Hengrove Athletic v Warminster Town 1st August

“THE GROVE”

Official matchday programme of Hengrove Athletic F.C

Toolstation Western League’s

“Best Programme - Division One” 2022/23

Toolstation Western League Division One

Hengrove Athletic v Warminster Town

Tuesday 1st August 2023 7.30pm

Issue: 1

Hengrove Athletic Football Club

Founded 1948 - celebrating our 75th anniversary this season

Main club sponsor for season 2023-24 - AVB Commercial Vehicle Repairs

Club Officials Club Honours

Chairman Mike Greatbanks Alf Bosley Cup winners

Treasurer Mike Greatbanks 1958/59, 1963/64

Secretary/Media Martin McConachie Somerset Junior Cup winners

Groundsman Dave Fear 1964/65

First Team Manager Jamie Hillman

Somerset League Cup winners

Asst. Manager Jon Berry 1979/80

Coach Ian Jones Somerset Senior Cup winners

Coach Mike Stone 1979/80

Physiotherapist Matt Taylor Promoted to Som. County Prem.

Kit Manager Pete Stenner 1995/96

Somerset Senior Cup runners-up

Reserve Manager Sean Day 2003/04, 2004/05

Asst. Manager Nilton Crane Som. County Premier winners

U18’s Manager Alex Sully 2005/06

Western League Div 1 runners-up

Club Committee Jon Berry 2012/13, 2016/17

Alan Burton Nilton Crane Les Phillips Cup winners

Sean Day Dave Fear 2015/16

Mike Greatbanks Jamie Hillman

Ian Jones

Giorgio Mancini

Martin McConachie Pete Stenner

Bristol u18 Comb Div 1 winners

2021/22

Bristol u18 Comb. Plate winners

Mike Stone Alex Sully 2021/22 The AVB Stadium, Norton Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol BS14 0BT

Good evening everyone,

Tonight, we offer a warm welcome to the players, officials & supporters of our opposition Warminster Town as well as our match officials too. We hope that they all enjoy their brief stay in the village and have a safe journey home too.

As always, the summer break flew by in the blink of an eye and less than thirteen weeks on from the finale of last season, here we are kicking off our 75th anniversary season. Well, the season began at Bitton on Saturday of course but tonight sees Warminster Town arrive as our first home opposition of the new campaign.

On Saturday, we picked up a creditable point at Bitton despite playing more than half an hour with ten men. Although Harry Neil put the home side ahead, a goal lead is nothing really and Aidan Jones, who had only come on eight minutes before, smashed home a free kick with six minutes to go to earn a point.

Bitton were one of six clubs to join Division One during the summer along with neighbours Cadbury Heath & Keynsham Town. Bradford Town and new rivals in the shape of Cribbs Reserves and Middlezoy Rovers. We welcome them all to the division while waving a goodbye to promoted Nailsea & Tickenham and Oldland Abbotonians; FC Bristol, Bishop’s Lydeard, Tytherington Rocks and Almondsbury.

One can’t look back on games between tonight’s two sides without remembering the epic, crazy match two seasons ago when the two sides shared thirteen goals at Warminster” The host side were seemingly coasting at 7-1 up with half an hour left but the Grove found another gear and pulled five of the six goals deficit back, missing out on an equaliser. Think it would be too much to ask for more of the same tonight, wouldn’t it?

So strap yourself in and get ready for the rollercoaster ride that is the Toolstation Western League Division One season. 42 games; hot weather, frozen surfaces, waterlogged pitches, suspensions, players going elsewhere for £5 a game more, floodlight failures, red cards, sin bins, Tuesday/Saturday/Tuesday/Saturday and so much more.

You wouldn’t want it any other way. Would you?

Enjoy the game.

ATHLETIC STATS 2023/24

Entry costs just £1 per team per week (£10 total)

Competition runs for 10 matches

Highest scoring team wins £200 first prize

Second highest scoring team wins £100 second prize

Lowest scoring team wins £50 wooden spoon prize

Teams awarded two goals when not playing

Competition 1 Friday 4th August to Monday 9th October

Competition 2 Friday 13th October to Monday 18th December

Competition 3 Friday 22nd December to Monday 19th February

Competition 4 Friday 23rd February to Monday 22nd April

PLAYER SPONSORS 2023/24 SEASON

Jack Cousins

Lewis Bond-Kendall

Regan Sollars

Rohan Hartrey

Dylan Powell

Louie Davies

PLAYER SPONSORS 2023/24 SEASON

Aidan Jones

If you would like to sponsor a first team player, please email secretary@hengroveathletic.com with your logo and which player you’d like to sponsor. The cost is £50 for the season and your name will appear alongside the player’s name in the online matchday programme.

