Member Area

The standard club subs/fees are £27.50 a month for all groups apart from U10s, U12s, U14s, U16s and U18s which are £35. These subs/fees are based on an annual fee divided by 48 weeks. See ‘How is my membership calculated’ for more.

After your player’s free taster session, you will be contacted by Coach John regarding the initial fee. This will usually be however many session days are left in the month we are currently in, plus a month upfront which caters for the 30 days notice at the end of the player’s membership.

For example a Kinder player comes to the club for their free taster. There are two weeks left in the month after the free taster. The initial fee will be £41.26 which is worked out as £13.76 (2 x £6.88 a week) + £27.50 (30 days notice period). The next payment is due 1st of the following month (and each month thereafter) will be £27.50; the standard club subs/fee.

A player’s monthly membership includes opportunities to win the ‘Most Improved’, ‘Best Offence’, ‘Best Defence’ and best ‘Best Teammate’ in our ‘Core Skills Recognition’ certification awards run every 4 months. 

Membership also includes discounts on Day Camps at Bourne Academy, and priority access to our outdoor facility at The Branksome Centre.

Additionally the U12s, U14s, U16s and U18s have their BE licenses, DBA licenses, table official and all referee fees on game days worked into their monthly fee.

Although there are different monthly subs/fees/prices per group, the monthly cost is worked out the same way; an annual cost, divided by 12. This is because some months there will be 4 or 5 regular group session days, but the monthly cost remains fixed to make things easier for the club and parents.

Note that the club aims to run 48 regular group sessions a year. See ‘What happens if a regular session is not run by the club’ for more.

Membership is paid for monthly in advance via Standing Order only! Subs are due the 1st of each month. We do not accept cash or cheques. If the club encounters a direct bank payment rather than a payment made by Standing Order, the club’s General Manager will be in touch with you to correct this for the future…

If payment for some reason has not been received on time, the club’s General Manager will get in touch with you within the first week of the month. If no contact has been made back from you, and/or payment for the month has not been acquired from you by the last day of the month, your player’s space will become at risk with immediate effect. This means that the club will assume your player is no longer interested in being a club member at the current time, and their space will likely be filled by another player on the waiting list.

There is no contract or minimum term – just a standard 30 day notice period if your player wishes to leave the club.

For example, if in the middle of the month your player wishes to cease coming immediately, and for some reason you have not paid already subs for that month, the upfront ‘Final Month’ fee you paid at the beginning of your membership (Sept 2021 on) will cater for that current month and there is nothing more to pay. If you already paid for the current month, and it is the middle of the month, we would look to credit you back 2 weeks subs.

For those members who joined prior to Sept 2021 that did not provide the ‘Final Month’ fee, or who are not in credit, we would expect for the current month to have been paid in full by then, plus any additional weeks to cover the full 30 days notice.

Please take a look at the details below so that your player can come to the club and enter the court in a safe and ‘basketball ready’ manner:

Long hair: Players with long hair should have it tied back for the entire session (pony tail, plats, braids etc) so vision is not obstructed during sessions.

Shoes: Players need to wear comfortable sports shoes: trainers/basketball boots with rubber, grippy soles. Unfortunately ‘Shaq’ shoes slide on the indoor courts at Cornerstone and Bourne so we don’t approve of this brand.  Players need to have their laces done up tightly and double-knotted so that they do not come undone during play.

Clothing: Players can wear an ordinary t-shirt or basketball style jerseys for the sessions, but avoid deep-neck and short tops. Whichever style is chosen, tops must be tucked into shorts. Sweaters are fine to fine during session however, if these need to be removed during the session, they will need to be placed in the changing rooms not the floor or bench areas in the hall. Shorts, leggings and joggers are perfectly fine.

Wearables: Please remove any watches, Fitbits, and any jewellery before the sessions.

Phones: These can be taken into the hall and given to a coach who will place them high above the ‘bottle bench’ for safe keeping until the session is over.

Water bottles: These need to be filled up before entering the hall. All bottles should be plastic and have self-sealing lids – not screw top single use – as this can and has lead to many large spillages.

We really appriciate parents, carers and players cooperation on this matter so please check all the above before entering the hall :-).

