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This website, www.sportinwellington.co.uk, will be unavailable from 6pm on Tuesday 3rd March until 9am on Wednesday 4th March, while a vast upgrade and modernisation takes place. This is the result of a feedback from users and will benefit all clubs within the federation. Some users who post stories to the site may be required to re-register once the new site is in place; apologies for that but I’m sure it will be worth it!
Simon Rudd

ONE of the most popular events in Wellington’s social calendar in recent years could be revived in 2008.

The Wellington Sports Federation held a Summer Spectacular at the town’s rugby club for three successive years, attracting thousands of people.

Now, after a two-year break, the federation is looking to stage the event – a combination of stalls, sideshows and demonstrations – again this August.

The federation, comprising 15 sports clubs from the Wellington area, has a new chairman after Bob Bowrah took over from Ken Bird at last Thursday’s AGM.

Mr Bowrah said the Summer Spectacular was popular with the people of Wellington, and helped to raise the profile of member clubs as well as boosting their funds.

Mr Bird – who has stepped down to concentrate on his work as chairman of Wellington Foot-ball Club – said that the federation had come a long way since its formation four years ago.

“Since then we’ve managed to notch up a considerable list of achievements.

“As well as our Summer Spec-taculars we’ve held successful Wellington Sports Awards with black tie dinners to mark outstanding achievements in sport in our town.

“We also launched a Bursary Scheme to help our many talented young sportspeople, and boo-sted the facilities and equipment of our member clubs with the provision of grants, the latest of which have gone to the bowling, rugby and football clubs.”

Mr Bird said most notably the federation had played a major role in changing the sporting face of Wellington.

It had been involved in negotiations which eventually led to the new sports hall currently un-der construction at Court Fields Community School.

It had also campaigned successfully for a dog ban on the town’s Playing Field, which it was now looking to extend to other sports fields.

And it had helped to bring the old Beech Grove School playing field back into use as a rugby pitch, hopefully from next season. This would allow the existing rugby pitch on the Playing Field to be used for football in future.

Mr Bird paid tribute to the work of David Jones, who step-ped down as treasurer of the federation at the AGM.

Officers elected: President, His Grace the Duke of Wellington; patrons, Jeremy Browne MP, Martin Pipe, Cllr Andrew Govier; chairman, Bob Bowrah; secretary, Mike Sertin.

I’ve set up some forums for general chit chat on the site now. Goto www.sportinwellington.co.uk/forum to access them.

You’ll need to be registered on the site and logged in to participate.

There are forums for Cricket, Football, Golf and ‘General’ at the moment. I’ll add the other clubs if required, please contact me if you’d like any added.

There are likely to be other (bigger) changes to the site over the next few weeks. Nothing should be lost, everything that’s on the site at the moment will get carried over, but there should be some improvements, a change of look perhaps, and maybe some other new things.

MORE than 80 people attended the third Wellington Sports Awards dinner on Saturday night.
The black-tie event was organised by the town’s Federation of Sports Clubs and held at the Cleve Hotel and Country Club.
Guest of honour was the MP for Taunton, Jeremy Browne, and the MC was Clinton Rogers of BBC Points West.
Eight awards for sporting achievement – both on and off the pitch – were presented during the evening.
Welcoming the guests, federation chairman Ken Bird said the organisation had three main aims – promotion of sport in Wellington, joint fund-raising by the 14 member clubs and youth development.
The past year had seen taster sessions in different sports organised for local youngsters.
The federation had also helped secure funding for a new sports hall at Court Fields Community School.
And it had also worked to see the old Beech Grove School Field turned into a rugby pitch, which would allow a second football pitch on the town’s playing field.

International Achievement (presented by Wellington Town Council): Ian Stonebridge – football.
International Achievement (presented by Tone Leisure): Edward Ling – rifle shooting.
Lifetime Award (presented by Barclays): Graham Sprague – rugby.
Lifetime Award (presented by Wellington Chamber of Commerce): Julie and John Morten – squash.
Outstanding Award (presented by the Cleve Hotel): Ian Grabham – rugby.
Outstanding Award (presented by Gill Knott Insurance): Colin Waller – football.
Special Award (presented by Towergate Lloyd and Whyte Farm Insurance and Towergate Risk Solutions): Jeff Brown – football.
Junior Award (presented by Wellington Sports): Christopher Hay – fencing.

Wellington School require a

Sports Technician

30 hrs per week, term-time.

Required to manage kit and equipment for school sports and games. 

For further information contact Deb Withey, Personnel Manager on 01823 668836.

Closing date for applications Wednesday, 9th August 2006.

I’ve just made some upgrades to the web site, the software used to run it was getting a bit out of date, and could’ve started to cause problems.

So, we have a newer version running now, mostly working ok, but there are some things to fix still.

I think I’ve messed up the images some people had uploaded for the moment. I’m trying to sort that, but it will probably have to wait till next week now. In the process, I’m hoping to make adding images easier and better to add, as it’s something that’s never been terribly good.

If anyone gets any problems, please contact me at cricketadmin@sportinwellington.co.uk and I’ll see what i can do to help.

Thanks
Adrian

PLANS are taking shape for a major Festival of Youth Sport in Wellington next month.

The main event will see a range of tournaments, taster sessions and demonstrations at the town’s Playing Field on Sunday, August 27, from 12noon to 5pm.

But, in the run-up to the day, there will also be free coaching sessions for local youngsters in a variety of sports.

The festival is being organised by Wellington Federation of Sports Clubs, which held its latest meeting on Monday.

Member clubs heard that competitions already planned for August 27 included kwik cricket for under 11s and 13s, five-a-side football for under 12s and 14s, tag rugby for primary school children and a tennis tournament.

It is also hoped to hold demonstrations in fencing and archery while there will be a range of stalls, stands and other attractions at the free event.

Coaching sessions already planned for the week before include squash, archery and rugby with the timetable being finalised in the next few weeks.

For further information about the festival, contact Mike Sertin on 01823-401010.

Federation members were told that drainage work had been completed on the old Beech Grove school playing field in the town and it was hoped to start using it as a pitch for rugby from September.

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The final sum raised by our floodlit cricket match on Easter Sunday is £561. This amount will be sent to Ranjith Fernando, at Sri Lanka Cricket and will be used to rebuild homes in and around Galle.

Congratulations to everyone who was involved in the event.

Incorporating sports clubs in Wellington to promote sport and recreation in the area.
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