Kent County Playing Fields Association

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Patron

Edwin R P Boorman OBE DL MA

Reports and Accounts

Report and Annual Accounts 2010

These are available online in "PDF" or "Word" format or from The Secretary.

Sita Trust

Sita Trust supports community and environmental improvement projects through the Landfill Communities Fund. Read More

KCPFA at the County Show

The picture below is of Trustee Malcolm Hawkes, Mrs Georgie Warner, High Sherriff of Kent and Vice President Helen Skellorn at this years County Show at Detling.

Ashford Cricket Club Emergency Appeal - Read More

To date £1065 has been raised including the KCPFA Donation of £250. read more

What We Do

The Kent County Playing Fields Association was formed in 1926 and its fundamental objective throughout has been to ensure that there are adequate facilities for recreation in every city, town and village in Kent and to encourage the provision, improvement, retention and use of playing fields, children's playgrounds and other recreational centres.

In pursuit of this objective, the Association will co-operate with such organisations and groups as necessary to secure the provision of new facilities and to safeguard existing facilities that may be under threat. Supporting the Association

The Association has a strong membership that is committed to achieving its Object. The extent to which the Association is able to assist with the achievement of its Object, however, is dependent upon the level of financial assistance it receives year-on-year. If you would like to support the Association, please complete an application form and send it to our Hon. Treasurer.

The Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge

2012 is an exciting year in the UK with two great events scheduled: Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the London 2012 Olympics. The Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge, headed by its Patron Prince William, is a fantastic programme to protect 2012 playing fields in communities all across the country as a permanent living legacy of these landmark occasions. For further information go to www.qe2fields.com

Sportsmatch Funding

The Sport England Sportsmatch programme has announced that it is to resume its grant making activities in December 2009 for activities that will take place during the 2010/11 financial year. Through the scheme, Sportsmatch offers pound for pound matched funding to investments made by businesses, trusts and individuals into projects that encourage sports participation at grass roots level. From October 2009, Since it started in 1992, Sportsmatch has awarded over £48 million to almost 6,000 projects across the country, and has brought in over £58 million for these projects from the commercial sector.

Previous grant recipients include; Devizes School in Wiltshire which obtained a three year sponsorship from a local construction firm which amounted to £10,000 per year. The school matched this with a further £10,000 from Sportsmatch and were able to run an annual multi-sports coaching camp during the school summer holidays. The Children's Kayak Charitable Trust obtained £1,180 in sponsorship from a local watersports retailer. They matched this with a Sportsmatch award and ran a three year project offering free kayak coaching to children from 12 local schools.

Applications can be submitted at any time.. http://www.sportengland.org/funding/sportsmatch.aspx Rocky Sharrock Fields Manager 024 7674 3396 Mob 07957 846550

Latest News

Winter Newsletter

A copy of the Winter Newsletter can be obtained fron the KCPFA offices or online in "PDF" format by clicking the links below.

Stanley Blow & Ole Kverndal Awards 2011

The above Memorial Fund for sports clubs and other organizations enables the KCPFA to make grants Read More

Annual Council Meeting

On Friday 21st October the Association held its Annual meeting at the Town Hall, Maidstone. Our Chairman, and host, Mr Robert Horner,welcomed His Worship the Mayor of Maidstone, Cllr.Brian Mortimer, who kindly gave a welcoming speech to our guests. We were also pleased to introduce Mr John H.Shepherd,(pictured standing), the President of the Kent County Cricket Club, as our principal guest speaker.

John spoke affectionately about his time as a professional cricketer for the West Indies, Kent and Gloucestershire, providing a personal insight into the relationships between competing Test cricketers which were often revealing and sometimes comical. Read More

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We recently held our 54rd Annual Competition at Ashford Golf Club. Over £10,000 was raised for the Charity from over 80 of Kent's Golf Clubs. Nearly 3,000 competitors took part in the preliminary stages with some 109 finalists taking part on the day.

In June 1994 I was asked, as Secretary of the KSGA, to attend the prize giving of the Annual Cecil Leitch Five Club Competition at Rochester and Cobham Park Golf Club to receive a cheque for our funds.