Club History

  On Tuesday 12^th August 1947 Brush Sports and Social Club held a meeting to re-form the Ladies Section of the Hockey Club.  Fees were agreed at 5 shillings to Brush members and 10 to non-members.  During their first year the club played 16 games, winning 12, drawing 1 and losing 3, scoring an impressive 88 goals with only 24 against!!

  May 1977 saw the club move to Burleigh Community College and also saw the first of many name changes, when Burleigh Community College Ladies Hockey Club was formed.  After 2 years the club saw another name change, to Charnwood Ladies Hockey Club.

  In 1980 the club moved on again to Derby Road Playing Fields, then via Whitwick moved out of the Charnwood District to Groby Community College,

  Another addition to the name was created when the club managed to get sponsorship form Living Well Health Club and Gym’s and the club became Charnwood Living Well and rose to their current position in the Midlands Premier League.

  In 2004 we moved to the new build at Soar Valley Leisure Centre, Mountsorrel and had yet another name change to Charnwood Mountsorrel Ladies Hockey Club.  New links were been made with Mountsorrel Bedouins Mixed Hockey Club and a joint venture by the two senior sides has seen the development of Mountsorrel Juniors Hockey Club. The club looked to further develop by establishing a second ladies team for the 2006/2007 season.

  As it turned out, the two long standing Leicestershire clubs of Charnwood Ladies HC and Sileby Ladies HC were fully amalgamated for 2007/08 season to become Charnwood Sileby HC. It formally came about after the two clubs worked together on a trial basis for a year to see how the mixture of young and old, experience and passion could come together. This successful pilot was concluded at an extraordinary meeting in Aug 2007 where the constitution was agreed and adopted.

  Not only was there a reformation of the two teams (seeing movements in both directions), but a new junior section was formed by adding a further pitch slot for new young players to receive training. It’s wasn't just about training either, the club took the opportunity to enter the fledgling team in the New LRHA Vixens leagues.

  Continuing to build towards a sound future, the club is, at 12/07, in the early stages of preparation to submit its application to England Hockey for its ‘Clubs First’ accreditation mark.  Thus it will ensure that club policies, child welfare and appropriate coaching is core to the club's continuing development where, it is hoped, a bright and long future will be there for all our members.