Since its launch £15,650 has been paid out in prizes and £12,045 in projects which include:

• Mark Harrod dug outs
• Social club shutter doors
• Pitch maintenance
• Medical supplies
• Car park
• Updating the telephone system
• Purchase of a Haughton mower
• A white line machine.

We have also started to do our accounts in-house and the lottery has helped to pay for our Sage subscription fee.  This is a very forward move for the club and is saving the club money in the long run.

Pitch maintenance is officially funded by the lottery on a regular basis. This summer, especially, proved how we need the lottery to maintain our pitch along with the volunteers that work so hard.

We have been working hard at growing the lottery by speaking to local PTFA’s, junior football clubs and other organisations about the partnership scheme. This has been something we have been pushing in the last few months.

The lottery administration has transitioned over to Sally-anne from Paul who is hard at work with the website, Marketing and Accounts. Sally deals with the whole Lottery administration piece along with Eric, who as always is our lottery champion. Eric works incredibly hard behind the scenes and on the front line regularly speaking to anyone he meets about the Lottery, he Is a treasure. Our Chairman John Bromley who always carries mandates in his pocket is always dropping them off to us in the office with new members that have signed up.

All of us in the commercial office continue to push the Lottery and September has been a real reward as it was our best month since the launch of the Lottery. We have managed to sign up the management team and players. We have received mandates from people involved with the under 18’s team and from the other junior teams, special thanks to Roy for his work with forging relationships with the Junior teams. We are grateful to all for their support. Furthermore, we have a resident’s association kindly put forward by Alan Gee, that have come on board and are eager to sign their residents up on the partnership scheme – we wish them all the luck with this.

We have taken on a few more agents, one from Crispin Court care home, she was eager to sign colleagues up after seeing one of the residents had won third prize in the August draw.

Currently we are ring fencing some money within the Lottery scheme to put towards the carpark. This will be put in along with kind donations from many involved with the club including individuals, Stripes and the social club committee. Needless to say we are very grateful for the support. With all that put together we will have enough to do half of the carpark and we are also applying for a grant from the Football Foundation which will make up for the rest of the car park. Our application for this is in progress.

We haven’t had to use the Lottery as much this year due to forming good relationships with local businesses that have offered up supplies and workers to complete work that has been needed in the ground allowing us to save up towards the car park fund.

Our future plan is to outline projects after the car park, in order of priority to enable us to plan timescales, costs and future donations towards the infrastructure of the club.

Boost the Boro now has over 300 members and gross income has exceeded £2,000 for the first time. We are pleased to say that we will be upping the prize fund at Christmas and the prize fund is in review for the new year.

We would like to take this chance to thank all who are involved with Boost the Boro from behind the scenes to our loyal supporters – we are very grateful for your support which helps us to fund much needed projects at the club.

If you would like to become an agent or know of any organisations that would benefit from our partnership scheme, please get in touch with any of the commercial team by calling 01785 602430 or you can email lottery@staffordrangersfc.co.uk.

Kind regards

The Lottery Committee

Evo-Stik Northern Premier League
Saturday 6 October 2018

Stafford Rangers suffered their third consecutive defeat and lost their unbeaten home record, but it was another afternoon where they could have had something from the game if a little more luck had gone their way.
Following Tuesday’s defeat at Marine Rangers fielded two new faces in the starting line up with Morgan Bacon replacing Adam Whitehouse in goal while Morgan James came in to midfield. Jack Sherratt and Sam Coulson were on the bench.

In an evenly matched game, Stafford started the better of the two sides and went close when Theo Bailey-Jones struck the post from around 15 yards out with Scarborough keeper Thomas Taylor just watching.

A couple of minutes later, Harry Benns dispossessed Bailey Gooda allowing Louis Briscoe to advance but he chose to shoot from distance and the ball went tamely wide.

Benns himself went wide when well-placed but both sides then found chances increasingly hard to come by and the half was well past the midway point before the visitors had a shot on goal and on that occasion Luke Dean saw his effort deflected wide.
Up to then, Stafford had looked the better side and it was against the run of play on 30 mins that Scarborough went ahead. A goal kick from Taylor was eventually hooked forward by Michael Coulson and Wayne Brooksby found space on the edge of the box. His shot took a slight deflection, but it was enough to send the ball past Bacon via his left-hand post.

