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Barrells collection - Grantham style

We had a good start to our Grantham game collection when Steve Chadwick gave us £70 for some Aussie, Hong Kong and Canadian shrapnel, which he’ll be taking with him on his round-the-world journey to the Antipodes. Good luck Steve and stick another prawn on the barbie when you get there!!. Also our local post office exchanged a bunch of low denomination foreign notes for £46 - thank you Jackie; it cant have been easy listing all that lot. The rest of the change came to £135, so we weighed in with a total of £251 for the DF.

The Pound for the Ground raffle was won and collected on the day by Mr Nield from Macclesfield, who has been a regular from the first season. He plans to take his mate, who drives him to games, for a slap-up meal to celebrate. After he drew his £200 there was £415 remaining for the DF. Not a bad amount considering the pre-Christmas lower than average attendance.

Finally, over £800 of sold Christmas raffle ticket money was handed in by supporters last Saturday, which gives us a flying start towards beating last years £2,500 sold. There are still a lot of tickets out there to be collected, so if you have sold yours then you can hand them in this Saturday to any of the Pound for the Ground sellers that are at Matlock. They can also be handed in at the FCUM office BEFORE Friday lunchtime and of course we can collect them at the game on Boxing Day at Gigg lane before 3pm. Failing that then ring or text us on 07714 827019 and we will sort it.

Seasons greetings to all our supporters from the Pound for the Ground sellers and thanks for all your support throughout the season. We are always on the look out for new sellers, so make that a NEW YEAR resolution to join us for the occasional game.



First Posted ~ 13:41 Tue 18 Dec 2012
News ID ~ 4629
Last Updated ~ 02:01 Tue 16 Feb 2021