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Club Journal November 2018 The magazine for all CIU members 75 p November and December dates announced for the new Award in Club Management (ACM) qualification INSIDE... e first day sessions for the new Award in 2 Club Management (ACM) qualification have Editor’s Letter . been announced. e first two sessions will take place at Club News . 3 Framwellgate Moor Club in Durham on Saturday, November 24 (Unit 1B) and 9 Saturday, December 15 (Unit 2). CIU Racing Club . e new qualification, which has been developed by the CIU’s Education Club of the Month . 11 Committee working in tandem with CPL Training, was officially launched during the 14 2018 Conference Weekend in Blackpool. HQ . e course consists of three self- contained units, each taking one day of Club Outings . 18 classroom-based study to complete. Unit 1A of the course covers Law & 21 Regulation, Licensing. Unit 1B covers Other Crossword . Law and Regulations. Unit 2 covers the topics of Management, Finance and Sport . 22 Administration. e course is open to all CIU members but is specifically aimed at people who are Course workbooks have been produced for Leafct h unit of the ACM and will be given to going to be sitting on club committees and students when they attend the day sessions occupying positions of authority within clubs for the first time. “But beyond licensing there is the proper e ACM is designed to make education management and adminstration of the club, more accessible to Union members with and following the advice contained within each unit designed to be completed in the course should enable the student to offer separate one-day sessions with a multiple our members a properly run, safe and choice test of 30 questions to complete at the comfortable environment in the future, and end of the session. keep clubs at the forefront of the leisure and Course workbooks have been produced social aspects of our unique organisation. Club of the Month: for each of the three units and these will be “e ACM is seen as the way forward in given to candidates on attendance of the day achieving the aim of existing and Old Bank Working sessions. prospective club secretaries, chair, treasurers Once a candidate has completed and and committees in good management and Men’s Club, Mirfield passed the course, having been examined in how to meet members’ needs.” is month’s ‘Club of the Month’ is Old all three units via the multiple choice exam, To book your place on either course, Bank Working Men’s Club in Mirfield, they will receive the ACM diploma. contact Cath Fitzpatrick in the Leisure West Yorkshire. Union General Secretary Kenneth D Department on 0207 226 0221 ext 238 or e club was founded in 1906 and has Green CMD said: “is course provides an email her at [email protected] always been at the heart of the local in-depth overview of the way a club should If you have any questions about the ACM community with a variety of activities be managed to enable compliance with course, please contact Head Office Manager available to its 1,000 members, including relevant law and regulations, as well as the Stephen Goulding on email at: live entertainment and sports. pitfalls of non-compliance, regardless of [email protected] As well as football, snooker, pool and whether a club operates on the basis of a More dates in a number of different darts, the club has two squash courts and a club premises certificate or a premises regions for all three units will be announced bowling green on its impressive site. licence. in Club Journal early next year. For the full profile, see pages 11-12. www.wmciu.org.uk EDITOR’S LETTER EDITOR’S LETTER Welcome to the November edition Clubof Committees and members and the huge Journal. contribution they all make to their local Later this month members from clubs all communities. over the country will be attending the Good luck to all those clubs shortlisted! Dransfields CIU Charity Raceday at As you’ll see from exciting announcement Wetherby Racecourse on Saturday, on the front page, the new Award in Club November 17. Management (ACM) is being rolled out to Tickets for CIU members are priced at members for the first time with sessions being £17.50 and that price includes a Paddock held at Framwellgate Moor WMC in Durham Admission Badge, Official Racecard, ‘Pie & on Saturday, November 24 and Saturday, Peas’ voucher and a set of ‘50p off a pint’ December 15. Journal early next year. vouchers courtesy of Heineken UK. e first date will cover Unit 1B (Other Law Last but not least, our ‘Club of the Month’ It’s sure to be a fun day for our members and Regulations) while the December session for November is Old Bank WMC in Mirfield. and there are still a few tickets left if you will take in