Thank you for your generosity.

THANK YOU TO OUR BOARD SPONSORS

If you would like to join our board sponsors, please call Martin McConachie on 07432 614494 or email secretary@hengroveathletic.com for further details.

The cost is £250 for the first year (including a one-off manufacture cost of £100) then £100 per year thereafter. This includes adverts on our website and in the programme.

Top To Toe Physiotherapy

Abacus Waste Management

D C Windows

Covertek Ben’s Reclamation & Demolition

E R & B Print

Belvedere Building & Plumbing AVB Commercial Vehicle Repairs

Avon Hydraulics (UK) Ltd AVPI Apollo Cleaning Solutions

Under-18’s - the new season begins...

WESTERN COUNTIES FLOODLIGHT YOUTH LEAGUE

AEK Boco

Almondsbury

Bishop Sutton

Brislington

Bristol Telephones

Hengrove Athletic

Longwell Green

Oldland Abbots

Hengrove Athletic FC

Green shirts, Green shorts & Green socks

Ben BRITTON

Jackson BROWN

Regan BURTON

Jack COUSINS

Taylor DOYLE

Louie FARROW

Jacob GRINNELL

Ethan HARDY

Rohan HARTREY

Harvey IMPEY

Aidan JONES

Jack JONES

Connor KINGDON

Giorgio MANCINI

Jude McCARTHY

Mickey PARSONS

Dylan POWELL

Pete SHEPPARD

Regan SOLLARS

Oscar SULLIVAN

Manager Jamie HILLMAN

Asst. Manager

Coaches

Physio

Jon BERRY

Ian JONES

Mike STONE

Matt TAYLOR

Referee

Matt BAIRD

SQUADS

Warminster Town FC

Red & Black shirts, Black shorts & Black socks

Callum HOTINE

Sam McENTEE

Henry McFERRAN

Jake WRIGHT

Josh DRURY

Lennon BURDEN

Logan CASSIDY

Max BALL

Max WHITTAKER

Pat KAPELKA

Ryan BENSON

Sam ROBERTS

Sam WRIGHT

Toby WORTS

Tyler GANE

Matt ROBBINS

W A R M

I N S T

Assistants

Steve FEARNLEY

Ian PURCHASE

Non-League Footballers Mental Health Championed by Bath Mind and the Toolstation Western League

The Toolstation Western League are working with Bath Mind to pilot a mental health partnership supporting the football family and players in particular. The six Western League sides located in Bath and North East Somerset have been offered specially created posters, promoting mental health support services designed to help younger people, which can be located into their home and away changing rooms.

Research conducted by the Toolstation Western League earlier this season highlighted that around a quarter of players had considered seeking help with a mental health issue. The subject of mental health was first tackled by the Western League in March 2020, when they launched their Think of a Fan campaign.

Chairman of the Western League, John Pool, explained: “Think of a Fan was our way of remembering that for many fans, football is more than just a game. It’s an important release, a chance to meet friends, get out of the house and have some fun.

Many people are still working through the loneliness and anxiety caused by lockdown, but we must not forget that our players are no different. They are as important to us as any members of our football family and this important partnership with Bath Mind is our way of supporting them.”

As well as changing room posters, Bath Mind have provided leaflets for fans, as well as programme adverts, highlighting the variety of support services they provide. If successful, this initial pilot will be extended by the Western League to cover all 40 Clubs across the South West of England, from Cornwall to Wiltshire.

Hannah Roper, Director of Business Development at Bath Mind, said: “We at Bath Mind are thrilled to be working in partnership with The Toolstation Western League, to support and promote positive mental health for the football community. Throughout the pandemic Bath Mind has been fighting an epidemic of mental ill-health. We have increased our services to meet the growing needs of our community, and help reduce pressure on NHS services.

Through this pilot we hope to encourage everyone to talk about their mental health, seek help at an early stage and reduce the stigma associated with mental ill-health. As a local, independent charity, Bath Mind relies heavily on local fundraising to keep our services going, therefore we are grateful to The Toolstation Western League and their fans for their fundraising efforts.”

