Headline News! KickStart Team Announcement!

For those of you who access this blog and are interested in ensuring that the Gloucestershire KickStart men's health and parenting 5-a-side football project continues, the KickStart Team who organise the project have been exploring the possibility of establishing a voluntary 'Gloucestershire Dads and Lads' group to raise the relatively small amount of funding required to ensure the project's long-term future. Whilst there is finance currently available for the short term, we feel that the project will have a greater chance of being sustained if a voluntary group is able to raise the necessary funding. To this end, the KickStart team will be speaking to players during the course of the summer league about getting involved in establishing a voluntary group. We will continue to organise and run health and parenting activities - but the football will be run by the dads.

We envisage that the current KickStart organising team will establish the group, prior to handing over (or being voted off!)to a group of dads willing to get involved. If you're a KickStart player and you're interested in this idea, please let us know via the KickStart mobile on 07507 307123 or by email at kickstart@topmail.co.uk . Thanks!

Announcement to all KickStart players!

There will be an end of season 5-a-side tournament for all KickStart teams on Saturday 30th August - prizes to be awarded. More details to follow soon.

Scores and Table Weeks 3 & 4

OK - here's the updated table and results for weeks 3 & 4 of the league. Team Brown lead on goal difference over Old Guns, and Young Lads and Dads prop up the foot of the table - but early days yet. Liver Lads were beaten - but managed to score a point for a dad's attendance at the creche at the Dads and Kids Club. For those other dads who turned up at the Dads and Kids club expecting to get a point (mentioning no names...) - you do have to turn up with a child! If you can't do this there will be other activities you can do later in the season to score extra points.

Scores:

24th May

Pro Team 18 The Good The Dad and The Ugly 8

All Stars 11 Team Brown 12

31st May

Old Guns 25 Liver Lads 5

Tactrix 25 Young Lads and Dads 16

Please remember there are no matches on the 7th of June - next fixtures will be on the following Saturday.

Table Weeks 3 & 4

Scores and Table Weeks 1 & 2

Apologies for the wait! Here are the results and the league table for the matches played on the 10th and 17th of May. The table will be updated again once the results of the matches on 24th May and 31st May are known. We'll also have some of the health and parenting activities completed by then, so more points can be added to your team's total whilst you're bringing your football skills up-to-scratch...

...And remember you can score points for your team by attending the Dads and Kids Club at Bartongate Children's Centre.

Last season's champions Pro Team are fixed to the foot of the table following a thrashing at the hands (or feet) of newcomers Team Brown who top the table after the first round of matches. All Stars handed out a similar drubbing to Young Lads and Dads. Meanwhile Old Guns dug out a win over Tactrix, and The Liver Lads and The Good, The Dads and The Ugly fought each other to a draw...

Scores:

10th May

Team Brown 23 - Pro Team 3

All Stars 20 - Young Lads and Dads 6

17th May

Old Guns 19 - Tactrix 9

Liver Lads 19 - The Good, The Dad and The Ugly 19

Table Weeks 1 & 2

Kick Off!

The KickStart Summer League got off to an impressive start on Saturday with a big turn out of players. Thanks to all who turned out - especially those of you from teams who didn't play on Saturday - we needed as many people as possible there to get people registered - and to let people know about what's involved. As usual you'll score points for the football - but you can score points too for any activities we give you to do (nothing difficult!) You can also score points by attending the Dads and Kids Club at Bartongate Children's Centre - just remember to give your name to the staff there and tell them you're a KickStart dad. If you do need a creche facility please can you ring and let us know. Thanks!

If you want to play - get in touch with us ASAP and we'll allocate you to a team.

Two matches were played on Saturday (as they will be every Saturday) - match reports to follow; more importantly here's the fixture list...

KickStart Fixtures Summer League

10th May.

Team Brown v Pro Team.

Young Lads & Dads v All Stars.

17th May.

Liver Lads v The Good, The Dad &The Ugly

Old Guns v Tactrix.

24th May.

All Stars v Team Brown.

The Good, The Dad & The Ugly v Pro Team.

31st May.

Tactrix v Young Lads & Dads.

Old Guns v Liver Lads .

14th June.

Team Brown v The Good, The Dad & The Ugly.

All Stars v Tactrix.

21st June.

Pro Team v Old Guns.

Young Lads & Dads v Liver Lads.

28th June.

Tactrix v Team Brown.

Old Guns v The Good, The Dad & The Ugly.

12th July.

Liver Lads v All Stars.

Young Lads & Dads v Pro Team.

19th July.

Team Brown v Old Guns.

Tactrix v Liver Lads.

26th July.

The Good, The Dad & The Ugly v Young Lads & Dads.

All Stars v Pro Team.

2nd August.

Liver Lads v Team Brown.

Young Lads & Dads v Old Guns.

9th August.

Pro Team v Tactrix.

All Stars v The Good, The Dad & The Ugly.

16th August.

Team Brown v Young Lads & Dads.

Liver Lads v Pro Team.

21st August.

Old Guns v All Stars.

Tactrix v The Good, The Dad & The Ugly.

KickStart Summer League! Starts May 10th!

For players who are disappointed that their team didn't win the KickStart league - and for new players wanting to take part - take heart! The new KickStart Summer League will commence on May 10th! We will definitely be tying in with Bartongate Children's Centre Dads and Kids Club with provision of creche facilities for those dads who want to attend the dads club and also play football (you'll even score points for your team by attending the club).

Need to know more? KickStart has a simple premise - a 5-a-side league for dads (a small number of non-dads are allowed) - you score points for the football, but you also score points for any very simple Health or Parenting activities we ask you to undertake (some of these can be done at half-time on match days - so we make it easy for you!) And there are also real prizes to win - see the blog below for further details.

In order to take part you will need to register. If you do want to take part, you can contact either Lloyd Williams on the KickStart mobile on 07507 307123, or Ian Broady on 01452 560451.

Important Announcement for all KickStart players!

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Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control we are unable to make use of the GL1 sportshall to play the final April matches as we intended. Following a meeting earlier this week it has been decided that due to this and the fixture congestion that would ensue due to the start of the KickStart summer league in May, it was felt that we had no option but to finish the current league and leave the Table as it stands. There was some discussion around deducting points or adding points to teams to balance up the number of games played, but this would not have affected the current league standings in relation to the winning team. Therefore, by dint of their input around the Health and Parenting activities (and afterall that's the purpose of KickStart!) Pro Team are this season's Champions!

Well done Pro Team - lets hope this sets an example to some of the other teams that they can't win just in footballing terms alone! It's important to register, otherwise you can't take part in any of the activities that will earn your team more points!