A great crowd for our last training session for 2022! Thank you very much to everyone who turned out tonight and donated to support Knox Infolink Inc in their ‘Share the Joy’ Knox Christmas Appeal. GO HAWKA!!!
What a Way to Finish the Year!
Category Archives: Club Notes
Last Pre-Xmas Training + Supporting Knox Infolink
Everyone is invited to come down to Tormore @ 6PM on Wednesday 14th December for a light and fun training session, followed by a BBQ.
Please also consider bringing along a donation of food or a gift to generously support Knox Infolink Inc in their ‘Share the Joy’ Knox Christmas Appeal for those who need an extra hand at this time of year. Here are some ideas for what you might donate:
If you can’t make it, would like to find out more about the appeal or would otherwise like to donate directly to Knox Infolink, see www.givenow.com.au/ or visit Knox Infolink: Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm 136 Boronia Road, BORONIA Ph: 9761 1325
FOOD ITEMS:
- (Non-Perishable)
- Fruit Cake/mince pies
- Lollies/Chocolate
- Soft Drink/fruit juice
- Jam
- Jelly cups
- Christmas Pudding
- Pasta Sauce
- Long Life Custard 1L
- Sweet/Savoury Biscuits
- Pancake shake mix
- Long Life Milk 1L
- Coffee,Tea & Sugar
- Tinned Fruit
- Tinned Tuna
GIFT IDEAS:
0 -18 Months
- Soft toys
- Picture Books
- Bath toys
- Cup, bowl & cutlery sets
2 – 4 Years
- Cars/trucks
- Thomas the Tank Engine
- Duplo
- Toy Story
- Fisher Price eg. Little People
- Ride on Toys
- Dress up costumes
- Play Doh
- Puppets
5 – 6 Years
- Hot Wheels
- Barbie
- Tea Set
- Etch a Sketch
- Dress Up Costumes
- Lego
- Play Doh
- Art & Craft set
7 – 10 Years
- Board Games
- Hot Wheels
- Lego
- Sport Equipment
- Summer Water Toys
- Dolls
- Craft Sets
- Remote Control Cars
11 – 13 Years
- Sports Equipment
- Movie Tickets
- Gift Vouchers
- Summer Water Toys
- Dress Up Costumes
- Make-up kits
- Walkie Talkies
14-16 Years
- Books
- Movie Tickets
- Gift Vouchers
- Sporting Equipment
- Summer Water Toys
- Remote Control Cars
- Make-up kits
New Club Rooms Funding Locked In
Congratulations Jackson Taylor MP in retaining the seat of Bayswater. With the results of yesterday’s election the Boronia Hawks Football Netball Club, Boronia Hawks Football Netball Club – Junior and Boronia Cricket Club have now secured the unprecedented amount of $6.2 million for our new facility. The next 24 months will see a lot of work being done in the planning and building of our new rooms! Go Hawka!
Brand Survey Outcomes
Thank you to all of those who took the time to complete our Brand Survey at the end of the 2022 season. The stakeholder survey was in relation to the brand, including the logo, uniform and merchandise colours.
We had a positive level of engagement with approximately 10% of playing members completing the survey, as well as many other stakeholders from across the club.
There were very passionate responses both for and against keeping the logo in its current form and varying opinions about the colours of uniform and off-field items. In the end, it was clear that the logo will remain in its current form.
Confirmation of this allows us to push ahead with other projects like refreshing merchandise and the website.
Thank you again to everyone who participated!
Mark Grice
A service to honour the life of Mark Grice will be held on Monday 21st November at 1:00pm at Heritage and Heritage Funerals at 733 Boronia Road, Wantirna.
Mourners are invited to also attend a wake from 3:00pm at the Boronia Hawks Football Netball Club Clubrooms at Tormore Reserve, Tormore Road Boronia.
A Message from Flash
The entire BHFNC should be mighty proud of its efforts over the past four weeks of hosting the Division One finals series.
