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 [...]

Codicote Table Tennis going from strength to strength

At the end of season Closed Championships for the SHAW League, Codicote’s two leading players, Tom Parker and Alex Kinchin-Smith, made an immediate impact in their first season of entering.
Tom won the Handicap Singles and Alex narrowly lost the final for all players outside the Premier division – a fantastic achievement for the two players [...]

IT’S ALL GOING ON AT THE SOCIAL CLUB

Whilst all eyes are on the progress of fundraising for the new John Clements Sports & Community Centre, of course the life of the existing Social Club marches on relentlessly.
The last few weeks have seen a whole range of events geared both at entertaining those in the village and raising money for the new Centre.
Of [...]

Governance of the John Clements Sports and Community Centre Project

Codicote Parish Council has set up a Steering Committee to help with the John Clements Sports and Community Centre project. The first meeting took place on 4th February 2010
Members of the Steering Committee are:

Cllr Jane Brown (Chairman)
Cllr John Warwick
Cllr Nick Black (also on Sports and Social Club Committee)
Cllr John Whitbread (also on Sports and Social [...]

Site Visit by Sharon Taylor

Sharon Taylor, the local Labour candidate at the next general election, visited the sports fields this week to learn about the proposed new John Clements Sports and Community Centre and was shown round by Mike Woodley and Jim Park. Expressing her solid support for the new project she said, ” this is a very good [...]

Site Visit by Stephen Mc Partland

Stephen Mc Partland, the local Conservative candidate for the next election, wanted to visited the sports fields and visited last weekend. He was shown round the current facilities by Mike Woodley and Jim Park and the plans for the new John Clements Sports and Community Centre were explained.
Stephen was very enthusiastic about the new project [...]

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