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.