The EFNL and competing clubs were lost for words in their gratitude for the organisation and efforts of our many, many volunteers over the month!
Headed up by Murra, our team worked cohesively and the many long days will now hold our club in greater financial strength as we move forward to our 2023 season.
To our early morning set up teams, to our bar teams, our burger teams, and canteen ladies, our traffic controllers, and our hlepers who kept carrying out stock to all the various tents, what an effort. In the coming few weeks we will be having a pleasant Sunday afternoon of thanks to all our helpers, I’ll get that date and time locked in ASAP.
Once all the bills are paid, we hope to announce our profit as it’s important all volunteers understand just how meaningful it is to the club to give so much of their time over the past four weekends.
Behind the scenes, we are working most nights to speak with potential recruits, plan our pre-season, reflect with trainers, and work diligently to ensure 2023 is an amazing year for the Hawka! Our coaches in all areas are now appointed and we hope you can all join us at one of our two presentation nights to properly give thanks and gratitude for this season.
Sincerely, thank you once again!!!
GREG HANNON, Senior President, BHFNC
New Kitchen Facilities for Tormore
One of our key objectives as a club is to make life easier for our volunteers by upgrading our facilities, equipment and technology whenever possible. With this in mind, we have recently invested in a brand new kitchen range for Tormore Reserve.
The purchase of the oven, griller and deep fryer was funded by the Club, together with a generous contribution from our co-tenants Boronia Cricket Club. For those who may not know, Ellen Johnson manages the kitchen and canteen for both clubs, doing a superb job throughout the seasons. Ellen is now supported by premium equipment to turn out match day snacks and regular meals for the teams and supporters on Wednesday and Thursday nights during the football season.
We are very grateful to Craig Brockley, our super-successful Men’s Development Squad Coach, who installed the new equipment through his firm, Brighton Gas Company. “Brighton Gas specialises in the servicing and repairs of gas products in Melbourne. When it comes to the servicing and repairs of gas heating for your home or gas cooking appliance repairs and servicing we can help”.
A Christmas Message from Flash
To all players, volunteers, supporters and officials
On behalf of the senior committee, I’d like to wish everyone a restful and enjoyable summer break. Our club, like all clubs, has survived two extraordinary years that we could never plan for. Our club is in a great place thanks to the tireless work of our Board, Committees, Coaches and a loyal and dedicated playing group.
My New Year’s wish is for an uninterrupted season, we all deserve that! Surely that’s not too aspirational!!!!! I feel so sorry for the teams that had premiership hopes for this season. It is what it is but it’s still shattering for our coaches and players!
The behind the scenes work our coaches have done to ensure the well being of our players will never be fully realised, but I know what they have done and greatly appreciate their incredible efforts in keeping our players healthy. We are truly blessed to have the quality of coaches we do have in both football programs and our club is just so grateful for your work, kindness and dedication.
Our football managers in Karen, Ash and Wrighty don’t stop. We are always working at improving our lists and we are quietly confident that our lists for 2022 will be strong and be able to compete in what is looking like really even and competitive divisions for our male and female teams.
The senior club is already busy planning for events such as our first Presidents Luncheon. David “The Ox” Schwartz is our first speaker, with Luckmans Catering already locked in! Our Corporate Golf Day at the magnificent Eastwood Golf Club is being managed by Hollywood, and Leanne Rech is project managing our 90th Birthday Celebration Dinner which promises to be huge! Phil, Sammi, Wayne and Grant did a great job with our Christmas Fun Run and Nath Allen is planning a huge season of incredible social events!!!
A special thank you to Bomma and Leanne for managing our highly successful Hawks Nest Coterie. The work you do in building a cohesive community of past players and supporters is difficult to measure, but it is massive!!!!
Our incredible grants team led by Kerryn Westcott has secured a number of grants that will pay for things such as a new bain marie, new ice machine, iPads and a new fridge freezer. We also have nets being installed behind the goals at the club house end of the ground over summer.
