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Sports Ground Contractors Ltd
D W Clark DRAINAGE LTD
SPECIALIST SPORTSTURF CONSTRUCTION & DRAINAGE CONTRACTORS • Gravel Banding • Sand Slitting
• Top Dressing • Renovation • Irrigation Unit 7, Brailes Industrial Estate, Winderton Lane, Lower Brailes Banbury, Oxfordshire OX15 5JW
Tel: 01608 685800 Fax: 01608 685801 email:
jim@dwclarkdrainageltd.co.uk Web:
www.dwclarkdrainageltd.co.uk
SPORTS TURF D CRANE
Construction Golf Courses, Natural/
Artificial Pitches, MUGAs
Renovation Koro Field Top Maker, Fibre Sand Installation, Laser Grading, Seeding
Drainage
Piped Drainage, Sandmaster, Whiz Wheel, Gravel Banding
Tel:01254 878047
Email:
info@dcranesportsturf.com Website:
www.dcranesportsturf.com
SCONSTRUCTION DRAINAGE
Sand Slitting, Gravel Banding V RENOVATION
erti Draining, Hollow Coring, Scarifying, Koro Field Topmaker, Topdressing, Overseeding, Sand Spreading
ports Fields and Golf Courses
Rob Bradshaw is one ambitious young man, and his stated aim is to get to the top of his profession. He played football for his school team, but realised that he didn’t have the talent to become a professional footballer. So, he took, for him, the next best course of action; to work as a groundsman
Tel: 01772 780545
danvicturfcare@btconnect.com
Mobile: 07768 122577
wenty-nine year old Rob Bradshaw has already been in the turfcare industry for twelve years. In that time, he has amassed qualifications that include PA1/PA6 certification, passed courses for Winter Pitches, Cricket, Synthetic Surfaces (with diplomas with distinctions), and holds all tractor and hand-held machinery certificates. Rob began his career working for Huntingdonshire District Council, where he maintained twenty-four football pitches and various other ‘green’ areas, including parks and housing estates. In September of 2010, his passion and enthusiasm was recognised when he transferred to the One Leisure multi sports complex in St Ives, Cambridgeshire.
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He relished the chance to take on a fifty-two acre site with just two groundstaff; himself and one part-timer, sixty-eight year old Dave Hartley. “We are only a small team,”
says Rob, “but we work very well together. We share the same work ethic and have similar abilities.”
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The complex consists of six full size grass pitches, three 9v9 grass pitches, one full size sand based synthetic surface for hockey, one 3G synthetic
surface for football, a full size athletics track, rugby pitches, tennis and netball courts and also twenty-two cricket wickets over two squares. “The site is heavily used throughout the year, accommodating three senior football teams, eight colts teams, fifteen mini soccer teams, three girls’ teams and a disability team,” explains Rob. “There are five men’s and three women’s hockey teams, along with a thriving junior section.” The athletics arena is used by Hunts Athletics Club and Cambridgeshire meets are held as well. “We also have three netball teams, one rugby team and, to top all that off, we have a headache of schedule with cricket - five senior teams, three junior teams, three county senior teams and four county junior teams.” “Additional work includes path edging around the whole site and also cutting over 500 metres of conifer hedges. We also maintain shrub beds, flower displays and hanging baskets.” “We keep our grounds to a very high standard. Constant cutting in different directions, brushing and general
housekeeping duties, along with regularly aerating when
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