I am really looking forward to this Saturdays 'Community day' at Bath City Football Club. You can come along and 'pay what you want' and enjoy a fun afternoon out at May day Trust Park. With Bristol Rovers fans backing the initiative there should be a really good crowd there. Chelmsford are the visitors (k.o. 3 p.m.)
These events take quite some organising.
The Club needed the backing of key sponsors to ensure that it could achieve a baseline income for the game and I am proud to say that 3 organisations I am involved with stepped forward to sponsor the event. The Club's largest shareholder, the Bath City Supporter's Society, has put £500 in as has the Bath City FC Community Sports Foundation. The latter will invite hundreds of the City's children and their parents along to the event. The Conference Trust's Brian Lee will present the £15,000 cheque to the Foundation on the pitch at half time.
I am also part of a group of 8, loosely called 'the exiles' who together are supporting the event. Along with Alan Finney, Ken Loach, Barry Richards, Pete Flack, Martin Brush, Bob Chester and Gerry Walker, I'll be briefly in the Moore Stephens lounge for a couple of pints of pre-match real ale before heading over to what I hope will be a packed popular side terrace.
The architect of the community day is Bob Chester who has worked tirelessly to sort out arrangements for the day along with the Club's Directors and Andy Weekes in particular.
Steve Skinner and Pete Sellwood have led the Foundation's substantial input to this and Martin Powell, Chairman of the Society, has organised the Society's support.
Mark Tanner has done a brilliant job getting posters and leaflets out with a group of supporters.
I make no apology for doing all these name checks.....I have surely left a lot of key people out....but without individuals putting in the time initiatives go nowhere.
So now its down to the rest of us to get friends and family to come along.
If we can get a crowd of 1000 plus and just a few come back for future games it will have been worth it!
Obviously last Saturday's win over Dorchester Town effectively kept our season alive. It was a comfortable win but we really should have scored more goals. I really hope we can put that right this Saturday against Chelmsford. If our season does come to an end then we still have the Somerset Cup and I was reminded by Alan Finney that there is pleasure enough in watching your team play regardless of the chance of silverware!
See you on Saturday!
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