Yetminster Community Sports Club

Brierley, Yetminster, DT9 6NR

The renamed Yetminster Community Sports Club is now open as a centre for community activity. There are no immediate plans to open the bar on a regular basis, but a series of music events, quiz nights and social gatherings will be staged and promoted to all members. The club will also be available to hire, by members, for private parties.

Reopening Event Saturday 29th February

Greg Agar – The Piano Man

Thanks to everyone who made the reopening event such a great evening. Greg brought the house down and we will be booking him again later in the year.

Forthcoming Events

Saturday 14 March
Free 80’s disco to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, 7.00 pm to midnight. Fancy dress is optional, but there will be a prize for the best costume.

Saturday 28 March at 7.00 pm
Only Fools and Horses Quiz night in aid of Somerset and Dorset Air Ambulance. Special appearance by Denis Lill who played Rodney’s father-in-law. £40 for a team of 4 to include a light supper. Only a few tables left.

Membership

This is a valuable community asset which can only survive with the support of the local community. We would be interested to hear from any resident who would like use the facilities for new activities.

Until the end of March we will be offering free membership. Please email ycsc@btinternet.com for your membership application form.

Costs

Hire of the clubhouse: £20 per session or £15 for a block booking of 10 sessions
Hire of the clubhouse: £35 per day or £30 for a block booking of 10 days
Hire of clubhouse to include a disco: £150
Buffets:
£5 per head to include sandwiches, cocktail sausages
£7.50 per head to include sandwiches, chicken legs, dips
£10 per head knife and fork supper either meats, cheeses and salad, chicken curry or chilli

Bar Prices
Pint of draught cider and lager £3
Bottled beer £3
Budweiser/Corrs £2.50
Spirit with house mixer £3
Spirit with branded tonic or energy drink £3.50
Pint of lemonade/Coke £2
Shots £2 or 3 of £5
Jagerbomb £3 or 2 for £5

Tennis and Croquet Club

Will continue to operate as usual.

Membership fees (under review)

Annual membership of the tennis club is currently £50 for a family and £25 for an individual, which includes unlimited tennis.

Annual membership of the croquet club is £116 for a family and £60 for an individual. The subscription covers the cost of the weekly mowing of the lawns and attendance at sessions on Wednesday and Friday at 3.00 pm.

Contact Julian Turnbull on 01935 873846 or John Strover on 01935 872437

DIRECTIONS Travelling from the High Street, in the direction of Leigh, take the first left after passing over the railway bridge into Brierley Hay and follow the signs past the allotments to the Sports Club where you will find football pitch and an all-weather tennis court. In the summer an area of the sports field is used for croquet.

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History of Hamcrate

Due to some uncertainty as to the ownership of the land, enquiries uncovered a letter from Bartlett and Sons Solicitors on 27.2.1962 which stated the following: –

Thomas King, deceased, re Bequest to Yetminster Parish Council (of) Field “Hamcrate, Yetminster” Hamcroft Field.

By his will the above named deceased bequeathed the above property to your Council in the following terms:

I hereby devise (free of all duties) to the Parish Council of Yetminster in the said county of Dorset my freehold close of land situated in the parish of Yetminster aforesaid called “Hamcrate” for the benefit of the inhabitants of the said Parish of Yetminster.

The title deeds to the land were passed to Messrs Fookes and Grimley Solicitors of Sherborne on 20 June 1941. Since that time successive Parish Councils have enacted the stewardship of the site which has seen the addition of a children’s playground, scout hut, allotments, tennis court football pitch, croquet lawn and sport pavilion.

A group of trustees were appointed to manage the site, which resulted in the building of the original club house and a further extension in the 1990’s. The loss of skittles and football resulted in the committee of the Sports Club taking the decision to terminate their lease in February 2018. After a tender process new tenants took over the management of the facilities but, after struggling to attract regular custom, their lease was terminated in June 2019.

In February 2020 a new tenancy agreement was signed.