Badminton

Captain(s): Mark Cooper

Cricket

Captains(s): Amay Ruia and Laurence Hegarty

Cross Country

Captain(s): ?

Darts

Captain(s): Patrick Neyman and Ben Powell

Men's Basketball

Captain(s): Allan Waller

Men's Football A

Captain(s): Jack Porter and Pat McConvey

Men's Football B

Captain(s): Raf Starace

Men's Hockey

Captain(s): Charlie Chalkly-Maber

Mixed Lacrosse

Captain(s): Daniel Martin-Thomas

Netball

Captain(s): Georgina Graham (overall). Alibar Moore (As)

Netball B

Captain(s): Georgina Graham (overall). Del Williams

Pool

Captain(s): Robert Snell

Rowing

Rugby

Captian(s): Mark Spolten-Dean and Oliver Wooton

Ski Club

Captain(s): Nick Orton

Squash

Captain(s): Harry Walker

Swimming

Captain(s): Hadi Makarem

Tennis

Captain(s): Iona Mclean

Ultimate Frisbee

Ultimate Frisbee

The best sport in John's! We train every wednesday and play competitively every weekend. If you want to get involved with a friendly team in a sport that's easy to learn and fun to play, feel free to get involved!

For more information e-mail Sean Illing at s.j.illing@durham.ac.uk

Women's Basketball

Captain(s): Marianne Baird

Women's Football

Captain(s): Lucy Pearson

Women's Hockey

Captain(s): Helena Patton

Women's Rugby

Captain(s): Nefta Dixon

Sports Council

Amnesty International

The St John's branch of Amnesty is a friendly and passionate society within college. It really gives its members (and the college as a whole) a chance to make a difference to the individual lives of persecuted people all over the world. We look at Amnesty campaigns from England to China and would love as much support and as many ideas as possible! We meet as often as we can and are planning many socials/bar crawls/events etc so get involved and save the human!

Bailey Theatre Company

The Bailey Theatre Company (BTC) is St John’s college Theatre Company. We are completely run by John’s students, although we often audition from the whole university. Over the past few years we have produced a range of high quality productions in Leech Hall, the Chapel and the Assembly Rooms and have gained a university-wide reputation as one of the University’s leading theatre companies. In the past year we have won Best Play for our production of Dr Faustus and two Johnians scooped the Best Actor and Actress awards at this year’s Durham Drama Festival.

We seek to encourage any form of drama, be it serious Greek tragedy or light-hearted comedy so if you’re interested in putting on a production please get in touch with any member of the exec.

We also seek to encourage participation in the backstage elements of theatre. So if you’re interested in hair, make-up, costumes, props, stage managing, producing, lighting, sound or set building get in touch and we can help point you in the right direction.

On this page you will find details of who is on the exec and what their job is. If you fancy running for one of the positions please feel free to get in touch with whoever is currently doing it. You will also find details of past productions with links to reviews.

The BTC Exec

Chair – Emma Butler (e.j.butler@durham.ac.uk)

Oversees the running of BTC and the exec and acts as a point of contact for matters concerning BTC both from DST and college. The Chair calls and chairs meetings, and has the final say on any decisions needing to be made. They also ensure all exec members understand their duties and ensure they complete any tasks assigned to them. At the end of the term of office, the Chair is responsible for the handover to the next exec.

Vice-chair – Callum Cheatle (callum.cheatler@durham.ac.uk)

Supports the Chair in his/her responsibilities. Organises annual showcase to take place in late autumn or early spring term.

Secretary – Jessica Orr (j.e.orr@dur.ac.uk)

Needs to be able to support the Chair and Vice Chair as well as helping with general decisions made by the entire exec. Additional requirements specific to the role are to organise exec meetings, write minutes of each meeting and circulate them to the rest of the exec and use the minutes as a record of decisions made and tasks given to members. The Secretary should also liaise with other members of the exec to check that they are happy with any tasks that they are given and to offer any further assistance.

Treasurer - Greg Silverman

Attends Finance Committee meetings to represent BTC and present any play budgets. Any budget proposals for plays must be approved by the BTC treasurer, who then presents them to the JJCR treasurer to approve.

Resources - Nicola Jones & Danielle O'Hagan

In charge of props/set/costume/make-up in the BTC cupboard and available to help with costume, props and make-up for shows if needed. It is also their responsibility to keep the BTC archives up to date.

Publicity - Tash Cowley

Responsible for sorting out stash for the Exec, keeping the website page up to date and producing publicity for the Summer Shakespeare. They are also available to do publicity for any BTC show if required.

