Jacksons Fencing recently joined forces with Middlesex and England past and present cricketers Mike Gatting and Steven Finn, to lend their support to the NatWest Cricket Force Showcase Event in Bognor Regis.
The company has been an active supporter of the NatWest CricketForce campaign for six years, which is an England and Wales Cricket Board volunteering initiative aimed at rejuvenating the nation’s cricketing facilities. NatWest CricketForce encourages cricket supporters, their friends and families to give something back to their community cricket club by volunteering to undertake renovations to clubhouses and grounds, typically over a ‘showcase’ weekend. Some 1914 clubs took part in the 2011 event and among them was Bognor Regis Cricket Club in Sussex.
Jacksons Fencing played a part in the day by providing a run of picket fencing and matching gates, plus volunteers to ensure installation of the new boundary line.
In addition to the supply of fencing at Bognor Regis, Jacksons donated 125 m of Ball-Stop Fencing to Bishop’s Waltham Cricket Club in Hampshire. The company runs a Friends and Family Scheme for the ECB (English and Wales Cricket Board) which enables members of the scheme to enjoy up to 25pc discount on 1200 fencing products displayed on the Jacksons Fencing web site, regardless of order value. For every purchase made through the NatWest CricketForce Friends and Family Scheme, the fencing firm donates 0.5pc of the total sale into the Cricket Fund, which goes towards funding for projects.
Business Development Manager Marcia Francis said: “It is always a privilege to be part of these showcase events and to witness in such a short space of time, the amazing transformation of a cricket ground. It is important that these ‘make-over ‘ projects provide lasting, quality solutions and as such represent a genuine legacy to the local community – for these reasons it is entirely befitting for Jacksons Fencing to be associated with the NatWest CricketForce initiative.”
