Help NRG win a share of £30,000 from the Evening Chronicle

The Evening Chronicle newspaper in conjunction with wonga.com are offering local sports teams a share of £30,000 by collecting tokens from the paper.

The tokens are appearing from the 16th July and there will be extra bonus days that we’ll try to keep you posted about on our facebook page. Here’s our article from the Chronicle explaining why we’re taking part!

This lot are hoping you will back their girl power wish for our new campaign.

The Newcastle Roller Girls are another group who have signed up to our exciting new Chronicle Wish Sport campaign in the hope of securing some extra cash for their club.

And they are calling on you to help them land a slice of the £30,000 windfall to help them get to more international games.

Wish Sport is something new for this year and is slightly different from our regular Wish campaign as this time we will hand out money exclusively to sports clubs.

The cash pot has been provided in partnership with digital finance company Wonga.com to help clubs across the region to get ahead. Clubs winning a share of the cash can spend it on new equipment, subs, building work and facilities – anything to help develop grassroots sport.

The key to Wish Sport is collecting tokens once they’re printed in the paper later this month, and those with the most receive the biggest share of the cash prize.

And the great thing about Wish Sport is that everyone is a winner.

Kerri James, a member of Newcastle Roller Girls, said getting the support of Chronicle readers would mean a lot.

“We are really hoping to start playing some more international games, so far we have only really been able to play one and that was in Cork,” she said.

“We really hope to set up more. We are all self-funded and it would be good to do some more marketing so we can get even more fans.

“We just want to develop the squad.”

The girls, who range in age from 18 up to 43, play roller derby, an all female, full contact, fast paced sport played on roller skates.

Newcastle Roller Girls, who have around 60 members, have been playing together for four years and train at the Walker Activity Dome. Kerri said she hoped readers would back the relatively new group and added that the girls always liked giving back to the community through their games.

“Every game that we have we always pick a local charity to raise money for. We are really big at giving back to the local community,” said the 26-year-old.

She added: “It would be great to get people on board to support our sport.”

The deadline for registration is this Thursday and tokens begin to appear on Tuesday, July 16.

To register your group go online to chroniclelive.co.uk/wishsport or call Luke Mallinson on 0191 201 6350 for an application form.

To help Newcastle Roller Girls post your tokens to 13 Molineux Close, Heaton, Newcastle, NE6 1XN.

Hassle in Newcastle – Save the date

Saturday 26th October will see Newcastle Roller Girls B team the Whippin Hinnies proudly presenting Newcastle’s first Roller Derby Tournament.  Watch the teams iron woman it out and wait to see who will be crowned the winner.

This will be a FULL day of derby fun, more details to follow so keep checking back and SAVE THAT DATE !!!!!

Newcastle Roller Girls block out the opposition

Newcastle Roller Girls Belters and Hinnies won both of their respective games for a double win at the Dome.

The Belters took on Central City Roller Girls Slay Belles from Birmingham and won 259-122, and will stay at 31 in the rankings.

The Hinnies however, DEMOLISHED their predicted score against the Bruising Banditas from Halifax winning 291-88 meaning they jump up from 76 to 67 in the European rankings

Hinnies:
Best jammer – Hit One Purl One
Best blocker – Eeek
MVP – Big Smack and Fries

Belters
Best jammer – Gin and Sonic
Best blocker – Levine Dead
MVP – Missy Pow Pow

Belters take their second win north of the border

The Belters brought home their second win north of the border in 2013, this time against the Glasgow Maiden Grrders.

With a convincing win of 191-110 the Belters move up in the European rankings from 41 to 31, a whopping jump of ten places. The predicted score was 200-141 in the Grrders favour, so it was a big upset!

Best jammer Penny Bizarre, Best Blocker Brie Larceny and MVP Missy Pow Pow.

WIN a fresh meat scholarship!

Will you be joining us for our next fresh meat intake on Sunday June 30th?

What if we told you that you could win a Newcastle Roller Girls scholarship and attend the whole 15-week course for FREE?!

One lucky skater will be given 100% free entry and skate hire – worth a princely sum of £97.50! – for the whole course which will teach the skills necessary to start playing roller derby. After passing the 15 week course the lucky winner, along with his or her talented fellow trainees, will be admitted to the intermediate sessions in Newcastle Roller Girls OR Newcastle’s men’s roller derby team Tyne & Fear Roller Derby (yes, this is open to men too!) where they will continue to work on their skating with an aim to pass the 2013 WFTDA Minimum Skills requirements and play in public bouts!

