Events

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DATES FOR YOUR SOCIAL CALENDAR……….. 

 

ONGAR TOWN FESTIVAL 2023 – its back – bigger and better………

 

Ongar Sports Club in Love Lane are delighted to be part of this great event again. There
will be a wide variety of activities for ALL the family to enjoy.

 

     Entertainment Area – Play centre, Giant slide, Twister, Bouncy castles,
Shooting stalls, Kiddies rides & more

 

Food & Drinks Courts – choose from a wide range of food stalls that will cater for all tastes not to mention    Prosecco, Pimms, variety of gins & cocktails, wine tasting. Arts & Crafts Stalls – a lovely selection of stalls offering great gift ideas for all occasions.  Tombola Stall offering fantastic prizes. Something for everyone.

Live Entertainment – a main stage showcasing all the local musical,
theatrical & dance talent. New this year will be a Gymnastic display and Belly Dancing. All the acts will be introduced by Forest Gold Radio.

 

Circus workshop for kids & adults – plate spinning, fun wheels, juggling, stilt walking & lots more….
Sporting/Fitness activities – Bounce, Maximise Fitness, Football darts, Karate, Mini squash & much more to try…..

Car Show with a range of Classic, American & Sports Cars to view & admire.

                        

Dog Show – offering a number of competitions for you to enter your gorgeous, talented ‘pooches’.

 

For more information call Cath Honeywell on 07850 969389                                             

www.ongartownfestival.co.uk

Please see the attached poster

OSRC Committee 

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Past events……………………….

Sat 26^th November 2022

 

  

LIVE MUSIC – 9pm
Ongar Sports Club, Love Lane  CM5 9BL

£5 – Club Members / £8 – Non Members

 

One of the most popular and enduring rock covers band in Essex, UK
Renowned for powerful live rock performances – songs by Free, Killers, Deep Purple, Muse, Queen, Bryan Adams, Stereophonics, The Eagles, Steppenwolf, The Who, ZZ Top, Aerosmith, Thunder, Kings of Leon, Van Halen and much more…………
To purchase tickets please contact 07581 269 898 or 07850 969 389
Tickets can be purchased from the bar (TICKETS ARE CASH ONLY)

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SCRAPING THE BARREL – Friday 16^th December

Times & Ticket Prices will be advertised closer to the events. For more information on these events please contact Cath Honeywell on 07850 969389

 

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ONGAR TOWN FESTIVAL 2023

Ongar Sports Club are very excited to be part of this great event again. There will be a stage for live performances, circus acts, kiddies rides, sporting activities, dog show, arts & crafts stalls & much much  more.

If you would like to take part then please call Cath Honeywell on 07850 969389.  Be sure to put the date in your diary

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Past Events ………..

OSRC AGM Wednesday 17th November 2021 8.00 pm

see attached poster for details

 

Live music from BEGGAR at the Sports Club on Friday 12th November at 9.00pm.

Please see attached poster for full details.

Live music from LEECH at the Sports Club on Saturday 9^th October at 8.30pm.

 

LEECH play covers from REM, WHITE STRIPES, NIRVANA, OASIS, KAISER CHIEFS, BLUR, THE JAM, KINGS OF LEON, JIMI HENDRIX, GREEN DAY, THE CLASH, PINK FLOYD, THE KILLERS, so all types of music genres are covered so that everyone can enjoy the music and no one feels left out.

Be careful not to miss out – tickets will be on sale from Saturday September by calling Claire on 07581 269898 or Cath on 07850 969389

It promises to be a great evening so look forward to seeing you there.

 Please see attached poster for full details

 

 

 

 

The Brit Invasion – Celebrating the music of the 60’s

Saturday 22nd February 7.30 – 11.30

at Ongar Sports Club see attached poster

 

Christmas Disco Friday 20th Dec 7.30 til late.

WINTER RACKETBALL OPEN, HANDICAP & DOUBLEs TOURNAMENTS

  Finals night 13th December 2019

 

 

 

 

Doubles won by John Fowles/Jacob Parnell runnersup Dave Honeywell/Jim Browning.

Open match won by Andy Maxwell and John Fowles runnerup

Handicap match won by Steve O’Brien runnerup Steve Sprules.

Summer Camp 2019 

Wednesday 31st July

 

 

 

 

We saw many of the pupils from the school fete’s again at one of our summer camps held on July 31^st. We had our best ever attendance. We are hoping for the same at the next summer camp on Saturday

Saturday 17th August

10.00am to 3.00pm

 

School fetes  :

Sun 23rd June Chipping Ongar

Sun 5th July Moreton

Sun 14th July High Ongar

The OSRC has had a very busy time with the local schools as we attended fetes at Chipping Ongar Primary School, High Ongar Primary School & Moreton C of E Primary school. This was a great opportunity for us to promote the club and Junior Squash, but also helped us support a local school.  It gave pupils of all ages a chance to get involved in a sport that they had never tried before. They even started competing with each other which was great fun.

