about the club
We are an established Croydon based Netball Club. In 2007, our 2 clubs Howard, and Shirley joined together to make one. Between both clubs we have a history of well over 60 years. As neither team wanted to lose their name we have become Howard & Shirley Netball Club and later HS Netball.
The Club is going from strength to strength with 5 Senior teams and a thriving Junior section.
After a very successful last season we are aiming high again this season.– so watch this space.
The Club were awarded our Bronze CAPS accreditation in May 2012
Leagues
We have 4 teams currently playing in the Croydon League.
On the opposite Saturday we play in the MET league in division 2.
We have 1 team playing in the Surrey County Netball League
Our home ground is Shirley High school.
Training
We train every Tuesday between September and April at Croydon High School 7.30pm-9pm. Our coach is Lorraine Woodyer, who joined us in 2009. She is a level 2 coach with a range of experience and we are all looking forward to working with her again this season. Debbie Grainger will be assisting Lorraine this year with our D & E squads.
We play Summer league May/June/July.
Evening League
The club play in the CNL evening league on a Monday and Thursday at Riddlesdown School (outside), the games are either 7.30pm or 8.15pm.
Subs
Our subs are as follows:
Seniors: £25 per month payable by direct debit
Under 18’s and in full time education £15 per month payable by direct debit
We also have to affiliate to England Netball & Surrey Netball for the season, this currently is £28 (£18.50) for U18). This membership includes playing insurance, a bi-monthly magazine and various other offers.
Costs include, all your match fees, your training, umpiring fees, court hire, refreshments, coaching, training venue hire, entry to various league, equipment, envelopes, stamps, phone calls etc…
Extra costs are: Rallies, Social events and Kit.
The Club is going from strength to strength with 5 Senior teams and a thriving Junior section.
After a very successful last season we are aiming high again this season.– so watch this space.
The Club were awarded our Bronze CAPS accreditation in May 2012
Leagues
We have 4 teams currently playing in the Croydon League.
On the opposite Saturday we play in the MET league in division 2.
We have 1 team playing in the Surrey County Netball League
Our home ground is Shirley High school.
Training
We train every Tuesday between September and April at Croydon High School 7.30pm-9pm. Our coach is Lorraine Woodyer, who joined us in 2009. She is a level 2 coach with a range of experience and we are all looking forward to working with her again this season. Debbie Grainger will be assisting Lorraine this year with our D & E squads.
We play Summer league May/June/July.
Evening League
The club play in the CNL evening league on a Monday and Thursday at Riddlesdown School (outside), the games are either 7.30pm or 8.15pm.
Subs
Our subs are as follows:
Seniors: £25 per month payable by direct debit
Under 18’s and in full time education £15 per month payable by direct debit
We also have to affiliate to England Netball & Surrey Netball for the season, this currently is £28 (£18.50) for U18). This membership includes playing insurance, a bi-monthly magazine and various other offers.
Costs include, all your match fees, your training, umpiring fees, court hire, refreshments, coaching, training venue hire, entry to various league, equipment, envelopes, stamps, phone calls etc…
Extra costs are: Rallies, Social events and Kit.
Kit
In April 2012 we received our new kit from Kukri. We were lucky enough to receive some funding from the ‘Ben Trend Foundation’ and the rest of the kit was paid for by a raffle that the club organised.
Our kit is now either a dress or skort and top.
Our colours are mainly Navy with Turquoise trim with navy patch bibs.
We also wear Hoodies and Waterproof jackets.
We do not order tracksuit bottoms but request you wear navy ones.
Kit must be worn for all games. For evening league any navy or turquoise tops as we wear pull on bibs.
New players must now purchase kit. Prices TBA.
Our Junior Section
We have a very successful junior section for Under 16’s, they train before the seniors (6.30-7.30pm and we welcome any new players. If you know of any girls that would be interested then please contact us for more info. Please see the Junior Page.
Rallies & Tour & Social
We play in all the tournaments the league offer and they are fun days and even better when you win them which we have being quite successful in doing over the past years! They include the Beginning of season, End of season, Evening league, Mixed & Versatility.
We try and go on tour every year, the usual favourites being Bournemouth or Torquay!
Other info
We are a very friendly club and try and get all members involved in some way. If you would like to help in any way either umpiring, coaching or something else however small we would be very grateful. There are always courses for umpiring and coaching and the club will support you in anyway possible and there are grants available outside of the club.
Our way of contacting players for matches and other things is by email or text mainly, if we do need a response then please do reply it makes our life easier! That’s about it, if you do require any further information then please do not hesitate to contact Karen or Eileen.
Thanks for reading!
In April 2012 we received our new kit from Kukri. We were lucky enough to receive some funding from the ‘Ben Trend Foundation’ and the rest of the kit was paid for by a raffle that the club organised.
Our kit is now either a dress or skort and top.
Our colours are mainly Navy with Turquoise trim with navy patch bibs.
We also wear Hoodies and Waterproof jackets.
We do not order tracksuit bottoms but request you wear navy ones.
Kit must be worn for all games. For evening league any navy or turquoise tops as we wear pull on bibs.
New players must now purchase kit. Prices TBA.
Our Junior Section
We have a very successful junior section for Under 16’s, they train before the seniors (6.30-7.30pm and we welcome any new players. If you know of any girls that would be interested then please contact us for more info. Please see the Junior Page.
Rallies & Tour & Social
We play in all the tournaments the league offer and they are fun days and even better when you win them which we have being quite successful in doing over the past years! They include the Beginning of season, End of season, Evening league, Mixed & Versatility.
We try and go on tour every year, the usual favourites being Bournemouth or Torquay!
Other info
We are a very friendly club and try and get all members involved in some way. If you would like to help in any way either umpiring, coaching or something else however small we would be very grateful. There are always courses for umpiring and coaching and the club will support you in anyway possible and there are grants available outside of the club.
Our way of contacting players for matches and other things is by email or text mainly, if we do need a response then please do reply it makes our life easier! That’s about it, if you do require any further information then please do not hesitate to contact Karen or Eileen.
Thanks for reading!