We cannot run a club the size of Boronia without our dedicated volunteers. I sincerely thank you all. You are the lifeblood of our club and you are all the very best of people! If you are thinking of getting on board to help out, just ask and we will welcome you with open arms! We know we have to share the load and we are delegating more tasks than ever before as we can’t afford to burn out good people!
All in all, the club is in a good place. We have solid and meaningful direction across all leadership groups from Coterie to Playing Leadership Groups to Coaches to Committees to the Board. I wish all volunteers, all players and supporters a great Christmas and I’ll see you back down at the club in the new year.
Greg “Flash” Hannon, Senior President
Letter to All Past Players
Dear Past Players,
As a former player at the BHFNC we hope your association with us doesn’t completely diminish over time. Our club has always had a proud tradition of making former players most welcome when they visit our club for a home game at ‘The Hawka!’ We actually have a huge past player community that does support the club on a regular basis and our culture of inclusion has never been stronger. Other clubs marvel at our past player support on game day and when we reflect on its success, the answer lies in our capacity to make past players and supporters feel most welcome.
Whether through Murra’s Past Players & Supporters Group or Bomma’s Hawks Nest Coterie Group, we tend to be able to reach out to the 100’s of past players that have once donned the brown and gold jumper throughout each year and give them feedback on our proud clubs progress. This year, I’d love to be able to give more PP than ever before face to face feedback.
After the tumultuous year of 2020, I’m reaching out to all past players to make an extra effort to get down to the club at some stage throughout season 2021. It really is like groundhog day when you do visit, the same voices, the same characters and we will make sure you enjoy the experience.
This year our playing list is as strong as it has been for many a year. Our coaching group is excited about our prospects and we really hope to build on the PP community to make the effort to re-visit our club. Our home game dates are as follows:
- APRIL 17 V MULGRAVE
- MAY 1 V HEATHMONT
- MAY 8 V THE BASIN
- MAY 22 V RINGWOOD
- JUNE 5 V MULGRAVE
- JUNE 19 V SOUTH BELGRAVE
- JULY 10 V TEMPLESTOWE
- JULY 24 V KNOX
- AUG 7 V SOUTH BELGRAVE
Whether you played 100 games or 2, you have all left a legacy at our club. We very much look forward to seeing you all at some stage at The Hawka in season 2021!
Greg “Flash” Hannon, Senior President, Boronia Hawks
AGM: Election of Board and Committees
Boronia Hawks Football Netball Club Inc. is very pleased to announce the Board, Junior Committee and Senior Committee for 2021 as elected at our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 28 October 2020.
Board of Directors
- Chairperson Scott Nicholas
- Director of Administration Tanya Parkins
- Director of Community & Inclusion Karen Little
- Director of Finance David Nicholas
- Director of Insights & Innovation Kathleen McMahon
- Director of Revenue Wayne Preston
- Director of Strategic Projects Ashley Johnston
- Junior President Kristan Wood
- Senior President Greg Hannon
Senior Committee
- Senior President Greg Hannon
- Senior Vice-President Wayne Preston
- Senior Vice-President Nathan Allen
- Senior Secretary Grant Bertram
- Senior Treasurer Andrea Lemarquand
- Netball Operations Manager Tessa Evans
- Football Operations Manager (Women’s) Nathan Allen
- Football Operations Manager (Men’s) Ash Johnston
- Female Football Co-ordinator Ye Jeffries
- General Committee Member Tim Currie
- General Committee Member Jason Davis
- General Committee Member Phil Vanderdrift
Junior Committee
- Junior President Kristan Wood
- Junior Vice-President Samantha Dunkinson
- Junior Secretary Carolyn Wood
- Junior Treasurer Lauren Keelan
- Registrar Stacey Peril
- Female Football Coordinator Candyce Wright
- General Committee Member Michael Allen
- General Committee Member Victoria Butler
- General Committee Member Danny Weston