Lets play safe!

Due to the new carpets being laid September 2022, there is no longer food or drink permitted in the hallway. Only water and non-fizzy sports drinks are permitted in the sports hall itself. Players can eat snacks and consume other drinks in the changing room as necessary.

This means that spectators and players are no longer permitted any hot drinks or fizzy drinks or any type of food in the sports hall.

Spectators should come into the hall – not hang around in the doorway – and either stand or sit on any bench at the ends of the court only (not on the ‘bottle bench’). Spectators are also there to ‘spectate’, not use the opportunity to stare at phones or use laptops/tablets etc, mainly for health and safety reasons. If you need to use your phone, feel free to go outside or into the corridor. If spectators are recording images and videos of their player(s) during sessions, this media must not be shared publicly. Additionally, if you become aware that images or video are being used inappropriately you should inform Coach John immediately with details of the occurrence.

The club aims to run 48 training sessions a year. Membership is based on this amount of sessions.

See ‘Training Programme’ above for all scheduled/planned closed dates.

If a session for any reason is cancelled by the club, we shall offer another session option, a refund for the session or credit towards a future payment.

If for any reason your player cannot make a session, such as on a holiday, through illness, in quarantine etc, just let Coach John know as soon as possible please so that he can make adjustments to the register for a given session. No refund or credit will be given.

However, we do expect on average that players come to 50%+ of all ‘training’ sessions held over any 3 month period. If we notice that players attend less than 50% of ‘training’ sessions, their membership will be under review. For ‘practice’ sessions (those in our U10/U12/U14/U16 and U18 squads) attendance is expected to be 75%+.

If the club runs, payments are due, and are due 1st of every month as normal. There is no exception to this; if your player takes a space, that space is payable, whether your player utilises it or not; there are no ‘payment holidays’.

See ‘How is my membership calculated’ for more.

Yes, in fact we aim to run 48 group sessions a year. As such, monthly subs are due throughout school holiday periods – just like any other time of the year; there are no ‘payment holidays’. See ‘How is my membership calculated’ and ‘What happens if a regular session is not run by the club?’ for more.

As we have up to 4 ‘training’ sessions for all age groups each weekend, we can certainly look to accommodate players swapping over to another group. This will of course depend on space and potentially other factors.

Get in touch with Coach John initially so we can look to work something out for you.

The club caters for 7-17 year olds and there are groups to suit all abilities and development opportunities within this age range. For example a 12 year old who would start in Juniors could progress to the U14s team and play games with other clubs through commitment, practice and hard work. They could then progress to the U16s team as their ability increases with their age. However, being in team is a privilege and high standards need to be maintained toward attitude and work ethic, otherwise there is a risk of them being reallocated into an age appropriate ‘training’ group (Juniors, Seniors) to make way for another player.

We have the Player Development Pathway programme available to all members. Check out the section on the Member Area about this.

Additionally, being a Basketball England affiliated club, the coaches scout for outstanding players who may be eligible for the Aspire programme that operate locally and nationally. The club aims to nominate 1 female and 1 male player in the 11-15 age group category annually to the programme. After nomination, BE manages the process and the club monitors progress with the players’ family closely.

From 2023/24 season, we shall have 5 teams; U10s, U12s, U14s, U16s and U18s. Throughout the year we look out for player’s skills, attitude and work ethic. Around April time, we look to develop plans regarding trials which happen throughout the month of June.

In May, players will need to send an ‘Application’ to join a team and if selected, will be invited to June trials. At the end of trials, the teams are selected and training starts from July, ready for the season ahead. The seasons typically run from October to May. In order applications to be considered, players will need to have been club members for at least 3 consecutive months, and have a 75%+ attendance rate before their application date.

There is a review point in January where it is possible that players not originally selected for a team can be invited to play in a team for the remainder of that season.

Absolutely. We understand players may need to move to something else for a while, and players are welcome to return in the future. However, we only allow players to return once.

Once a player knows when they wish to return, just get back in touch with Coach John and he shall add them to the waiting list for the relevant eligible training group(s). Most groups have an average waiting list of around 4-6months.