Saturday, 8 February 2014

Annual 200 Club Letter

“200” CLUB COMPETITION 

                                                                                                                                         February 2014

As a valued member of our “200” Club Competition, I am writing to thank you for your continued support last season and to seek your support for another year and to let you know that after 30 sterling years of effort, John has finally put the lid on his draw bucket and handed it over to me, I can’t promise that I will stick it out for so many years though!

See the link at the bottom of this report for a list of last year’s prize winners and I hope you were lucky enough to be amongst them, but if not, there is a good chance that it will be if you enrol now.

The contributions from the Club over the last 40 years have been invaluable.  Many thousands of pounds have been transferred to the Club funds, which has enabled us to improve the amenities for members and visitors at both our facilities, Penns Place and The Heath. This year it helped us to contribute towards the new artificial surfaces on both the Heath and at Penns Place.

2013 proved to be a very successful year for PCC. We started the year with a record number of 13 colts, out of the 22 nominated, being selected for either the District or County Squads.  

We secured promotion for our 1st & 3rd XI and delivered on our goal of developing talent in the colts, most significantly in the 3rd XI which has a core of U13/15 players, and also in the 2nd & 1st XI’s which both regularly featured our older colts.  This talent is testimony to the efforts of all our qualified coaches over the last few years.

2013 was the first year for many years that Petersfield Cricket Club has been represented with a Senior Ladies team, which this year competed in the Hampshire League finishing a creditable 5th from the 10 teams in the Hampshire Ladies league division 2; many of those ladies came through our Colts section.

The club ran another successful charity cricket match raising £3428 for the Broad Appeal in aid of Motor Neurone Disease Research.  We have also extended the bar license opening hours each brought with it significant increase in business.

At the end of the year, we were recognised by the Hampshire league winning the Stan Foster Trophy for the most improved ground in 2013 (selected from 196 clubs!).

We have a number of committee members retiring from their posts this year many of whom have played or supported the senior cricket for some time. We are sorry to lose them and wish them the very best for the future and hope to see a number of them returning to the club in the future.

Your membership of the “200” Club provides the Cricket Club with essential revenue, and with the rising costs of both ground preparation and the maintenance of equipment and pavilions, your contribution is vital to help the club build a strong & sustainable platform for the future.  We are always looking for new members too, so if you can spread the word that would be much appreciated.

On behalf of the Executive Committee of the Club, I would like to thank you again and hope that we can rely on your support for the coming season. 

Finally, I am sure you will join with me to thank John, as he retires from PCC, for the enormous efforts he has put in to this fundraising initiative over the last 30years and wish him all the best for the future.

Yours sincerely,
Dee Salmon

25 Longdown, Petersfield,  GU314PD.  01730  260094    dianaksalmon@gmail.com

For a list of past winners please see the club website
http://petersfield.play-cricket.com/subsite/web_pages/202596

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