 Diane Lea and her family who play rugby at the Hankinson’s Field club have been instrumental in promoting the benefits of playing rugby whilst raising money for Wooden Spoon on Shirts4Spoon day that took place on Friday 5th October. Mrs. Lea and Jai Purewal (Wooden Spoon Education Co-coordinator) visited a number of local schools and businesses ahead of Spoon’s fundraising initiative Shirts4Spoon, where pupils and staff were asked to wear their favourite sports or bad taste shirt for the day, making a donation to Spoon in the process.
Eight primary schools – Astbury, Daven, Blackfirs, Marlfields, Mossley, Havannah, Church Lawton and Scholar Green were able to support the event and also a number of local businesses. Several members of the Thursday Coffee Morning League at AMF Bowl in Macclesfield also took part as did Macclesfield accountants, Harts LLP. On the Saturday Congleton’s1st XV players dressed up in ladies blouses (seen above) so there were lots of men raiding wardrobes and scouring the charity shops in town for something to wear! All the fines for the day plus the proceeds of a raffle raised £110.
 On Tuesday 30th October members of Congleton RFC and the local business community met with a number of local school children to present a cheque for £1775 to Fran Cotton, rugby legend and Honorary President of Wooden Spoon Manchester & Cheshire (seen at right). Added Jai Purewal, ‘On behalf of Wooden Spoon, I would like to say a huge thank you to Diane and everyone who has participated in the Shirts4Spoon initiative in Congleton. It's important for our youngsters to learn the importance of helping others in their community and through this scheme, hundreds of local school pupils have joined forces to make a real difference in the lives of those less fortunate than themselves.'
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