Update: Monday 5th October

I got round in one piece ! :-)

Time for the 10k was 53 mins 4 secs.

Thankyou so much for your very generous donations - adding the pledges and offline donations I will hopefully reach the £1500 personal target, but don't let that dissuade you from adding more to our appeal - we have an overall target for the junior section of the club of £33,000 ! So we need all the help we can get.

Spencer coaches running at Bushy Park have raised north of £4,000 towards the clubhouse refurbishment appeal.

 

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Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

We have over 600 colts playing cricket at Spencer Cricket Club in Wandsworth, the biggest colts contingent in the county (if not the country !). The playing facilities are great, but the clubhouse and changing rooms are not ! As well as our primary goal of providing as much enjoyment as possible for youngsters (6yrs to 18yrs old) who want to play cricket, and turning as many as possible into top class cricketers (!), Spencer colts coaches and managers are determined to make Spencer a great family club to be part of, in every way ! That means refurbishing our tired clubhouse whose facilities have fallen way behind the successes and dynamism of this top class Colts section.

Spencer is a "not for profit" amateur sports club that relies very heavily upon a dedicated team of volunteer coaches and team managers. A club with this size of membership and following has an enormous positive effect on the local community, and provides a great opportunity for boys and girls of all ages and backgrounds to focus on sport in their time away from school..

The aim of this project is to enable the whole family to enjoy spending time at the club, while the kids are there enjoying their cricket. Donations you very kindly make to this (and the other colts managers') Just Giving website pages will go directly into the Spencer Clubhouse Refurbishment Appeal. Total target £33,000 towards a total cost of £150,000 (the remainder provided directly from the club's reserves).

My personal target (to start with) is £500.

And my first challenge is the Bushy Park 10k run on 4th October - I haven't run 10k for many years (come to think of it, I don't think I've ever run 10k ?!) so please donate whatever you can to the cause, preferably by using the very simple facility on this website (which grosses up your donation with money you thought you'd already lost to HM Revenue !).

Many Thanks,

Iain.

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