New dates for your diary

Check out the club calendar to see whats happening in the next 6 months.
One event is a sportsmans dinner with Sky Sports pundit Paul Merson.

Boxing Day Dip 2013

This is a BRRRRRRiliant fundraising event for the club and one we have participated in for the past 4 years.

As always any money we raise we split 50/50 with St Clare’s Hospice (Jarrow), previous years has seen the club donate anywhere between £700-£1000 to St Clare’s which is a superb way to not just support our own club but also the local community.

We will be handing out sponsorship forms at the next committee meeting (3^rd December) but will need to gain and understanding of how many and who will be participating as there are specific forms to complete before we run into the North Sea.

Please share this and try to get as much support as you possibly can.

Logistics for the event, we need to meet for 11am and register names on the day with the dip happening at 12 noon.

Club Shop Updated

The club shop pages have been updated with correct sizes and prices.

Basically if you want to order something send an email to:

clubshop@hebburntownjuniorsfc.co.uk

See the club shop pages for details.

U13 Blues v Green Gully

Have a look and see what happened when the U13 Blues played a Green Gully academy side.



Click here to watch

HTJ Win Yet Another Award

The good news just keeps on coming for HTJ.

To follow our national grassroots award from the FA we have now been given another prestigious award.
Durham FA have awarded the club with 'Charter Standard Club of the Year 2013'.

This is a great achievement and a huge bonus to everyone connected with HTJ. So committee members, coaches, players, parents, family members and supporters all take a bow...we have all won this award.

HTJ Original Makes International Debut

HTJ were proud to hear that one of it's very own sons has just played a game for the Wales national side.
Joe Ames who is currently an U12 player was in the side with other players from Man U, Everton and Liverpool. They played a game against Wrexham academy U14s.

Joe has been a member of HTJ since he was 4. Although academy committments restrict his appearances for us now he still comes along to watch his mates play when he can.
Joes family have always been big supporters of the club and still help with sponsorship whenever possible.

Well done Joe...we are all proud of you.

Annual Race Night

The club’s Annual Fundraising Race Night will be held on Saturday 2^nd November 2013 @ Hebburn Buffs Club, doors open 6.30pm.

The evening is always a great evening and it’s a superb opportunity for the clubs friends and families to come together to have a great night and raise money for our club.

Well done Robbie

After a 6 week trial at Hartlepool we are pleased to let everyone know that Robbie Gateshill of Hebburn Town Hornets U12s has been offered a contract with there academy.

Well done Robbie, all of the club wish you nothing but success in your new challenge.

Like all academy players Robbie will still be part of the HTJ family and we will see him as much as his committments allow.

Brilliant work

Message from the Chairman...

"It was a brilliant effort on Saturday at Sunderland.
After deducting the cost of the 100 buckets we had to purchase, I am proud and privileged to announce we made a profit of £3500...brilliant.
Many thanks to Sunderland AFC and there magnificent supporters.

A huge well done to all the volunteers, kids, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters all helped out. It brought a lump to my throat seeing all the HTJ colours at the stadium.

This club is all about community and friends. You all make me feel so privileged to be the chairman".

New version of website - possible glitches

Here at HTJ Technology department we have always had an issue with the fact our website was not fully compatible with Apple products, ipads etc.

We are now in the process of upgrading the site to be available on all formats.

Please bear with us if some functions are not working correctly at the minute.

One issue we know we will have is if you want to send us something through the site, be it an enquiry or an order for the club shop, etc.

To contact us for anything email admin@hebburntownjuniorsfc.co.uk.

Bucket collection this Saturday

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT BUCKET COLLECTION AT STADIUM OF LIGHT ON SATURDAY.

Can all volunteers please meet outside the Stadium of Light ticket office (just outside the ground) for 1pm on Saturday.

Steve (Mr Chairman) and Davie Sewell will be there with the collection buckets. Volunteer names will be taken and you'll be given a turnstile/s to stand outside to start collection.

