WE'VE GOT THE BEST FOR WEST

WEST ESSEX FC have been one of 1000GBP.com’s biggest winners since The Ultimate Football Quiz was launched this season to help raise funds for Non-League clubs.

The Essex Senior League side have already been awarded more than £1700 and, as general manager Dan Reading explained this week, the money will be an enormous help to the club.

“We currently run three adult teams, 23 junior teams and five girls only teams and we hope to add to those soon as well,” Dan, inset, said. “Even though we are all volunteers, it still costs us something like £150,000 a year to keep them all going, so this £1700 from 1000GBP.com is an incredibly useful and unexpected addition to our budget.”

Sixty different players of 1000GBP.com have already nominated West Essex FC as their benefiting club and Dan suggested that the flexibility of the available playing options is partly behind its popularity.

“One of the best things about 1000GBP.com is that people can choose how and when to play and select different levels to suit their income. It all helps. They are supporting the work of the club and enjoying a great quiz as well.”

West Essex FC was formed in 1989 when a group of friends who played for the West Essex Cricket Club also wanted to play football during the winter. Their soon-tobe re-opened clubhouse is at Rolls Sports Ground in Highams Park, in a densely populated part of east London, although their teams are dotted around the area.

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