Racqueteers Junior Badminton Club

For those who are unaware, the AT7 Centre have cancelled a large number of sessions from our 2023-2024 booking. Due to this, we have decided to make the permanent move to a new venue from September 9th 2023.

Our new address for the club is Ernesford Grange Community Academy, Princethorpe Way, Binley, CV3 2QD.

Please note that from September 9th we resume our regular sessions of 0900-1000, 1000-1130 and 1130-1300.

Good Morning Everbody!

We just wanted to make our players and parents aware that there is a WSBA Restricted Tournament for U10/12/14/16/18 age groups. Anybody who is not currently in WSBA can enter. You can find the entry forms, age-group criteria and payment instructions via the link below😃

WSBA Restricted Even Age Singles Tournament - U10 U12 U14 U16 U18 Age Groups - Saturday 15th October 2022 for Non-County players | Warwickshire Schools Badminton Association Entry criteria is born, live or go to school in Warwickshire and not entered any Badminton England Tournaments in the last 12 months.

PLEASE NOTE BOTH SESSIONS ARE FULL. For anybody wishing to join the club, please visit our website and fill out our new starter form on the Homepage. We will advise you when we will have space for you to join.

🏸🏸🏸 is back on from this Sat 24th Apr 10:00-11:00 for the 1st session & 11:99-12:00 for the 2nd session at the Sports Connexion in Ryton. All parents have been emailed with booking details. Please note that we will not be accepting any players who haven’t booked.

Dear Parents & Players

As the lockdown eases, we were hoping to restart sessions after April 12th. Unfortunately, AT7 is contracted to remain as a testing centre until June, as are other places like Alan Higgs, Excel and Moat leisure Centres. this means they can't take bookings for the hall until then. In the meantime, we are trying to find somewhere else that we could use, and we will let you know as soon as we do.

Coaches

Here’s the latest update from return to play based on government relaxation of restrictions timelines. So it’s possible that we may be able to restart Racqueteers from Sat 17th April 2021.
We will keep you all posted of dates as we edge closer to April 2021.

https://www.badmintonengland.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RTP-MAR-2021.pdf

Hello all Racqueteers - as you’re all probably aware by now the country is in another lockdown with immediate cessation of indoor & outdoor sports.

Stay motivated, keep fit & watch badminton on YouTube.

Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives.

https://www.badmintonengland.co.uk/news/national-lockdown-updated-restrictions/?fbclid=IwAR3YY8TpS5rW96ZaIjg0BzJngqjbi27GiU5_1a83SJuGWv4Z5-0h4wLnEoQ

National Lockdown – Updated restrictions - Badminton England Following the latest national lockdown restrictions being announced by the Government, regrettably all forms of badminton, with the exception of elite play, must stop with immediate effect.

Dear Racqueteers

We've been informed that AT7 is being turned into a mass testing centre in Jan so the hall will not be available for at least 6 weeks. We taken shuttles and stuff out of our cupboard so we will be able to hold sessions elsewhere if we get the chance & on the assumption we don’t drift into Tier 4.

We'll be in touch as soon as we have any further news.

We hope that you’ve all enjoyed Christmas and here’s to a Happy New Year 🎊🎉

Regards

The Coaches

Dear Racqueteers

As you will have heard by now, the Coventry & Warks area remains in Tier 3, so we've decided to hold off a return to play until the New Year. There will be another review of the tiers then and we will see how it goes. With the vaccine coming on stream, we're in the end game, so we just need to grit our teeth and stick it out for a bit longer.

In the meantime, we wish you all the best for the holidays and look forward to seeing you in the not-too-distant future.

Coaches

Dear players,

With the current lockdown ending on Wed, 2nd Dec, the committee looked at restarting our Sat sessions. Although AT7 will re-open and Badminton England suggests that play for U18s is permitted, we decided that as Coventry was in a high-risk Tier 3 area, we should err on the side of caution and defer return to play for the time being.

The tier system is being reviewed on Dec 16th and we are hopeful that Coventry will be moved to Tier 2, in which case we can run a session on the 19th Dec. In any case, with any luck, we should be able to resume sessions in Jan.

We will let you know as soon as have something definite.

https://www.badmintonengland.co.uk/news/tier-update-what-this-means-for-badminton/?fbclid=IwAR2QmUS6Q4f_I_-fcFKwmC_w23ULBy2j6m68hml68xghw5MAYmFl3yL08rw

Tier update – What this means for Badminton - Badminton England Following the Government announcement, we are delighted by the news that badminton will be allowed to return once again in the updated three-tier-system of restrictions. While the measures don’t yet allow for a full return to play, it has been confirmed that badminton will be allowed across all ti...

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