It's important if you are planning on going inside SOL to watch match after collection you notify Steve & Dave upon giving your name of the turnstile you'll be entering ground at but also so that they can organise for your bucket to be collected before you enter ground.

All those that are not watching match are to return to meeting point outside ticket office with (Hopefully FULL Buckets) :)

Can all players wear HTJFC black and yellow strips, coaches wear coaches kits/tracksuits and all other people if you have black and yellow then please wear it.

Let's hope this is another fantastic money raiser for the club

To get to the ground you have several options

-          Driving and parking nearby at Tesco’s or McDonalds and walking the short distance to the ground

-          Metro to Stadium of Light or St Peters stations and walking short distance to ground

Due to the timing after the collection people will watch the match or go about their own business, the club will not be hosting anything at the sports ground afterwards

SAFC Foundation update

As part of our link with SAFC academy we get updates from the charity Foundation of Light.
Here are a few things that may be of interest to you.


HELPING TEENAGERS: The Foundation of Light has recently restructured the ‘Back on Track’ programme designed to help 16-19 year olds and we’re looking for participants for the new course.  Commencing this month the ‘Back on Track Study Programme’ will be delivered over 30+ weeks and learners will work towards a variety of qualifications and include a week-long residential.  To read more about the programme click here


 MATCHDAY EXPERIENCE: The Foundation are now taking bookings for Matchday Experience for the 2013/14 season See Flyer for details or to read more details click here .

KEEP UP TO DATE: To keep up to date with all the latest news, events, achievements and more from Foundation of Light, visit our website www.foundationoflight.co.uk or follow us on Twitter @SAFCFol.

The good news just keeps coming

We are pleased to announce that Hebburn Town Juniors FC have been awarded the status of FA Charter Standard Community Club.

"2013 has so far been a remarkable year in the progress of Hebburn Town Juniors FC. Not only have we grown in the number of teams we have, our coaches have developed their coaching capabilities through hard work and dedication, we were awarded The FA Grassroots Club of the Year. I have just been informed our application to become a Community Charter Standard Club has been accepted. 
This means HTJFC really does stand out from the crowd in South Tyneside. This award means that as a club we have to continue to strive to be better and offer the best coaching and facilities we can thus ensuring a progression path for all of our players from the young age of 4 years right through to 21 years. 
None of this would have been possible without the dedication from everyone associated with the club, it really is really amazing the year we have had in 2013 so I hope as we move towards 2014 we can continue this great progression"

Steve - Chairman.

Congratulations - Brilliant news for HTJ

Our clubs policy of putting the development of the kids ahead of win at all costs attitudes has just reaped some more rewards.

Three of our U7 lads, Fegus McMenamin, Charlie Mole and Charlie Gallagher have all been called into Middlesbrough Development Centre.

A massive well done to the lads, all of the lads they play, all of the coaches concerned and the parents for there support.
The club are proud of you all.

Keep up the good work everyone and we will all make sure kids playing for HTJ enjoy there football and develop to the best of there ability.

Great Opportunity for HTJ

Great News, the club have been successful in their application in gaining permission from Sunderland City Council and Northumbria Police to hold a bucket collection outside Sunderland’s Stadium of Light Ground on a match day, this is a great opportunity to help the club raise funds and to help towards our National Tournament in 2014.

The match chosen by the council for us to collect is Sunderland v Arsenal on Saturday 14^th September 3pm KO.

We're awaiting final details from the council and Northumbria police but we believe we’ll be to spend approx 1.5 hrs outside the ground (one person per turnstile and a few people floating around the outer parts of the rounds) before the match KO’s at 3pm.

These opportunities come very rarely to grassroots clubs and therefore we need to ensure we are fully prepared and organised for the day. The idea is for us to cover all of the turnstiles on the day, majority of them are what you’d call “Double Turnstiles” and ideal for one child/adult to stand in the middle with a bucket, whilst we also have a few on the outer areas of the stadium asking for donations from the Sunderland Faithful.

