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Belfast City Marathon 4th May 2009

Head coach Ross Speight and his brother Aaron are going to be taking part in this years Belfast Marathon.

They are raising money for Marie Curie.

They are both looking for your sponsorship for this fantastic cause, please email Ross direct on rspeight@prosoccer.org.uk or to us at the club info@lostockgralamfootballclub.co.uk if you would like further information and of course to sponsor them.

The Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon is one of the leading marathons in the UK and Ireland.

The route will remain the same as the 2008 event; starting at the City Hall at 9am and finishing at Ormeau Park.

press release;

  Grey Lambs seal a cool £1000 from Brooktherm Refrigeration 

Lostock Gralam are celebrating a bumper new sponsorship agreement with Wirral based Brooktherm Refrigeration to add important revenue to their current development programme.

The deal is all the sweeter given that the club were able to take advantage of a government scheme called Sportsmatch, enabling the total available to the club £2000.

The money has already been put to good use, with the purchase of a new away kit and tracksuits for the clubs first team. The remainder of the funding will be spent on equipment and training for coaches to launch the clubs junior academy next season.

Club Secretary James Birdsey said “This is a significant amount of money for the club to fulfil our commitment to delivering grass roots activities alongside the clubs exciting capital programme to redevelop the ground. The tender documents for the ground have now been completed, and this funding will ensure we have a high quality junior system in place to utilise the new facilities upon completion for the 2010/11 season. We’re delighted that Brooktherm want to be a part of this programme, and look forward to a productive partnership”.

The clubs senior sides are both flying high this season, with the 1st team up to 4th in Cheshire Division 2 and on an unbeaten run stretching back to the 3rd of November. The reserve side have done even better, having led the Crewe and District league since September.

“The quality of coaching at the club is already very high, and we’re able to draw on the experience of Neil Bithell, who works with Manchester United’s Academy sides, and Ross Speight, who is a UEFA B coach and Director of Coerver Coaching NW. They have taken the club onto the next level and will do an excellent job of overseeing the implementation of the junior sides”

Information on the Sportsmatch scheme can be found via www.sportengland.org.uk

The Chairs Christmas Message;

May I and my family extend to you all our Christmas greetings and wish you all a happy and peaceful

                                                Christmas and New Year

May I also take this opportunity to thank you all; committee members, managers and players alike for your support throughout the last year, a year that stands out in our long history for being the most eventful one so far for the club.

This has been a historic year with the finalisation of the funding for our ground development, thus' allowing us to take this club forward, it has secured its future and we can safely say that the Grey Lambs will be playing football on our historic ground for many more seasons to come. 

I would also like to commend you all and give my thanks for the great progress that you have all been responsible for, all that has taken place both on and off the playing field.

I will rank and must compare the cup game that I witnessed against Witton Albion as one of the best performances by a Lostock Gralam side that I have ever had the privilege to watch during my long association with this club.

But the transformation of our club over this last year has only been achieved through the dedicated responsibility to this club that you have all once again given to it, so I hope you will join with me in looking forward to a another new and exciting year ahead of us all here at LOSTOCK GRALAM F C .    

  Thank you and Best Wishes to you all, DEREK.

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  BONFIRE AND FIREWORK SPECTACULAR 

Lostock Gralam Football Club presented a BONFIRE AND FIREWORK SPECTACULAR at The Slow and Easy Hotel on FRIDAY 7TH NOVEMBER it started at 6:30pm, although many people arrived early to make sure they had a good spot to watch the fireworks.

There were plenty of Burgers, hotdogs, tea and coffee available on site, which proved to be extemely popular as the weather was a bit chilly, the bar was also open in the Slow and Easy for licensed sales.

The club also held a raffle where you could have a chance of winning 1 of 3 different hampers,

which included a chocolate, household items and a beer hamper.

Everybody that came along really enjoyed theirselves and it was a great team effort from the commitee members and 1st team players of the club.

The Bonfire!	Fireworks
Fireworks	Fireworks
Children with Sparklers	1st Team Players Adam Bayley and Mike Rafferty selling the raffle tickets

  Bithell Back for Lostock 

Preparations for the new season are well underway at Lostock with Neil Bithell back for a second spell as manager, this time assisted by Pat Collins with Ross Speight as Coach and Ted Harrison continuing as manager of the reserve team.

Bithell said –

“I’m glad to be back as this is a club that’s heading in the right direction with the work going on behind the scenes to improve the facilities. The team is stronger than when I left and there’s some really good young players coming with me, so we’re looking forward to getting started.”

  Ground Development 

Lostock had double reason to celebrate at the weekend (11/10/08) as they received news that they had been successful in procuring £241,400 from the Football Foundation to complete their long awaited Ground Development Project. The funding will go together with the £155,000 already allocated from Vale Royal Borough Council to completely level the site, including demolishing the current changing facilities, to pave the way for a new build changing room and clubhouse, a full drainage network on a revamped senior pitch with an additional mini soccer pitch added for junior football.

Simon Gerrard, Development Manager for the Cheshire FA said - "We are pleased to have supported the club in this application to the Football Foundation, and are delighted that the club have been successful. This project will see the upgrade of a traditional community club into a hub for grass roots development, and we look forward to seeing the clubs long term development plan come to fruition".

Derek Washburn, Club Chairman, said "I've been involved in this club for over 40 years now, and can't put into words how much this means to me and to the people of Lostock. Once this is complete, we will have facilities to match any amatuer club in Cheshire and fully intend to use this opportunity to develop young, local players to put the club at the top of the amatuer tree once again."

The club will meet with project managers from Groundwork on the 22nd of October to sign off tenders documents, with a view to commencing work early in 2009.

It won't be long before Lostock Gralam F.C will be back where they belong contesting for the trophies that amateur football has to offer.

Year formed 1892
Year joined MCFL 1948 and 1993
Colours: Blue Shirts, Blue Shorts and Socks
Change:Grey/ Yellow Shirts, Grey/Yellow Shorts and Socks
Affiliated to: Cheshire FA
Floodlights: No
Mid Week Match Home Night: Thursday