The Cystic Fibrosis Comfort Fund is a small Bristol based charity, independent of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, which aims to help those who suffer from Cystic Fibrosis in their daily lives and enhance their quality of life. It was founded in 1991 by a small group of people from the Bristol Children’s Hospital following a bequest by a grandfather. In his will he stipulated the money should be used to benefit patients with Cystic Fibrosis to help them manage their own lives.

There were originally two Trustees from the Children’s Hospital, a senior nurse, and a clinical nurse specialist, two parents, and a lecturer in physiotherapy. The Fund grew from there and it became a registered charity in 1993.

Cystic Fibrosis is one of the UK's most common, life-limiting, inherited diseases. Cystic Fibrosis affects the internal organs, especially the lungs & digestive system, by clogging them with thick sticky mucus. This makes it hard to breathe and digest food. Those affected are born with CF and approximately 1 in every 2,500 babies born in the UK will inherit the condition. Improvements in care and treatment mean that more & more babies born with CF will become adults. However, their life expectancy is shortened.

This is a charity supported closely by Andy Stone (Stoner) from AS_FootyReview on Twitter where all profits from his merchandise is donated to the charity to continue helping and raising awareness to a charity close to his heart following the death of his close friend Sam “Syd Brimson”

Thank you and enjoy the game!

For more information, please visit our website at www.cfcomfort.co.uk

184 Wells Road, Knowle, Bristol, BS4 2DL

Shaftesbury Park, Frenchay Park Road, Winterbourne, BS16 1LG

Prior Park College Sports Complex, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath BA2 5AH

* - season declared null & void ** - season curtailed *** - current

Hengrove Athletic Football Club is renowned within the local leagues and amongst match officials for offering a warm, friendly welcome and top notch hospitality. The ground itself, the AVB Stadium, is pleasant and offers superb views of Bristol as well as the peace and quiet of the country. It’s a lovely place to watch a game of football! Here at the club, the last few seasons have been very successful and as a result, we are looking for people to join the team. Not the one ON the pitch that has won two promotions and a Les Phillips Cup in the last ten years but the one OFF IT; the team behind the team if you like.

We are looking for anyone that feels they can make a contribution to the club. On matchdays, it could be serving refreshments and food, selling raffle tickets, working on the front gate or helping to tidy up after the game. You’ll get to watch the football free of charge of course but better still, you’ll be joining a small team of dedicated hard working volunteers that make this club very special.

On non-matchdays, there are other jobs that need doing such as strimming, painting, cleaning, weeding and brushing. You name it, we need to do it! However with only a small band of willing helpers, we can always do with a little more help, no matter how many hours you can give up. If you feel this is you, please email the chairman Mike Greatbanks at michael.greatbanks@btconnect.com or call him on 07884 492217. And thank you!

Supporting the club...

There are several more ways of getting your company name out there that we can help you with. Perimeter banners, perimeter boards, programme advertising, website advertising.. they are all available within the club.

Perimeter Boards are one option that many companies have chosen recently. Match action pictures often appear online either on websites or social media so your company board could be seen regularly as well as those who attend the match.

Perimeter boards cost £250 for the first year (including a one-off manufacturing charge of £100) then cost £100 a year thereafter.

Perimeter Banners are a similar option but made from a hard wearing fabric. The same size as a board (2.4m x 915mm or 8’ x 3’), they cost £200 (including a one off manufacturing charge of £75) then cost £100 a year thereafter.

Programme Advertising has also proven popular in recent seasons. After having “gone online” in recent seasons, the club have decided to go back to printing a copy for its supporters, a popular move with many non-league fans too.

Advertising costs just £100 for a full page (A5) or £50 for a half page; this is for a full season of matchday programmes so this season, at least 21 programmes. You can change the actual composition of the programme each week to keep it topical and/or time sensitive!

Website Advertising is the cheapest form of advertising and is just £25. For this, your link/logo will sit on a carousel on the front page and when visitors click the link, it will take them to your website. Our club website is one of the most popular ones in the league with more than 2,000 unique visits each week during the season.

If you are interested in any of these deals, please email the club secretary, Martin McConachie, on secretary@hengroveathletic.com or ring 07432 614494.

Hengrove Athletic Club History

Hengrove Athletic F.C was formed in 1948 from players demobbed from National Service. As a footnote, there is also wartime history to the club colours of green and white. With rationing and many shortages, football shirts were virtually unobtainable, so all of the members of Hengrove Athletic F.C donated an ordinary white shirt and a mother of one of the players kindly dyed them green in the bath at her Knowle home. The colour green had no symbolic meaning. It was the only colour available at the time! The founding fathers of Hengrove Athletic F.C then agreed to retain these colours for the new club.

