Minutes and Reports for AGM go online

In order to ensure that we do not spend too much party-time next Friday listening to annual reports we will be publishing them online on our website at http://www.brentwoodtc.org/reports.htm. Last years report and Minutes are already available and this years report will also be loaded there shortly. Please do read them in advance if possible and feel free to raise any questions you may have during the brief AGM.

Xmas Shopping

Just a quick heads up that it is possible not only to save yourselves some money whilst shopping online but you can also make money for the club at the same time.

You can do this by going to http://buy.at/brentwoodtc and linking to your preferred online retailer there. Depending on what you buy, this will result in the club receiving a commission payment that can be quite substantial in some cases (e.g. I recently renewed my car insurance through this site and saved £30 against my old renewal quote and made £55 for the club!) Top retailers on this site include M&S, Amazon, Game and many many more.

Party Time

Our Annual Xmas Party is taking place on December 4th at 7pm. We have a great disco playing for us with 'Jolly Jenny' offering karaoke opportunities, a variety of games and other entertainment as well.

As ever, we will ask adults, and older members who might be interested, to join us for a brief AGM whilst the younger members enjoy the fun - we normally manage to keep the AGM down to less than 20 minutes and all reports will be posted on-line in advance to help us achieve this. This will then be followed by presentation of medals to Jack Petchey Award winners and snacks. The bar will be open to paying customers.

This year, we are really keen to attract some new blood onto the committee with several vacancies including that of Chairman (Steven Nicholls is standing down after 6 years in the hot seat!) Any contribution to the committee (no matter how small) is truly welcome and we promise you will not be left high and dry!

Are you a regular user of eBay?

If you are it might interest you to know that you can access eBay through a special Brentwood TC link that will share some of eBay's commission with our club. Click the link here in future and every purchase or sale you make will help contribute to the club's running costs without costing (or losing) you a penny more! It will even access you normal login account for you seamlessly.

Our main shopping affiliate site also has lots of other mainstream eTailers available with identical prices as if you shopped there directly - you can check these out here.

Jack Petchey Winner - September

Congratulations to Annalie Collins for being the Jack Petchey winner for September. Pictured right is Annalie receiving her certificate and cheque from Jack Kelly, erstwhile National Squad Director, who just happened to be visiting us last night.

Annalie's award was a recognition of her steady development of skills and quiet unassuming character which saw her enter her first competition last month, get entered into the wrong grade, get moved into the correct group and then despite all that beating many much more experienced club-mates. Well done, Annalie and well-deserved.

Nominations for the October winner are now open, eligible members are listed on the notice board.

The "Flog It!" team pays a visit

Brentwood School & Brentwood Trampoline Club were pleased to welcome the BBC's Flog It! team recently with it's presenter Paul Martin. This popular antiques programme regularly includes a segment on some item of historical interest in the local area. Their interest had been stimulated by the history article on our club's website which showed how a local man, Ted Blake, made significant contributions to the development of competitive trampolining. All being well the show, which should be broadcast next year, will show Tim Blake (Ted's son) being interviewed in the school's library and Hannah McCann and Scott Gregory being interviewed and also performing for Paul in the Courage Hall. Apparently one of Paul's fond memories of his school-days features the school trampoline on which he recalls doing somersaults. Pictured are Tim, Scott, Paul & Hannah.

Results from Easton Grading

We had a long day on Sunday with some high emotions at times but some decent results. Three winners were Sophie Banks, Jospeh Dulieu-Hasler and Kallum Sherlock, four third-placed were Jonathan Gibbs, Jamie Perry, Abbie Goldmsith & Kensie Sherlock (Kensie on zero final) and although not making a podium position, Emma Martin qualified to grade F. Georgia Tyrrell also got closer to qualifying with two new PBs. Not too bad from thirteen competing on the day. More details on our website here.

September Jack Petchey Nominations

Nominations are now being sought for achievement during September 2009. These awards are intended for those who have shown hard work, commitment or other outstanding behaviour – not necessarily always the best trampolinists. A list of eligible members will be posted on the small noticeboard. Please make no more than ONE nomination by email to dave@brentwoodtc.org stating who you are nominating and why.

Results from the 10th Brentwood Open

Well it's all over once again and we managed to finish pretty much on time and hopefully everybody who attended felt their visit was worth while. We had 233 entries by close of play (33 from our own club) from 18 clubs from as far as Norwich & Cambridge and as near as round the corner. The full set of results are being sent to all clubs and are also available on our website. In the meantime, a big thank you to all helpers and officials who helped the day run smoothly.

Thank You!

Our own members highlights are:

H & I Grades
We had quite a few new competitors competing in these grades and for many of them it was simply about experiencing a competition for the first time, these included Laura Bloomfield, Ruby Blandford, Rebekah Francis & Ellen Houghton - well done for stepping up to the plate.

G Grade
Our under-9/11 girls team of Emma Martin, Tegan Roycroft, Georgia Tyrrell and Jessie-Rose Durrell won their group with Emma also taking individual 3rd place. Jessie & Georgia were not far behind in 4th & 6th out of 15 competitors.

This team success was replicated with the under-13 girls, Fiona Humphries, Susanna Badley, Alice Gibbs & Emma Brereton with Susanna also taking individual 2nd closely followed by first-timer Annalie Collins in 4th and Alice Gibbs in 5th.

The next whiff of success we had was with the under-17 girls with Tilly Ashcroft and Catherine Zalicks taking individual 2nd and 3rd places. Emma Meadows (one of our regular adult bouncers) also competed for teh first time in the Over-17 and missed 2nd place on tie-break buit was pleased with 3rd, the winner of this group was Natalie Shade bouncing for Tiptree but also a regular visitor so well done to Natalie as well.

F Grade
Highlights in this grade were Abbie Goldsmith winning the under-15 on tie break and Charlotte Hussey in her first outing at this grade in 5th. Lauren Marchant was convincing winner in the Over 15.

E Grade
This grade saw another team success with Sophie Banks, Georgia Walker and Harriet Gill, Sophie narrowly missed a medal as well ending in 4th overall.

D Grade
A mixed result with Daniel Frost winning the male competition by a good margin but Emma Frost completing her new higher tariff vol but just not quite getting the form marks she needed to challenge in the female group.

C & above
This group saw Natasha Wood winning with Chrissie Law in 6th place.

There is more detail on our website.