WelHat Sports

WelHat Sports The Welhat Sports, previously Welwyn Hatfield Sport and Physical Activity Alliance (WHSPAA), is the voice for sport in Welwyn Hatfield.

23/09/2019

Transfer of FaceBook communication to Twitter

From 1 October we will no longer be using the FB account and will be focusing on our Twitter page so please follow us to keep up to date with the latest news, events and tag us in anything you would like us to promote.’

Thanks

Milan Johnston
Sports Partnership Officer
Tel: 01707 357574

22/09/2019

Gosling Sports Park Update
The latest decision from GLL is that there is no prospect of agreeing a license by 1st October 2019 and they have deferred the issue of the license until 1st January 2020 at the earliest.
On the positive side, GLL have guaranteed Users access to the building for the foreseeable future, with the current arrangements. On the negative side they are suggesting that they will operate the building themselves rather than issue a license to Save Gosling.
Save Gosling intend to challenge the proposal that GLL should operate the building and remain committed to agreeing a license from 1st Jan 2020

Kind regards

Melissa Davey
Save Gosling

The national ‘This Girl Can’ campaign www.thisgirlcan.co.uk/ is running from the 17 – 23 June 2019 in Welwyn Hatfield ...
13/05/2019

The national ‘This Girl Can’ campaign www.thisgirlcan.co.uk/ is running from the 17 – 23 June 2019 in Welwyn Hatfield and we, WH BC and WelHat Sports, would like to see as many clubs, organisations, schools and leisure providers involved, see one.welhat.gov.uk/ThisGirlCan. The online activity calendar is now live and anyone who is running activities can promote them on our calendar.

They can download and complete the interactive activity form on the website (one.welhat.gov.uk/ThisGirlCan) and return to [email protected] once completed.

See last year's report by Herts Sports Partnership (https://sportinherts.org.uk/physical-activity-for-wellbeing/this-girl-can-in-herts/ ) and those on the WH calendar who have signed up now: http://thisgirlcaninwelhat.org/

Click below to download a flyer.

If anyone has any questions then they can contact me directly through the [email protected] email account.

Thank you

Milan Johnston, Sports Partnership Officer

13/04/2019

WelHat Sports Club Forum 30 April, 6:30 - 9pm in the International suite (above Reception) at Herts Sports Village, AL10 9EU

Agenda:
6:30-7pm Refreshments
7-7:05pm Welcome & introductions
7:05-7:15pm WelHatSports Launch
7:15-8:15pm Funding, local & national
8:15-8:45pm Club essentials
- Marketing
- Volunteering
8:45-9pm Q&A/Open forum
9pm Finish

See Flyer: www.welhatsports.org.uk/customer_images/files/WelHat_Club_Forum_Flyer5.pdf
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/welwyn-hatfield-club-forum-tickets-58640316766
Dave Bartlett

19/03/2019

Save Gosling Campaign public meeting for clubs, schools and the community, 7:30pm, Wednesday 20th March, now in Collingwood suite

This is to update everyone and present ways forward, including sports hall only, and taking over the building from GLL and running it ourselves.

The meeting will also elect a new committee to take the project forward I am standing down as chairman.

Please encourage as many of your members to attend as possible

Best wishes

Dave Bartlett
Chairman Save Gosling Campaign

08/01/2019

About 200 people gathered to talk with managers at Gosling Sports Park in Welwyn Garden City last night following the shock announcement to close the sports hall.

Save Gosling! Yesterday, the meeting room designated by GSP-GLL's site manager Craig Woodward had to be abandoned for t...
08/01/2019

Save Gosling! Yesterday, the meeting room designated by GSP-GLL's site manager Craig Woodward had to be abandoned for the bar area owing to the large numbers that turned up.
Craig gave a short presentation that basically stated:
- the annual loss of the the facility was in the region of £200,000 per year and was unsustainable
- they were helping affected clubs and users to alternative venues.
See more on WHSPAA Facilities webpage: www.welhatsports.org.uk/home

Announcement of the closure of the Northern buildings at Gosling Sports Park without prior consultationWe have been rece...
24/12/2018

Announcement of the closure of the Northern buildings at Gosling Sports Park without prior consultation

We have been receiving concerns from clubs at Gosling Sports Park that they have been given notice that the centre will be closing permanently 31st March 2019.
We have also, received concerns from Welwyn Garden schools for whom the site is essential for curriculum and after school activities: some 20 primary schools and at least 2 secondary schools use the facility on several occasions each year.

There are 4 public sports halls in Hatfield with a total of 23 badminton courts but only the one hall open to the public in the daytime in WGC and that is Gosling with 5 courts: it is a unique and indispensable to WGC.

It would appear that GLL have been running down the centre for several months: the Reception is invariably empty - see one example photo taken Saturday 22Dec18 during badminton sessions.

Dave Bartlett, Vice-chairman WHSPAA, has written detailing the concerns of users and our complete disappointment at lack of prior consultation to Steve Ryan, Managing Director, Gosling Sports Park, and Matt Rayner, Community Partnership Manager, WH BC.
We hope they will reconsider, or at least give us the opportunity to discuss it and perhaps find alternative solutions.
Let us know your thoughts..

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