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Matlock Water Polo Club
Matlock Water Polo Club
Matlock Water Polo Club
Click Below to learn the Background of our club
Officers of the Club
Matlock Water Polo Club
Matlock Water Polo Club
The Club is run by a group of dedicated Volunteers
Sponsorships
Matlock Water Polo Club
Sponsorships
The club is very grateful to receive financial support from local businesses and other organisations.
Swim Mark
Five-a-Side Tournaments
Sponsorships
Formerly called swim21, SwimMark accreditation is Swim England’s quality standard for clubs. It recognises high standards of governance, sustainability and effectiveness.
Any affiliated Swim England club can apply for the accreditation, regardless of the club’s size or the disciplines that the club delivers.
News and Reports
Five-a-Side Tournaments
Five-a-Side Tournaments
Interesting News Reports on past matches and Events
Five-a-Side Tournaments
Five-a-Side Tournaments
Five-a-Side Tournaments
Building on the Matlock club’s experience of organising the Open Water Tournaments the club determined to use the excellent facilities of the ARC centre and organised a series of tournaments.
Using the ‘movable floor’ and the large pool area of the ARC centre the club acquired equipment to enable them to create two pitches in the main pool and a third pitch in the teaching pool.
For the two pitches in the main pool a ‘five a side’ format of the game was established and various tournaments have been organised involving, women’s, Men’s, junior and mini polo.
Photographs from these successful events
MWPC
Matlock Waterpolo Club
Matlock Waterpolo Club is a small, friendly waterpolo club that competes in the Notts Waterpolo League. This covers Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire.
We have had a Mens team for over 35 years, are just starting a Women’s team and have been running a Junior Section for more than 5 years.
Within the league we also compete in two cup competitions - The Knock Out Cup, and The Handicap Cup. The Handicap cup gives teams extra goals head start based on their league position from the previous season.
We train on a Wednesday evening at The Arc in Matlock.
We run a really successful 5-a-side tournament each year with games for all ages.
The club has a colourful history of annual tours to Europe, Isle of Mann and other UK locations.
Click here to view a photo library of some past and present players.
Club's Officers for 2022-2023
Roles and Responsibilities within MWPC
Role Officer
Chairman Ben Milton
Vice-Chairman. Martin Beeson
President Jim Evans
Vice President Richard Massey
Secretary Martin Beeson
Minutes Secretary Iain O’Brien
Treasurer Joe Winterbottom
Welfare Officer Richard Flint **
Fixtures Secretary Joe Winterbottom
Grant Application Secretary Adam Ellis
Press Officer Iain O'Brien
Head Coach. Jim Evans
Assistant Coaches Iain O’brien, Luke
Junior Coach Joe Winterbottom
Assistant Junior Coaches. Ben Milton, Rachel Duckworth, Ben Holmes
Social Secretaries. Joe Winterbottom
Social Media Joe Winterbottom
Club Captain Richard Flint
** any member who has concerns about any welfare matters affecting either themselves or another member can contact the club’s Welfare Officer directly via mwpc.rf@gmail.com
Quality accreditation
Club Quality Conformance standard
SwimMark (formerly Swim 21) is the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA), Water Polo’s National Governing Body (NGB), scheme that ensures that the club has the processes and procedures in place to enable us to run efficiently and effectively covering safeguarding, forwarding planning and financial planning
Matlock's Achievement
Great news, already this year we have achieved SwimMark renewal accreditation.
Many thanks and Congratulations to Richard Flint who has manfully battled through all the paperwork to ensure that we maintained the club’s accreditation with the sports governing body.
This built on the substantial work that past Chairman, Colin Ingley, put in to gain the club’s initial accreditation.
Documentation
We will be making various documents available on our web site as we develop the new site.
Sponsorship
Our Sponsors
The Red Lion, Matlock Green.
The Red Lion, Matlock Green.
We are incredibly indebted to our sponsors who make it possible for us to continue as a club. If you live or visit Matlock, please consider using their services to help us repay their generosity (please mention us if you do).
The Red Lion, Matlock Green.
The Red Lion, Matlock Green.
The Red Lion, Matlock Green.
The Red Lion, Matlock Green - Local pub offering real ales, delicious food and very reasonably priced accomodation.
https://www.theredlionmatlock.co.uk/
Call on (01629) 584888 or click here for more information
Matlock Town Council
The Red Lion, Matlock Green.
Matlock Town Council
The Council meets on the third Monday of each month with the exception of August when they meet on the first Monday.
They have an ‘open door’ policy for all of their meetings except where confidential matters are discussed.
The club were grateful to receive a Community Grant from the Council to help meet the costs of hosting our tournaments.
Derbyshire Dales DC
Derbyshire County Council
Matlock Town Council
Derbyshire Dales District Council, the club were grateful to receive a grant from the Council’S ‘better communities’ fund towards the cost of coach’s expenses, equipment replacement and a new web site.
Derbyshire County Council
Derbyshire County Council
Derbyshire County Council
Derbyshire County Council, via its Action Grants program has provided funding to enable the club to retain the services of a former International player to coach and develop the junior and senior playing side of the club.
Fundraising
Derbyshire County Council
Derbyshire County Council
The club also undertakes a range of fund raising activities including sweepstakes, ‘spot the ball’ competitions, raffles and sponsorship to support the costs of running a club in one of the finest facilities in the Midlands.
News and Information
July 24th 2019 - “Distinguished service award” for the club’s long serving former chairman. David Frost and his wife Anne made their annual trip to the International water polo tournament in Hasselt Belgium. For many years the tournament was the focal point of the club’s annual tour when we also visited other clubs in Holland, Belgium and Germany. This year marked the 25th anniversary of the club’s first trip and whilst the club has not sent a team for several years, David and Anne have continued to attend the annual event sometimes accompanied by other club officials and friends including Reg Smith, Dave Barnard and Phil Mews.
David and Anne’s achievement was recognised in a special presentation by Paul, one of the senior figures of the Organising committee, who commented that “many people return to our event in order to try to remember what happened the previous year, but David and Anne keep coming back because they enjoy being here and we very much enjoy having them here’.
Paul then presented the couple with a special commemorative trophy to mark the occasion.
The photo shows David and Anne with the trophy, Paul on the right and Alain, another friend of the Matlock club, on the left, with club coach Jim Evans (who joined David and Anne to mark the event) in the centre.
News update
A strong Matlock team completed their second home win of 2019 with a convincing result. Fielding a virtually full strength team Matlock showed the benefits of recent training and a team performance saw them complete a comprehensive victory that was enthusiastically applauded by their supporters.
Coaching and Water Polo
The benefits of ‘cross sport’ coaching experience is common in modern sport, click on this link for information about a leading coach’s use of Water Polo experience.
Introduction to the sport
An introduction to the sport provided by the National Governing Body in the UK.
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