Winter Sports
L-r: Roy Ferguson, Paul Jones (Head Groundsman), Nick Phillips (Deputy Head), Kyle Smith and Jon Mantripp
COCK-a-hoop! T
Paul Jones and his groundcare team are giving grassroots sport in East London a much- needed helping hand,
whilst Tottenham Hotspur use and maintain the facilities at Frenford Clubs for use by the academy sides.
Tom James reports on how the community club are ‘cock-a-hoop’ about their involvement
62 PC DECEMBER/JANUARY 2012
he fortunes of a long-established community sports club have been transformed, thanks to a healthy investment from a London borough council and the commitment of a
top-flight professional football club. Now, youngsters are rubbing shoulders with the future stars of one of the biggest names in football, whose turfcare team are also taking care of business with the playing surfaces. The future of Frenford Clubs hung in the balance in 2009, when the news was announced, by the London Borough of Redbridge, that plans would get the green light to build a new academy school - the Isaac Newton Academy - on the site of its home base at Cricklefields, Seven Kings, in Ilford.
The club had a 99-year original lease on the land with twelve years still to run, which the council had previously allocated a three-year licence to. If the school’s plans would not allow Frenford to remain
on site, a solution would have to be sought to find a new home for the 82-year old community sports body.
The youth and sports club has had a long and fruitful existence since it was established in 1928, by a young man called Jack Carter, who started the ball rolling when he asked for a room in a Quaker’s meeting house and first spoke of his desire to give local children a safe haven to play regularly. Little did the community-minded Carter know that his aspirations were to come to fruition and create, what is now, a 19-acre youth club eight decades later. Yet, matters could have turned out so
differently if the club had not been forced to move from their home base. Club chairman and trustee, Graham Sandy MBE, who has been associated with the club for fifty-two years, and honoured for his work with it, was one of the men who led negotiations with Redbridge council to settle the future of Frenford Clubs.
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