Tech Officer - Clare Bliss

Working with the Daylight Robbery rep to ensure the John’s lighting and sound equipment is in working order. Available to provide technical assistance to productions if required. Responsible for ensuring that there is at least one other person in the college who is able to sort out technical aspects of a play and train people to use the college’s technical equipment.

Past productions with reviews

Chapel Choir

The auditioned choral scholars of the chapel choir sing the office of Evensong every Wednesday in the chapel, alongside other services such as the End of Term Cathedral services. They are one of the best choirs in the University and sing to an extremely high standard. Auditions are held at the start of Michaelmas Term so you need to apply very soon after you arrive.

Choir

Christian Union (CU)

You might guess that there are quite a few Christians in John’s. The Christian Union is a place where we can all meet together, supporting and encouraging each other. You don’t have to be a Christian to come along, and you don’t have to come along if you are a Christian - hopefully any Christian will feel a part of the union of Christians regardless of level of activity.

So the main meeting is on a Monday night. We are linked to the whole University Christian Union (DICCU) - a bit like a subsidiary. It’s all inter-denominational and hopefully it’s all about Jesus. Feel free to email either of the two reps that like to pretend like we’re in charge.

Dance

Daylight Robbery

Perhaps the smallest society in John's is Daylight Robbery - the DJ-ing society, which also provides music at College bops. If you're interested in music to dance to, from cheese to happy hardcore, Daylight Robbery can cater for you. If you already have any technical DJ skills or are even just willing to learn, John's needs you!

Neighbours Society

Do you love Neighbours so much that it's difficult to breathe? Do you watch it twice a day and wish to name your children Karl or Harold (even if they're girls)? Wander over to the TV room in the afternoon or evening to find a whole host of like minded people.

Weekdays 1:45 pm and 5:30 pm in the TV room.

Orchestra

The College Orchestra is a non-auditioned group which performs to a high standard. We rehearse once a week (at the moment orchestra on Saturday mornings), and perform a very wide variety of music, from Bach to Bernstein and Vivaldi to...er...Mancini! Rehearsals are often hard work, but also a lot of fun and no matter what your ability level is you are welcome to join. We have people who have not taken graded exams to people with diplomas on their instruments.

The choir and orchestra's joint performance of Vivaldi's Gloria in the College Chapel last summer was a great success, with over 100 in the audience! We are planning to do something similar this year for the John's centenary celebrations, so if you are at all interested, please get involved!

Photographic Society

If you like to take pictures, then join Photosoc. With a well equipped darkroom and camera in college, workshops and opportunities to exhibit your work, it's your chance to become the next world-famous photographer.

If you're interested in learning how to use the dark room or anything else to do with photography, get in touch.

Poker Society

The poker society consists of a group of people who play poker for fun. We meet once a week to play a casual game of poker. In the society we don't play poker for money. 

We welcome people of any level. If you haven't played before, we will teach you how to play.

Weekly game at 8pm Thursdays in the Cockerton room. We normally play two games, one from 8-10pm and antoerh one from 10-11.30 pm.

If you have any questions please contact me

Gunnar Ro g.o.i.ro@dur.ac.uk

Random Events

Organises random events around college. If you're interested in coordinating the activities of this society get in touch with societies-officer@johnsjcr.org.uk

Ski Club

This year St John's Ski & Snowboard Club will be running its annual trip to the Alps. Last year's trip was described by some as '...the best holiday I've ever had..." and others said'...I just wish this trip was longer...' and it was a huge success. The trip this year will be similar and welcomes everyone from the person who has never even seen snow before let alone stepped on a pair of skis to the progressive snow-plougher to the red run maniac all the way up to the seasoned racer or powder fiend. There is something for everyone of every standard. If you haven't skied before we can organise you lessons and if you want to try Snowboarding then we can make it happen for you or if you want to be jumping off snow-covered crevasses then we can get you the insurance and set you off!

If that hasn't convinced you enough you should also know that we have some great socials and the best gilets in Durham. FACT! So while you're dreaming of what you might want to be doing during the end of the Christmas holidays then dream of the St John's College Ski & Snowboard Club trip.

Sports Supporters Society

Sport at John’s is not just about the taking part - it’s about standing on the sideline in the rain cheering on your college! John’s always has more supporters than anyone else and it’s great to share in sporting triumph or disaster without getting tired or dirty! The society basically exists to publicise forthcoming fixtures and provide the obligatory megaphones and sandwich boards. You don’t have to play any sport to join - just come along and get behind your college!

Societies Council