It is our pleasure and honour to announce that two skaters from Surrey Rollergirls, Ellen A* and Sylvia Bloodbath, will be joining the mixed team “Masters of the Derbyverse” in a bout against the Seaside Sirens B-team, the Heartless Beaches.
The bout takes places on April 21st in Southend-on-Sea. For more information or to buy tickets, please visit the Facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/events/122493077876710/
Hope to see some of you there!
Sylvia x
Like all grassroots sports, roller derby is completely DIY and funded mainly by the skaters.
Sometimes, however, we need a little extra lift financially to get us where we need to be. That is exactly what we will be trying to do with our first ever fundraiser!
On April 5th, Surrey Rollergirls shall descend upon the Star Inn in central Guildford, for an evening of bands, booze, prizes and cakes! All this for the meagre sum of only £4 (£3 for you student types)
The bands playing are:
Cynotia – girl-driven rock from Berkshire and Gloucestershire - http://www.facebook.com/Cynotia
4hours – pop punk from London - http://www.facebook.com/4HoursMusic
ashestoangels – synth-tinged goth punk from Bristol - http://www.facebook.com/ashestoangels
But we don’t just want to help ourselves. We at Surrey Rollergirls want to help our local community as well, and because of that we will be donating all the proceeds from our raffle to Guildford Action, who help individuals and families in need throughout the Guildford area.
We hope to see you there!
Sylvia Bloodbath (formerly Uzi Quatro) x
Surrey Rollergirls are very proud and excited to announce our first sponsor, Queens of the Sin Bin!
Queens of the Sin Bin - roller derby apparel
QOTSB is a Swansea based, derby operated company, providing low cost, high quality roller derby apparel. We are thrilled to be working with them, and you should look out for some awesome SRG merch coming out of our partnership with them soon!
For more info and links, check out our updated Sponsors page.
Uzi x
Thank you so much to Mike Buxton and Nick Wallis at the BBC for having Uzi and Michelle on BBC Surrey today! A great time was had by all and we were really happy with the coverage given. If you listened in and want to know more, email us on:
info@surreyrollergirls.com
You can listen again on BBC iPlayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00ntkqy/Surrey_Breakfast_with_Nick_Wallis_18_02_2012
Our piece starts at 2hours 15 minutes in. Thanks again to BBC Surrey!
Uzi x
Michelle and Uzi will be representing Surrey Rollergirls LIVE on BBC Surrey tomorrow from 8.25am! We will be discussing roller derby, promoting the team, and there may even be some skating! You can listen live online here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_surrey
Or listen again on BBC iPlayer, link to come!
We got the girls, we got the hall, and finally we had time to sit down and hash out the juicy details.
A VERY talented friend of mine, Nerys James, has worked with SRG before, making our very first recruitment flyer. She was the obvious choice to keep working with, and after talking it through with the team, a rollergirl twist on the Surrey Stag was decided upon.
Without further ado I present to you, our beautiful new logo!
The SRG logo on white
The SRG logo on black, with detail
I think we can all agree that Nerys did an amazing job, and I’m proud to represent SRG with this logo. Coming to a merch stand near you soon!
Uzi x
Michelle and Tracey in kit, representing Surrey Rollergirls!
From Tracey of the Surrey Rollergirls:
Today Michelle and I went along to the University of Surrey’s mid-year ReFresher’s Fayre to recruit some Fresh Meat for Surrey Rollergirls! There was a great atmosphere and tons of people showed up for the event. It was awesome to meet some of the societies and other sports clubs in the local area, and we handed out hundreds of flyers encouraging people to get involved. We’re after new rollergirls but also anyone (of any gender) interested in being a (skating) referee or NSO (non-skating official). We also left some flyers with NoWave, the University’s alternative music society (alt girls, we love you) and the University’s book shop, so hopefully that will help spread the word further! I was delighted every time someone took a flyer from us and even more by some of the girls who went “Oooooh!” when they heard the words “roller derby”. To the people I spoke to who were worried because they can’t skate yet: we’re Fresh Meat ourselves so don’t worry, come along and learn with us! Huge thanks also go out to Ellie B, who helped provide us with flyers and supported us on the day.
Tracey x
Uzi x
Hi everyone.
We got some great news today, we have been given permission to start practicing at the Guildford Community Centre right in the centre of town. I have spent half the day jumping up and down in excitement, the other half worrying about getting a practice schedule sorted out!
Our current practice schedule is as follows:
Wednesdays: 8pm-10pm
Every second Sunday 9am-11am
If you would like to get involved, please get in touch at:
info@surreyrollergirls.com
Uzi x
Queens of the Sin Bin
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