Open Letter to sponsors and funding agencies

Dear Sirs

Didcot Cricket Club are undergoing a period of expansion and are raising funds to improve facilities at our ground. These are heavily used by seniors and juniors at the Club, the vast majority of whom come from Didcot and the surrounding villages. We are very much a club for the local community: we run junior sides at 5 age groups from U-9 to U-17 and aim to provide a good standard of competitive and recreational cricket with development programmes for our juniors.

I am contacting you on behalf of Didcot Cricket Club to ask if you may be able to support our initiative to refurbish our pavilion. Please see the enclosed brief for further information as to what we are aiming to do.

As part of this fundraising, a group of 9 cyclists, representing DCC at both junior and senior level, will shortly be embarking on a sponsored cycle ride from John O’Groats to Lands End. The route covers some 920 miles, and averaging about 80 miles per day, they will endeavour to complete the challenge in 12 days.

Your support, through sponsorship, will go to the Club Pavilion Refurbishment Fund, to enable us to improve and update the club facilities to benefit both junior and senior players, as well as visitors to the club.

We are therefore asking if you would be able to support this endeavour. We appreciate that current economic conditions are not ideal for any fundraising effort, but we would appreciate any donation that could be given, whether financial or a donation in kind to assist with the refurbishment or the cycle ride itself.

Any donation you are able to give will of course be fully acknowledged during the ride and refurbishment project.

If you would like any further information on this project, then please do not hesitate to contact Jonathan Hall at the above address.

On behalf of everyone at DCC, the cyclists and the Support Team, thank you for your support. It is very much appreciated.

Pavilion Refurbishment Fund

This is the brief version of what we are doing this for!

We aim to improve the size, layout, standard and privacy of the changing rooms and showers, to repair and redecorate the kitchen and utility room and to improve storage facilities. This will improve the experience of home and visiting players, members and supporters, and will help to safeguard the future of cricket in Didcot.

We are aiming to raise £10,000 for the initial phase of the refurbishment project: the full project will take several times this amount. Club volunteers will help in the work to make the funds go as far as we can. The initial phase will give us a pavilion and changing facilities suitable for our current activities and for the immediate development of the Club. Obviously, the more that we can raise, the more that we can do! The aim is to carry out the fundraising and planning during the summer of 2009, with work on the pavilion being carried out during the 2009/10 close season, with the improved facilities being ready for the start of the 2010 season.