of Flames Netball:

Friday 23rd June, 5.30 – 7.30pm at Dorrington Village Hall.

The evening will feature a recap of the last year, some awards, photos, and a talk and Q&A session from our special guest, former Team GB hammer thrower and current England Athletics Team Coach, Katie Lambert:

Tea, coffee, and squash will be provided but we are asking for donations of cake please. Refreshments will be free of charge, but we will be holding a raffle to raise money for club funds.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

Our March 2023 newsletter can be found here with information about summer training sessions and revised match fixtures.

Please see the flyer below for the Walking Netball session at Shrewsbury Sports Village:

One change has been made to the fixtures list, as follows:

• The match between Blazing Flames and Tibberton Tornadoes on 12 March is now at the earlier time of 14:30 (instead of 15:30).

See https://flamesnetball.co.uk/about/league-fixtures/ for more information.

Some changes have been made to the match schedule as follows:

• Telford Pumas have withdrawn from the league and therefore the scheduled matches on 12 February and 12 March v. Bright Flames have been cancelled.
• The match between Bright Flames and Wenlock Gold on 12 February is now at the earlier time of 14:30 (instead of 15:30).
• The match between Blazing Flames and Oswestry Ospreys on 12 February is now at the earlier time of 14:30 (instead of 15:30).
• Match schedules for Glowing Flames have now also been added.

See https://flamesnetball.co.uk/about/league-fixtures/ for more information.

The league fixture schedule for Spring Term 2023 has now been updated, see here.

Note that for Glowing Flames, the initial matches on 29/01/23 will determine the schedule for the rest of the term: we will update the schedule once these remaining matches are known.

Our December 2022 newsletter can be found here with a round-up of the Autumn term news.