SO…

  • Are you over the age of 18, or will you turn 18 before Sunday June 30th 2013?
  • Can you skate confidently on quad roller skates indoors? You don’t need to be a whizz, but you need some basic skating experience as our fresh meat course isn’t suitable for first time skaters.
  • Are you available on Sunday mornings 10.30-12.30 from June 30th – October 6th this year? And can you attend our next home bout, Jailhouse Block, on Saturday June 29th at Walker Activity Dome from 11.45am until 4.00pm?
  • Are you fit and healthy with no conditions or injuries that would stop you from playing a contact sport on roller skates?

If the answer to all of these questions is a hearty YES, then you’ve got nothing to lose, and the whole new exciting world of roller derby to gain! As previously mentioned, this prize is open to male and female skaters, and of course anyone who has previously attended Newcastle Roller Girls fresh meat sessions are most welcome to enter.

To enter, all you have to do is email NRG coach and fresh meat co-ordinator Big Smack & Fries at bigsmackandfries @ gmail.com with the subject “NRG Fresh Meat Scholarship” with your full name, date of birth and a contact telephone number, before 5pm on Friday June 28th 2013. It’s really that simple! You’ll receive an email back to confirm we’ve got your entry, then the winner’s name will be drawn from a hat or similar receptacle at the bout on Saturday June 29th and will be announced on this website and our Facebook and Twitter accounts.

ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED – ANY EMAILS RECEIVED NOW WILL NOT BE COUNTED! Best of luck to everyone who entered. 

We wish you the best of luck and hope to see you at our fresh meat intake regardless of whether you win the scholarship or not – make sure you grab a programme at Jailhouse Block anyway, as there’ll be a voucher that everyone can bring on June 30th to get the first session and kit hire for free at least.

Terms & Conditions

  • The scholarship prize is valid for the upcoming fresh meat intake only, beginning on Sunday June 30th 2013, and may not be ‘saved’ to be claimed at a later intake. The intake will run on Sunday mornings at Walker Activity Dome at 10.30-12.30 and is scheduled to end on Sunday October 6th but this is subject to change, sometimes at short notice.
  • In order to win, contestants must enter by email before 5pm on Friday June 28th and be present at our bout Jailhouse Block on Saturday June 29th at Walker Activity Dome between 11.45am and 4.00pm when the winner will be announced.
  • The winner will be selected at random, and there will be only one scholarship awarded. If the first selected scholarship winner decides they no longer wish to claim the prize, they must notify Newcastle Roller Girls, who will then select another winner at random – the prize cannot be given as a gift by any winner to somebody else.
  • Personal information received by Big Smack & Fries (real name Alice Robison) as part of your entry to this competition is used solely to ensure your eligibility to attend the course and will not be shared with anyone else, both inside Newcastle Roller Girls and otherwise.
  • The scholarship winner will be held to the same standards as all of our fresh meat skaters: s/he must be competent moving around on quad roller skates at the start of the course as we do not teach skating from scratch. If a non-competent skater wins the scholarship, it will be redrawn and awarded to another entrant after assessing the original winner’s skating at the first session.
  • The scholarship winner will be tested at 5-weekly intervals with the rest of the intake and should s/he not pass the week 5 or week 10 skills test s/he will not be able to continue with the intake. Any remaining sessions that the scholarship winner is not eligible to attend due to failing a test may not be claimed for a later intake, this is a one-time prize only!
  • Due to the full contact nature of roller derby, the scholarship winner and all other fresh meat skaters must be over the age of 18 on Sunday June 30th 2013. If the prize unwittingly goes to an underage winner, it will be redrawn. Similarly, all fresh meat skaters are required to sign a waiver declaring that they are fit to play roller derby, and if it transpires that the scholarship winner has an undeclared health condition or injury that means they cannot be accepted, the scholarship will be given to another entrant.
  • For safety reasons and for the benefit of all attendees’ progression, we ask that all of our fresh meat skaters miss no more than 3 of the 15 sessions in the intake. If the scholarship winner should fail to attend 4 or more sessions, s/he will not be able to continue with the intake regardless of having won the competition.
  • While this prize does include free skate and kit hire for the duration of the 15 week course, all skaters are expected to invest in their own equipment from an early stage in the intake and will not be allowed to borrow kit upon completing the intake, paying or not. We will not accept fault or quality of borrowed equipment as an excuse for not passing a test (we only offer basic ‘roller disco’ style quad skates) so it’s in your best interests to at purchase your own skates and safety gear when you can.

If you have any questions about the scholarship that aren’t answered above or on the fresh meat intake’s official Facebook event, please drop our fresh meat co-ordinator Big Smack & Fries an email at bigsmackandfries @ gmail.com and she’ll be more than happy to help!