Neston South Wirral Hockey Club

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Astro Pitch News

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Astro Pitch Squares
 
The New Pitch Square Scheme is starting next week 6th May 2008.  Each square will cost £100 and if all 700 squares are bought we will raise £70,000 and with gift aid this will put us above our total. We have now hit approx £125,000.  But we need to raise £200,000.  Please Buy a Square from Tim Brooker or Tony Crisp (Contact no's coming) if not put money in the jar at the bar!

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The Astro Squares Appeal Chart

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The Stickometer

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Overhead view

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Fund Raising
 
Our target as a section is to raise £200,000 towards the total of £500,000 for the cost of the Astro.  The other £300,000 coming from a bank loan and Neston Cricket Club Funds.  As of 7th Feb 2008 we have £120,000 either pledged or in the bank.  We need your help, coming soon is a letter asking for a contribution towards this project.  We have some 150 hockey players and need to make up the deficit of £80,000.  Please think of the future as you think about how much to pledge.  Thank you for showing interest.

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Some good news is that provided that you are a UK tax payer then we can claim gift aid against actual donations given as Neston Cricket Club is registered as a Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC) and this project is directly related to sports development/playing surfaces/participation. This is an additional 28p (28%) for every pound donated.

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Fund Raising
 
The astro account was opened last week at HSBC - Neston.  Current situation after 6 days is :-
 
£1,000   - Sponsored junior bike ride.
£3,000   - Hockey accounts
£7,500   - Pledges
£80,000 - Donations
 
£91,500 - TOTAL
 
When gift aided at the tax year end would add a further £ 22,000+

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Should you wish to send a cheque made payable to Neston Cricket Club Astro Appeal Fund to Mr Tony Brooker, 16 Dee Park Road, Gayton, Wirral. CH60 3RQ or hand to a hockey section official.

 

tonyandbarbaradpark@tiscali.co.uk

 

Neston Cricket Club Astro Appeal Fund

Sort Code: 40 34 06

Account Number: 71440578

Bank Branch: HSBC Bank Plc, 31 High Street, Neston. CH64 9TU.

Tel: 08457 404 404

 

We recognise that you may wish to remain anonymous and in that event a cheque or bank transfer paid to the above account would be most gratefully accepted, though of course we would not be able to claim gift aid on such a donation.

 

Copy of The Pledge Letter

Gift Aid Form

Astro Appeal Day 16 December 2007 
 
A fun Day was had at Neston Cricket Club to launch our Appeal for Fund Raising and awareness of the job in hand.  To raise £200,000 to help towards the Astro Pitch.
 
Approx £110 was raised on the day through Juniors and Food Sales and four Pledges on the day, with some more promised to follow.

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Eddie in full flow

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The Juniors playing on grass.

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Mixed game of Hockey!

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The Players enter the Field of Dreams.

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News 15th August 2007
 

We are delighted to announce that our planning application for an Artificial Pitch (Astro Turf) was successful.  It will be situated next to the Wirral Way, behind the Green keepers sheds on what was the top Grass Hockey Pitch on the back field. Thanks to all who have contributed to getting it to this stage, particularly Norman Sutton and Tim Brooker for their tireless dedication. 

 

We have been successful in the early stages of funding and we hope to bring more news in the near future.  In the meantime the 6 Men’s Teams, 3 Ladies Teams and 2 Junior sides, 130 people, that play and represent Neston South Wirral Hockey Club, every Saturday have something to be excited about and you might see more of them around the place next year if we can get it built over the next 12 months or so.

 

History

 

Hockey moved from Grass to Astro Turf in the early 1980’s when Neston was one of the best in English Hockey.  In 1983 the men won, The HA Cup (Equivalent to the FA Cup in Football) and went on to represent England in Europe (Equivalent to the European Champions League in Football) in 1984.  We attracted good players even an Olympic Gold medalist.  The nearest Astro Pitch to us was Liverpool and where we played our games and trained, now we are able to have limited and expensive sessions at Neston Rec, Caldy or Ellesmere Port.  Local clubs like Bowdon got an Astro Turf pitch at their club quickly and soon benefited from having a pitch to train and play games on. Their bar after games is legendry amongst traveling hockey players, it’s busy all afternoon as players stream in after each game, just as it used to be at Neston when we had four games on the grass all at the same time and the players piled into the bar afterwards.

 

We have struggled since the mid 90’s, as good young players from our club go to clubs with training facilities and subsequently play in a higher division than us. We are bouncing back with plenty of juniors, approx 120 on our books, come to junior training on a Sunday morning!  We are managing to keep hold of them, with good recent performances in the Cheshire Plate and National Vase competitions and now particularly with news of an Astro Pitch coming to Neston.

 

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Norman Sutton with the Application for Planning 2nd May 2007

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Sponsored Dribble May 2007

Some of The Badgers and Beavers did some Fund Raising for the Astro Appeal click the picture for a full report.
 
£1011 was raised at The Badger/Beaver Dribble. May 2007.

Get Your Name up in Lights
 
All those who have written in can have there names put on this Page to show us how many letters have been written.  E mail me your letter and I will add your name to this list.  Watch this space grow:
 
Richard Lowry, Tim Brooker, Greg Brooker, Tony Crisp, Tony Lydiate, Steve Mahoney, Paul Rutter, Peter Marriot, George Falck, Mike Eastwood, Alex Pinnington, Tony Bush, Harry Bush, Arthur Bush, Steven Halfhead, Matty Walker, Kevin Smith, James Rigby, Mark Garrett, Josh Eaton, Greg Hughes, Pete Chester, Stu Long, Jack Phillips, Warren Phillips and Tina Phillips, Rob Mathew-Jones, Trevor and Sue Mathew-Jones, Baz Roberts,George Roberts, Martin Bryceland, Derek and Rachel Hogg, Chris Lingard, Matt Thompson, Chris Sullivan, Jonny Brown, Roy Rodger Sue Stewart,Chris Troake, Richard Leeman, Richard and Max Dutton, Lisa Morris, Joel Hennell-Nealy, Sean and Gareth Chappell, Andy, James and David Knight, Will Falck, Erik Falck, Jo Baker, Ali Brooker,Andy Crutcley, Adam Robinson, Anthony and James Annakin-Smith, Lawrence McNeight. 

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Neston South Wirral Hockey Club, Station Road, NESTON, South Wirral, Cheshire, CH64 6QJ. Tel No: 0151 336 4199.
Club Manager Andy Woolley
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