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Hellingly HoundDogs are pleased to announce a sponsorship deal with Best of Eastbourne, a community and local business directory, to sponsor the U19’s balls for the next two seasons.The Best of Eastbourne helps to promote local companies including services, trades, restaurants and all other types of small business as well as offering a free platform for local charities and community organisation to promote their events and causes.

The Best Of Eastbourne owner David Ruddle said “We are delighted that local businesses that have signed up to our BestOf 360 Membership have enabled us to support Hellingly Hound Dogs with this sponsorship. Having seen how proactive they have been in growing their club it is a privilege to be able to support them in their continued growth and success on the field.”

HoundDogs Chairman, Luke Boorer added “We are very grateful to the membership of the Best Of 360 Membership for agreeing to become part of our clubs ever growing family. The best of Eastbourne offer us a unique way of not only helping our club financially but also a far more important aspect of helping spread the word about our club and what we can offer the community.”

Hellingly HoundDogs Youth American Football Club is bidding to bag a massive cash boost from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative.

Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees grants of £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 raised from carrier bag sales in Tesco stores awarded to local community projects.

Three groups in every Tesco region have been shortlisted to receive the cash award and shoppers are being invited to head along to Tesco stores to vote for who they think should take away the top grant.

Hellingly HoundDogs is one of the groups on the shortlist.

The HoundDogs are looking to purchase vital safety equipment to help more players from the local region to be able to get into the sport of American Football.

Voting is open in the two Tesco stores located in Hailsham during March and April and customers will cast their vote using a token given to them at the check-out in store each time they shop.

Tesco’s Bags of Help project has already delivered over £63 million to more than 20,000 projects across Britain. Tesco customers get the chance to vote for three different groups every time they shop. Every other month, when votes are collected, three groups in each of Tesco’s regions will be awarded funding.

Alec Brown, Head of Community at Tesco, said:

“Bags of Help has been a fantastic success and we’ve been overwhelmed by the response from customers. It’s such a special scheme because it’s local people who decide how the money will be spent in their community. There are some fantastic projects on the shortlists and we can’t wait to see these come to life in hundreds of communities.”

Groundwork’s National Chief Executive, Graham Duxbury, said:

“Bags of Help continues to enable local communities up and down Britain to improve the local spaces and places that matter to them. The diversity of projects that are being funded shows that local communities have a passion to create something great in their area. We are pleased to be able to be a part of the journey and provide support and encouragement to help local communities thrive.”

Funding is available to community groups and charities looking to fund local projects that bring benefits to communities. Anyone can nominate a project and organisations can apply online. To find out more visit www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp.

American Football is an expensive sport, but the

HoundDogs continue to try to reduce the financial impact on the Youth of East Sussex involved with the sport. Recently the club have continued with its development and created an U19’s team, thus creating a pathway for children from 7 years of age to continue to train and play American Football right the way through to the age of 19. When the club was formed back in May of 2016, the club had 8 players, and can now boast over 35 regularly playing and training for the club. The newly formed U19’s will team up with two other teams from the Southeast Region for the 2019 season to form the SE Legion. All three teams currently do not have enough players on their own to compete in the National Leagues for 2019, but as a collective they can boast a large squad. The HoundDogs are looking for a ball sponsor of around £150 to help cover some of the cost that the balls cost each season. The balls are an expansive part of the game with each ball costing nearly £80 each. The Club are looking to recoup some of the £700 it

has paid out by means of a ball sponsor. The U17’s currently have EuroShowers as their ball sponsor and in return the for their kind donation the EuroShowers logo has been lasered onto the ball. A Similar process will also be completed for anyone coming forward to sponsor the U19’s, as well as a link from the clubs website to the sponsors and multiply mentions over the course of the 2 years on social media. Anyone interested please contact us on hellinglyhounddogs@hotmail.com or visit our website at http://www.hellinglyhounddogs.com

 

 

Hellingly HoundDogs players are due to

return to training on Wednesday the 23rd of January at their new temporary home at Eastbourne Sports Park from 6:30PM. This season is slightly different to previous years with the Flag teams returning earlier this season as they prepare themselves as they compete against other local teams in friendly games.

The Contact/Kitted teams will also train at the same time as the Flag teams at the same venue.

The HoundDogs are looking for new players to join their existing players. So if you are aged 7 to 19 and fancy giving American Football a try, now is your chance to be part of the HoundDogs organisation. The HoundDogs are also looking out for more potential coaches to join the club. The Club can help with the cost of training and  educating programmes.

The HoundDogs are renting the ground thanks to a grant of £500 from Hellingly Parish Council. The club has also joined forces with hellingly Rugby Club and are sharing the facility with both clubs training at the same time.

Luke Boorer, HoundDogs Chairman added “We thank the Parish Council for their donation to the club and it will help our players continue training at their usual time and day of the week as they are use too. Without the financial assistance we may have had to change our training day and time and this has a massive impact on player availability. We found this last year when we had to move to a Saturday because of Horsebridge being waterlogged. Being a Youth Sport, we soon realised that a lot of the players have Saturday job and were really restricted with the time they could spend training. We are also looking forward to working with Hellingly Rugby Club. The sports share so many fundamentals with tackling techniques etc, that maybe both clubs can teach each other a thing or two. Plus it’s always good to work on the relationships we have with other Hellingly Sports Trust members”.

Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year to all HoundDogs players, families and club supporters . We hope to see you soon.