Michelle Newton

happy volunteer at Ickenham Youth FC. Making Girls football bigger & better

[Michelle Newton @Michellenewts]

@BritishGasHelp why cant we get through on the phone to talk to anyone! Waiting for an appointment & no communication at all. 3rd time in asking just so frustrating & bad customer service

[Michelle Newton @Michellenewts]

@ickenhamyouthfc
Thanks for coming on such a hot day

[Mayor of Hillingdon @HillingdonMayor]

A great time attending Ickenham Youth FC - Girls Tournament, Hillingdon House Farm. Lots of great talent and skill. Very pleased to present some well deserved medal and trophies. Well done to all who organised and took part. #hillingdon

[Middlesex FA ⚽️ @middxfa]

HUGE congratulations to @ickenhamyouthfc - winners of our Accredited Club of the Month Award for April 2024! 🤩

A 3 ⭐ @EnglandFootball Accredited Club from Hillingdon with over 40 teams and more than 600 players, ranging from U5s to U18s.

More ➡️ https://t.co/uv7SNV0fjs

[Ickenham Youth FC @ickenhamyouthfc]

We want you!

Join our under 10 team next season. Training on a Tuesday and match day on Saturday.

We have two under 10 teams, an established successful team and development team, so all abilities are welcome!

Enquire here: [email protected]

[Ickenham Youth FC @ickenhamyouthfc]

We still have places available at our girls tournament on 23rd June. Get your tickets before they sell out!

U7/8 - 3 spaces
U9 - 3 spaces
U10 - 3 spaces
U11 - 1 space
U12 - SOLD OUT
U13 - 3 spaces
U14 - 1 space
U15/16 - 2 spaces

Book NOW: https://t.co/ZeGSMVa1oZ

[Ickenham Youth FC @ickenhamyouthfc]

A fantastic opportunity, encouraging ages under 5-under 12 to take part in pan-disability football sessions. Everybody is welcome! ⚽️

[Ickenham Youth FC @ickenhamyouthfc]

Ickenham Youth are proud to launch SEND football! With the support of @middxfa @thepsdgroupuk and held at @oak_wood_school there are sessions available for u5 to u12 years old. email the team at [email protected] to find out more ⚽️⚽️⚽️

[Michelle Newton @Michellenewts]

@AsdaServiceTeam I used self serve & didn’t get a receipt

[Michelle Newton @Michellenewts]

@AsdaServiceTeam bought these this morning from Asda High wycombe! Nearly finished them then noticed the date 🤢

[Hillingdon Council @Hillingdon]

Two local youth football clubs will be getting long-term leases of their home playing grounds after Hillingdon Council became the first London borough to successfully bid through the Football Foundation's Home Advantage programme. ⚽
Find out more https://t.co/4o7zwIKvZ9

[Ickenham Youth FC @ickenhamyouthfc]

gistration is now live! https://t.co/vwX6X4A3kM

Look forward to seeing you there at one of the biggest tournaments around! ⚽️⚽️⚽️ 🏆

[Comedy Central UK @ComedyCentralUK]

He speaks the truth... or does he???

#StandUp #TheOnlyWayIsEpic @almurray

[Hillingdon Borough FC @hbfc1872]

The teams are out and we are underway against @BSFC_Official in the #FAVase .

Big thank you to @ickenhamfc Youth for sending their U6-8 to be mascots today!

[Ickenham Youth FC @ickenhamyouthfc]

A few of our teams are looking for players - please see below for the info …. 

Register your interest through the enquiry form at https://t.co/5z7OmG5LT3

All other teams are currently full ⚽️⚽️

[Emma Charlesworth 💙💛 @emcharlesworth3]

This is the biggest long shot of my life. But I simply have to try.

Please, please share this. You just never know what might happen 🙏🏻

Can you possibly help @Se_Railway @RingGo_parking @kent_police & let me know what forms to fill in please. I’d be so very grateful.

[Ickenham Youth FC @ickenhamyouthfc]

Our U9 girls have started the season as they mean to go on! Played up a year and came home with the trophy! Thanks to @actonealingwhistlersfc for a brilliant pre-season tournament ⚽️⚽️
Good luck for the season girls, enjoy every minute!

[Grassroots @Teamgrassroots_]

In the last two years since joining a committee at a football club I have learnt the biggest lessons ever.

As a coach... you go to training sessions, you go to matches, you go the odd managers meeting and if your not using council pitches you mark out a pitch. That alone is hard work let alone taking on the most unsavoury part which is that you take flack from parents who don’t realise you are still paying for your child too.

HOWEVER as a committee member and a manager this year I decided to take three weeks from training, I even dare to take a holiday.

In that three weeks I was still dealing with:
* new teams
* Teams leaving
* Player enquiries
* Registrations
* Sorting out players and parents that decide to leave despite having put out numerous amount of messages months before.
* Kit orders which some how have to be collected during my busiest period of work
* Equipment orders
* Organising the collection of data for dbs so that new teams can actually run
* League meetings
* Parent enquiries and complaints which may have started from earlier during the season
* Chasing up of subs so that bills can be paid for the season ahead.
* Keeping on top of other managers.
* Cut time short at work to interview new coaches

You can’t really blame my wife for the sheer fact that whilst I’m meant to be taking a break my mind actually hasn’t switched off taking time away from my family.

Now let’s not forget the fact that like other parents I too will pay my subs, I too am self employed , i too have family members ,I too have children and a family.

Now over the course of the season il be doing my best like other committee members to ensure that the upkeep of the club is run. When there’s heavy rain forecasted il be getting down the club super early to make a call on pitches whilst others are slowly getting out of their bed and waking up and waiting for my call or text. However whilst I will do all the above I will also get it wrong at times. I will make the wrong decision at times , the wrong sub, perhaps make a wrong decision whilst trying to ref and run the team at the same time.

Sadly I’ve listened to parents and grandparents from my own club slate other managers and committee members on the sidelines forgetting that these VOLUNTEERS stepped up quite simply when no one else did.

Different clubs do things differently as I have found out first hand. I am doing the job that at some clubs has four people doing, but at other clubs doesn’t even have one. WE ARE VOLUNTEERS.

So on behalf of every grassroots coach in the country can I please ask every grassroots parent to ensure that when they are perhaps having their conversations about the coach or managers on the sidelines, that they remember they have taken A LOT of time away from their own families and children to take time out for yours.

This is all about the children in the team , however if you feel you could do some of the roles your club takes on then join the team, however if you can’t due to the problems and time constraints, which your child’s manager also has then please let them do the job they enjoy as best as they can.

Many thanks,
Every hardworking grassroots volunteer

[Women in Football @WomeninFootball]

Introducing our new #WIFstats series to celebrate all the impressive #FIFAWWC stats we're seeing 📊📈 starting with this one...

@Chloe_Kelly98’s winning penalty was struck harder than the most powerful @premierleague goal from last season (107.2km/h, Saïd Benrahma vs @CPFC) 🤯🔥

[Michelle Newton @Michellenewts]

@uxbridgewalrus @balconyshirts @maryearps027 This is a great idea. We struggle to get womans shirts for our girls teams & definitely never a GK option. Need more publicity about getting the right kits

[Michelle Newton @Michellenewts]

@piersmorgan Makes you wonder what this person has on other people at the BBC that they may expose & so trying to do some kind of deal