This week, Chris was not available due to other commitments. Thankfully Steve was able to make the earlier session for the first time which took an enormous weight off my shoulders due to how much I felt I was struggling with the coaching of it. Gavin was available to help with the second half as well. Steve’s session ran very smoothly, with his enthusiasm for the session very much infectious. If nothing else, I felt after watching it that I would be more comfortable to take the session again in future if he was unavailable.
Taking payments worked fine for the first hour as I had the time to do it myself, however due to the fact that I was coaching the second hour there was a mad rush at the end that made it very difficult. Being handed money from all different directions with no idea on who was giving it to you was not the easiest thing to deal with! It was decided that in future, all money would ideally be collected during the sessions and never afterwards or in the gap between the two.
One idea that Jon raised following this session was looking into whether we could setup a form of online shop whereby parents had the option to buy Marjons kit for their child. This was something that we decided we would look into, as it would save the club time and money having to organise kit ourselves.