Ventnor Blog

As pointed out by forum member, Lowtherville Lout, tucked at the bottom of Graeme Burnett’s cricket report this week, is news of that the Barclays Premier League Trophy will be coming to Steephill next month.

Well done to Ventnorian Ben Davies (see below) for bringing the trophy down to Ventnor.

Let’s all try and get as much money raised for youth development at Ventnor Cricket Club, by having photos taken with the trophy, as it’ll be matched pound for pound by Barclays Bank. (more…)

Last Friday morning, legendary designers Gerardine and Wayne Hemingway were to be found at the Totland Parish Council offices. An unlikely place perhaps, but the reason for their presence on the Wight will soon become clear.

Inside the buzzy Parish Council offices a meeting was taking place to discuss the regeneration of some open spaces in Totland. Sat around the table were representatives from the IW Council, the Parish Council, public artists - Ecclestone George, Craig Antony Ratcliffe Gardens and Kate Sanger (furniture maker).
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Students at St Catherine’s School in Ventnor had quite a treat last week when Pompie football player, John Utaka, made a visit to the school. We were hoping to pop along and get some pics for you, but time didn’t allow, so many thanks to Kim Fry, who works at St Catherine’s, for sending through this report of the afternoon. Ed

Three of St Catherine’s learner showed John around the centre. They joined an occupational therapy session, a class and observed young people learning brick laying in a vocational training session.

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Regular readers might remember back in July last year, VentnorBlog put out a call for volunteers to join the Rew Valley Youth Football club. Well, Simon Wearing has got in touch with us to ask if we could put another call out for volunteers and players - as always, we very happy to oblige. Ed
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We have to admit that the Red Funnel April Fool’s joke of crossing out the words ‘Red Eagle’ on the side of one of their ferries and having ‘Red Squirrel’ scrawled on was a tad lame (sorry RF), but this video below that has just been sent to us (thanks Eileen) made us laugh much more.
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It’s not every day that a local football team - in particular one made up of part time players - is all over the National media, but today is the exception.

Havant & Waterlooville - the Hawks to the fans - played against Liverpool, at Anfield, and for half an hour, they led Liverpool in the fourth rounds of the FA Cup.

The betting before the match was offering odds that many a Hawks fan would have found hard not to take - 50/1 for winning at Anfield and 5000/1 for them to win the FA Cup.

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Don’t forget that tonight sees the final show of the season for the Ventnor Film Soc.

Offside is a vibrant, bitter-sweet work from writer/director Jafar Panahi which chronicles the efforts of various unnamed young women football fanatics to sneak into a crucial international qualifying game at Tehran’s Azadi stadium, in a country where women are forbidden from attending soccer matches.

Venue: Ventnor Winter Gardens
Curtains up: at 7.30pm
Tickets: £4.50 (£3.50 conc)

The Rew Valley Youth Football Club are on the lookout for new managers and players for the 07/08 season.

The have five teams playing in the Isle of Wight Sunday League, with 90 players signed on. But, they are short on managers and looking for volunteers for the two new under 10s teams. If you think you can help out, please get in touch.

They are also hoping to recruit some new players for the under 10s, 11s, 12s, 13s, 14s and 15s, so if you love football and want to get involved, as before, get in touch.

Call Mark on 857129 or Gary on 854780 and don’t forget to let them know where you heard about it.