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Here we are in the cricket season when you would expect that life is dormant here at Stourton Park.

Not so, since we have not long finished our May weekend extravaganza of our Corporate Lunch and May Ball and are well ahead with plans and organisation for May 12th and 13th 2023. This year’s guest speakers were John Inverdale, Simon Lazenby and Philip Tufnell and they entertained over 100 businesses and their guests. We are grateful for the support shown by all these businesses and from the feedback it appears that we will need more tables next year.

The rugby season starts again in September and we will be seeing a sea change in our fixtures as Level 4 National Two is to be split into three leagues of fourteen sides rather than the current two leagues of sixteen. We will be in Midlands and South- West. Our line-up will be Leicester Lions, Hinckley, Loughborough University, Bournville, Newport (Salop), Luctonians, three Bristol teams namely Old Redcliffians, Dings Crusaders and Clifton, Barnstaple, Weston-Super-Mare Hornets, Exeter University and Redruth.

There will be two pre-season games during August and as soon as these are finalised details will be published on the club website and Facebook pages.

During the summer contact sport continues as the Black Country vipers, the local American Football side continue their training and matches here. If you fancy a go, please email blackcountryvipers@outlook.com.

As always, the club house is available for parties for anything from 40 to 200 people so if you are looking for a venue, please phone 01384 395000.

Hopefully we will see you all at our first home game in September.