Longside Xmas Bash-Help Clarets Trust and Have Fun!

[Turfmanphil]

‘The Longside’ Raises Funds for Clarets Trust with the help of Burnley FC

‘The Longside’ is an independent, informative Clarets website and message board-www.thelongside.co.uk A community of online posters meet and discuss the club in a friendly, family-orientated environment. This community spirit has now branched out into the real world and posters regularly meet up for pre-match sessions in pubs for both home and away games and for other social events.

The site recently became the proud sponsors of Claire Judd, Burnley FC’s Physio and the website can now be seen as a kit sponsor for Claire in the Club’s match day programmes.

Phil Lea [Turfmanphil], the site’s Features Team Co-ordinator says ‘We are just unpaid volunteers, proud of our website trying to do anything we can to raise our profile, and wherever we can enhance the Clarets community and help Clarets Trust. We are not a business and Burnley FC have been very good to us, helping us in many ways to secure this sponsorship deal by ensuring we can pay over easier terms.

This idea was the brainchild of one of our team, Gareth Jones [Rose&Crown Claret] and we suddenly realised with the help of the Club that we could pay for this deal by a few of us sharing the costs .

This announcement has whetted the appetite of our posters and we will be having a Special day at Turf Moor on the 17th December for the Watford game with about 12 of our posters being entertained by the Club. The day will include a tour of Turf Moor with Clarets Legend, Andy Lochhead, a three-course meal, a kit presentation with Claire and Jeff Brown on the pitch and then seats in the Bob Lord Stand for the match. We even held a Clarets Quiz on the website and the winner will now be attending the day courtesy of ‘The Longside’. The Club have been fantastic again and have offered a very good deal for the day.

The fun does not end there however. We will then be having our Christmas bash later that evening in ‘Romeo&Juliets’ with up to about 60 Clarets fans attending!

Jeff Brown has kindly offered to host the event and we hope to have some other high profile guests attending.

All profits will be donated to Clarets Trust and we will be holding a raffle with Claire’s kit being the first prize, a signed copy of Willie Irvine’s Book ‘Together Again’ for the second prize and a bottle of bubbly donated by Romeo&Juliets as third prize. ‘


Dan Milner [ Tranzic] organising this event says ‘ This is a marvellous example of how a community of Clarets both online and in real life can work with Burnley FC and Clarets Trust for the benefit of all’

Anthony Fairclough, Commercial Manager at Burnley FC adds “ We have had an extremely successful year with player kit sponsorships and I feel that with the addition of the pitch presentation and the VIP treatment to the sponsors on the day, we are getting excellent feedback through comments from sponsors who have already had their presentations, as with all our sponsors I am extremely grateful to all the team at ‘The Longside’ Clarets website who have supported the club by sponsoring Claire Judd, sponsorship at all levels is as important as the next and this has provided major support to the Club and the Clarets Trust and I look forward to seeing them at the Watford game for their presentation with Claire‘

Peter Pike, the Chairman of Clarets Trust had the following to say in relation to this initiative 'We are delighted that 'The Longside' has taken this initiative to raise funds for Clarets Trust in this quite unique way. It is so pleasing to see an online website support the Trust and work with Burnley FC for the benefit of all the Clarets supporting community'


If anybody would like information about ordering tickets for the ‘Longside Xmas Night’ please contact thelongsider@yahoo.co.uk

[Turfmanphil]

Saturday 17th December Romeo & Juliet's in Burnley
7:30 till Late!
Ok folks the news you've all been waiting for! 'The Longside' has gone from strength to strength this past year and so we felt it was time to congratulate ourselves with a great party event!

Firstly our special guest and compere for the evening is non other than the brilliant Jeff Brown.

Jeff is one of many high profile Celebrity Clarets, I am sure we all know him well. With many Clarets Trust events under his belt he also brings an obvious interest in our fundraising support from this event!

That brings us to the ticket news!

I am sure people appreciate a fully booked exclusive venue costs money, not to mention the full buffet and DJ that is also provided, but we wanted to fund raise as well with our full support as usual going to the Clarets Trust . We are still able to provide brilliant value for money though! A private secure venue, dance floor and DJ, full buffet, bar and staff with fantastic Clarets company is only going to cost £10 per ticket!

We'll come back to the fundraising in a minute but let's look at the superb venue we have secured!

Romeo and Juliet's is going to be completely to ourselves with a guest list and doorman! With it's own entrance, it is situated at 12 St James Row, Burnley so gives us an ideal town centre location. It is capable of holding 120 people in comfort and, as you see from the pictures, has a very nice and comfortable decor.

The venue is known to some of our Admin team and also by Jeff Brown himself and promises to be ideal! The manager has been extremely supportive and for this we thank him.

So time to come back to the most important reason behind the night! Fundraising for The Clarets Trust.

'The Longside' has shown it's support for The Trust for some months now with regular reporting of events and promoting membership through 'The Longside Lounge' and 'Front Page News' It's about time we gave them what's needed the most-Funds!
From EVERY ticket sold at £10 we will donate at least £1! In fact if we have over 40 people attend that will rise massively! With a paying guest list of 60 people we will guarantee a donation of over £200.That's at least one share in Burnley FC! On top of that the evening will also see a special raffle with all proceeds also going to The Trust.

What's special about a raffle you may ask!

Well following our sponsorship of one of Burnley's physio team, Claire Judd, we have a first prize of Claire's signed Shirt! This is being presented to us at the game that afternoon and will surely become a collectors item in future years! With other prizes to be confirmed plus a bottle of bubbly by Romeo and Juliet's themselves, it promises to be well worth a few "strips" at £1 each!

All in all it's certainly going to be a night to remember!

More details will follow over the next few days so please "pop" into our Lounge messageboard to keep up with everything.

Tickets can be purchased with cash or cheque, sorry we are unable to take credit cards, just email Phil, Dan or Bev here for all address and payment details.

[wayneyboy1942]

Good luck to the Longside and I hope it's a goodnight on the17th Phil!!:thumbsup: I'm not able to go but I'm doing my bit by selling BFC Christmas draw tickets!!!

[Turfmanphil]

Thanks Wayney,shame you cant make it! Good luck with the tickets

[Turfmanphil]

So then anybody want tickets they are going fast, only £10 each. Let me know here or contact thelongsider@yahoo.co.uk

[grannyclaret]

Originally Posted by wayneyboy1942

Good luck to the Longside and I hope it's a goodnight on the17th Phil!!:thumbsup: I'm not able to go but I'm doing my bit by selling BFC Christmas draw tickets!!!

and i am doing my bit by buying 10 quids worth

[Turfmanphil]

Dont suppose you could find another £10 could you Granny and come to our Bash on 17th and support Clarets Trust?

[Turfmanphil]

Only a few days left now chaps, tickets going like mad, 50 will be there at least! We now also booked Elvis, he aint dead you know! Plus two more talented singers appearing together as themselves after being Britney Spears and Art Garfunkel at the recent Clarets Trust 'Stars for a Night' event. All this being hosted by our genial Claret and warm-up man-Jeff Brown, I said Jeff Brown!

Check out our website for more information thelongside.co.uk and if you want tickets email thelongsider@yahoo.co.uk