About the club
C&C was founded in 1963 from a merger of two clubs, Cambridge City Athletic Club and Coleridge Athletic Club. (Coleridge is a district of Cambridge.) It has been C&C ever since.
We have over 600 members around 520 of whom are active competitively. Just under 60% of the club's membership is young athletes, under 18 years old. Of the remainder nearly 200 focus on road running and other endurance events such as cross country and fell running. (Yes, fell running, there may be no fells anywhere near Cambridge - there aren't even any decent hills anywhere near Cambridge - but we poor flatlanders ocasionally take to the fells and have occasionally been know to perform moderately well.)
In 2008 we began to set up a number of 'community clubs' for youngsters under 10 and now have four: in Cambourne, Cambridge, Impington and Sawston. We may be able to set up more in the next few years. Members of these clubs are not full members of C&C but many join when they reach 10. Currently we have around 100 young people taking part in the community clubs.
Community Amateur Sports Club
We are a Community Amateur Sports Club usually referred to as a CASC. This means we are registered with the Charity Commission as a charity and have to meet the relatively stringent conditions they impose on us in giving details of the club's trustees (its elected committee - see below) and its financial operations.
The club's registered charity number is 1129910 and its address is University Sports Ground, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0EQ.
C&C committee
The club is run entirely by volunteers and has a maximum committee of 12. Currently they are:
Elected members
President: Mary Holmes
Chair: Neil Costello
Treasurer: Chris Flood
Committee Secretary: Valerie Norrell
Track and field co-ordinator and Vice-Chair: Noel Moss
Endurance co-ordinator: Adam Poole
Coaching co-ordinator: James Brennand
Young athletes co-ordinator: Martin Crabb
Member without portfolio: Hilary Vogel
Co-opted members
Matthew Witt (track and field and officials)
James Ennis (coaching)
Ben Davies (young athletes)
The committee is organised around a number of portfolio responsibilities. Details are set out in this document.
Related sites
Run Cambridge for C&C endurance running training, events, results and lots more...
Cambridge Festival of Running for the Cambridge Cambourne 10k and Expo
Join the club Yahoo Group for discussions and info
Go to Links for other useful websites
News
If you have any items of news which you think might be of interest to club members, please email from here
Congratulations to Morgan Young for breaking the U15 Boys javelin record yet again with 55.21m at the SEAA intercounties and to Katie Reynolds for breaking her U13 Girls Highjump record again with 1.48m at the Peterborough Games.
The Young Athletes team have qualified for the Plate final of the EYAL at Peterborough on Sept 12th. Congratulations to all those involved.
C&C have qualified for the East Anglian league final on Sept 19th in U13B, U13G, U15B, U15G, SW and SM agegroups. The U17 Men unfortuately didnt make it.
Four new club records over the W/E of 6-8 August. Ed Aston broke his own Senior 800m record with 1:47.1, Morgan Young broke his own U15Boys Javelin record with 54.23m, and Charlotte Murphy broke the U13 Girls 1500m record with 5:04.7. The U15 Boys relay team also set a new record for their age-group.
Ed Aston won the silver medal in the England Athletics Senior 800m championships at Gateshead on 18th July.
Congratulations to all our English Schools competitors for their good performances, but especially by Ben Kelk - 3rd in U20 Mens 110 Hurdles, and Morgan Young - 4th in U15 Boys Javelin.
Charlotte Cox added the DSE Under 20's 100m and 200m Gold medals to the double silvers she won in the Mencap National Championships.
National Championship win for Ben Kelk in the Under 20 mens 100m hurdles in the U20/U23 championships at Bedford. Ben ran 13.86 in the heats and 13.87 in the final. A new personal best but tantalisingly just six hundredths short of Jon Ridgeons club record set in 1984.
C&C has been awarded clubmark status once again (on 4th June). England Athletics sent the following note:
The Clubmark Folder has just been assessed this morning and I’m pleased to inform you that it has successfully passed. Alex Copeland (National Club Development Officer) commented that it was the best folder (across all sports) that he has ever seen, so well done to you and everyone at the club.
The first competition between the Community Clubs took place recently. See the Cambridge News report here
Registration for Olympic tickets is now available at http://www.tickets.london2012.com/. Tickets won't go on sale until 2011, but you'll get updates and advance notice of how to apply for tickets.
Master-classes for coaches and athletes are coming up soon for pole vault, strength and conditioning and fundamentals of movement. Please register if you’re interested more…
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Directions
Use our interactive map for directions to the track and sports centre, click here.
Important Notices
ATTENTION ALL COACHES. England Athletics has organised a series of local programmes for different coaching disciplines. Details are under 'Recent updates' below
Information about the club is now being circulated by email. Please make sure the club has your current email address and that your email client doesn't send emails from Noel Moss or Neil Costello straight to the junk mail folder!
Recent updates
Details of England Athletics' coach development programmes are now available for endurance, speed and throws
Details of Cambridge University's terms and conditions and code of conduct for use of the track are now on the links page
Details of C&C partners for injury prevention and treatment, and purchase of kit are now on the partners page
New volunteer policy and England Athletics volunteer documents
Results of all spring open meetings, and the young athletes spring trials are now on the Track & Field results page, along with current ranking lists
New welfare and child protection guidelines and contacts
The C&C expenses form is now available here and on the Guidelines and documents page
The Greater Cambridge Athletics Network bid document and plan are now available on the GCAN website
Updated club constitution
Cross-country entry request form
Rules of track life...
Updated guidelines - coaches, team managers, technical officials and child welfare.
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