Prestatyn Cricket Club Nat West Cricket Force 2008 Friday April 4th - Sunday April 6th 2008
In 2007 We made a difference - We got involved!
In 2008 we're going Green!!!
NatWest CricketForce encourages cricket supporters, their friends and families to give something back to their local community cricket club by volunteering to undertake major renovations to clubhouses and grounds.
NatWest CricketForce 2007 was another stunningly successful event, with more than 80,000 volunteers turning out on a sunlit weekend at more than 1,150 clubs, bringing £35m value in kind to the game.
Here at Prestatyn, on that weekend, we replaced the timber cladding to the front of the Pavilion and painted the outside of the Pavilion, the garage/implement building and the scoreboard building. The major works obviously took a lot longer. These were the new kitchen supplied by Travis Perkins, the wall and floor tiles supplied by Johnson Tiles and the cooker supplied by Hotpoint Employees Assoc. The labour for this work was carried out free of charge by Heat Serve Ltd and John Murnane Tiling. In all, we managed to improve the Pavilion with approximately £5000 of work in CricketForce 2007.
And now for NatWest CricketForce 2008, with the chance not only to build on the success of recent years but also - on the weekend of April 4, 5 and 6 2008 - to focus on green issues in cricket.
NatWest CricketForce 2008 will have a heavy emphasis on energy efficiency. David Collier, ECB chief executive, officially launching the 2008 event at the NatWest Series one-day international against India at Edgbaston on August 27.
“Already, we have been working with our Test match sponsors npower on ways of improving the green rating of cricket and now, through NatWest CricketForce, were are linking that Test arena again with the grass roots of the sport," he said.
As well as the basic “green” projects we are considering the following jobs :-
•Boundary fence - at least from pavilion to Pontins fence.
•Replace Dressing Room doors and frames.
•Repairs to main fence.
•One member of the public suggested that the Council should plant suitable trees(quick growing ones) on the north and west sides of the ground to hide the current chain link. What about it, Councils ?
We would appreciate any more ideas and also the names of firms and volunteers who can make the ideas become a reality.
Either ring Haydn Owen on 01745 570389
or Tony Young on 01745 853748.
or e-mail prestatyncricketclub@hotmail.com
