Fleetdown United football club has, after a lot of hard work, achieved our aim of becoming a FA Charter Standard Club. This is a great achievement, after several years of effort from many members of the committee.

We can not announce this award without recognising the hard work that has been put in by so many people.

Eric Thomas, who took on the challenge of bringing our Charter Pack together, after so many had been unable to do so in the past.

Brian Wakeman & Ron Mabey, who worked with Eric to put the pack together,

Caroline Brennan, our Child Welfare Officer, who chased us all down to ensure we had all the relevant Child Protection papers in place.

Over the years a number of people have tried to pull together all of the information and ensure that we had everything in place to apply for this status, but unfortunately we never quite seemed to get there, so we were very lucky when Eric stepped into the breach to take on this challenge.

 This award should open a lot of doors for the clubs in terms of help and, hopefully, funding. As you can see from the home page of our website we already have the Charter Standard Club badge on there. You will also see a certificate and plaque being put up in the club house very shortly.

Once again, a massive thank you to everyone involved in getting our FA Charter Status signed off.