Hey all!!!
Please read and complete the survey at this link:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/55TQ73L
There’s stuff we need to know from you if you want to join the casual league next season. Read and complete the survey if you want to play. Do it! If you can’t access it or know someone who can’t, tell me.
If you haven’t trained for 3 months but wanna play, don’t panic. Complete the survey anyhow. We will figure it out.
Moocho love!
Becs
Your “long-suffering and slightly tipsy on a Thursday eve” chair xx
Sent from my iPhone
Hey Folks,
Just wanted to check no more cowgirls want to come to this mixed tournament up in Leeds with our friends Republica Internationale. We will most likely be travelling up on the evening of Friday the 6th, then on the Saturday it’s football during the day and a Party in the evening, we’ll then travel back on Sunday. We will stay at peoples houses, where ever there is space, for the Friday and Saturday night. The tournament is mixed so we will be playing with and against men, entry is £5 per person
Below are the people who have signed up:
Sensi
Holly
Sally
Maria
Izzy (Portuguese)
Wanchali
Harry
Mark
Becs?
Can you let me know ASAP if anyone else would like to join as we need to sort out places to stay and how we are going to get up there.
Thanks
Harry
:-)
Once again the cowgirls had a lush day at the Copa Lucrecia tournament!!
See below from the organisers…
2022 date announced below. Get it in your diaries! (22nd May for those who can’t be bothered to look)
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From: Alix Hughes <alix.hughes(a)bristol.gov.uk>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2021 8:40:13 PM
To: Alix Hughes <alix.hughes(a)bristol.gov.uk>
Subject: Copa Lucrecia Lindo 2021 Results, Certificate and a song
Dear Captains,
Massive muchas gracias companeras!
Well you made it happen despite COVID, sudden isolations, projected thunder and lightning and an unexpected Colombian food shortage.
Congratulations to Duffers Allstars for totally owning the tournament and playing some outstanding football. And well done to the Easton Cowgirls for picking up the Plato Lucrecia Lindo (next year we will find a plate honest). It was brilliant that we had teams travelling from Cardiff and Birmingham and also having two new teams taking part was lovely. A big thanks to all the teams who took part.
Ambassador Guisell and her colleague Brenda, the Nicaraguan footballer/chef, enjoyed meeting the teams. They presented Roz, Elspeth and Nick with the Embassy’s “Special Friend of Nicaragua and Solidarity Hero” awards for their many years of voluntary work supporting education and Fairtrade projects with Nicaragua.
There are some photos up on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/bristolnicaragua/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.faceb…> and please share the attached with your team-mates so they can print off the certificate and stick it on their fridges. And send us your favourite image from the day and we will upload it.
Thanks again for getting your team-mates to the tournament. We know it is not easy. Stay safe, be kind to each other and we will see you for Copa Lucrecia Lindo 2022 (May 22nd).
Alix
PS. You may have noticed that the US and their media chums are throwing the kitchen sink at Nicaragua in the build up to elections in November. One of our supporters John Perry who lives in Nicaragua has written a good piece about the current situation
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://popularresistance.org/why-us-policy-in-…<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/popularresistance.org/why-us-policy-in-n…>
and as we didn’t manage to sing before the final, here is the Nicaraguan single which went viral there called Soberanía (Sovereignty) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGYo_mBS-Dg<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu…> and is fast becoming the FLSN anthem for the elections.
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*EGM is cancelled tonight*
Apologies for the late message cows, covid is causing havoc at both
ends..... the cow's ass and it's udders.
The rescheduled date will be
27th July 7.30pm
Looking forward to seeing you there, mucho love.
Deets for the meet are below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89436504067?pwd=UkZoUlVxZ2JCalZ0NmZHSmczb0dYUT09
Is someone coordinating this? Need to get peeps signed up
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From: Jake Lake <lake.b.jake(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2021 11:44:45 AM
Subject: KILL THE BILL TOURNAMENT!!
Hi All,
We are holding a Kill The Bill Football Tournament on the 31st July!!!
We are emailing to see if you and members of your organisations want to sign up to play in a community football tournament, organised by members of the Kill the Bill Coalition and Clapton CFC. There are 30 spaces available to take part in the 6-a-side tournament so make sure you sign up fast as spots will go quickly!
Sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_n2S8bbqXaXSUhPt2WDaDkn0stbW-b_LGKM7NiS-Iq…
Where: Mabley Green, Hackney, E9 5HW
When: 31st July between 10am-4pm
There will be free food, music, stalls & summer vibes for all to enjoy!!
Sign up, show up on the day & everyone will be sorted into 16 mixed gender and ability teams ready for the tournament!
Ages 16+ to play in the tournament but children, families and friends are welcome on the day to watch & enjoy the summer vibes, so spread the word!
Travel money can be provided, please note this below & will be in touch to arrange this.
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Jake Lake
Autonomous Media London
"Transforming Care" Podcast
Hello lovely Cows!
Hope you’re all ok despite the dip in weather - silver lining is that the allotment needs less watering! Got a couple of things to share, mostly about money, soz...
Casual League next year: the time has come to have the yearly discussion around how we will pick teams for next years’ Casual League, how many teams we’ll have, what is happening with the Casual League etc etc etc Let’s meet (have an EGM): 13/07/2021, 7.30pm. Most likely on Zoom, sadly. I’ll send out a link and reminder just before. If you want to have moaning rights about unfair teams / the picking mechanism / the plan you better be there!!!
Training subs: just a wee gentle reminder that subs for training should still be paid over the summer, even though we’re in the park - the funds cover the coaching and give us a bit of a ‘cushion’ for training at City Academy in case we don’t have enough folk turn up to cover the costs (they’re not cheap!), and also get saved up towards our Ethical Fund - more on that below. Subs are £4 or £3 unwaged - pay at training (usually lovely Lizzie Winter collects cash) or pay online (Easton Cowgirls, Sort Code 08 92 99, Account number: 65168055). You can pay per session, pay per fortnight, 4-weekly or in whichever way you like. IMPORTANT: money should never be a barrier to football! If you haven’t got enough money to pay, talk to one of the folk in the committee (me, Zoe, Lizzie, Liz, Fran, Ev, Sensi, Wendy) and we will figure something out.
Membership payment: we have a yearly membership fee of £20 (£10 un or low waged). This pays for things like equipment if we need any, the Ethical Fund, and any other random costs we incur that are not pitch hire. We were a bit slack last year collecting this, but it would be good to start again properly. If you want to play in the Casual League next year you will HAVE TO pay (unless money is so tight that you can’’t - again, talk to someone in the committee). Same account details as above, please put your name as a reference.
Ethical Fund: we have an Ethical Fund that you can apply to if you’re in need yourself or there’s a specific project that needs funds. Smaller amounts can be agreed by the committee directly, larger requests will be put to the whole club. I’ve attached the agreed parameters of it for info.
End of season awards: We would usually have a fairly substantial end of season party with the whole club, but alas, that seems unlikely this year. BUT: that should not stop us from awarding our usual End of Season Awards: The categories are: Player of the Season, Most Improved Player, Best Newcomer, Cowgirls Cowgirl, Cowgirls Wonky Donkey. Ev, Wendy and Sensi are our Social Secretaries, so if anyone would like to help them organise a survey and awards ceremony please give them a shout!
That’s the business-stuff out of the way. Two more things:
Big Ride for Palestine: a bunch of Cowgirls are cycling from Bristol to London to raise funds and awareness for Palestine. There are still a handful of spots left I think - you can sign up here: https://www.thebigride4palestine.com/big-ride-summer-2021 <https://www.thebigride4palestine.com/big-ride-summer-2021>. If you don’t fancy sore legs but want to support, we have set up a donation page for all of us - so give us all your money: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/easton-cowgirls?utm_source=Twitter&u… <https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/easton-cowgirls?utm_source=Twitter&u…>
It’s my birthday on Thursday so if it’s not pissing it down will have a drink or three after training - repeat of last week, really! :)
Right, I recon that’s enough info for one email! See you on Thursday hopefully!
Moocho cow-love,
Becs
Chair of the Easton Cowgirls
Ey up,
ever needed to check what date a certain tournament you vaguely heard about
is? Well, look no further than the ECCSSC diary of events!
https://eastoncowfolk.org.uk/diary-of-events/
The website is a good place to go to get the latest news from the club. We
also have a full club facebook group where people share events, links to
fundraisers, ask for folk to go to tournaments etc
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/2417512852
For the tech savvy amongst us, we also have a google calendar that you can
add to your own (if you use it), so all the dates show up automatically in
your calendar. Try the link below to add it, and if you struggle with that
let me know and I'll find out a better way to add it...