A successful application was made to join the Bristol and Suburban League and they were placed in Division 3 for the start of 1948/49 season. A Reserve XI was established in 1950 and in the same year Hengrove Hall was rented for club meetings and social gatherings. The club continued to expand and the ‘A’ XI started in 1953, followed by the 30-plus XI in 1959. These four football teams made Hengrove Athletic F.C the largest club in the Bristol and Suburban League at the time – after just eleven years. A ‘B’ XI replaced the 30 plus in 1962. The long search for a ground came to fruition on Sunday 7 June 1964 when Norton Lane was officially opened and Hengrove Athletic F.C took up residence.

The first XI was accepted by the Somerset Senior League for the 1974/75 season, where they remained until 2005/06 when they were runaway, unbeaten, Premier Division Champions and joined the Western League for the start of the 2006/07 season. Our Floodlights and Stand were installed at the ground in 2007/08 to achieve the necessary ground grading of the Western League. The EWW Stand was installed at the ground in 2012/13 to achieve the necessary ground grading of entry into the FA Cup and future possible promotions.

The first XI finished runners-up in Western League Division One in 2012/13, achieving a promotion to the Premier Division. They also lifted the Les Phillips League Cup (Western League) in 2015/16 before winning promotion to the Premier Division again the following season. In 2017/18 under new manager John Durbin, the club finished ninth in the Premier Division, their highest ever position and were also the highest placed Bristol side in the division. However, this was followed by relegation back to Division One in 2018/19.

Jamie Hillman returned for a third spell as manager in the summer of 2019 but the next two seasons failed to play to a finish due to the COVID pandemic. Last season, 2021/22, did get completed and for the fourth year running, the Grove ended in mid table. This year sees the club celebrate its 75th anniversary.

A guide to away games this season in Toolstation Western League Division 1 (mileages shown via www.theaa.com)

Fixtures & Results 2023/24

Date Opponents

July

Sat 29 Bitton A D 1-1 163 A Jones

August

Tue 1 Warminster T H

Sat 5 Keynsham T A

Tue 8 AEK Boco H

Sat 12 Wells City H

Tue 15 Brislington A

Sat 19 Radstock Town H

Tue 22 Cribbs Res. A

Sat 26 Cadbury Heath H

September

Sat 2 Shirehampton A

Sat 9 Longwell Green A

Tue 12 Middlezoy Rov. A

Sat 16 Brislington H

Sat 23 Roman Glass H (FA Vase)

Tue 26 Hallen H

Sat 30 Bradford Town A

October

Tue 3 Bishop Sutton H (Les Phillips Cup)

Sat 7 Bitton H

Tue 10 Cheddar H

Sat 14 Cadbury Heath A

Sat 21 AEK Boco A

Sat 28 Warminster T A

November

Sat 4 Longwell Green H

Sat 11 Gillingham T A

Sat 18 Middlezoy R H

Sat 25 Wincanton T H

December

Sat 2 Wells City H

Sat 9 Bradford Town H

Fixtures & Results 2023/24

Date Opponents Ven. Res. Att. Scorers

December

Sat 16 Portishead T A

Tue 26 Bristol Tel. H

Sat 30 Bishop Sutton A

January 2024

Sat 6 Cribbs Res. H

Sat 20 Odd Down A

February

Sat 3 Gillingham T. H

Sat 10 Hallen A

Sat 24 Radstock Town A

March

Sat 2 Portishead T H

Sat 9 Wincanton T A

Sat 16 Keynsham T H

Sat 23 Odd Down A

Fri 29 Bristol Tel. A (Good Friday)

April

Mon 1 Bishop Sutton H (Easter Monday)

Sat 6 Cheddar A

Sat 20 Shirehampton H

FA Vase dates...

First Qualifying Sat 26th August

Second Qualifying Sat 23rd September

First Proper Sat 21st October

Second Proper Sat 11th November

Third Proper Sat 2nd December

Fourth Proper Sat 13th January

Fifth Proper Sat 10th February

Sixth Proper Sat 9th March

Semi Finals Sat 30th March (1st leg) & Sat 6th April (2nd leg)

FINAL Sat 11th or Sun 12th May