Role & Responsibilities
The responsibilities of the Area Officiating Committee (AOC) are:
- To recruit, develop and assess neutrally appointed umpires and umpire support.
- To appoint officials to EH Area Leagues and EH Competitions.
- To support the recruitment, and development of Club umpires, working with Cluster Leads and Umpire Club Developers to deliver workshops and members evenings and to facilitate the assessment of umpires.
- To recruit and educate young umpires, provide opportunities for their development and progress to Adult League and Competitions appointments.
- To deliver Technical Official education and opportunities for TO development in Clubs and to recommend TO appointments to Leagues and Competitions.
Appointments
Appointments will continue to be made using the Officiating Management System (OMS) which has now been merged into the Game Management System (GMS) used to administer all Leagues and Competitions.
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The Midlands have 111 clubs across a very large geographical area.
In order to improve the retention, engagement and development of umpires, and communication with the clubs, we recruited a number of passionate Club Cluster Leads and Support Leads. Their role is to help with proactive outreach across a cluster of clubs. The hope being that by creating more local and familiar points of contacts, that the clubs will get more opportunity to understand how we can support them.
Day to day the role focus is to triage incoming requests for support and also proactively share news, updates and information on resources to their clubs.
Club Cluster Lead Contacts:
Name Role Email Stuart Poulton Cluster 1 Lead clusterlead1@midlands.hockey Roger Carter Cluster 2 Lead clusterlead2@midlands.hockey Dave Buttery Cluster 3 Lead clusterlead3@midlands.hockey Becs Roycroft Cluster 4 Lead clusterlead4@midlands.hockey David Last Cluster 5 Lead clusterlead5@midlands.hockey James Pennington Cluster 6 Lead clusterlead6@midlands.hockey If you are unsure which Cluster your Club belongs in, please see below or for any queries please contact areaadmin@midlands.hockey
Hockey Club Name Club Tag Bridgnorth Hockey Club 1 Cannock 1 Keele University Hockey Club 1 Ludlow Hockey Club 1 Market Drayton HC 1 Newport HC 1 North Stafford Hockey Club 1 Oswestry Hockey Club 1 Shrewsbury Hockey Club 1 Stafford Hockey Club 1 Stone HC 1 Telford & Wrekin HC 1 Wem & Market Drayton Ladies Hockey Club 1 Wrekin HC 1 Ashbourne Hockey Club 2 Barton Hockey Club 2 Belper HC 2 Burton 2 Derby Hockey Club 2 Derwent Hockey Club 2 Erewash 2 Findern Ladies Hockey Club 2 Leek HC 2 Ramgarhia Derby 2 Repton Hockey Club 2 Uttoxeter 2 Wulfric Ladies 2 Matlock Baileans Hockey Club 2 Arnold Ladies Hockey Club 3 Ashfield Aztecs Hockey Club 3 Beeston 3 Boots HC 3 Ilkeston Hockey Club 3 Leadenham Hockey Club 3 Manning Ladies Hockey Club 3 Mansfield Hockey Club 3 Newark 3 North Notts Hockey Club 3 Nottingham Hockey Club 3 Nottingham Players 3 Nottingham Trent University Hockey Club 3 Redhill HC 3 Sikh Union Nottingham 3 South Nottingham Hockey Club 3 Southwell Brincliffe United 3 Trent Vale Ladies 3 University of Nottingham Hockey Club 3 West Bridgford HC 3 Woodlands Hockey Club 3 Woodthorpe Ladies 3 Worksop Ladies Hockey Club 3 Barford Tigers Hockey Club 4 Beacon Hockey Club 4 Bloxwich Hockey Club 4 Bournville and Kings Heath Hockey Club 4 City of Birmingham Hockey Club 4 Edgbaston Hockey Club 4 Finchfield Hockey Club 4 Hampton-in-Arden 4 Harborne Hockey Club 4 Birmingham Kings HC 4 Lichfield 4 Old Halesonians Hockey Club 4 Old Silhillians HC 4 Old Wulfrunians Hockey Club 4 Olton and West Warwickshire HC 4 Solihull Blossomfield 4 Sutton Coldfield HC 4 Tamworth 4 University of Birmingham HC 4 Wednesbury HC 4 West Bromwich Hockey Club 4 Wolverhampton and Tettenhall HC 4 Berkswell and Balsall Hockey Club 5 Bromsgrove HC 5 Coventry and North Warwickshire 5 Droitwich Spa Hockey Club 5 Khalsa Leamington HC 5 Pershore 5 Redditch Hockey Club 5 Shipston ladies Hockey Club 5 Sikh Union Coventry Hockey Club 5 Stourport Hockey Club 5 Stratford 5 Tenbury Ladies Hockey Club 5 University of Warwick 5 Warwick Hockey Club 5 Worcester Hockey Club 5 Wyre Forest Hockey Club 5 Ashby HC 6 Atherstone 6 Charnwood Forest hockey club 6 Charnwood Sileby Ladies Hockey Club 6 Earls Barton Ladies Hockey Club 6 Grammarians 6 Half Century Ladies Hockey Club 6 Leicester City Hockey Club 6 Leicester Hockey Club 6 Leicester Westleigh Hockey Club 6 Long Buckby Hockey Club 6 Loughborough Students 6 Loughborough Town Hockey Town 6 Market Harborough HC 6 Melton 6 Northampton Saints Hockey Club 6 Nuneaton Hockey Club 6 Oundle Hockey Club 6 Panthers Hockey Club 6 Rugby and East Warwickshire 6 Towcestrians Hockey Club 6 Wellingborough HC 6