The Avenue Christmas Party 2011

A HUGE thankyou to everyone who helped make the Christmas Party an outstanding success. Here are a few pictures from the night...

01.12.2011 Squash Christmas Doubles tournament announced

28.10.2011 The free WiFi hotspot is now active again.

See the Wifi page for more details.

Avenue Christmas party Saturday December 17th

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SUNDAY 18TH DECEMBER

CHRISTMAS DRAW approx 2.30pm

The draw will follow the Pompey v Saints match, Kick off 1pm

Lots of lovely prizes to be won, so put your name & phone number in a box on the board in the bar, only 50p a go "you've got to be in it to win it" .

Bring a plate of food to share with others during the match. Instant party.

WEDNESDAY 21ST DECEMBER

CHRISTMAS QUIZ NIGHT 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start

General knowledge, prizes, jokers, the lot, even christmas bites included. Make up a team or join another.

£3.00 per person

TICKET ONLY

Hummingbird Café Opening Dinner on Friday Oct 7th

Unveiling of the Café sign and welcome address by the President and Hon Secretary.

The kitchen team!

Guests enjoying the excellent food and drink

Saturday 22nd October - The Avenue is holding the Next Quiz Night

Quiz due to start at 7 for 7.30pm and will compromise of general knowledge questions with some surprise different subjects (a joker round will be allowed, where each team can decide which round to use it and double their score.

Teams of approx 6 with a prize for the winning team. Only £1.00 per person to enter, sandwiches will also be available on the night for an additional £1.50.

03.10.2011 Autumn 2011 newsletter is out. Click here for the Newsletter page.

24.09.2011 A VirginMedia customer? Not receiving e-mails from the club? Please look HERE for some help with spam filtering....

Friday 7th October Grand Launch of Hummingbird Cafe

Chilli Fiesta pictures from 17 Sept 2011!

Well done to Jasper for winning the grand Chilli Chump prize. Despite being disqualified in previous years his perservernace has paid off, taking the prize for best plant.

Chilli pot entry

The coveted award!

26.08.2011 Real ale festival dates announced. See poster below.

17.08.2011 Club WiFi. At this time the WiFi has been disabled. See the WiFi page for more details.

13.08.2011 Zumba classes. A second Zumba class is now held on Saturday mornings. See the Fitness team for more details...

11.08.2011 RSS Feed for the news page has just been created.

03.08.2011 CHILLI FIESTA - Saturday September 17th @ 7.30pm

30.07.2011

County Week July 2011

This year we hosted Ladies Group 2, which provided play of a very high standard. The teams included a player with recent experience playing in The US Open girl’s singles and a fourteen-year-old girl who had won her first ITF title the week before our event

The event was not blessed with good weather and our back-up facility of astro and hard courts was soon in use. Nevertheless the full daily schedule of 3x9 rubbers was completed each day. The latest finish was under lights on the first day.

Hampshire, Middlesex, Dorset, Essex, Sussex and Leicestershire were in the line up. Hampshire began the week with a 5-4 win over the highly fancied Middlesex side, this being decided by an exciting final rubber, under lights, on the remote hard court 7, in front of the kind of numerous and enthusiastic support to which this court is not always accustomed.

Friday was to be our first full day on our brilliantly prepared grass courts. It was fitting that results up to this points were so close that four teams were still in a position to win promotion to Group 1. Two teams go up. Two teams stay put. Two teams go down. Hampshire had done well, scoring three 5-4 wins and one 4-5 loss during the first four days. A final day 5-4 win for Hampshire over Sussex and the way other results panned out led to a first place position for Hampshire and promotion to Group 1. Middlesex won three and lost two matches during the week. A 9-0 win and an 8-1 win showed their potential and three wins out of five, with a big rubber score, was enough to gain second place.

The non-playing Hampshire Captain was Sue Espley, a former Avenue member. She reached County standard as a player after making a very late start in the game. Members at the club remember her start in the game, as a grown up, hitting balls against our practice wall. She is a brilliant example to us all. She has played in events at Eastbourne and knows that the Hampshire girls are in for an equal treat next year when the play there in Group 1.

The use of the back-up courts led to some disruption in the daily events of our coaches who made every possible effort to support the event.

Wednesday night saw the Quiz Night and Buffet. The promised sumptuous buffet was an absolute treat and a ‘steal’ at £6. The brilliant Quiz saw the bar raised when it comes to standard of preparation and delivery.

The week’s events were only made possible by the many members who worked very hard in so many ways. Thank you all.

Doug Yelland (Club County Week Representative)

Here are some images that capture the event....

22.07.2011 Avenue Christmas party - date set for Saturday December 17th. More details to follow........

18.07.2011 The menu system has been updated and is now working correctly on a PC within recent versions of Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.

16.07.2011 The menu system for the website is not working correctly in Internet Explorer. We are working on correcting this.

15.07.2011 The Avenue Summer Tennis Tournament took place on a wonderfully hot sunny June day.
The Club looked most welcoming with colourful flower beds and hanging baskets; finalists and spectators were able to purchase tea, cakes, strawberries and cream and also drinks from the bar. Everyone enjoyed watching the high level of tennis being played by the finalists. A big thank you to all those who participated in a very successful Summer Tournament and to those who helped run the event and man the bar.
Congratulations to all those winners and commiserations to all to the runners-up!
Thank you again Sue Kent and Ed Percival

For full results please click here

03.07.2011 Retro Matic play The Avenue. It was a very popular night, thanks to everyone who attended

18.06.2011 Many thanks to Vasili and Tatiana for the excellent food on the first ever Greek night.

10.06.2011 The Avenue are proud to announce our new sponsors

14.05.2011 We have opened up our Facebook Group. Why not join it????

Check out our Facebook page for new events!

10.05.2011 Tickets available for live music event

02.05.2011 Open Day highlights

Here are some of the highlights from the day. A big thankyou to all the staff and volunteers that made is memorable.

The skittle alley was very popular with the kids.

Of course there was plenty of homemade cakes

And some beer to wash it down

The charity challenge raised £79 . The fitness team managed to cycle a total distance of 88.8km.
Delia Curry was the person with the closest guess to the distance that the team covered and won a hamper.

There was an exhibition tennis match with the coaches playing. Here is Roger Manvell pleased with another point! The match ended

21.04.2011 The bar will be closed on Good Friday & Easter Monday.
The bar will be open on the Royal Wedding Friday April 29th and on The Avenue 'Open Day' Monday May 2nd