Recognised as a high quality sports club by Sports England

Thank you to John Lord for the below information:

Manor Road Tennis Club will be presented with their Clubmark plaque and certificate by Barbara Bloor from the LTA at the club on Monday 14th June at 7 pm.

Clubmark is a nationally recognised club development scheme run by Sport England in partnership with sporting National Governing Bodies to recognise high quality sports clubs with junior sections. It was introduced by Sport England in 2002 and is currently being implemented across 34 sports. The LTA administers its own version of Clubmark based on the National guidelines for best practice combined with real life examples of successfully run places to play across the Country.

There are over 600 Clubmark accredited places to play in the UK and now Manor Road Tennis Club has joined this list of LTA Clubmark accredited clubs where Juniors can play tennis.

And the £100 cash prize goes to . . .

Congratulations Hannah Charman on receiving the £100 cash prize for the best entry for Lymm.com’s first ever photographic competition. “Lymm Nature” was the theme for the competition, in which we think Hannah‘s image “Misty Swans” showing two swans on the Bridgewater Canal in the morning mist is a stunning example. Well done!!

Look out for Camera Munching Canines!

Having lived in Lymm for nearly a year now, Hannah loves the country feel Lymm has and says it is a very scenic village. When visiting friends and family down South, Hannah says she actually starts to miss the village and likes to log on to Lymm.com to view the webcams to see What’s on. The morning when Hannah shot the winning photograph, she was down at Oughtrington Community Centre setting up for a workshop. The photograph was taken by the humpback bridge on her trusty little digital camera she bought on half price from Argos the previous year! In fact, “Misty Swans” very nearly didn’t happen as moments before the photograph was taken, a passing dog thought that Hannah’s camera resembled a rather appetising breakfast and decided to have a cheeky munch of it as Hannah was walking by! Luckily enough, the camera remained unharmed, bar a bit of dog slobber, and the photograph was able to be captured.

A massive thank you goes out to all the other fab photographers who entered the competition. We received some fantastic entries which can all be viewed in the Media Gallery. Images can be viewed as a slideshow by clicking the slideshow link...

Fancy getting involved?

The theme for our next Photographic Competition is yet to be decided, so if you have any ideas for appropriate themes or topics then please email them through to Laura.

Once again, there will be a £100 cash prize for the best photograph so keep an eye out for the chosen theme of the next competition, then get snapping!

Up to three pictures per entrant, please email them to Competitions.

Thanks guys!

Photograph shows Matthew Chambers, Hannah Charman and Laura Chambers.

Thank you St Rocco's

St Rocco's shop in Lymm will shortly be celebrating their 25th anniversary and as it's Mothering Sunday we would like to thank the staff at St Roccos for their voluntary hard work, some of whom have worked there for 25 years.

The ladies and gents were presented with a bouquet of flowers courtesy of Karl Welsh florist and Lymm.com. Why not head down to St Rocco's Spring Fair at Lymm Village Hall on Saturday 13th March at 1.30-3.30pm. There will be various stalls and refreshments will be served. Incidentally Karl Welsh will be open all this weekend including Sunday for the perfect Mother's Day gift. The staff at St Rocco's would like to thank local traders and everyone who has supported them over the years.

Press Release

Cheshire County Football Association has awarded Warrington based club Lymm Piranhas FC the prestigious FA Charter Standard Club award for grassroots football.

The FA Charter Standard programme, supported by FA partner McDonald’s, was established to help clubs to improve standards of coaching, administration, player development and safeguarding children. The FA Charter Standard award is presented to those clubs like Lymm Piranhas FC who have raised their standards in these areas and lead the field in promoting best football practice, both on and off the pitch in grassroots football.

Comments

Mark Robison, Club Chairman comments “Lymm Piranhas are delighted to have achieved FA Charter Standard. We are committed to giving opportunities to children of all abilities within the local community to play football. By becoming a charter standard club, we have ensured that all of our coaches have the necessary skills to do this.”

Peter Nicholls, Senior Football Development Officer comments “The FA Charter Standard award acknowledges the support Lymm Piranhas FC provides to the local community and their efforts to ensure the club offers opportunities for players to develop their skills and play football in a safe and positive environment. The Cheshire County FA is committed to raising the standards of football at grassroots level and the dedication and achievements of clubs like Lymm Piranhas FC make this possible."

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Lymm Piranhas FC were presented with their award on Tuesday 2 March at their training ground at Lymm Leisure Centre, and were honoured by Glasgow Rangers defender David Weir, and Cheshire County FA Chief Executive Maureen Dunford.

Since 2002, over 117 clubs representing more than 1300 teams in Cheshire have achieved FA Charter Standard Club, Adult Club, Development or Community Club status.

Contact

For further information please email James Self or phone 01606 871155.

Chief Executive of the Cheshire FA Maureen Dunford and Rangers defender David Weir present the Charter Standard plaque to Lymm Piranhas Chairman Mark Robison & Child Liaison Officer Nik Wadsworth.

Chief Executive of the Cheshire FA Maureen Dunford, Football Development Officer James Self and Rangers defender David Weir present the Charter Standard plaque to Lymm Piranhas Chairman Mark Robison and players from the club.

Photographs from local photographer Wynford Evans.