Coming to a park near us soon – a community event.

NatWest CricketForce@Sawley & Long Eaton Park is far more than several building projects the club has wanted to complete for some time.

It will see numerous local community groups not only working together but also enjoying themselves.

Wilsthorpe secondary school will have a group of Y8 students filming the event for a DVD record of the day while students from their Expressive Art group will be hanging cricket artwork in the refurbished pavilions prepared before hand in the school.  Nottingham Trent University Media students will be recording interviews with volunteers, event partners and guests including Freddy the Falcon the mascot of Derbyshire CCC.

 David Dooley the event organiser commented, ‘over 20 organisations will make a contribution to this event from the national company Lafarge donating 20 tonnes of road stone aggregate, to a regional builder Westerman Homes sending us 3000 bricks to the local baker Adkins providing 60 dozens rolls.

Sixty dozen rolls - will they fit into Jo Slater's car?

 
Teams of volunteers are expected from the local DHL branch and Wilkos who are likely to be painting the social areas of a pavilion while NatWest employees will be assembling two sight screens and a mobile practice cage bought with the aid of a Sport England grant.

The hospitality area is being organised by 3^rd Long Eaton scouts, who are bringing two marquees, while the refreshments themselves are being served by the 4^th Attenborough Brownies who hope to complete their hostess badge on the day. The local Tesco store has kindly donated the majority of the refreshments being served on the day. 

Thank Jo Mehmet - she'll we wearing her uniform on the day

 Junior volunteers will be also be busy enjoying taster kwik cricket matches, participating in the autograph hunt, practising their cricket skills on the England Cricket Board’s Fun Factory while also acting as ambassadors showing guests such as former England cricketers Mike Gatting and Dennis Amiss around the event.

Councillor Bill Camm said, ‘it is great to see so many community organisations coming together to not only refurbish the cricket club’s facilities but enhance the environment of  Long Eaton’s showcase municipal park’.

The club is having a genuine makeover with a new female changing room, new kitchen, hopefully brand new pavilion furniture and even new cutlery and crockery for club match teas. And how does the rubbish leave West Park?

this is how our debris leaves West Park!