Community day
We supplied the sweets for the giveaway bags and a few of us helped to pack the bags in preparation for the community day.
After a successful day both on the pitch and in attendance we hope to see as many of you as possible return to Crabble.
Quiz - Septermber 2024
Congratulations to our winning quiz team.
Thank you to everyone who came along and supported the quiz, we hope to see you all again at the next one on the 29th November.
Player Autograph Cards
Individual player autograph cards will be produced by the football club this season and can be purchased by anyone - price to be confirmed. Complete sets will be made up and will be available free of charge to Youth members of the supporters' club by showing a current DASC membership card to Gill in the club shop.
DASC Vacancy
There is now a Vacancy as COACH CO-ORDINATOR.
If you are interested and require further details, please email Dover Athletic Supporters Club on sc.dafc@gmail.com
Donation to DAFC Youth/Women’s Teams
We are pleased to announce that the Supporters' Club have made a donation of one thousand five hundred pounds to the Community Trust in support of the youth/women’s teams.
To help us continue this support there is a number of ways you can help.
You can become a member of the Supporters’ Club, you can attend our functions, you can also make a donation
Dover Gymnastics Club donation
The Supporters' Club has recently made a £200 donation to the Dover Gymnastics Club as they are looking to lay new flooring and are currently raising the funds to do so.
We met with Sarah, Nadia and Carrie to present the cheque.
If you or someone you know is looking at getting into gymnastics then we recommend you contact them. They said the following about what they do.
At Dover gymnastics Club we run as a charity and believe that gymnastics is an inclusive sport which can be enjoyed by people of all ages and from all backgrounds. Our club was established in 1976 and is one of the most successful and longest-running gym clubs in Kent. We run a selection of classes from our General and Advanced General gymnastics, to Pre-school and Kinder gym. We offer Trampoline classes as well as private sessions for disability groups. We have two competitive gymnastic squads Floor and Vault and Women's Artistic that do extremely well at competitions round the county.
We rely on donor's and fundraising events to help us continue running our club and keep our facilities up to date. We are currently fundraising to replace our flooring inside the gym to provide a better experience for all our users, more details of this can be found on our crowd funder page.
Jump boxes
When we found out that Jake was working on individuals fitness and offering players extra PT sessions outside of the scheduled training, we purchased a set of jump boxes to help make these sessions as impactful as possible.
Help needed! British Heart Foundation football fan campaign 2024
You can see the communication we received from the Raw Research Casting Team below.
You can see more about them by clicking here.
If you’re interested and would like to speak to them you can email casting@rawresearch.co.uk with ‘BHF’ in the subject line.
Dear Dover Athletic ST team,
My name is Katie - I run the casting and research team at Raw Research Casting. I hope you don't mind us reaching out to you. We are working on a campaign for the British Heart Foundation that will be launched around the time of the start of the UEFA Euros. The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness about the fact that 12 young people lose their lives per week due to sudden cardiac death in the UK (an absolutely staggering statistic).
We are getting in touch with football networks all around the UK, as we are looking to speak to the families of young people (aged 35 and under) who lost their lives due to a sudden cardiac death in the last 20 years, who were also football fans. The plan is to paint beautiful murals of 12 football supporters who are no longer with us, dressed in their national side football kit (12 to represent the 12 young people who lose their lives each week). Each mural will also have some information about the person as part of the tribute to them. Their story will be treated with the utmost sensitivity - we’d work closely with each person's family to plan what the mural would look like. All families will be supported throughout by the BHF’s Heart Stories team and the production team.
Do you happen to know if your football community has experienced the loss of a young fan at any point in the last 20 years? We'd also be so grateful if you'd be happy to share the casting information with your network or perhaps even on your social media? If this is something you'd be prepared to do, please let us know and we can send you our campaign flyer.
Please let me know if you have any questions or if you'd like to chat further. It's going to be a really special campaign that will hopefully do some real good.
Kindest regards,
Katie
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Raw Research Casting Team
End of season awards
The votes for the 23/24 season are in.
We started off with awarding a £100 donation to Archie Hatcher who is raising money for NSPCC by running the London Marathon.
You can donate by clicking here.
We then awarded a £100 donation to Nick Dembele who is raising money for Cancer Research UK by doing a push-ups challenge.
You can donate by clicking here.
The winner of the Golden Boot is Zidane Sutherland.
Although we couldn't show his goals when presenting the trophy, you can see them to the left.
The Andy Fisher Memorial Trophy for the Away Player of the Season is George Nikaj.
Due to spoilt votes we had to null and void the vote and for this season asked Jake for his player of the season.
The Simon Harris Memorial Trophy for the Overall Player of the Season is John Oyenuga.
A £100 donation has been made to his chosen charity which is the Anchor of Hope Church.
Thank you to both Donna Fisher and Kevin Harris for attending and presenting the awards.
The shields are once again on display in the Centre Spot.
A Heartfelt Message from the Manager
Your Supporters' Club supports the Under 13's
The Supporters' Club are pleased to confirm our sponsorship of the Under 13's with the supply of their training tops as can be seen in the picture to the left.
Our Secretary Derek Stroud can be seen with Colin Wilkins and the under 13's captain Harry Wilkins.
