4 PINES Charlestown

July 27, 2021 - 3 years ago

Clubhouse/Sponsor Insight – 4 PINES

This year we started a new clubhouse partnership with 4 Pines Bar in Charlestown. The guys there are super keen to support community sport and totally vibe our ethos of playing sport, socialising and having fun.

The bar at Charlestown is wicked! It’s an awesome beer garden situated in The Corner at Charlestown Square surrounded by food vendors. You can order your food from any of the vendors in The Corner and then bring it back to enjoy in the beer garden. From Spring to Summer they also have live musicans playing every Friday or Saturday night.

As well as providing us with awesome giveaways at our events, they also offer all Urban Rec members 20% off at the bar. Next time your at Charlestown Square, grab a beverage and mention your an UR member to get your discount.

Their current promo is Free Delivery to surrounding suburbs. Sneak a peak at the promo they are running and enter 4 Pines family at the check out to get it delivered for FREE. HOW GOOD!?

4pinesbeer.com.au/delivery

6 Week Leagues

July 21, 2021 - 3 years ago

If you missed out on the start of the Winter season, you couldn’t get your teams act together and get around to registering before many of the leagues sold out well don’t worry you’re in luck! We are offering a 6 Week league for some of our competitions. 

The 6 week competitions are a great way to start your sport journey as you only have to commit to 6 weeks, the weather will start to warm up by the time the competitions start and you’ll be getting that summer body ready in Spring. Perfect!

Below is a list of 6 week leagues we are running at the end of winter.

• Multisport Thursday @ Maryville (1 x team spot, limited individual spots)
• Basketball Tuesday @ Cooks Hill (2 x team spots, individual spots available)
• Touch Football Thursday @ Waratah (3 x team spots, individual spots available)
• Indoor Soccer Wednesday @ Maryville (2 x team spots, individual spots available)
• Netball Monday @ Cooks Hill (1 x team spot, limited individual spots)
• Multisport Monday @ Maryville (individual spots only)

Alot of these competitions only have 1 – 2 team spots in them and a handful of individual places available. If you’re keen, then either put down a deposit for your team ASAP or sign up as an individual below all the places go.

Click the link and register!

Winter Blues

June 24, 2021 - 3 years ago

The Winter Blues are here and many people might be experienceing them already. Some people may be feeling a little down, lacking energy, changed sleeping patterns, struggling to get out of bed. The cooler months make us want to hibenate and wish the 3 months will fly by. 

It’s important to keep a routine through winter and make sure your body is active or you will undo all the hard work you put in to your health and fitness in Summer and Autumn this year.

Playing sport

• Allows the brain to release hormones like adrenaline, epinephrine, and norepinephrine, which can help make you feel happy.
• Continues to tone and develop muscle strength through sport. If going to the gym is a drag, playing in a team sport does heaps for your cardio and muscle strength.
• Connect with friends in your team on a weekly basis. 
• Commit and make yourself accountable. When you sign up to a team you will make sure that you are there everyweek for your team.

Tip for teams: If your team is currently playing an outdoor sport and are really not feeling like playing outside again in Winter, then join one of the many indoor sports we have running. You’ll be able to see your mates once a week and keep up your fitness. It’s a win win.

What is Multisport?

June 17, 2021 - 3 years ago

The most common question we get asked is.. What is Multisport!?

It’s pretty simple really, you play multiple sports across the 10 week competition! There are two types of Multisport competitions that we run. Field Multisport which is played outdoors at Waratah Park and then we have Indoor Multisport which is played Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights at Revolution Sports Park in Maryville.

The Multisport competition is for the individual or team that can’t commit or decide on just one sport. You play in the same team each week but your team wil rotate through the changing sports together. 