Needless to say we need lots of willing volunteers (both adults and children) to maximise this opportunity, therefore please spread the word amongst your teams and get back to me/Dave Sewell by end of August with volunteer names.

All children volunteering will need to wear their HTJFC strip on the day and any parents if they have any HTJFC gear (Hoodies/Tops/T-shirts) if they could wear them that would be great.

We appreciate that SAFC are at home and a lot of you will be attending the match but if you could spare time beforehand to support it’d be very much appreciated.

FA Respect Winners video

The FA have now published the video they made of all the respect award winners on there website.

The video is only 6 minutes long...HTJ appear at about 4:30.

Click Here To View

Opportunity - U13s

The U13s Oranges are looking for a couple of players.
If anyone knows anyone who is interested please let John Ross know.

John is a very keen coach who will develop players in the right way...the HTJ way...good football.

Ideally we would like lads to be going into year 8 this year, however any year 7 kids who can step up a year would also be welcome.

Sponsored Walk

Don't forget, it's the Stadium to Stadium sponsored walk this Saturday. Can everyone meet at 2:15 on Saturday at Gateshead Stadium car park.
The walkers should reach Hebburn Sports Ground about 4pm.

The day will continue on into a Social Evening in the bar.

Fun Day photos

The club photographers, the Lawsons, have kindly loaded 100s of photo's from the Fun Day. Many thanks for that.

Here are 2 links you may want to see:

Parents Sports Day

U18 Testimonial Game

Durham FA Coaches event

Please see the link to the next Durham Coaches Association Event to be held at Durham FA (Riverside) on 24^th July.

If interested in attending please let me Steve Rutherford know.

Remember if you attend three of these in a 12 month timeframe you will get the “Future Game” pack which has a host of drills and session plans included for all age groups.

Durham FA July Coaches Event

A Brilliant Day...

Well done to everyone who turned up and took part in the Family Fun Day yesterday...it couldn't have went any better. We will post pictures up on here as soon as we get them.

If you couldn't make it yesterday then try and make it next time, you won't be disappointed.

Well done to the Hair Bear Bunch and also HTJ U18s...both winners on the day.

Raffle Prizes

We need some prizes for the Fun Day...if anyone can help please let your manager know and tell him to let Norm know.

Fun Day

This Sunday, 7th July, it's our day to celebrate 10 years of HTJ as a club. We'll have stuff for the kids to enjoy....and the bar is open for Adults to enjoy.

12:00   Start

13:00   Parents Sports Day

14:00   Testimonial Game for the lads who have been with the club since day 1.
             The game will be the U18s v Coaches...no holds barred.

Various things will be going on throughout the day...so come along and enjoy.

Coaches BEWARE...IT'S BACK

Now that the weather is picking up Hebby TV is pleased to tell you all that we have brought back crossbar challenge.

See how this seasons U12 Golds got on.

Ordering process

We just thought we would explain why some orders for training gear seem to take longer than others.
This is the typical process:

• You send in an order via our website

• We send order off to our supplier, Bolams

• They order gear with supplier, Joma. Usually this is done on a Monday, so if you send us an order late on a Monday evening it can be a full week before it is actually ordered.

• After the gear is delivered by Joma it is then sent to have badge embroidered. This process has a minimum number of items, so some items may be held back until enough items are ready.

• After being embroidered the items are returned to Bolams then any printing that is needed is done.

• Usually once the items are ready Norm the 'dogsbody' goes and collects them.

As you can see this can take a while. We would advise anyone if you are thinking of ordering anything do it as quickly as you can. 
Hope this helps.

Calling all Iphone,Ipad,Ipod users

We now have a club calendar which will keep everyone up to date for all things connected to HTJ.
If you want to 'subscribe' to this calendar then you should follow these instructions. This will allow you to check your normal calendar on your iphone/ipad/ipod and any notable HTJ dates will be there.

