Monthly Archives: December 2018

Thanks to the efforts of many parents involved with the Colts, sometimes involved over several generations, the Autumn Ball was held at Woodlands Park Hotel on September 14th. With fantastic work from Ian Morrish and his team of supporters, £4,750 or so was raised in total to go towards the implementation of the 3G.

This provided vital impetus to the campaign and was a fun evening, enjoyed by all 140 guests. It was a great chance for quite a few of us to throw a few shapes and dance along into the night. Its fair to say, that running an Under 14’s match on the Saturday morning was no fun whatsoever, but sometimes that’s what you have to do.

Maybe we should have another one to open the 3G in 2019 and maybe we can double the size of the occasion then!

Thanks to the contribution of CO-OP members who use the Bookham store, we were presented with a cheque for £5,297.90 on the 25th November to be used to develop the 3G pitch at KG5 next year.
This takes us nearer to our goal of having full funding by the end of February 2019. Many thanks to the people of Effingham, Bookham and Fetcham for their support in this cause, without you this whole task would be so much more difficult.

So here is a little update as to where we’ve reached with funding in the middle of December 2018. As you might be able to see from the fundraising bar on the home page, we are very near to complete this monumental task, just under 90% there. With what we hope will be the final costs now in, the sum we need to raise is now no more than £125,000 in total, in fact it may well be less.

With support in the form of Grants from Guildford Borough Council (£10,000) and a Grant of £20,000 from the London Marathon Community Trust, coupled with other fundraising activity from our club and the community in the past couple of years, we now have confirmed funds in excess of £110,000.

With the Crowdfunding target of £10,000-see https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/michael-creffield,
now beginning to come together and with a whole host of other opportunities being pursued, we hope that all costs will be covered in the very near future. Over £1,000 has been added in the last week, so lets keep it going – spread the word especially amongst the local community!

However, we aren’t quite there yet, so all contributions, no matter how small are still very much welcomed. Go to the Just Giving page to do your bit if you fancy and please tell others, this isn’t just for us but the whole of the local community. Anybody who has any other thoughts on finishing this project off please speak to either Mike Creffield (michaelcreffield@yahoo.co.uk) or Andy Cassie (andy.cassie@yahoo.co.uk)

We have finally had confirmation from the London Marathon Charitable Trust of a Grant to help us towards our target to build the 3G.

The £20,000 Grant has been secured to help deliver the finished project by mid next year and is pivotal to the project going ahead in 2019. It should enable us to commence the project in the spring, ideally at the end of April/beginning of May time and with a five week build anticipated, weather permitting, we are hopeful of having a completed project by mid June in time for the start of next seasons training plans.

We still however need to continue our funding drive and the Crowdfunding platform https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/michael-creffield, now open is the perfect way to contribute small amounts that will make that vital difference.