CricketForce
Success at Countess Wear
On
a gloriously sunny day, 20 volunteers from Countess
Wear CC arrived at Winslade Park for a day of
ground work and pavilion maintenance as part of
the national initiative NatWest CricketForce.
A
task list of 25 jobs had been drawn up, ranging
from painting, weeding, and woodwork as well as
preparing the lunchtime barbecue!
Notable
achievements on the day were the repair and erecting
of the mobile nets; replacing broken laths on
the catching cradle; repairing a newly-acquired
picnic table; painting the scoreboard; maintenance
of sightscreens; relaying a temporary Astroturf
pitch; tree/bush and shrub pruning; and many,
many more successful jobs in and around the square
and pavilion.
The
club were grateful to 2nd team wicket-keeper,
Steve Channing (a local carpenter), for his professional
touch and free materials.
The
secretary, Mike Fernbank, had purchased reduced
price materials (replacement laths) from Huck
Nets and used his personal discount card for the
paint from B&Q. At the end of the day, over
100 volunteer hours were registered, costed at
over £1,500 of in-kind contribution.
The
CricketForce day was twinned with an open day
and registration for the U10 colts side who will
be playing in the East Devon League this year.
A
very promising start to the summer. Volunteers,
players, wives and colts were treated to a free
barbecue and each received the CricketForce t-shirt
sponsored by NatWest and the ECB.
