Upchurch Cricket Week in memory of Don Macaulay
July 21st - 25th 2014
To all members & associates:
Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this letter, we are fast approaching this year’s cricket week and we wanted to let you all know what’s happening this year, why and hopefully you can all support it one way or another.
The cricket week started several years ago in memory of Don Macaulay who was a good friend, cricketer and loyal member to the club, we were all devastated to lose him at such a young age. It was thought the best way to remember him was by staging a cricket week in his honour, I think it’s fair to say that over the years the way the club has grown in size, stature and playing members the week itself has become a bit lost and forgotten about with many members not knowing who Don was, but we think it’s important that as a club we never forget our roots or the people that helped put our club in the position we are today. We feel we are also missing a great opportunity to promote the club, attract different opposition, raise awareness for a great charity and put the club on the map with a week that we can all be proud of.
When we approached Dons parents about staging a cricket week in his honour and raising some money they asked if it could be given to the Macmillan nurses as they were a great help and comfort to the family at the time, as a club I think the most we’ve ever raised is approx. £150 so obviously this year we’d like to smash that figure through the roof and raise as much as possible.
We managed to raise £1000 from local businesses in order to fund the week, so you may see various business advertising throughout the week in return for their support, we have Macmillan on board and the event is registered with them. Fixtures have proved difficult to obtain this year we started a face book and twitter campaign which led to many blind alleys but I think we have made some useful contacts for next year and may well be attracting some touring sides, this year we just missed the boat on that front however the itinerary for the week is as follows:
Monday 21st Upchurch V Chatham Nomads XI 2pm 40 over BBQ/Curry night
Tuesday 22nd Upchurch V Sherwood CC XI 2pm 40 over BBQ/ Quiz night
Wednesday 23rd Upchurch V TKW XI 2pm 40 over BBQ/Karaoke
Thursday 24th Upchurch V Meopham CC XI 2pm 40 over BBQ
Friday 25th LMS cricket tournament 4 teams 10am -7pm Hog roast/Live band
We end the week by having a cricket franchise called Last man standing down to run the day, its 8 a side 20/20 cricket with a couple of twists we are putting the 4 teams together comprising of an Upchurch seniors, a colts team, parents & coaches team & the football team will be entering a squad, it will hopefully be a fun day to end the week with the finale in the evening an all ticket affair at £5 each for the hog roast, live band, raffle and auction.
We will be staging all this outside with an outside bar and marques up with hopefully various activities going on all day for entertainment. We have been very fortunate with some great prizes for the evening ranging from Lords tickets including the tour for 4 along with donations from Canterbury & the Oval, Leeds castle and many more.
This stage is where we need all your help as obviously all this will not come together without the support of players and volunteers from the club, there will be many jobs to be helped out with as well as players to fulfil fixtures, and if you are unable to manage an afternoon off for a game or two then please come down and support the week after work. We are aiming to sell 200 tickets for the Friday evening so please let us know how many you would like for yourself and your families and let’s try and make it a successful week, please if you could fill in the attached form on the back and hand it in or let myself or Dave know of your availability by next weekend 12th /13th we’d be very grateful.
Kind Regards, Lee & Dave PTO
Date: Name & Availability
Monday 21st ___________________________________________________________
Tuesday 22nd ___________________________________________________________
Wednesday 23rd ___________________________________________________________
Thursday 24th ___________________________________________________________
Friday 25th ___________________________________________________________
Monday 21st Tuesday 22nd Wednesday 23rd Thursday 24th Friday 25th
N/A
Volunteers For:
Bar work YES/NO
Groundwork YES/NO
BBQ YES/NO
Umpiring YES/NO
Scoring YES/NO
Number of tickets for Friday evening
July 21st - 25th 2014
To all members & associates:
Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this letter, we are fast approaching this year’s cricket week and we wanted to let you all know what’s happening this year, why and hopefully you can all support it one way or another.
The cricket week started several years ago in memory of Don Macaulay who was a good friend, cricketer and loyal member to the club, we were all devastated to lose him at such a young age. It was thought the best way to remember him was by staging a cricket week in his honour, I think it’s fair to say that over the years the way the club has grown in size, stature and playing members the week itself has become a bit lost and forgotten about with many members not knowing who Don was, but we think it’s important that as a club we never forget our roots or the people that helped put our club in the position we are today. We feel we are also missing a great opportunity to promote the club, attract different opposition, raise awareness for a great charity and put the club on the map with a week that we can all be proud of.
When we approached Dons parents about staging a cricket week in his honour and raising some money they asked if it could be given to the Macmillan nurses as they were a great help and comfort to the family at the time, as a club I think the most we’ve ever raised is approx. £150 so obviously this year we’d like to smash that figure through the roof and raise as much as possible.
We managed to raise £1000 from local businesses in order to fund the week, so you may see various business advertising throughout the week in return for their support, we have Macmillan on board and the event is registered with them. Fixtures have proved difficult to obtain this year we started a face book and twitter campaign which led to many blind alleys but I think we have made some useful contacts for next year and may well be attracting some touring sides, this year we just missed the boat on that front however the itinerary for the week is as follows:
Monday 21st Upchurch V Chatham Nomads XI 2pm 40 over BBQ/Curry night
Tuesday 22nd Upchurch V Sherwood CC XI 2pm 40 over BBQ/ Quiz night
Wednesday 23rd Upchurch V TKW XI 2pm 40 over BBQ/Karaoke
Thursday 24th Upchurch V Meopham CC XI 2pm 40 over BBQ
Friday 25th LMS cricket tournament 4 teams 10am -7pm Hog roast/Live band
We end the week by having a cricket franchise called Last man standing down to run the day, its 8 a side 20/20 cricket with a couple of twists we are putting the 4 teams together comprising of an Upchurch seniors, a colts team, parents & coaches team & the football team will be entering a squad, it will hopefully be a fun day to end the week with the finale in the evening an all ticket affair at £5 each for the hog roast, live band, raffle and auction.
We will be staging all this outside with an outside bar and marques up with hopefully various activities going on all day for entertainment. We have been very fortunate with some great prizes for the evening ranging from Lords tickets including the tour for 4 along with donations from Canterbury & the Oval, Leeds castle and many more.
This stage is where we need all your help as obviously all this will not come together without the support of players and volunteers from the club, there will be many jobs to be helped out with as well as players to fulfil fixtures, and if you are unable to manage an afternoon off for a game or two then please come down and support the week after work. We are aiming to sell 200 tickets for the Friday evening so please let us know how many you would like for yourself and your families and let’s try and make it a successful week, please if you could fill in the attached form on the back and hand it in or let myself or Dave know of your availability by next weekend 12th /13th we’d be very grateful.
Kind Regards, Lee & Dave PTO
Date: Name & Availability
Monday 21st ___________________________________________________________
Tuesday 22nd ___________________________________________________________
Wednesday 23rd ___________________________________________________________
Thursday 24th ___________________________________________________________
Friday 25th ___________________________________________________________
Monday 21st Tuesday 22nd Wednesday 23rd Thursday 24th Friday 25th
N/A
Volunteers For:
Bar work YES/NO
Groundwork YES/NO
BBQ YES/NO
Umpiring YES/NO
Scoring YES/NO
Number of tickets for Friday evening
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