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