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JACK PETCHEY O.B.E.
Jack Petchey was born in 1925 and brought up in the East End of London with few luxuries. He left school to work in an office for twelve shillings and six pence (62.5p) per week. After the war Jack set up his own car hire business which developed into car sales - by 1959 Jack was selling nearly 20 cars per week and had over 40 hire cars on the road.
By 1969 Jack Petchey had branched out into property development and through this became a leading entrepreneur and one of the most successful business men in Britain. Jack is still actively involved in may businesses and charitable enterprises.
The Jack Petchey Foundation was formed in 1969 and since then over £30 million has been given to youth programmes. Jack Petchey wants the Achievements Awards scheme to recognise:
“Extreme endeavour and to help young people to help themselves”
The Jack Petchey Foundation operates an Achievement Award Scheme in over 1000 schools and clubs throughout all London Boroughs and in 2006 our league was accepted as a member club. The scheme is open to any youth organisation working with young people aged 11 - 25 within the catchment area and over £2 million is allocated each year. The scheme is divided into three categories, the Gold Scheme is for mainly larger organisations, the Silver is for medium sized and the Bronze is for smaller; we have been accepted into the Silver Scheme.
Participating youth organisations such as ours select ONE young person to receive an Achievement Award each quarter and the winner receives a framed certificate and a sum of money, (payable in our case to the league) to be spent on a youth organisation or community project of the recipient’s choice.
In addition our league can nominate one adult a year to receive a Leader Award and this person must have supported young people in an exceptional way for at least two years. The chosen person will receive a framed certificate, boxed gilt medallion and £1000 for the league or a community project.
Details and photographs of the award winners are shown below and will also be displayed in our refreshment room along with a nomination box and nomination forms for future use.
Our first award winner was Tom Wilkinson who was a former player in the league and who returned a few years ago to manage the Hawks team. He has also become a qualified referee in order to help us by officiating in matches.
The picture on the left shows Tom receiving the Jack Petchey cheque for £600 from Chairman Rob.Jeal later in the day at the Annual National Tournament mentioned above
The picture below shows our second award winner Todd Joyce receiving his certificate from one of our founder members and a former Mayor of Croydon Cllr. Brenda Kirby with Jim Browne looking on, this was at the Annual Presentation of Awards ceremony in June 2007. Todd has been a credit to his team & the league and this was reflected in that all the other players in his division voted for him as Players’ Player for the 2006/07 season.
The picture below shows our third award winner Josh Peterson receiving his certificate, again from Cllr. Brenda Kirby, but this time at the opening of the 2007/08 season when we had two Academy teams and two Premier teams competing for their respective Charity Shield type trophies. Also in the picture are Dave Russell and Lyn Green our current co-Chairmen. Josh had just completed five years playing in the league without missing any of his team’s matches - a remarkable achievement.
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