St Phillips School Quids-In With FITC
Posted on: Wed 17 Nov 2004
The Football in the Community Scheme and St Phillips School recently got together to raise over £2,300. How did they do it? FITC Coach Darryl McMurray (pictured) explains.
The idea all came from an appeal I saw in the local paper. The appeal was from Stacey Harper Deputy Head of St Phillips Primary School, asking for any local businesses or anyone who can help with funding for an ICT suite for the school. I immediately phoned the school and spoke to Stacey about what Cambridge United FITC could do to help raise funds for the school. The school were very interested with what we had to offer. We arranged a meeting to discuss things in more detail.
14th February - I met up with Stacey and we discussed what activities we could organise and run to help with the fund raising. The main activity that I suggested was a sponsored penalty shoot-out, where the children and staff go home and collect sponsorship for penalties scored. However, with the penalty shoot-out we usually split the proceeds 50/50 with the school and the community scheme. So what else could we do? Then it hit me."BOING". We have and inflatable speed cage which we call the "BOING", the "BOING" measures how fast you kick the ball, another activity was the Wagon Wheel Challenge, this is where you have to chip a ball through a hoop which is hung on a goal.
We agreed to go price the BOING and The Wagon Wheel Challenge at 50p for three goes, with all the proceeds going to the school. All that was left to do now was an assembly and the event itself.
25th February, Assembly Time - I went into a school assembly and spoke to the children about the different activities that would be running on the day and also what they could do to help raise money for the school. I mentioned to the children that there would be a Cambridge United Kit for the person who raised the most money from sponsorship and that there would be prizes for those that raised over £30 from sponsorship and the person who registered the fastest speed on the BOING. Anyone who managed to chip the ball through the Wagon Wheel three times in a row would also get a prize.
7th March - 8.30am - We (Mark Nutter, Stuart Jacobs, Matt Allen, and of course myself) arrive at the school to set up the goals etc, probably the hardest job, apart from putting them away!
There were some great penalties throughout the whole day most of them went in for two main reasons (1) the penalties were unstoppable and (2) Matty and Stuart were in goal for most of them!
The idea all came from an appeal I saw in the local paper. The appeal was from Stacey Harper Deputy Head of St Phillips Primary School, asking for any local businesses or anyone who can help with funding for an ICT suite for the school. I immediately phoned the school and spoke to Stacey about what Cambridge United FITC could do to help raise funds for the school. The school were very interested with what we had to offer. We arranged a meeting to discuss things in more detail.14th February - I met up with Stacey and we discussed what activities we could organise and run to help with the fund raising. The main activity that I suggested was a sponsored penalty shoot-out, where the children and staff go home and collect sponsorship for penalties scored. However, with the penalty shoot-out we usually split the proceeds 50/50 with the school and the community scheme. So what else could we do? Then it hit me."BOING". We have and inflatable speed cage which we call the "BOING", the "BOING" measures how fast you kick the ball, another activity was the Wagon Wheel Challenge, this is where you have to chip a ball through a hoop which is hung on a goal.
We agreed to go price the BOING and The Wagon Wheel Challenge at 50p for three goes, with all the proceeds going to the school. All that was left to do now was an assembly and the event itself.
25th February, Assembly Time - I went into a school assembly and spoke to the children about the different activities that would be running on the day and also what they could do to help raise money for the school. I mentioned to the children that there would be a Cambridge United Kit for the person who raised the most money from sponsorship and that there would be prizes for those that raised over £30 from sponsorship and the person who registered the fastest speed on the BOING. Anyone who managed to chip the ball through the Wagon Wheel three times in a row would also get a prize.
7th March - 8.30am - We (Mark Nutter, Stuart Jacobs, Matt Allen, and of course myself) arrive at the school to set up the goals etc, probably the hardest job, apart from putting them away!
There were some great penalties throughout the whole day most of them went in for two main reasons (1) the penalties were unstoppable and (2) Matty and Stuart were in goal for most of them!
The BOING proved a huge hit with the children. They all wanted to beat each other's scores to try and win a prize. At the end of the day the highest recorded score was a whopping 43mph. This score was registered by Gerard Malloy.
John Taylor, Dale Brooks, Marvin and FITC Staff Pose With The Speed Cage
John Taylor, Dale Brooks, Marvin and FITC Staff Pose With The Speed Cage
The other activity which created a big interested was The Wagon Wheel Challenge. There were loads of people who got two balls through the wheel, but to win a prize you needed three in a row. There were, however, a large number of people who did manage to get three in a row.after several goes!
Lunchtime - this gave us a chance to relax.but we soon got bored so we joined in with the playground football match, and thoroughly enjoyed it even though we did get our shins kicked!
Back to work - Unfortunately, the day had to come to an end. All the children wanted just one more go on the BOING and Wagon Wheel Challenge, but we had to pack up due to After School Clubs.
18th March, Prize giving assembly - After all the money raised from sponsorship and also from the Boing and Wagon Wheel had been counted the total raised was a staggering £2300. This amount was the most ever raised from a sponsored penalty shoot-out.
Everyone who raised sponsorship, no matter how high or low the figures were, each received a certificate of merit. However, those who raised over £30 received a mini Cambridge United football. Finally, the person who raised the most money from sponsorship would receive a Cambridge United kit of their size.
There were two additional prizes that are not usually included with a sponsored penalty shoot-out. These were two Cambridge United away shirts. These shirts were for two people who raised a very large amount of money from sponsorship.
Prizes were also given out to people who got three balls through the Wagon Wheel and for the person who recorded the fastest speed from the BOING.
There were three people who raised £140 and over from sponsorship. These people were:
- Charles Castleton £140
- Gerard Malloy £149
- Scott Toner £211.50
- Gerard Malloy £149
- Scott Toner £211.50
We in the Cambridge United Football in the Community Scheme would like to say a big thank you to all the pupils from St Phillips School for helping raise much needed funds for the school and also the Community Scheme.
Well done!
Darryl McMurray
Cambridge United F.I.T.C Community Coach
Cambridge United F.I.T.C Community Coach
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