Annual Awards Evening
Saturday 7th June 2008

Our 5th Annual Awards Evening took place at Meridian Hall, Meridian Centre, Peacehaven on Saturday evening where we welcomed special guests Angela Banks - Honorary President of Dynamo GFC and ex-Arsenal and England Ladies, the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Peacehaven and Dan Lawson, Community Sports Coach from Sussex County Football Association.

The evening started with Paul Cartwright's special slideshow presentation reminding us all of the 2007/8 season and was followed by his welcome to the proceedings as Club Chairman. Each player in every age group was then presented with their individual player award by their respective Managers.

No Club can operate without its army of volunteers and we are no exception, therefore each manager and coach was presented with their own memento from the 2007/8 season.

The Special Achievement Awards were then annaounced by Paul Cartwright and presented by Angela Banks. This year, we introduced a new award for the parents to vote for their favourite player of the season.

The Special Achievement Award Winners were as follows:

In addition, the following Club Awards were presented:

Golden Boot Runner Up: Bethany McKellar (U15's)

Golden Boot: Katie Burr (U11's)

Goalkeeper Award: Abbie Walker (U13's)

The final award of the evening was the Angela Banks Award, named after our special guest, and is presented to a player who Paul as Club Coach has seen something special from during the year, either by way of ability, attitude or sheer determination. This year's well-deserved winner was Chloe Evans from the Under 11's.

A big thank you to all who made the Awards Evening possible, especially Paul Cartwright, the McKellars, the hard working Committee, all the managers and coaches, Angela Banks and our other special guests, but most of all to YOU, the players and parents who have made this Club what it is today - THANK YOU!

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Dynamo GFC Football Festival 2008
Sunday 11th May 2008

This weekend saw the second Dynamo Football Festival at Telscombe Playing Fields in glorious weather and this year’s event attracted over 40 teams from across Sussex. There were well over a 1,000 visitors to the ground which has been our home since our formation in 2003. As well as the main six-a-side football tournament there was a penalty shootout, face painting and a giant inflatable assault course.

Visitors also had a chance to meet Gully – the Brighton and Hove Albion mascot, the Southern FM thunders and players from Brighton and Hove Ladies who were on hand to present the winners and runners-up with their trophies.

The great thing about the Football Festival was the coming together of the football family across Sussex plus marvellous support from local businesses and organisations. Whilst we hope to raise some funds from the event, it’s of greater importance that the girls can participate in a fun event and we hopefully will encourage other youngsters to take up this superb sport.

The event was supported by a number of local organisations with Telscombe Cliffs Primary School providing the car parking, Elite Foods donating bottled water and fruit to the players, Wisden Packaging printing the programme, The Volunteer Bureau sponsoring the trophies, Watson Heath Limited (Texaco garage) for the loan of equipment and donating some superb raffle prizes and Premier Sports & Leisure for sponsoring all the officials and the Fair Play Awards.

Special thanks go to all our hard working volunteers for their efforts, not just today but over the last four months of organisation, especially the Tournament Committee comprising Paul Cartwright (Chairman), Elaine French (Secretary), Alan Burr (who organised the programme printing, refreshments and DE Photos), Paul Mungavin (for organising the marquee, toilet hire & waste collection) and Steve Phythian (for organising the fixtures & referees). Thanks also to our band of nine referees (without you it wouldn't have been possible!) and to everyone else who assisted in making the tournament a huge success including:

Control tent: Ruth, Elaine & Dan (who was invaluable!)

Refreshments: Garry & Karen McKellar (plus Karen's mum), Shelley Phythian, Dee Walder, Gill Mungavin, Nicky Evans, Paul Markham and others

Pitch marshalls: Diane Brierton, Mandi Harris, Claire Letang, Trisha Archer and others

Car Parking Duties: Adrian and Tracey Pinkus, Mark Lea and Joe Walker

General help: Terry Cox, Alan Burr, Joe Letang, Martin Perkins, Sarah Mingaye, Steve Walder, the double act of "Ria and Ella", Liam (Premier Sports) and Mrs Perks (who did a fab job on the inflatable assault course!)

I'm sure there are probably loads more, so apologies if you helped and are not included here.

It's not too late to purchase any of the images taken by DE Photos on the day - you can view and buy them online via DE Photos interactive website here.

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Chelsea Ladies Player Faye Rabson Visits Dynamo GFC
Saturday 3rd May 2008

The Club was delighted to welcome Chelsea player Faye Rabson to a fun training session for all our players on Saturday. She particpated fully in the session and earnt her "Soccer Stars" aiong with some of our younger players. Afterwards, she held a question and answer session for the girls.

Faye is 19 and is at the Chelsea Ladies Academy based in Kingston, London. She plays in the Chelsea reserves and is currently studying for her NVQ in Sport.

Faye’s nickname is Faye Bizzle, she plays centre back and is also the team’s Captain. She is regarded as one of the quickest players and has featured for the first team this season with her last appearance being against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium. This Summer she is off to the States to play for Los Angeles Rampage - Good luck Faye! Read all about Faye and two of her Chelsea FC colleagues joining LA Rampage at www.rampagefc.com.

Below are some of the pictures from the session.

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Dynamo Christmas Party
Saturday 15th December 2007

The annual Christmas Party took place on Saturday afternoon at Telscombe Cive Centre. Club Chairman and coach Paul Cartwright was DJ for the afternoon whilst the players took part in a quiz which included spotting the coach from the baby photographs and matching up famous players to their shirt numbers.

There was plenty of food on hand and some of the girls took part in some karaoke, only to be shown up by the karaoke king himself, Steve W with his trusty sidekick Joe doing a unique version of Tony Christie's "Is this the Way to Amarillo".

Father Christmas arrived near the end to present all the players with a variety of Christmas presents and Abbie Walker's parents went home with the entire range of raffle prizes (only kidding Cathy!).

A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the event, but a special thanks to Paul and Mandi for much of the organisation.

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