CHELTENHAM SENIOR CITIZENS

CONCERT & TEA PARTY

Christmas Tea Parties for Cheltenham Senior Citizens, have been in existence since around 1948, when the first one was held to ensure that the seasonal celebrations started for pensioners in the area. They have continued ever since under the guidance of the Cheltenham Senior Citizens Welfare Committee, with members of that Committee ensuring that the parties take place.

Throughout this time, Cheltenham Skittles League has been one of the two sponsors of these parties, ensuring their continued future, by taking one week in November and asking that teams make a donation to the OFXMP – the current acronym for what we all know as the Tea Parties. It has, along with the Football Association enabled the tea party organisers to shop, and book local entertainments from year to year. The collection this year in 2009 ensures that there is a budget for 2010, and it is a rolling programme of support. The parties are open to the over 60’s with the tea starting at 5.00pm, followed by entertainment, the whole evening ends around 8.00pm when there are free coaches, two of them each going to the four corners of Cheltenham, offering a journey to a point near to people’s homes. Every coach has a guide, to ensure that travellers not only get on the right bus, but also get off at the appropriate stop, and seeing them across the road if necessary. These volunteers come from the current membership of The Lions.

This is the background to the collections or raffle donations which you make – and the parties are enjoyed by many of our senior citizens.

This year we are asking ALL HOME TEAMS for week commencing MONDAY NOVEMBER 16^th

to ensure that either you make a collection, or donate some of your raffle proceeds to this CHRISTMAS PARTY FUND and return all monies to me

HON. SECRETARY: MRS C.SHEPPARD, 191 ALSTONE LANE, CHELTENHAM, GL51 8JA

As soon as possible after your game. Please return with the slip below completed. Cheques should be made payable to CHELTENHAM SKITTLES LEAGUE.

Thank you so much – this collection means a lot to so many – and if you need tickets, or know someone who would like tickets then give me a ring and I will send them out.

Thank you

In the match between the Pluckers and the Hustlers £40 was raised towards our charities collection.

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Questions and Queries

TO TRANSFER OR NOT TO TRANSFER

If you are signing on a new member of your team, and they have come from a team which has disbanded – they do not need a transfer form, they do however need to sign a registration form for your team. If you have not signed on 20 players already, (that fee you paid at the start of the year entitles you to 20 team players ) – any person joining your team and tipping you over that magic number of 20 has to pay the £1.25p registration fee.