Garfield Weston Foundation Pledge

We are pleased to announce that the Garfield Weston Foundation has pledged £25,000 towards the costs of the new Sports Centre . The Trustees of the John Clements Sports and Community are very grateful for this support which, together with recent local contributions, raises our funds/pledges raised to £357,000 . An application for £350,000 has [...]

New funding from the Sylvia Adams Charitable Trust

The Trustees of the John Clements Sports and Community Trust are pleased to announce a grant of £20,000 from the Sylvia Adams Charitable Trust towards the new building. This charitable trust supports organisations which give socially excluded children and young people opportunities to become resilient and capable adults , especially through challenging activities [...]

Lafarge Aggregates & Concrete UK funding for the new John Clements Sports and Community Centre in Codicote

The John Clements and Community Trust ( charitable trust no. 1139009 )is very pleased to announce that Lafarge Aggregates & Concrete UK  have agreed to provide funding of £50,000 to the new proposed Sports and Community Centre with a build start targeted for the summer 2012 and completion in early 2013.
Mike Pendock, southern regional planning [...]

Codicote’s Fantastic Sporting Achievements!

There can’t be many communities with this performance across all the sports this year!
Cricket

promoted for a 4th year in a row and are aiming to make it a 5th
nominated most improved ground in the county

Football

the 1st team finished 5th out of 15 in the Hertfordshire Premier League
the Reserve team won the Reserve Team Cup
the U16 [...]

John Clements Poem

He gave his life at Easter time,
To let our children live
He sent them safely home to us
What more could he give?
We dearly wish to thank him
and shake him by the hand,
But God will take good care of him,
His future he has planned.
Please warm your broken, weary hearts
with knowledge that, but for him
my son, and many [...]

New Sports Hall & Community Centre Funding Grant

We are very pleased to announce that the project for the new John Clements Sports & Community Centre has just been awarded a grant of £50,000 from NHDC under their PACIF grant scheme. Our grant application last year missed out so we are extremely grateful to NHDC for awarding us this sum of money [...]

Mark Ireland’s Marathon Escalator

Mark from Valley Road, Codicote  is training hard for this year’s London Marathon on Sunday, 17th April. Mark has very generously agreed to give all money raised to the John Clements Sports and Community Trust and for every £10 YOU donate he will add 20% and with another 28% Gift Aid this would raise £14.80 [...]

The Queen and Sport in the Community

In case you missed the Queen’s Xmas speech this year, you will find it had relevance to the importance of our project and sport in the community.
Importance of sport in the community – the Queen’s Speech Xmas 2010.
The King James Bible was a major co-operative endeavour that required the efforts of dozens of the day’s [...]

Movement on the New Sports Centre

Those of you who were able to come to the Open Day on the 30th October in the Peace Memorial Hall will have got an update on the project. Since then there is more progress to report — but first the Open Day
Just over one hundred people (and five dogs!) came to meet the Parish [...]

The Inaugural Codicote Table Tennis Championship

Last week saw the inaugural Codicote Table Tennis Championships.
There were 16 entrants for each of the Singles and Doubles tournaments with some fantastic table tennis being played – particularly the Singles Final in which Lewis Andrews beat Tom Parker in a great match – 11-6, 12-10, 9-11, 11-3.
Unfortunately for everyone else, Tom & Lewis were [...]

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