 

 

 

 

Ongar Town Festival Sunday 5th May 2019

The Ongar Festival on Sunday 5^th May, was an ideal opportunity for us to promote our club and support Ongar.  We do hope that you came along and visited our stand in Love Lane and gave squash a try.  Remember to tell family and friends what a great day out it was.

See you next year.

Watch this space for 2020 details ………..

 

Spring Open Competition

Our annual spring ‘Open’ competition has now finished, with the finals having taken place on  Friday 26th April. As always a good time was had by all, good squash and racketball followed by a very pleasant evening with a buffet and a few drinks in the bar.

Results :
Squash handicap. Marc Shelkin beat Shaun Lamont

Open squash.   Mick Calder beat Shaun Lamont

Racketball handicap.  Steve Sprules beat Jim Browning

Open racketball. Andy Maxwell beat Brian Birkin

Ladies Social squash sessions :

Took place on Sunday 20^th Jan 2019; Saturday 26^th Jan 2019 (11am-3pm).

 

The Autumn Competition Finals night Friday 23rd November 2018

First matches started at 7.20pm followed by a presentation buffet in the bar.

Results :

Squash handicap. Brian Clay beat Shaun Lamont 3-1

Open squash. Shaun Lamont beat Mick Calder 3-2

Open racketball. Andy Maxwell beat Mick Calder 3-2

Racketball handicap. Andy Maxwell beat Alan Boatman 3-0.

 

 

 

Launch night party Friday 2nd Nov

Please see above link to poster with details of the Launch party.

This was a great evening and a good way to start our new life as Ongar Sports Club.

 

                                                                   ONGAR SQUASH CLUB

                                                    OCTOBER HALF TERM SQUASH CAMPS                                                        HAVE   NOW TAKEN PLACE

 

                                                                               CAMP DATES:

                                                                       MONDAY 22^nd OCTOBER

                                                                      SATURDAY 26^th OCTOBER

                                                                                  10.00 to 3.00

We are offering your kids a chance to come and play MINI SQUASH during the half term holidays.  Mini Squash is an exciting game that encourages kids aged 5 to 11 to get on court and have fun. The sessions will be run by our coach Marc Shelkin who will help your kids learn basic squash skills as well as develop coordination and balance.

All equipment will be provided but kids should bring appropriate sports clothing and indoor trainers and bring a packed lunch.

£20 for members per day    £22 for non-members per day

ONGAR SQUASH CLUB
LOVE LANE
ONGAR CM5 9BL

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO BOOK A PLACE CALL MARC
on 07989 730748

 

 

AGM       

  CALLING ALL MEMBERS

ONGAR SQUASH & RACKETBALL AGM

     Date: Thursday 18^th October at 8pm 

    Location: Clubhouse Love Lane Ongar

This event is a chance for you as members to hear about the progress of the Club,                   recent and ongoing developments of the facilities and the many achievements                        during the past year.

This year’s AGM will give you a chance to comment, offer your opinion and                            volunteer your time and skills to get involved in shaping the future of the club.

We will be joined by our special guest speaker Professional Squash Player Ben Coleman from Chelmsford, who represents England & has reached a career-high world ranking of World No 45 in May this year.

There will also be a chance to socialise afterwards with a buffet in the bar.
Cath Honeywell
Committee Secretary /Marketing & Publicity Secretary

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ongar Cubs Visits 

We had the  pleasure of hosting Ongar Cubs to introduce them to Junior Squash and at the same time help them get their sports badge. It proved a great success and was enjoyed by all who took part.

 

 

Squash and Tennis BBQ

This was attended by 43 people who all had a great time playing , eating , drinking and then being entertained by our very own Rusty Rockers .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Junior Squash Open days

These were well attended and enjoyed by the children .

Spring Clean

Hopefully you have noticed that our club is starting to look a little bit cleaner and tidier recently?This is thanks to an enormous effort made by many of our members on Saturday 28th April. With a working party of 10 people we managed to complete a lot of jobs around the club: Painting the entrance hall, repainting the hall by the courts, cleaning all the paintwork and walls on  balcony, repairing gent’s toilet door and relaying tiles in gents shower.

Special thanks to working party members:

John Fowles, Kay Hewitt, Jan McEwen, Dave McEwen, Peter Woodcock, Bruce Banks, Cath &  Dave Honeywell.

We are not quite finished with improvement work but hopefully you agree that we have made a good start.  Our aim is to try to improve the club to make it a better environment for our current members but also to give new members a positive first impression of the club. We were very thankful to the local Council for now providing us with a pot hole free car park. I think you will all agree that the newly laid and improved car park provides a more welcoming and safer environment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ongar Town Festival

The OSRC also had a stand in Jubilee Park at the recent Ongar Town Festival, giving us an ideal opportunity to promote our club and support Ongar.  It was great to meet so many new people.

The weather was perfect and the OSRC had a large number of people come and give mini squash a try.  Thanks to those from the club that showed their support and helped make it a successful day.