C&D Fishing days are back!

Regular readers will know that C&D hold golf days on a regular basis (the next one is on Friday, 2nd June at Enville Golf Club, register by emailing Craid at craig@demolishdismantle.co.uk if you would like to play this year).

But John is a fisherman, not a golfer, so he feels left out on the golf days. Therefore this year we are hosting one golf day and TWO fishing days!!!

If you are a coarse fisherman and would like to drown a few worms and maybe catch a net full of fish, why not come to a fishing day?

Dates and venues are as follows:-

• Friday, 30th June at Moorlands Farm near Kidderminster
• Friday, 4th August at Furnace Mill near Bewdley

Each day will start with a full fisherman's breakfast before drawing pegs for a 5 hour match. After emptying the pool of fish we will then have a meal and prize giving before driving home.

Both days are free of charge to invited guests, but places are limited to 12 people at Moorlands and 16 at Furnace Mill.

If you want to join us please email John at john.woodward@demolishdismantle.co.uk

"It's goodbye from me and it's goodbye from him"

Next Friday sees the 2016 IDE AGM when Dave Darsey succeeds Duncan Rudall as President and either Gary Bishop or Richard Dolman becomes Vice President, but it's also the day when Steve Jack steps down from the CoM after over 20 years round the table and I also step down after 10 years round the table!

Will we be glad to step to down? I am sure that Steve will agree when I say that it will be strange not attending CoM meetings, but we both believe that now is the right time to go to make way for a younger element on CoM who can continue our work and take us to chartered status.

The days saved by not attending the meetings will be used by Steve to improve his golf and by me to improve my fishing as we both move towards retirement.

When I asked Steve about his golf this week he said:-

For some time, my wife's had this ridiculous idea that I'm playing too much golf. Actually, it came to a head at about 11.30pm last night. She suddenly shouted at me: "Golf, golf, golf. All you ever think about is bloody golf!". And I'll be honest, it frightened the life out of me. I mean, you don't expect to meet somebody on the 14th green at that time of night.

And for myself:-

This week I was asked to do a very important after-dinner speech. I said: "Do you want me to be funny?" They said: "No, just be yourself."

Goodnight!

Final details of the September 21st Golf Day

C&D is sponsoring a Golf Day being held at the prestigious Astbury Hall on Wednesday, 21st September.

The itinerary for the day is as follows:

10am: Champagne Reception / Bacon Rolls / Tea and Coffee – Goody bag collection!

12 noon: Shotgun Start (Starting holes to be allocated)

4.30pm: Drinks in the bar and on the terrace

6.15pm: 2 course dinner of Beef followed by a trio of deserts.

7.15pm: Comedian – Jonny Cole

8pm: Prize giving – Teams First / Second / Third – Longest Drive – Nearest the Pin – Most Individual Points – Pink Ball Competition

8.15pm: Q and A with the former Wolves / Derby County legends on the day. (Steve Daley / Don Goodman / Mel Eves / Roger Davies / Roy Macfarland / Michael Johnson / Phil Parkes)

10pm: Carriages

FREE BEER will be given out on the course all day and the only fundraisers we will be doing will be Heads and Tails and a raffle, with NO main auction!

Please note there are only 11 buggies available on a first come first served basis at £25 each. Jason requests that everyone wear pink if they can and gift donations for the raffle prizes will be welcomed.

Details of pricing and how to sign up a team are given below (click the form to see it full size). For any queries, please contact Jason using jason@first4staff.net

Breakthrough Breast Cancer Golf Day raises over £6,000

Jason Guy has been in touch following our successful Golf Day last month, and the news is extremely good. We raised over £6,000 for the charity. Here's the details:

Money collected:
Team Income: £8,100
Fines Bucket: £413
Raffle: £1,060
Chip Bucket: £420
Pink Ball: £500
Football Card: £180
Other: £2,301
Total = £12,974

Costs:
Astbury Hall: Golf / Food / Buggies / Additions: £4,880
Goodie Bags / Alcohol / Comedian / Prizes / Other: £1,939.15

Total: £6,819.15

Total Raised: £6,154.85

That means in just 2 years £47,000 has been raised, but Jason hasn't finished yet. He wants to reach £50,000 so has come up with the 50 for 50 for 50 idea.

Jason explains:

If 50 people donate £50 each .... we will hit £50,000!!! (OR EVEN 50P WILL DO!!!!) Cheeky I know, but it will take us to our target!!!

I have donated my £50 ... you can too (ANY AMOUNT – EVERY PENNY HELPS SAVE LIVES) at www.justgiving.com/lucyandjason. Everybody that donates will get a FREE GIFT in the post!!!

32 competitive demolition industry golfers take on the Belfry

On June 24th, 32 golfers from 14 different NFDC member companies, came together at the Belfry golf course in Warwickshire to compete for the Inter-Regional Trophy.

