Ground Force Day - Saturday 9 April

Your Junior Cricket Committee and coaches have been working hard over the past few months to get the Club and players ready for the 2022 season.

We have exciting new coaching developments with our partnership with TOP coaching.
Dates for 196 (yep!) North Kent Junior League fixtures are being scheduled as I write; and, we have plenty of fun Festivals and Cup matches to play too.

We are asking for your help on an important day in the preparations for the season...Ground Force Day.

We need a brigade of volunteers to assist with several jobs around the boundary in our preparations.

We aim to start from 9.30am on Saturday 9 April, finishing the last of the longer tasks after lunch.

We will be there and will have the support of the club and groundsman with equipment and materials. Some jobs will take just a couple of hours, others more.

Lo​ok at the jobs below and we'd love you to share with us your time and availability on the day.

If you wish to co-ordinate with friends and volunteer together on a project, please do. However, we can create teams if you want to volunteer as an individual.

When we have completed the jobs, the Club will lay on drinks and pizzas in the pavilion to thank you for your support.

Any help you can give - from 1 hour, up to 4 hours - will all make a difference.

Thank you very much in advance, I look forward to hearing from you when you have chosen which of the six jobs listed below you wish to help with.

Amanda Combes (Junior Committee)

If you can turn up, please email Amanda here

Job 1
Prep and paint four sightscreens (sanding both sides + one coat of paint)
Volunteers: six people per screen (up to 24 in total); Time required: four hours per screen

Job 2
Paint 40 perimeter wooden posts (2' tall) on boundary using small roller
Volunteers : two people; Time required: up to two hours

Job 3
Spray creosote along inside of club fence facing on Foxgrove Road, patch in with brushes where needed, brushing leaves away from base of fence.
Volunteers: >4 people; Time required: >2 hours

Job 4
Sand and repaint the sides and back of the electronic scorebox
Volunteers: >15 people; Time required: >4 hours

Job 5
Clear overgrown grass in the gully between pitch boundary and grass tennis courts (about 60 metres) one for the gardeners! ;-)
Volunteers : >10 people; Time required: >2 hours

Job 6
Washing and cleaning newly installed plastic on three mobile wicket covers.
Volunteers: >3 people; Time required: >1 hour.