Epsom & Ewell Sports Awards 2011      

       
Epsom & Ewell Sports and Leisure Council, in partnership with Epsom & Ewell Borough Council, have introduced Epsom & Ewell's first ever sports awards. The awards evening took place on 29 September 2011 at Epsom Downs Racecourse. The ceremony recognised the Borough's local sporting talents and achievements as well as rewarding local volunteers, coaches and clubs. Epsom Downs Racecourse were headline sponsors of the Epsom & Ewell Sports Awards 2011.
                          
The 10 awards on offer:

• GLL Sports Personality of the Year Award
• Epsom Gymnastics and Trampoline Club Young Sports Personality of the Year Award
• Aon Hewitt Sports Club of the Year Award
• Active Surrey Coach of the Year Award
• The Ashley Centre Sports Team of the Year Award
• AFC Ewell Young Sports Team of the Year Award
• Epsom & Ewell Football Club Disability Sports Award
• The Rotary Club Outstanding Service to Sport Award
• Epsom & Ewell Colts Football Club Volunteer of the Year Award
• Surrey County Playing Fields Association Young Volunteer of the Year Award.

Nominations are now closed.  For information purposes, the generic eligibility and individual award criteria can still be viewed. Sports Awards Criteria Information (pdf - 194kb).

Winners and Shortlist for the Epsom & Ewell Sports Awards 2011

Award	Winner	Shortlist	Shortlist	Shortlist
GLL Sports Personality of the Year	Alexandra Rickham	Ashley Castle	Kira Munns-Charlton	Jamie Mathews
Epsom Gymnastics and Trampoline Club Young Sports Personality of the Year	Harry Green	Chloe Bean	Jack Neill	Paige Mollatt
Aon Hewitt Sports Club of the Year	Sutton & Epsom Rugby Football Club	Ebbisham Sports Club	Epsom Fencing Club
Active Surrey Coach of the Year	Marie Benedict	Ed Semple	Nicky Bowes	Nick Payne
The Ashley Centre Sports Team of the Year	Epsom & Ewell Colts U18 Team	Epsom Eagles Ladies Team
AFC Ewell Young Sports Team of the Year Award	Danetree Junior School	Surrey Youth Games Mini-Squash	Rosebery Equestrian Team
Epsom & Ewell Football Club Disability Sports Award	Jamie Mathews	Natasha Davies	Dennis Jones
The Rotary Club Outstanding Service to Sport Award	Dave Goldsmith	Liz Sissons	Stan Somerford	Dick Page
Epsom & Ewell Colts Football Club Volunteer of the Year	Nicky Bowes	Pauline Russell	Bob Cook	Chris Howarth
Surrey County Playing Fields Association Young Volunteer of the Year	Hannah Foxley	Conor Monteith	Connor Young	Dominic Woodbridge

Over 200 guests were treated to inspirational speeches by Paraylmpic Sailor Alexandra Rickham and London 2012 Judo hopeful Samantha Lowe. The Great Britain Martial Arts Academy (GBMAA) opened the show with an explosive martial arts demonstration; Dandelion Theatre Arts performed Hakuna Matata.

For more information on the Sports Awards, please contact Leisure Developments on 01372 732000 or email us on leisuredevelopmentsteam@epsom-ewell.gov.uk

Headline Sponsors

Epsom Downs Racecourse 
Experience world-class racing with a fantastic view of the racecourse and London skyline at Epsom Downs Racecourse. With impressive state-of-the-art conference and events facilities available all year around, Epsom Downs Racecourse is the perfect stage to host, impress and indulge your guests.

The Sponsors

       
GLL
We aim to encourage community involvement and to promote healthy living. We work to increase levels of physical activity by delivering sport and health programmes that reach all sectors of the community. We aim to ensure financial viability of GLL, meet our charitable objectives, increase employee participation, maintain and expand our services and endeavour to continually exceed our customers’ expectations.

Epsom Gymnastics and Trampoline Club
Gymnastics and Trampolining classes are held for ages 3+ at The Rainbow Leisure Centre, in Epsom. Coaches are qualified and CRB checked.

Aon Hewitt
Aon Hewitt is a leading provider of human resources services to major companies throughout the world. Our parent company, Aon Corporation, is the principal shirt sponsor of Manchester United. In Epsom we employ around 300 staff in Parkside House, overlooking Rosebery Park. We have a long history with Epsom having opened an office as Bacon & Woodrow in the 1970s in the High Street, and later as Hewitt Associates in our current location. We are sponsoring these awards through the Hewitt Community Trust which provides local community support in our office locations around the UK.

Active Surrey
Active Surrey acts as the local strategic delivery agency for Surrey, supporting the County Sports Partnership (CSP) which represents the local delivery network of public, private and third sector providers of sport and physical activity.

The Ashley Centre
At The Ashley Centre you can shop in a relaxed, friendly and safe shopping environment with a choice of over 50 high street and independent retailers meeting your food, fashion, health, beauty, entertainment needs and more.

AFC Ewell
Formed in 1982, we endeavoured to establish a youth football club to cater for all ages and ability. Our emphasis then, and indeed now, was based on learning and enjoying our national sport. We believe we have gone a long way to achieve this goal. After more than twenty six years we have established a full range of youth teams from under 7 and under 17 to a club first team playing in the lower reaches of the football pyramid. We also have three Sunday adult teams.

Epsom & Ewell Football Club
Epsom & Ewell Football Club started life in 1918 as Epsom Juniors Cricket Club but soon started playing football competitively, moving to West Street, Ewell in 1925 where they stayed until 1993. Presently the 1st team, who compete in the Combined Counties league, are ground sharing at Merstham FC, whilst the Reserves and Youth team play at Raynes Park Vale FC. There is also a thriving Colts section which is independently financed. One of the club's major achievements was playing in the first FA Vase final in 1975. Currently they are actively pursuing a new ground back in the Borough of Epsom & Ewell.

The Rotary Club
The Rotary Club of Epsom, part of a World Wide Fellowship and open to both men and women, is proud to support The Epsom & Ewell Sports Day. We are a vibrant club organising social and fund raising events supporting many local charities, organisations and international projects. We are part of the Rotary family, which has the motto "Service Above Self".

Epsom & Ewell Colts FC
Epsom & Ewell Colts FC is a Chartered Standard football club which currently has 16 sides from U8 to U18 playing in leagues in and around Epsom. If anyone is interested in joining the club then please contact Mike Lovett on 07762101767.

Surrey County Playing Fields Association
SCPFA is a county wide charity. Its main objective is to ensure that there are sufficient playing fields of a high quality in suitable places which meet the needs of all ages. These fields should be suitable for both sport and play. The SCPFA is purely voluntary. It gives grants and loans towards achieving its main objective. It encourages and assists volunteers so that they can work towards providing high quality facilities.

Raising Funds

At the Epsom & Ewell Sports Awards, a raffle was held to help raise money for the local charity MERU (Medical Engineering Resource Unit). MERU is a charity that exists to improve life for children and young people with disabilities by designing and custom-making specialist equipment for use at home, at school or college, in hospital or at play. MERU help when no readymade solution exists to meet a child or young person’s needs. For more information please visit their website www.meru.org.uk