It has been over two years since the Inter-Regional Golf Day was last run, and I think everyone is glad to see it make a comeback, and C&D Consultancy was also very happy to be a sponsor. The winners ended up being Number 8 Construction, who counted Trevor Mills (Managing Director), Pete Hart, Gordon McKendry and the All Blacks Number 8 player Zinzan Brooke as team members.

As well as being a great day out, the evening meal following the golf raised £6,855 for charity. We hope it becomes a regular calendar event from now on!

Source: NFDC

Charity Golf Day raises £4,526.30

The First4Staff Charity Golf Classic has been a huge success and news that it raised £4,526.30 is welcomed.

Here's the breakdown of the donations and costs:

Team sales and sponsorship: £7890
Heads and Tails: £725
Pink Ball game: £480
Photographs (commission): £55
Football Card: £400
Bucket chip game: £395
Raffle: £1080
Water Hazard (18th hole): £327.50
Fines bucket / other: £201.30
Auction: £170

Total: £3833.80
Grand total incoming: £11,723.80

Outgoings (less):

Astbury Hall: Golf/Food/Buggies £5124

Other costs: Goodie Bags / Trophies / Alcohol £2073.50
(a full detailed breakdown can be supplied on request)

Total Raised for charity: £4526.30

So far this year they've raised £8,312, with their £10,000 target in sight. The donations have been split as follows:

Golf Day: £4526.30
JustGiving: £1690
Charity football game/other: £1525.70
Direct cheque donations: £570

If you would like to donate, please do so either directly or through JustGiving.

IDE Golf Day 2011 is today, includes fishing

Just a quick reminder that the IDE Golf Day 2011 is happening today and this year includes a fishing element.

The event is taking place at the Stonebridge Golf Club near the NEC and includes 16 golfers and 10 fishermen. Afterwards, 20 IDE members and guests will arrive for a regional meeting, evening meal and prize giving.

Our thanks go out to the following for the sponsorship of prizes:-
Michael Patefield FIDE,
Adrian McLean MIDE,
John Woodward FIDE.
Phil Jones of Volvo.

We'll be sure to post details of how today goes either later this week or early next. We also hope someone remembers to take pictures today.

NFDC Golf Day 2009

The 2009 NFDC Golf day was held on Friday 18 September 2009 at De Vere Belton Woods, Grantham and a good turnout saw a closely fought contest in glorious weather.

Unfortunately Scotland & Northern Ireland were unable to muster a team for the event so the competition went ahead with teams from the other four NFDC regions competing for the trophy.



The day started with Pat Harnett of Midlands & Welsh (this year’s hosts) greeting the players (Including IDE President Terry Quarmby playing for London & Southern) over coffee and bacon rolls before teams made their way to the first tee to let battle commence. The teams enjoyed excellent weather throughout the 18 holes of golf and at the end of their rounds they all adjourned to the 19th Hole for a well deserved drink whilst scores were calculated prior to the presentation dinner.

The evening dinner saw the following prizes presented by John Woodward (IDE Vice President), who attended the dinner with his wife Jill, as the guest of Wrightways Ltd who organised the excellent day:-

1. Nearest the Pin – Anthony Verity (North East).
2. Nearest the pin in two shots – Ian Shaw (Midlands & Welsh).
3. Longest Drive – Kevin Robson (North East).

With the individual prizes presented it then left Pat Harnett to announce the team scores which were as follows:

o Fourth Place – 160 points – Midlands & Welsh
o Third Place - 164 points – North West
o Second Place – 165 points – London & Southern
o Winners – 167 points - North East.



North East team captain Mark Davison collected the trophy and in a short address thanked Midlands & Welsh for organising the event and promised a great event next year in the Tyne Tees area.

Well done North East!

C&D Consultancy Golf Day Results

The inaugural C&D golf day was held on Thursday 7th May at Ingestre Park Golf Club near Stafford. It was attended by 14 golfers from C&D clients, all of whom enjoyed the day fully and went home with a prize for their efforts.

The main prizes, however, were won as follows:

Morning Texas Scramble
Adam Clarke (C&D Consultancy)
John Devine (TDS)
Austin Taperell (TDS)

Afternoon Individual Stableford
1st John Devine (TDS)
2nd Andrew Dale (EDS)
3rd Adam Clarke (C&D)
4th Pat Harnett (Wrightways)

Longest Drive of the Day
Austin Taperell (TDS)
This was a good result as Austin drove all the way from newscatle-upon-Tyne to attend the day!

Nearest the Pin
Richard Noon (Total Reclaims)

Wooden Spoon (but nicest golf clubs)
Alan Matchett (Sandvik)

C&D thanks all those who found the time to attend and we look forward to our next gold day in 2010.