Whahey! Awards for All (Scotland) have come up trumps for us: they are providing us with £7250 to fund our first-year development project “A jump start for korfball in Dundee”. The project will help us to expand the adult section of our club, as well as to develop youth korfball in areas in and around Dundee. Most of the funding will be used to buy new equipment (including 8 new posts and 16 balls in various sizes), but there are also substantial contributions towards hall hire, advertising, coaching, and both coach and referee development.

Well, quite a few people have been in touch over the past few weeks, including several who have played korfball before, and several who have only just learned the name of the game. So things are looking good as far as being able to get a club up and running in time for the forthcoming season. All that we need to do now is to make the club official, form an inaugural committee, and prepare to start playing korfball.

So who’s up for that? Please have a look at the club’s draft “rules and constitution” (PDF link here), have a little think about whether you could offer your services as one of the club’s inaugural officers, and let us know if you’d like to play korfball for Dundee.

As soon as we get a chairperson, a secretary and a treasurer (i.e. three seperate people to fill the three main positions on the committee), I think that we’ll be good to go. If we can fill more positions than this, then all the better (other posts include coaching, development and social coordinators, child protection officer, team manager/captain(s) and vice-chairperson).

I’m happy to put myself forward for any of the positions, so we really only need two more people to say something similar, and then we’re in business. 🙂

Please sign yourselves up a.s.a.p. – our first season in the Scottish Korfball League could be less than 2 months away!