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Mayor of Royal Greenwich visits GPFC

On Thursday 21st Feb Christine May the Mayor of Royal Greenwich and her Deputy, Councillor Mick Hayes visited Greenwich Powerchair FC.
This was a special occasion when Our player Emily Campbell, one of the longest term members of the club was awarded the Shea French-Gibbens Memorial Award. For her exceptional input to the club. This was presented by Shea’s mother, Viv.
Our Mayor presented Emily with s medal and then had s go at driving one of the Powerchairs, realising how skillful the players are!

Charity of The Year!

On Saturday, November 24th our Powerchair Football coach, Rhea Daly, went to the Coop, Shooters Hill Rd with two of our players, Emily Campbell and David Gale to celebrate that South London Special League has been chosen as their Charity of The Year. The store manager, Victor made us very welcome and we hope to work in partnership supporting our local Coop throughout this coming year.

Sharon Brokenshire MBE. DIRECTOR, South London Special League

Above. Another photo from our visit to Coop Shooters Hill Rd to celebrate being Selected as their charity of the year.

This photo is with Adam Reynolds, a player with South London Special League who has been a member for a very long time and now works as a volunteer. He is with Emily Campbell our only female Powerchair football player in the team that plays in the South East England League.

Matthew Pennycook visits Greenwich PowerchairFC

On Thursday May 10th our local MP came to celebrate with us our newly acquired funding from BBC Children In Need.

We train on Thursdays from 4.00pm-6.30pm and on Saturdays from 2.00pm-4.00pm at Waterfront Leisure Centre.

Matthew has been a great fan of South London Special league’s Greenwich PFC for a few years now. He says that although he wasn’t mad about football at school, he has totally fallen in love with powerchair football and hugely admires the skills of our young players. He was thrilled to be able to join in, supported by our wonderful player Emily Campbell.

Matthew Pennycook plays Powerchair Football

Back row: Davis Stopp Matthew Pennycook MP. Sharon Brokenshire MBE, Aaron Cloke Rhea Daly (senior coach).
Front row: Emily Campbell Kieran Gibbons Daniel Holt, Jack

 

Match Report 25th February

We were really pleased with them yesterday especially Dan as it took him 5 Hours to get there! Dedication for you!

Report on GPCFC 25/2/18 Crawley Leisure Centre

GPCFC – Norwich 0-0

Asa Hems, Emily Campbell, Kieran Gibbons, Alfie Cambridge Sub – Archie Jones

Our first game was against the leaders Norwich FC and the players knew this was going to be a tough game; however the players have been training hard and were looking forward to it especially as we had all of our strike force chairs which were now operative. This has given their morale a great boost.

Our line – up was Asa in goal with Kieran, Emily and Alfie starting the game with Archie waiting in the wings. The game started as you can imagine at a very fast rate with both teams having chances. We started the brighter side which took Norwich by surprise. Alfie came off after 6 mins and Archie seized the chance to come on.  Alfie was able to continue in the second half when we took of Emily who had worked hard. Man of the match was Asa who had a great performance pulling off saves after saves. His communication at the back was vital. Asa said that it was nice to be Man of the Match but he said it was a team effort and thanks to Kieran and Alfie who defended well.  Both Archie and Kieran had chances to score but some good defending from |Norwich they were denied. The smiles on everyone’s faces at the end of the game told the story! Norwich had not lost a game or drawn before today’s game so it was a shock for them.

Credit to both sides!

GPCFC – Sevenoaks Development – 2-2

Asa Hems, Emily Campbell, Archie Jones, Daniel Holt – Subs: Kieran Gibbons, Alfie Cambridge

It took Daniel Holt five hours to get to Crawley from Bethnal Green due to train cancellations, delays and the station lifts not working. So having missed the first game he said he was not going to miss the second. This showed real determination, dedication and effort to get to the game. It was worth it for him as Dan Scored two goals which bring his tally to 5 this season so far.

We began the game brightly against Sevenoaks who are second in the League and nearly scored an early goal.  The goal came from a kick out from which Dan who moved onto the pass and scored a goal. Sevenoaks did not give up and come back with a goal 5 minutes later. We again deservedly went into the lead from another goal from our man Dan. We played more as a team but still made some silly mistakes and we were punished for not clearing the ball which made the final score 2-2.

We were really pleased with the player’s performance, determination and attitudes today. We all had a good day and left with smiles on our faces.

Race Night

Hi All,

Just to let you know more about our RACE night at the Badgers Sports Club on Friday 24th November. We thought this would be a brilliant way of socialising with every member of the club and its families plus this would also support our fund raising for a new power chair!
Just to let you know that it is FREE to attend and bets are no more than a pound!!!
Before I tell you about all the details please let me explain how the race night works. We have eight races and eight runners in each race. We are looking for a sponsor for each of the eight races which will cost £20. That person would then be responsible of selling the 8 horses in that particular race at a cost of £3.00 a horse. The people who buy a horse for £3.00 gets to choose the horse’s name.
E.G. – I am going to pay £20 to sponsor a Race and then I am going to get members of my family to pay £3.00 each for one of those 8 horses and then they would name their horse. This would then become Race 1. The owner of the horse will receive a prize if there horse wins the race.  (Bottle of wine, Chocolates etc.)
The winning horse of each 8 races automatically goes into an Auction race at the end where each horse is sold to the highest bidder on the night, with a large prize given to the winning owner of this race.
So we are looking for 7 sponsors (I am buying one so that leaves 7) and hope that one of you would pay £20 for one of the races and then get 8 people who would then buy a horse for £3.00

Betting

It will only cost you £1.00 to make a bet.

Venue

Badgers Sports Club
Middle Park Avenue, Eltham, SE9 5HT
(Just by the big McDonalds on the Roundabout)

Facilities

Car parking , wheel chair access and licensed bar avaialble

Time

Doors Open at 6.45 and the first race commences at 7.30. Get there early!!!!!!!!

Friends and Family

You can bring along as many people as you want. Bring your parents, carers, cousins, aunts, uncles, Nan and grandads, next door neighbours or your closest friends.
If you have any donations for prizes bring them along over the next couple of weeks please.

Thank you
Josie and Rhea

Greenwich Powerchair FC Match Report

Sunday 1st October, Crawley Leisure Centre

Game 1

Greenwich v Brighton Seagulls
Team: Asa, Kieran, Alfie, Emily and Archie

Our First league game took place at Crawley Leisure centre and the players were excited and looking forward to playing. Having had our speed tests completed the players entered the hall eager to play their game. We started the game with Asa in goal with Emily on the right in her new strike force chair and Alfie on the left with Kieran in the middle. The team settled down very quickly and begun passing the ball around very confidently. We were 3-0 at half time and went on to win the game 4-0. A very pleasing result with goals scored from Emily, Kieran, Alfie and an own goal although credit should go to Archie for this goal.

Above. Emily Campbell in her new Strike Force powerchair.

Game 2

Greenwich v Invictus
Team: Asa, Emily, Archie, Alfie and Daniel.

Our second game was against Invictus who scored two early goals which startled our performance. We lost 6-0 which was disappointing for us but an experience that we will learn from.

However we all enjoyed the day and looking forward to our next league game.

Above. With our coaches, Rhea Josie and Aaron