FUNDAY FINALLY FOR ASHFORD’S JUNIOR DISABILITY FOOTBALL CLUB

This season’s club activities finally came to a close with a fundraising funday at Great Chart in Ashford, where club members, parents/carers and volunteers were kept busy all day in a festival of fun and football.

With stalls, sports events and football matches there was plenty of activity for all those attending. The rain held off all day while the activities took place, including bouncy castles, Scalextric racing, raffles and competitions, penalty shoot outs, disability sports try outs, TA challenge, Hopper horse racing, with bar-b-q and refreshments available all day long.

Junior disability football matches were played out in front of the crowd, and the Mayor of Ashford and KMFM’s ‘Webbo’ gave out the prizes after the finals. The player’s parents/carers also took to the field to take on the youngsters in some fun football matches.

Although the club had hoped for a few more teams to come along on the day, it was the players from Charlton Athletics’ junior disability football teams who joined in with Invicta Valiants in putting on a series of fun but competitive matches for the spectators and dignitaries attending. Invicta Valiants would like to thank Brenda Osborne, Peter McCarthy and organisers of the Charlton Athletic teams for bringing the players along to the event, and of course we should like to thank all the players and their parents/carers who journeyed all the way down from Southeast London to play at the funday.

Co-organisers of the event ‘The Ashford Winkle Club’ (a local voluntary group who organise charitable fundraising activities) ran the bar-b-que and refreshment tent, and many local companies and organisations were generous with donations and help in running the whole event, and Invicta Valiants would like to thank all those who helped make this fundraising funday a success.

At the days end the club’s players were presented with awards for their achievements over the past season.

The next season looks like another very busy year for the club, with more tournaments and matches starting to be scheduled in the club’s diary, so we are always on the look out for more players and volunteers to join in with the club’s activities, with new sponsors and funders also welcome.