1- go to settings app

2- Select 'Mail, Contacts. Calendars' option

3- Select 'Add Account'.

4- from list choose 'Other'

5- Under 'calendars', select 'Add Subscribed calendar'.

6 - in 'server' box enter 'https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/admin@hebburntownjuniorsfc.co.uk/public/basic.ics'

7- put what you want in description, but set SSL to 'off'.

8- select 'next' and it should now have saved.

9- go into your iphone calendar and HTJ dates should be there.

If you have any issues let us know and we will try to help you.

Club AGM

The clubs AGM is on Tuesday the 2nd July, 7pm start.

To be held at Hebburn Sports Ground (Reyrolles).

Everyone welcome, so please come along and see what has occured and what is occuring with the club.

The agenda will follow shortly.

Well Done U13 Whites

The boys completed the Winter League unbeaten, 8 wins and 1 draw. They went one better in the CHYL 9-a-side league/tournament...9 games, 9 wins.
An excellent record but more importantly some cracking football played.

Chase Holmes Youth League 11-a-side AGM

Don't forget it's the AGM for the Chase Holmes Youth League this Thursday, 13th June, 7pm start.

Fun Day Recruits Needed

WE NEED YOU

As part of the Family Fun Day on the 7th July we need some volunteers to take part in a 'parents sports day'. This is not a sporting challenge, more of a fun event.
We need parents to form teams, so see your managers for details.

Under 8s Treble Delight

The U8 Blues have followed up winning their division in the Russell Foster Winter League by finishing top of their recent Cup Division. The Blues have now finished top of both League and Cup in their 1st season in the Russell Foster Youth league.

The lads have been a credit putting in outstanding performances on a regular basis and having played against 16 different teams none of which the team had ever played against before.

Most pleasing aspect in the recent Cup was the brilliant defensive displays – the team conceded only 6 goals in 16 games and kept 10 clean sheets.

The lads move up to Under 9s in June 2013 full of confidence – well done lads !!!

It's Official

Hebburn Town Juniors FC are officially recognised by the FA as Grassroots Club of the Year.

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Premier Predictions

Steve Robinson was the winner of our Premier Predictions competition.

Have a look

Sunday 28th April - Parents Special General Meeting

The club will be holding a meeting for all parents on Sunday 28th April at Hebburn Buffs, from 4pm to 6pm. Please try and attend as we will be not only telling you what is currently going on with our club but also what is planned for the future.

SAFC Academy partnership

HTJ are proud to announce that they have become partners with professional premiership club Sunderland AFC as part of the Youth Club Partnership agreement. The club are one of only a handful of selected grassroots junior clubs in the North East that have been handpicked by Sunderland to participate in this special partnership.

Read more here

ITS HERE - NEW RANGE FROM 2013

We are delighted to let you see the new training gear for HTJ. The range will last for the next 4 years and will be the only gear to officially carry the HTJ badge.
As well as training gear for the players we have coaches gear...and even polo shirts the parents can wear to show there colours off.

VISIT THE CLUB SHOP TO SEE THE RANGE

Link to Hebburn senior team formed

For the past 10 years the town of Hebburn has had two main clubs representing it in name, the two clubs are Hebburn Town FC and Hebburn Town Juniors FC. The similarities in club colours, name and  locality allowed locals to assume a link between the two clubs...

Read more here

Massive Well Done - U7 Blues & U12 Whites

The U7 Blues have just been named the 'Most Outstanding Team' for both the Monkton Summer League and the Russell Foster Winter League. Brilliant achievement.

The U12 Whites have also won the Monkton Winter League without losing a game. Another brilliant achievement.

HTJ Original gets a 'call up'

The club were over the moon to here that one of our very own, Joe Ames, has been chosen to take part in the North Wales Elite Regional squad.

Joe has been a member of HTJ since he was 4 years of age. He developed through the Tots section and progressed into a very successful HTJ Blues team.

Although he is contracted to NUFC academy his heart still lies with HTJ.

Read more here...