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March
June
This years TT Tombola draw gave us a fantastic opportunity to meet a lot of people who new Tom or wanted to know all about the story of Tom and what the charity was about.
Armed with T shirts bearing the ‘spook’ logo, plenty of info about the charity, ‘tom’ bola tickets , buckets and of course plenty of brave pills we wandered across our sun swept isle in hope that we would do “all right”,
Well, once again we were left to be astounded by peoples generosity and encouragement towards what we started ten months ago. The boy’s started at bushys beer tent on the Friday night. A night that Terry won’t forget as he donned the stage and told it from the heart all about his best mate Tom and what the charity was trying to do. With the helmet and jacket worn with purple pride , Terry and Tommy collected donations from the roaring crowd who gave him a standing ovation.
Saturday night was the beer tent again, once more people were given the opportunity to don the ’spook’ logo or win on the Tombola. The Winning Ticket was sold on this very night!! Sunday…Honda Day was superb, t shirts sold in abundance and tickets being sold to both locals and visitors hoping to win one of the fantastic prizes that had been generously donated to the charity. Juan Kinnish brought Tom’s no2 bike down, this proved to be a big attraction with many a kid being lifted on to the machine for a proper feel of a real TT bike. The troops finally called it a day after six hours, retiring to the local hostileries for liquid refreshments….well deserved too!!
Trying to make the most of Mad Sunday we ventured up to Ramsey for the ‘Streetfighter challenge’. This was a warm up for the Ramsey sprint really, but still a few more hats, t shirts and tickets were sold…we even sold manx flags and bunting to some Aussies! A few friends of Tommy were met and a stamp on our passports for leaving our western territory was gained, most people would call it a day and head back to the safety of Peel. But not us, over the mountain on the TT course(50mph max in the van!) to Onchan stadium for the Purple helmets display. Once again people were coming up for a skeet and to see what was on the stall, but the stars were the Purple Helmets. A real big thanks to them for allowing us to be there.
Monday night we wandered down to the presentation at the villa marina for the TT races. Noel and his gang let us set up in the entrance hall where we met all the top riders with their teams and supporters. The amount of people who told us stories about Tom and once again told us what a fantastic thing we were doing really made it worth while . Useful contacts were made and new friends too.
Tuesday was Ramsey sprint, another long hot day with hundreds of bikers wandering around and coming to look at our stall. We had the signed helmet with the book, Tom’s bike again, hats, t shirts….and how could I forget arkwrights till!! Superb, another good day was had apart from being burnt to a crisp.
Last chance saloon was presentation night at the villa again, one last spin of the wheel for us to sell tickets and merchandise. Once again the Purple Helmet gear was donned and up on the stage again went our Terry. Our thanks go to Milky Quayle and Chris Kinley, the compares for the night who told the audience all about Tom and the fund. Buckets to the fore of the boys went, entertaining John Mcguinness‘s young fella along the way and then down stairs to the disco!!
We finished of the week with a quiz up the Highwayman in Peel, put all the tickets in the tombola drum and finally up to ManxRadio TT to do the draw on Charlie William’s breakfast show. A fantastic week had, now all we had to do was to thank everyone who helped, believe me it’s a long list. So if i missed anyone out…..unlucky, got a excuse…we’re knackered.
July
Peel football club was the setting for our latest venture.
With Barnsley football club our guests for the weekend
and a music festival to stage too we were set for a very
busy day, fortunately one that will not be forgotten for a
long time.
Once again we were blessed with glorious weather. The
kids kicked off the day with a under 9’s football
tournament for the now annual Tommy Clucas trophy.
The script couldn’t have been written any better and the
eventual winners were Peel ‘A’ team who beat Marown in
the final 2-1. Some cracking football was played by all
the teams involved and it was great to see that the future
of local football is looking very bright.
By the time the kid’s had finished the tournament the
ground was all set up and ready for the arrival of our
footballing guests and local supporters. The auction tent
was safe in the hands of Ange who did a fantastic job
sorting and managing the items of interest we had on
offer to the highest bid. Along side the 25ft tent was
Martin Bullocks racing camper home. With the orning
down and 2 race bikes on display Anne took charge in
selling tombola tickets and merchandise. The football
girls donned their pinny’s and sold burgers during the day
and with the ladies football committee serving from the
canteen from the crack of dawn we offered refreshments
all day and night.
The match was supposed to kick off at 2 o clock, but due
to heavy crowd congestion at the gate we had to delay it
by 10 minutes to get everyone in!! Over 1000 people
turned up to watch Peel pit their wits against the newly
promoted championship side. With Barnsley bringing
their entire squad of 27 players over it was decided to
play 3 games of 30 minutes. With the two teams staring
with their strongest teams Peel battled their way to a 1-0
win in the first game, Kerron Christian rounding the
Barnsley keeper and scoring the goal to the delight of the
home crowd. With many changes being made to both
teams as the match progressed and the energy zapping
sun beating down, the final aggregate score line of 4-1 to
Barnsley was an unfair reflection to a highly competitive
match. Peel could hold their heads high at the final
whistle as they had more than held their own for over 70
minutes against their professional opponents. New
friends had been made, now we had the task of
entertaining the crowd in a different way….bring on
PEELSTOCK!
The stage had been erected of the grandstand by
Horizon scaffolding during the week. The lighting
equipment had also already been set up by E.L.S
lighting. The sound system was ready to go soon after
the football was finished and the bands were chomping
at the bit to get up and perform to the setting sun in the
sky and the 800 crowd plus sitting on the pitch, chilling
out and enjoying the superb surroundings. We realised
that we had pulled of another successful event as people
once again came up to support the charity from all over
the island. 5 bands played in to the night as we were
treated to music ranging from seventies to modern rock.
People dancing and singing is great, it’s even better
when families and kids are able to join in too. It’s fair to
say that Peel stock II will have to be organised …now
that we are professional festival organisers!
To round things of nicely to say the least, Jon Dalgliesh
won the Real Madrid signed shirt in the tom bola. Jon
very generously put the shirt back in to the fund. This
kind of generosity sums up the support that we are
receiving of people towards our goal. Hazel Hannan MHK
has bid £500 for the item and we have accepted the offer
and once again want to thank them both for their support
and kindness.
The auction came to a close as the night went on. Over
£2500 was raised from the items donated to the fund
from the football clubs in the premiership and coca cola
championship leagues. Squeek did an incredible job
accumulating the items and we can only take our hats of
to the work he put in in preparation to the day.
The list of sponsors and people who all helped us to
have a big day out at Douglas Road is endless. A
massive big thank you to everyone who helped on the
day, without all the players and locals who chipped in
and did a bit the grand total of £10,000 would not have
raised or been possible. Give yourselves a massive pat
on the back and prepare yourselves to be asked again as
you were so good! We have now raised over £30,00 in
less than a year, just shows what is possible when
people all pull together for a good cause and idea.
Thanks to everyone who came up for a skeet and we
look forward to seeing everyone again at our forth
coming family fun day at Peels ground on Sunday 27th
August. Sunshine and the same turnout would round of
an amazing 12 months quite nicely thank you.
August
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The charities object, as written in the constitution, is:
The Charity will exist for the purpose of the promotion of local community
participation in healthy recreation by the provision of facilities for
playing and training for predominantly football, but also a variety of
other sports such as rugby, hockey, cricket and athletics.