Football club helps to kick off poppy appeal (From Cotswold Journal)
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Football club helps to kick off poppy appeal
5:00pm Thursday 8th November 2012 in News
STADIUM: Members of Evesham United FC with local cadets aft er the club offered its new ground for the launch of the Poppy Appeal fund-raising drive in the region.
FOOTBALLERS helped to kick-off the Poppy Appeal in the Vale in style.
Evesham United Football Club allowed members of Evesham Royal British Legion Branch and local cadets to collect for this year’s appeal and £116.96 was given to the cause.
Jeff King, chairman of the Evesham Royal British Legion Branch, said: “I am most grateful to the Evesham United Football Club committee for kindly allowing this collection to take place on their fantastic new premises.
“It was also a great honour to have our photographs taken with the Evesham United football team.”
Roy Bates, Evesham Poppy Appeal Organiser, said: “I would like to thank the cadets for all their hard efforts in making this collection which amounted to a glorious £116.96 – a wonderful kick-off to our 2012 appeal.”