Gooda made a goal line clearance to deny Bailey-Jones with Kyle Perry waiting to pounce but Stafford levelled on 38 mins when Briscoe’s corner was headed in by Tom Thorley. The corner came after Taylor had had to throw himself to his right to push away a Briscoe free kick.

But it was short lived parity and Scarborough were back in front on 41 mins when James Walshaw took advantage after Morgan James had failed to clear the lines. The two sides traded chances early in the second half, but it was Scarborough who were to add to their score on 54 mins when Kevin Burgess headed in at the back post from a Coulson corner.

Bailey-Jones went close to reducing the arrears after being let in by an error from Gooda, but he struck the Scarborough post for the second time in the afternoon while, at the other end, Coulson saw his shot tipped onto the bar by Bacon then Banks denied Walshaw with a timely tackle. Rangers kept working but a lack of creativity and firepower meant there was no way back. The nearest they came to scoring was when Briscoe forced a save from Taylor in added time.

Stafford: 1 Morgan Bacon, 2 Lewis Banks, 3 Harrison Holgate, 4 Luke Jones, 5 Morgan James (16 Jack Sherratt 46m), 6 Tom Marshall, 7 Theo Bailey-Jones, 8 Tom Thorley, 9 Kyle Perry, 10 Harry Benns (12 Joe Cuff 61m), 11 Louis Briscoe. Unused Subs 14 Sam Coulson, 15 Izak Reid, 17 Adam Whitehouse
Scarborough: 1 Thomas Taylor, 2 Joshua Lacey, 3 David Merris, 4 Luke Dean, 5 Kevin Burgess, 6 Bailey Gooda, 7 Wayne Brooksby, 8 Nathan Valentine, 9 James Walshaw (16 Jackson Jowett 87m), 10 Michael Coulson, 11 James Cadman (15 Jack Johnson 73m). Unused Subs 12 Tom Morgan, 14 Ross Killock

Cautions: None
Referee: Jack Neild
Att: 601

Report: Chris Elsley

Are you or do you know anyone in Year 11?

Stafford Rangers are looking for talented, committed and ambitious local footballers who wish to join a semi-professional academy in the Evo-Stik League where they will #Study, #Train and #Play full time after leaving school in 2019.

Our students study for a BTEC in Sport qualification (Level 2 or 3), train every day with an UEFA qualified coach and play in the NPL Football Academy League with opportunities to play in the FA Youth Cup.

Starting in September 2019, the Stafford Rangers ‘Education and Football Academy’ is an alternative to college and is ideal for any 16/17 year old who wants to gain a great education and develop as a footballer at the same time.

TRIALS are taking place in the forthcoming half term holidays:-

DATE: Thursday 1st November

TIME: 1.30pm – 3.30pm

VENUE: Rowley Park Sports Stadium 3G pitch, Averill Road, Stafford, ST17 9XX

If you would like to attend, please register your details here

At the Stafford Rangers Academy you will study, train and play full time.

STUDY:
– Alternative to college
– BTEC in Sport 3 (equivalent to 2/3 A Levels)
– Two year programme
– Study in the classroom with your team mates
– Opportunities to gain experience at the football club

TRAIN:
– Experienced & UEFA qualified coaches
– Train three/four times a week
– Improve technical ability and fitness on a daily basis
– Opportunities to train with the first team

PLAY:
– In the NPL Football Academy League
– Opportunities to play in the FA Youth Cup
– Games played at Evo-Stik League stadiums
– Opportunities to progress to the first team
– Opportunities to play for the inter-league team against
professional clubs.

EXTRAS:
– All matches are filmed, analysed and shown in a weekly highlights package online with our video partners FilmMyMatch 
– Opportunities to take part in online challenges against other students 
– Opportunities to study, play and coach in the USA by gaining a scholarship
– Progress onto our three-year university degree course 

Take a look at the NPLFA’s success stories – https://nplfa.co.uk/graduates/– and activate your ambition now by applying at nplfa.co.uk/register