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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 many 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 six young persons to receive an Achievement Award each year and the winner receives a framed certificate and a sum of money 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 a sum of money 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.
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YOUNG ACHIEVERS
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March 2007
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Tom Wilkinson
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June 2007
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Todd Joyce
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September 2007
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Josh Peterson
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December 2007
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Jack Corps
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March 2008
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Sophie Harris
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Jimmy Killick
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June 2008
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Chris. Taylor
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Danny Roberts
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September 2008
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Abigail Ingram
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Kieran Sabine
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December 2008
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Zak Enness
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Glenn Harris
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Spring 2009
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Dayle Winters
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Billy Sales
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‘Mak’ Jenkins
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Daniel Beale
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LEADERS AWARD WINNERS
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2007
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LIN GREEN
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2008
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DAVE RUSSELL
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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 below 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 Lin 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
The two pictures below were taken at the Presentation event on Saturday 5th July 2008 when Rob Jeal who is now an Assistant Director at Gillingham F.C. gave out the Jack Petchey certificates and medallions
Our first winner of a Leader Award - Lin Green - joined the league in 1985 as an assistant team manager when her son became a player in our Colts team and Lin has been managing Colts continuously ever since, albeit with different players every year. Over the years and at different times Lin has taken on several of the roles necessary in the running of the league e.g. Chairman, Treasurer, Social Secretary and manager of our National Squad; she is currently co-chairman and is again manager of the National Squad while continuing to manage Colts.
We have only a few pictures of Lin taking part in league activities but those shown below give some indication of her willingness to be a very active member of the league team.
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