About the Event
The group stages
There were 20 teams taking part with four 5 a-side pitches, each playing a mini league format at 14 mins per match. We had some great games with over 200 goals. Thanks to Richard Wood and Steve Kitteridge for helping out on the day and compiling the stats:
41 games played including the final
222 goals scored (nearly 5.5 goals per game)
League A goals scored 49
League B goals scored 41
League C goals scored 84
League D goals scored 45
Final goals scored 3
Two games with 12 goals (one being 11-1)
Jack Kleen won the golden boot with 12 goals
The Four League Winners
Four teams won their respective leagues and played in a hotly contested final. Our winning league winners were CTA, Jacksons, Safeline and Target Lifts. Some of these teams were made up from multiple companies within our industry creating teams for the final in the Dartford Stadium.
Here we have Target with their league winners trophy presented on the day.
The Final
In total there were 9 companies who took part in the lift industry mental health charter cup final!!!
On one side was Cibes, Titan, Apex (CTA) and Jackson’s, playing as one team in the final. On the other side was Target Lifts and Safeline, with the Safeline team made up from Intelligent Lifts, Flex Lifts ,Temple Lifts, all playing as one team!
It was truly a unique final where companies within our industry come together with CTA/Jacksons coming out on top and winning 2 - 1 in the final.
We had some great stands on the day highlighting mental health
On the day we had various stands showcasing different items such as a well-being stand and mental health stand, with Petrain services providing metal health support information and useful cards which can be used to contact support services. Thanks to Petra Northwood for turning up early and helping to set this stand up.
Our well-being stand had essential oils, Indian head massage, reflexology and reiki, with thanks to Patsy Charles for providing the essential oils and Anne Stuart for providing the Indian Head massage and Reiki.
We had a Cake Stand raising monies for mental health, with thanks to Emily Still from EZE Lifts and Elle from Robert Gerrard.
With local suppliers, such as, Tool bank showcasing a tools and WJ King highlighting vans.
We would like to thank our sponsors!
Dewhurst (Principle Sponsor) - For supporting on the day and helping to highlight mental health within our industry. Dewhurst also supplied the lanyards for our medals and various banners.
BLDN Clothing - For supplying BIB's for the matches when needed, something we hope to use again in further events.
Deltron Lifts - for supplying goalie gloves to every team on the day!
Safeline - For supplying shin pads to the players who needed them!
Andy Gino/Fujitec for supplying the match day balls and the match day officials
PEW - for designing our match day programme and producing the programmes on the day. Our match day programme highlighted all the teams who took part describing the formats. It also highlighted our great sponsors for the event. Without them it wouldn't have been possible.
Our Mental health Matters - We would like to thanks Martin McCarthy for helping to secure Dartford Football Club as an event venue, and sponsoring the cup for the final.
We would also like to thank Martin for helping with the raffle and the great prizes.