Indoor Multisport can include the following sports

• Dodgeball, Ultimate Frisbee, Indoor Soccer, Olympic Handball, Backyard Cricket, Benchball, Street Netball, Kickball, Street Basketball, Trampoline Dodgeball, Floor Hockey and Volleyball

Field Multisport can include the following sports

• Touch Football, Soccer, Aussie Rules, Flag Gridiron, Ultimate Frisbee, Kickball

If you haven’t played sport in a while or are trying to work out which sport you like, then Multisport is your best option. The competition is full of very social people who are all there to have a good time, meet new people and get active doing it.

Have a look at all the multisport competitions we are running this season by clicking this link.

Winter Leagues

June 8, 2021 - 3 years ago

The winter season isn’t great, we all know that. The best way to beat those winter blues is to commit to a team/sport for the season. It’ll make you accountable to yourself and to your team and on those nights when you don’t feel like getting up off the couch, it will make it all worth it when you are on the court, laughing with your mates and getting fit.

Have a look at all the leagues we are running through Winter and find one that suits you. 

Mondays

• Multisport @ Maryville
• Netball @ Cooks Hill

Tuesdays

• Netball @ Cooks Hill
• Multisport @ Maryville
• Field Multisport @ Waratah
• Basketball @ Cooks Hill

Wednesday

• Indoor Soccer @ Maryville
• Basketball @ Cooks Hill

Thursday

• Multisport @ Maryville
• Touch Football @ Waratah
• Indoor Soccer @ Lambton

Click the link for each sport and register your team or sign up solo.

Individual and Team Registration Fees - Winter 2021

June 1, 2021 - 3 years ago

Urban Rec has increased our prices this season, and we would like to take this opportunity to explain. 

As a club we have not increased our team fees for a year now. In that time every over-head associated with running our leagues and sports club have inflated beyond what is sustainable with the current registration fee rate. Although the fee increase to our members happened from one season to the next, the costs incurred to us as a club has been rising for years.

Individual registration fee:

On average the fee increase for a 10 week season has increased $10 for the entire 10 game season, in other words $1 per game. We have also added the UR Draft that you get free access to. See below for more information about this new program.

Team Registration fee;

The average increase in team fees has been between $80-$90 for the entire 10 week season. If you have a team of 8 people it’s only an increase of $1 – $2 per person per week.

The three most obvious overhead increases are court hire, staffing and insurances.

• Court hire – Very simply the prices of fields and courts in Newcastle have increased. Venue hire is a competitive market, and these venue’s have a monopoly. We do our best to provide the best venues for you guys, but field and court hire has increased annually. What’s more we are one of the few clubs that will guarentee rained out, forfeited, or missed games are replayed. This is a cost we cost. 
• Staffing – Our event hosts are paid fairly, and are a valued part of the team. We believe we have the best staff in the business, and we will always continue to reward them for their time and investment. 
• Insurance  – Without insurance we are legally not allowed to operate, as the leagues grow, the member base grows, so do our insurance premiums. 

Although we are not technically a not-for-profit, our business model is run as such, with all profits re-invested in the club. We rely on volume and return customers - not high profits. 

We are really competitive when it comes to registration fees compared to the vast majority of our Industry. Our mission is to make sport accessible for everyone. 

The other stuff we do as part of your fees? Urban Rec likes to offer all kinds of free or discounted opportunities for our members, things like; UR Awesome, Pub Nights, discounts at clubhouses, free jugs seasonally, Pri-Rego Promo’s, FreePlay nights, and social events (which run without profit also). 

THE UR DRAFT

This is another perk that you now get when you sign up as an individual. Each Monday at 5pm we update the draft with a list of individual teams that need players for the season. Check out the link about the UR Draft for more information.

The bottom line is, we truly believe that what we deliver to our members exceeds any of our competitors in the sport and fitness industry – and we will always continue to offer value for money for our members. 

$100 off for Returning Teams - Priority Registration

May 30, 2021 - 3 years ago

!!PRIORITY REGISTRATION!!

WHAT IS IT?

If your team is planning on returning for the Winter season then listen up! Your captain will be sent a link to re-register into the Winter competition on June 14. They will need to register using this link between June 14 – June 21. This secret link will give your team $100 off team registration! Woohoo!