Unit 2 (Management, Finance and Established in1906, the club has over 1,000 haven’t already secured one. Administration). members and is doing extremely well on all Simply call Wetherby Racecourse on 01937 To book your place on either course, fronts with flourishing sports sections, regular 582 035 and quoting the code ‘1718CIU’. contact Cath Fitzpatrick in the Leisure live entertainment and some great facilities. Meanwhile, on pages 14 we have the full Department on 0207 226 0221 ext 238 or You can read the full profile on pages11-12. shortlist of clubs who will be vying for the email her at [email protected] Hope you enjoy the issue. honour of being crowned ‘CIU Traditional Don’t worry if you can’t make either of Club of the Year’ at the 2018 Club Awards to these sessions as more sessions, covering all be held at Doncaster Racecourse on three units which make up the ACM, will be November 29. taking place at different venues in the near All these clubs can be very proud of the future. hard work that is being carried out by their e dates will be announced in the Club Stephen Goulding, Editor CLUB JOURNAL CIU CIU Editorial Panel 253-254 Upper Street London N1 IRY Tel: 020 7226 0221 Fax: 020 7354 1847 George Dawson CMD John Tobin Kenneth D Green CMD E-mail: [email protected] President Vice-President General Secretary Website: www.wmciu.org.uk Editor Stephen Goulding John Batchelor Sean Belton CMD Geoff Blakeley CMD Carol Goddard E-mail: [email protected] NEC Member NEC Member NEC Member NEC Member Club Journal is published by Alchemy Contract Publishing for the CIU 59/60 Thames Street, Windsor, SL4 1TX Dave Gravel CMD Les Hepworth CMD Chris O’Neill CMD Ken Roberts CMD Tel: 01753 272022 NEC Member NEC Member NEC Member NEC Member E-mail: [email protected] www.alchemycontractpublishing.co.uk For editorial, contact [email protected] For advertising, contact [email protected] The views expressed in this journal are not necessarily those of the publisher Bob Russell CMD George Smith Bill Stoker Geoff Whewell NEC Member NEC Member NEC Member NEC Member 2 • Club Journal NEWS World Leek Championship held in Northumberland FOR SERVICE Certificate of Merit James Marshall, Prudhoe Social Club, Northumberland John Cartmell, Nelson Old Brass Band Club, Burnley & Pendle Long Service Award George Abbott, Dinnington Village Social Club, Northumberland Francis Carpena, Dinnington Village Social Club, Northumberland The World Leek Championship was held in Northumberland Branch in September and the winner Leftwas Paul Rochester. Pictured (left to right): Paul Rochester and Dave Richardson (Northumberland Branch Secretary) Geoffrey Fisher, Baddesley Ensor Social Club, Warwickshire Rushden Town Band Club raises £1,900 for charity Distinguished Service Award Harry Sweet, Baddesley Ensor Social Club, Warwickshire NEWS IN BRIEF Egham USC gains listing in Good Beer Guide for 10th year The Egham United Services Club (EUSC) in Surrey has been included in CAMRA’s annual Good Beer Guide for the tenth year running. EUSC has also been named as CAMRA’s North Surrey Branch ‘Club of the Year’ for the 11th year running, an incredible achievement. In both 2009 and 2010 the club reached the last four in the CAMRA ‘Club of the Year’ competition. Members of Rushen Town Band Club took part in the Nene Valley Dragon Boat Race earlier this The club runs three major beer andyear, raising £1,900 for the Cransley Hospice in Kettering festivals each year, including one in Earlier this year a crew from the Rushden Town Band Club in Northamptonshire early November which this year will entered the Nene Valley Dragon Boat Race. e annual charity event, organised by the raise funds for the Hounds for Heroes Rushden Rotary Club, was held at Wicksteed Park in Kettering. charity e crew came in 32nd out of 42 teams and, most importantly, raised a total of £1,900 This charity supplies specially for the Cransley Hospice in Kettering. trained assistance dogs to injured Club Stewardess Sally Pearson, who organised the crew, said: “e crew’s effort was and disabled men and women of amazing. I’m overwhelmed by the support of the club’s members and everyone else who both the UK Armed Forces and sponsored us. Well done, guys!” Emergency Services. Club Journal • 3 NEWS NEWS IN BRIEF COM presentations held at the Remembrance Club Wilder v Fury available to clubs on BT Sport Box Office BT Sport have announced that the boxing match between WBC World Champion Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury on Saturday, December 1, will be available on BT Sport Box Office. Bruce Cuthbert, director commercial premises, BT Sport, said: “This is a golden era for British boxing, and the fight that everybody is talking about is Deontay Wilder v Tyson Fury in December.