It’s Friday and that means Junior Practice at TCC this evening! Barking Pug open (for outdoor service) and all welcome. Coors, San Miguel and Howard Town available. Please read the guidelines posted around the clubhouse.

Don’t forget the Top Gun Outdoor Cinema event on Friday May 28th. Early bird discounted ticket prices until 30th April.

[Event Tkts] https://ticketlab.co.uk/event/id/6741/Cinema-Night-2021

Good Morning Everyone! In line with the next stage of lockdown easing in England, we’re pleased to report The Barking Pug will be OPEN from 2pm today. Important to note this is for outdoor service only. Please read the restrictions published around the clubhouse. Everyone welcome!

After what feels like a lifetime we’re back with The Week Ahead at Speedwell. Normally published every Monday during the season (we’re making an exception today), this outlines our planned activities for the forthcoming week. We’re super excited to have the season back up and running and to welcome you on to Speedwell!

What a week we have in store and it’s only Week One !!!

The 2021 Round 1 Cup Fixtures have been drawn. The Bissenden Cup and Hawke Trophy get underway on 8th May!

So after a very tough 2020 and start to 2021 in line with the recent government announcements TCC are delighted to announce our plans for the cricket summer at Speedwell.

• Our junior practice nights start again on Friday 16th April and the Barking Pug will be open for outdoor service from 6pm.
• We are also planning to open on Saturday 17th April from 2pm again with outdoor service. There will be food available both days but please feel free to bring your own. Also bring your own rugs, chairs, gazebos and make the most of Tintwistle’s biggest beer garden. Also to celebrate our local NHS staff and say thanks to them all their first drink is on the house.
• The season then starts on Saturday 24th April with our 2nd team at home to Dinting. Again the bar will be open for outdoor service from 2pm.

As we move through the season we are obviously hopeful to open the club up fully to you all, in line with the governments roadmap.

We are also planning a few events through the season which we hope you will look forward too. Themed nights for the European Championship football, we are hoping our Cinema Night will be back in late May, Gin and Ale Festival and our famous Race Night. Please watch out for further announcements on our social media.

All dates of course are subject to the government plans to lift restrictions going ahead as published.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-response-spring-2021/covid-19-response-spring-2021-summary

On behalf of everyone at Tintwistle Cricket Club I would like to wish all our members, supporters and friends a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year. We look forward to seeing everyone back at Speedwell in 2021.

As the sun set on another season at Speedwell as the Chairman of this great club, I had a massive sense of pride at what we had achieved as a club in such unprecedented times. Deep into the summer Cricket seemed such a dream to us all and I must go on record and congratulate the Derbyshire and Cheshire Cricket League for all their hard work getting the game on.

To all our players senior and junior a massive thanks for rolling your sleeves up and getting into it. No changing rooms, standing in the rain and bringing your own teas but you have all been a credit to the club. Also, to the parents and members who have stuck with us and supported the club both financial over the bar and with the extra measures being imposed which have been observed impeccable.
This year has also seen us lose several good friends to the club and again our continued thoughts go out to the families.

I am always amazed and in gratitude to the countless people who sponsor the club year on year and even more so in 2020 in such uncertain times. My personal thanks goes to Tom and Alice at Syndicate as our principle sponsor, Ben and Rachel at BDS our principle junior sponsor and all our other amazing sponsors Martyn at Davis Blank Furniss, Arthur Worsley Funeral, Albert Jones Memorial, Toe Touch, Mike at Cross Field Accountants, Four Seasons Flowers, Peter at Atlanta Hair Care and Karl at Vortex for their support in 2020.

I am delighted to tell you that both Tom at Syndicate and Ben at BDS have confirmed their renewed support as our principle sponsors for 2021. Glen and Debrian at Albert Jones and Toe Touch, Marie at Four Seasons and Jason at Arthur Worlsey have also renewed for 2021 and we are absolutely delighted. We also welcome Paul and Fiona from Alberti Pavimenti and Dave from Advanced Ripening Technologies to our 2021 sponsors list and look forward to seeing all our sponsors at Speedwell in 2021.

I would also like to send my thanks to all our other valued friends who have donated this year to the club with match ball sponsorships, Dot and Kev Barber, Life member Mike Barber and Lynda Barber, Lynn Davies, Brenda Worsley, Dennis Wild, John Crossland, Mike Dwyer, Joyce Hollingworth, Neil and Lynda Robinson, Sheila Harrop, Tony Wallis and Warwick Coultard.

The support and donations of all our sponsors is hugely appreciated and we are always keen to speak to people who are interested in any of our club, matchday or match ball sponsorship packages. For further details please click on the link below for more details.

https://tintwistlecc.org/sponsorship-membership/

So that’s me signing off for another year. In the next few days, we are expecting a response back from Sports England regarding the funding for our new clubhouse. So, my next article in the new year might carry some news on when that will happen (fingers crossed). Until then from all at TCC stay safe and well, enjoy the festive break when it arrives and see you back at Speedwell in 2021.

Stuart
(TCC Chairman)