UPCOMING EVENTS

AIM HIGHER FOOTBALL ACADEMY LTD SUMMER CAMP for Fun Fun Fun!!!

Aim Higher would like to invite you to our SUMMER CAMPS for a variety of activities including Football, Tennis, Rounder's, Badminton & other related ball games.

The camp is open to boys and girls between the ages of 5-15 year olds.

The camp will consist of 5 days of FUN!!!!

Please note that Aim Higher would like to remind parents that all children attending will need to bring a pack lunch and appropriate training wear.

COURSE DETAILS

Time: 10am - 3pm

Date: Mon 26th July - Fri 27th August 2010

Venue: Long Lane JFC

Location: Long Lane JFC, Kidbrooke Playing Fields, Dursley Road, London, SE3 8PB

Cost: A discounted price of £40 per person per week or £10 per person a day

To book a course please call John Carroll on either 07912 676 573, 07505 702 059 or 07920 585 635

Please make cheques/postal orders payable to Aim Higher Football Academy Ltd and please send it to the address below;

Aim Higher Team.

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AIM HIGHER CELEBRITY GOLF DAY

All play will be a four ball with registration and bacon rolls at 8:30am for 9:30am

Shotgun Start!!!

Special CELEBRITY guest confirmed include Gary Alexander, Neil Harris & other top players

Exclusive use of golf club changing rooms and facilities throughout the day

Food included with a full buffet in the evening presentation and auction.

GOLF DAY DETAILS

Time: 8:30am - Late

Venue: Kent and Surrey Golf & Country Club

Location: Kent and Surrey Golf & Country Club, Crouch House Road, Edenbridge, Kent, TN8 5LQ

Cost: £75 per person

To book tickets, please call John Carroll on either 07912 676 574, 07505 702 059 or 07920 585 635

Please make cheques/postal orders payable to Aim Higher Football Academy Ltd

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Also in aid of CCHF allaboutkids, providing residential activity breaks for disadvantaged children

Aim Higher Team.

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LETTER TO PARENTS

Dear Parents,

As you know Aim Higher Football Academy is a year old in september and what a year we've had. We are looking to hold a dance to celebrate, if you have any ideas, please let us know. Thanks to everyone who has worked so hard to make Aim Higher work, to all the parents, coaches and staff.

We need idea's on fundraising and sponsorship, we are and always have been self funded but I am finding it harder to support it without any help. We have won an award from the Football Foundation but that small amount will be paid over a period of three years so help is needed.

I have invested in some show ponies and I'm looking to start an Aim Higher Welsh pony stud. Our first foal was born on the 22nd of June 2010 and what a beautiful foal it was, so we now have two mares and three filly's. We then had the luck to purchase a young colt who is now only three months old, his name is Crugybar Bambi and what a smart fellow he is. Photos of the ponies will follow. These will also be used to help young children with learning and social problems.

Onto the youngsters we have at Aim Higher. Well. aren't we lucky to have so many talented players or what and the times we've played in games agaisnt others, I think it's plain to see how much these kids have developed. I mean the kids have played in two tournaments and have reached the final on both occasions. Losing out on penalties in one final and winning the other final and to think that they have hardly played together as a team at all is just amazing. Also having Tottenham's Academy nicking a draw from us just shows the quality of the players that we have. We must not forget that most of the lads are only 5's, 6's and 7's playing two years above themselves so well done the Academy Babes.

Well thanks once again and any help is well appreciated.

John Carroll

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THE ERNIE COOKSEY SCHOLARSHIP

For the young & talented sports persons!!

Ernie Cooksey for those of you who were not privileged to have known him,
was everything that was good, I have known John (Ernie's dad) for over forty years. I had not seen John for a long time, then to my surprise he showed up when I was at QPR
and we spoke. He told me that his son was playing against us who was this little lad with blonde
hair who had an engine that was very hard to find in someone so young but also he was a real player.

That was to play a big part in the way Ernie lead his life, his dream of playing
professional football and the path to reaching that dream was hard but he never once changed direction even being rejected by clubs such as Charlton Athletic and Colchester United.

After
spending two years as a YTS, He then went to non-league football where he was taken to Oldham by Bob Dowie whose brother Ian Dowie was manager. The fans of Oldham idolised Ernie even though he was a Londoner and only played 35 games for them. Even though things did not go too well for him, He carried it on and it was soon after that he was diagnosed with skin cancer. He came back south this time with his wife and lived in Welling. He still played non-league football but the sad ending to this young man's life was that he never lived long enough to see his baby
daughter born. I write this with the greatest respect to John and Ernie's sister
Joanne and to Ernie's wife, Louise and daughter Isabella Georgina.

The uncanny thing about this is that I never really got to know Joanne and one day
I received a phone call from a young mum saying she wanted to bring her son to the academy and that his name was Tom. He had been coming to the academy for a few weeks when I saw
John pull up into the car park. He came into the club house where we spoke and told me that his grandson had been attending Aim Higher. I then saw Joanne and I was looking at Ernie, thats when it came to me and I put the idea to Joanne and John. We now
have the help of John Dyer, one of Ernie's oldest friends and have now started the scholarships in Ernie's name. Once again a big thanks to all you Oldham fans who carry Ernie's flag to all England games and keep Ernie's name alive. Can you tell me any England player or in fact, any player in the world treated with the same respect after 36 years in the game because I haven't so it goes to show he was
some kind of man and he did it his way, the right way,

"THE ERNIE COOKSEY WAY"

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