Sportsfield Volunteer Day

On Saturday 27th March, Trevor organised a volunteer party to try to get the remedial work to the surface above the lines of the drains. These have all sunk and make the field very bumpy.

About 20 odd adults and kids came down to shovel, barrow and then rake nearly 20 tonnes of soil and sand mix. We just about completed the entire field before the rain came.

Once the soil dries out on the field – hopefully between now and the end of the Easter weekend – there will be the task of raking it out finely, to fill in the hollows. It was too wet on Saturday to achieve this effectively, so if anyone would like to help out for an hour in the evenings please email Trevor and he will let you know when he is going down there with rakes etc.

As always the community spirit shown to turn out and donate their time for free was fantastic and saved loads of cash. The field should be in good shape come the start of the cricket season and then onto the new football season!

Thank you

On behalf of the Sportsfield Working Party, I would like to say a huge thank you to all those people who turned out for the volunteer day on Saturday 27th March and worked so hard.

Thanks go to David, Rebecca, Carrie, James and Jo, Ian and Sue – all of whom came with their young families – Gordon (from his sick bed , Bill, Dom, Karen, Roger and Jess, TC, Pete, Andy and Stuart. Sincere apologies if I have missed anyone out.

Finally for all those who have helped out over the two weekends, we have a number of ECB Cricket Force tee-shirts to give out. If you haven't yet received one please let me know and I will keep one back for you. The only proviso is that you wear it to the next Volunteer day!!

Trevor Lane