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Captains will need to register using the secret link before June 21. If your captain does this, your team will receive $100 off for the Winter Season.

WHEN DOES MY TEAM NEED TO REGISTER BY?

The link your captain will get sent will expire on 21 June at 11:59pm. If your squad isn’t registered by then, you will miss out on the sweet discount.  

If your team misses out on the $100 off you will need to pay full price, SO MAKE SURE YOU GET YOUR CAPTAIN TO REGISTER YOUR TEAM.

T&C’s – To be eligible for entry into the priority registration pool, a team must –

1. Register during priority registration week (June 14 – June 24) – No late comers.
2. Be registered back into the same league they had played in the season before. (No transfers)
3. IF using the deposit system, the BALANCE must be paid before end of priority registration week (Mon 21st June )
4. For any other additional information and FAQs please see HERE.

MFP - Most Fun Player

May 11, 2021 - 3 years ago

MOST FUN PLAYER

This season we are adding another prize into the mix.

We have Fun Point Winners, we have League Champions and now we have MFP's!! We are adding another prize to our end of season winners.

Each week the host of your league will choose one player from the night as the MFP. An MFP is someone who is super fun, a great sportsperson, very inclusive and kind. At the end of the season, the player with the most votes for MFP from their host will get a rad prize.

To put it simply - Most Fun Player is a prize for being an amazing human. Ask your host what you can do to be an MFP this season.

Free team T-shirts for returning teams

March 18, 2021 - 3 years ago

!!PRIORITY REGISTRATION!!

WHAT IS IT?

If your team is planning on returning for the Autumn season then listen up! Your captain will be sent a link to re-register into the Autumn competition between on March 22nd. They will need to register using this link between March 22 – March 29. Once your team has registered using the link, your team will get a sick new set of UR Team t-shirts in Week 1 of the Autumn competition.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Captains will need to register using the secret link before March 29th. If your captain does this, your team will receive the team t-shirt pack on Week 1 of the Autumn competition.

WHEN DOES MY TEAM NEED TO REGISTER BY?

The link your captain will get sent will expire on 29 March at 11:59pm. If your squad isn’t registered by then, you will miss out on a free set of team t-shirts. 

How does colours and sizing work?

Each team t-shirt set will include 8 t-shirts. Netball and Touch Football teams will get 10 t-shirts.

Sizing for a set of 8 1 x S, 3 x M, 3 x L and 1 x XL. Sizing for a set of 10 – 2 x S, 3 x M, 3 x L and 2 x XL. 

Additional t-shirts can be bought for $10 each. We have 5 colours to choose from, you can request one of the five colours to choose from however if two teams in the competition choose the same colour we will flip a coin to see who gets what colour. This is the best way for us to make sure it is fair. 

REMEMBER YOU’VE GOT TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT, SO MAKE SURE YOU GET YOUR CAPTAIN TO REGISTER YOUR TEAM.

T&C’s – To be eligible for entry into the priority registration pool, a team must –

1. Register during priority registration week (Mon 22nd – Mon 29th March) – No late comers.
2. Be registered back into the same league they had played in the season before. (No transfers)
3. IF using the deposit system, the BALANCE must be paid before end of priority registration week (Mon 22nd March)
4. For any other additional information and FAQs please see HERE.

Discount for new teams

March 15, 2021 - 3 years ago

New Leagues and Locations this season!

This Autumn season we are going BIG. We are launching a whole heap of new sports at our new location in Lambton. To say we are excited is an understatement. We are thrilled to be moving into new areas across Newcastle and we want as many of you to join us in this journey.

Any new teams who are registering into leagues at our new location at Lambton High School will get $200 off their registration. The discount is up on our website now. Have a look here at all the NEW leagues this Autumn.

• Dodgeball – Wednesdays
• Multisport – Wednesdays
• Netball – Thursdays
• Soccer – Thursdays

Discount is only for new teams.