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The Jack Petechy Foundation
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Epping Cricket Club is proud to announce that we have sucessfully 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 will be 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 will be made to one of the Club's members, aged 11-25, who has shown enormous commitment, effort or dedication to Epping Cricket Club and/or has achieved something siginificant with their cricket.
The winner of the Achievement Award receives:
Winners of the Achievement Award will be shown here, along with information of the area they wish their donation to be spent on.
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About the Jack Petchey Foundation |
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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.
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Who is Jack Petchey, OBE |
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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.
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