Jack Petchey Awards

The Jack Petchey Foundation
Achievement Award

*To see our list of winners please scroll down.

Epping Cricket Club is proud to announce that we have successfully been accredited to the Jack Petchey Foundation which allows the Club to receive Achievement Awards for members that are under 26 years of age. The first Achievement Award winner was selected in September 2007.

The Achievement Award enables our club to recognise the effort, endeavour and achievement of yong members of our club. Every quarter an award is made to one of the club's young members, aged 11-25, who has shown enormous commitment, effort or dedication to Epping Cricket Club and/or has achieved something significant with their cricket.

The winner of the Achievement Award receives:

  • A framed Certificate recoginising their award.
  • £200 to donate to Epping Cricket Club to be used on a club project of the award winner's choice. 

    So far our winners our have contributed to the following: a new club net, new roll-out surfaces for practice, a storage container for colts equipment and lots of colts equipment!

To nominate a member for a Jack Petchey Achievement Award or to find out more please contact a committee member via our CONTACTS link.

Winners of the Achievement Award so far are shown below.
 Epping CC Jack Petchey Award winners 

Sept 2007 Achievement Award - Brad Sheridan (spent on colts equipment)
Dec 2007 Achievement Award - Andrew Hendley (spent on colts equipment)
March 2008 Achievement Award - Jacob Ellis (spent on storage container for equipment)
June 2008 Achievement Award - Dan Twitchett (spent on boundary rope 1st section)
Sept 2008 Achievement Award - Matthew Barrett (spent on boundary rope 2nd section)
Dec 2008 Achievement Award - Terry Preston (spent on winter nets) 
Jan 2009 Leader's Award - Dan Sly (spent on new outdoor netting)
March 2009 Achievement Award - Graham Preston (spent on new outdoor net surface)
Oct 2009 Achievement Award - Laura Ellis (spent on colts training equipment)
June 2010 Achievement Awards - Ben Marks (indoor training)
                                                 Jack Archer (extra equipment)
Oct 2010 Achievement Award - Tom Keating (Trophies and awards for all colts)
Nov 2011 Achievement Award - Jesse Chorley (Tropihies)
June 2012 Achievement Awards - Max Fletcher ( Indoor training)
                                                  Stanley Eaton ( Cricket equipment)
Nov 2012 Achievement Award - Josh Knight (Trophies and medals)
June 2013 Achievement Awards - Charlie Page ( Indoor training)
                                                  Matthew Wilson ( Equipment for youngest Colts)
June 2014 Achievement Award - Will Mehew (smaller equipment  for younger colts)
Louie Dunwell - rejected,award repaid to Petchey Foundation
Well done to all of the above. They have all worked hard on and off the pitch for the benefit of Epping CC and youth cricket generally. Pictures of our deserving winners can be found below and in our Jack Petchey Photo Gallery.

Media reports on Jack Petchey winners

Feb 2009: Dan Sly and Terry Preston in West Essex Guardian. Click HERE 

Photos of award winners


Oct 2009: Laura Ellis becomes the first girl colt to win an Achievement Award. Club secretary Graham Preston presents the plaque.


March 2009: Club secretary Graham Preston receives his Achievement Award from chairman Geoff Maynard.

Jan 2009: Terry Preston receives his Achievement Award from President Tony Sanderson.
Jan 2009: Terry Preston receives his Achievement Award from president Tony Sanderson.

Jan 2009: Dan Sly receives Epping's first Leader's Award from fundraising manager John Brades.
Jan 2009: Dan Sly receives Epping's first ever Jack Petchey Leader's Award from fundraising manager John Brades.

Sept 2008: Matthew Barrett receives his Achievement Award from Jack Petchey scheme coordinator Liz Brades.
Sept 2008: Matt Barrett receives his Achievement Award from Jack Petchey scheme coordinator Liz Brades.

June 2008: Dan Twitchett receives his Achievement Award from chairman Geoff Maynard.
June 2008: Dan Twitchett receives his Achievement Award from chairman Geoff Maynard.

March 2008: Jacob Ellis receives his Achievement Award from chairman Geoff Maynard.
March 2008: Jacob Ellis receives his Achievement Award from chairman Geoff Maynard.

Dec 2007: Andrew Hendley with his Achievement Award.
Dec 2007: Andrew Hendley with his Achievement Award.

Sept 2007: Brad Sheridan receives the club's first ever Achievement Award from Epping Mayor Ben Murphy and colts manager Dan Sly.
Sept 2007: Brad Sheridan receives our first ever Jack Petchey Achievement Award from Epping Mayor Ben Murphy and colts manager Dan Sly.

About the Jack Petchey Foundation

The Jack Petchey Foundation, established in 1999, gives grants to programmes and projects that benifit young people aged 11 - 25 years old. The Foundation is eager to help young people take advantage of opportunities and play a full part in society.

Grants are given through different programmes including: the Achievement Award Scheme, the Leader Award Scheme, Project Grants and Sponsorship.

Grants of over £27 million have been given out since the Foundation was established in 1999 (grant budget for 2007 is over £12 million).

More information regarding the Jack Petchey Foundation can be found on their website.

 

Who is Jack Petchey, OBE

    

Jack Petchey was born in July 1925 in the East End of London. He came from a background that gave him very few advantages but he became a prominent businessman and property developer.

At the end of the Second World War, in 1945, Jack Petchey left the Navy in which he had served and became a clerk. He was told by the personnel officer of his firm "You'll never make a businessman". However, this discouraging remark did not prevent Jack from becoming one of the most sucessful entrepreneurs in Britain!

In June 2004 Jack Petchey was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire), in the Queen's Birthday Honours for Sevices to Young People in East London and West Essex. Although many charitable projects have been supported in recent years by Jack Petchey, a Charitable Foundation was formed in 1999 to support projects in East London and West Essex. This is now expanding into the whole of London and Essex.