CONTACT

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Please join Grimsby Roller Derby – Home to the Grim Reavers & Brothers Grim on facebook groups.

We will teach you everything you will need to know from kitting up to full contact and game-play scenarios. Your GRD training is called your minimum skills. Within your minimum skills there are currently two levels:

• Foundation level- intro to skating/falling/stopping
• Gameplay level – advance skating/falling/stopping and intro to contact

We advise that you spend at least an hour a week taking part in off skates exercise.

If you do not want to play contact, please let us know and we can train you up to be a skating official (referee).

If you do not want to skate, please let us know and we can teach you all you need to know within our non-skating official roles.

We are currently only running one session a week every Sunday at Grimsby Leisure Centre 10:30 – 12:30.

Prior to the pandemic the league trained for 3 hours on a Sunday morning and for 2 hours in Cleethorpes on a Tuesday evening (for advanced only). We are aiming to get back to this however, as it stands this is not feasible for the club.

We ask you arrive approx. 10 minutes early to a session to kit up so you are ready on track for the start of the training session.

You should bring plenty of water for each training session, along with comfortable clothes and suitable shoes. If you are wearing shorts, we also recommend you should wear tights/leggings underneath to avoid abrasions to your legs.

A roll call is done on the facebook group the Thursday before training, please comment on this post if you can attend the training session.

Intake sessions are free to new members. All new starters have access to one free skate session. This can either be an intake session or a training session if it is your first time attending.
Starting the month after joining, a new member is required to pay £20 monthly subs from the next month following their first session.

Training sessions are £5 each until the next month when subs payments are required.

Example: You joined 3rd Oct, you pay £5 for the following sessions throughout October, then
you will join monthly subs at £20 via BACS/SO from November onwards.

Skaters/Officials:
£20 monthly subs for Foundation Skaters
£25 monthly subs for Gameplay/ Official Skills and Skills passed skaters

Guest Fee
£10 a session
A guest is someone who attends and pays for the training session only. They do not have access to the GRD Forum and none of the benefits that come with being a GRD member.

Membership Only
£25 a year Membership only entitles the member to have access to the Grimsby Roller Derby online forum, attend the AGM, have the right to vote for and nominate themselves for a committee role.

Officials who have completed the GRD Officials Skills set are able to pay the £25 a year fee. Officials who wish to train as a team skater must pay monthly subs of £25.

All subs are used to cover the cost of hall hire and hosting bouts. All money raised is put back into the team for further development.

Bank Details:
Lloyds Business Account
The Grim Reavers
35378668
77-12-20

Treasurer: Charlotte Rendall

President:Gemma Skelhorn

The Treasurer and the President are both named on the team bank account and any payments made are in the interest of Grimsby Roller Derby. No members receive payment for their voluntary work.

GRD will provide standard basic kit free of charge.

There is no time scale for when you need to buy your own, however, we advise you have full kit before you start the advanced sessions.

If and when you decide to buy your own kit, feel free to ask the team for advice as you can try our kit on for sizing and style. We can also advise on the best retailers for price and quality.

The compulsory components of any derby kit are as follows:

• Skates
• Knee pads
• Elbow pads
• Wrist guards
• Helmet
• Gum shield (required after passing foundation level)
• Black and white tops (required after passing foundation level)