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=NTE3aGZnZm5jMG1xMWFnZDlibjJnMm…
Laterrrs
Sal FMS Wood
For those that missed the AGM last night. Please see the minutes
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From: Peashooter-list <peashooter-list-bounces(a)eastoncowfolk.org.uk> on behalf of Easton Cowboys Peashooter <peashooter-list(a)eastoncowfolk.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2021 9:54 am
To: peashooter-list(a)eastoncowboys.org.uk; Netball Email; pluff inn
Subject: [Peashooter-list] AGM minutes
30/06/21
Cowfolk AGM
Apologies: Peace, Henry H, SFW, Jodie, Issey C, Ang, Angleo
Present: Linner, Kimmer, Soooooz, Ian Riddle, Colin, Sensi, Lewis, Kev, Eddie, Vic, Bex, Julian, Amy, Rita the dog (hero supporter).
Opening rant from Eddie. He loves his mum.
Secretary: Linner actually made it this time.
Treasurer: Vic still not on the bank account.
Chair: Soooooz all over it.
No minutes from last meeting as Linner was napping.
Actions from last meeting: setting up bank account deets. See above. We need to set up Vic asap. Paypal discussed but they’ll take a fee. Need to update so that we can online bank.
Sharing photos. Where? Googledrive? Ongoing saga.
Nominations for very important positions of power – none.
Soooooz remains chair, Linner remains sec, despite (or, perhaps, because of) being shite. Vic remains treasurer. She will start soon haha.
Anti-transphobic – add to constitution? Should we have loads of ‘anti’ in there? Can we call it ‘inclusive’ instead? Eddie to write something for the next meeting. We need to not make phobics the norm. There needs to be no doubt of our standing. Anti is different from not. Eg anti racist is not non racist. Colin made some good points and Eddie CHANGED HIS MIND!
New kit – Cowboys meeting next week. Possible new sponsor. Can we do it internally rather than looking for new companies? Can we keep The Plough on our kit without asking them to pay? All down to loyalty. Talks to continue…
Kill the Bill Tournament. Political action. Mixed tourney in London. SFW coordinating teams (mixed). 31st July. Same weekend as big Cowgirl cycle. Needs promoting. Teams to guide members to Peashooter.
Last AGM: 30th anniversary tourney. Need a timeline. Difficult to organise with Covid. Fundraisers tricky until we know restrictions and international shiz. Perhaps have a local tourney if all else fails. 26th/27th/28th July 2022. Send a message out to full network but with heads up that it may need to stay local. Bex hates us as she’ll be at Womad that weekend. We, however, still love her.
Finance: money (£200) given to Danilo (Autonomous). See Peashooter for deets. £250 to Jasp. Money for website. We’re balling it - £8,000 in bank account. We need to consider each £250 as it mounts up quickly. Shall we put a limit on how many £200 we give away (as it doesn’t need to be put to full club vote, decided by Cow-mittee)? Vic to keep her beady eye on it. Can we set up a one-way messaging group? SFW totes defs sorting it, even though not here to agree.
Zapatistas: Crowdfunder update. Kev has heard that they’ve had to scale it down for a shit ton of reasons so won’t make it to UK. Hopefully there’ll be another wave where they make it here, just not this summer.
CACKK: 9th-11th July. Just a camping trip, not a festie. See Peashooter for deets.
Saturday men’s sec needed. Step up! Julian made it to the meeting so is, therefore, exempt.
Can we fundraise for Danilo? Would lobbying be more successful? Could Cowgirls’ cycle ride donate? Sponsored stuff rather than parties. Fucking Covid. Up to individuals to do different fundraisers rather than as a club (although we’ll all support).
Fitness for women who want to train privately: Cowgirls potentially can do once a month. Linner to chase up details.
AOB:
Ride for Palestine. Need a volunteer to pick up bikes from London on 1st August, 6pm (drive a van to and from London). 6 bikes. Put out to teams. Get in touch with Vic. Can we coordinate with Kill the Bill tournament?
Netham: we will have a Cowfolk chat about it. We’ll have an EGM when the tender docs are out and confirmed – depends what we’d be bidding on.
Puma protest 10th July outside Sports Direct in town. Contact Sensi or Soooooz to get more info. Also see Peashooter.
Regular socials for Cowboys and Cowgirls to be discussed but also very much encouraged.
