I cannot believe that it is nearly a year ago since volunteering my services and being duly elected by the members as Chairman of the Hampshire CPSA. My reasons were genuine in as much that I was not prepared to allow all the work that Andy Gordge had carried out be wasted, only to see the control of the County return directly to the CPSA. It has been an eventful year in which I hope I have managed to rekindle the interests of many members so encouraging them to register their interest, qualify and represent the County at the various Inter County Competitions.

Sponsorship was a key factor in establishing sufficient funds to move the Hampshire CPSA forward. Within a very short period of time I had managed to secure 4 main Sponsors namely Bell Microsystems Ltd, Carry Gently Ltd, Helpful Computers Ltd, Linear Storage Solutions Ltd. In all £4,000 was raised which did not include other generous donations from Medicom Health Care, Richard Faulds, FCTC and various other suppliers who were able to offer a discount as opposed to cash. Without this sponsorship we would have not been able to present the Hampshire Shooting Vest to each member who qualified to shoot in the Hampshire Teams and as such Hampshire members were certainly noticed when turning out to represent the County during the year. It is my intention to again build on last years results and again utilise wisely the sponsorship money which has again been secured for 2010.

A total of 13 Hampshire Championship competitions were held throughout the past year with the following individual achieving the accolade of Hampshire Champion;

Colin Crockford – Hampshire Sporting Champion.

Luke Elliott – Hampshire Sporting Junior Champion.

Tanya Faulds – Hampshire Sporting Ladies Champion.

Neil Lockton – Hampshire Sports Trap Champion.

Ben Gordge – Hampshire Single Barrel Champion.

Rick Stala – Hampshire All Round Champion.

Rick Stala – Hampshire English Skeet Champion.

Rod Gould – Hampshire Olympic Trap Champion.

Ben Gordge – Hampshire Automatic Ball Trap Champion.

Graham Tourle – Hampshire Down the Line Champion.

Ben Gordge – Hampshire Double Trap Champion.

Steve Watts – Hampshire FITASC Champion.

Gerry Abbott – Hampshire Double Rise Champion.

My congratulations to all the Champions and my sincere thanks to all those members who entered the above competitions. All will receive a Voucher for a 100 target Registered shoot at FCTC.

This past year has seen Hampshire enter teams in the following 7 Inter County Competitions having 71 members registered an interest to represent the County;

Olympic Trap – Southern Counties 16^th August 2009.

Universal Trench – Newnham Park 6^th September 2009.

English Skeet – Southern Counties 6^th September 2009.

FITASC – Wylye – 4^th October 2009.

Automatic Ball Trap – Southern Counties 4^th October 2009.

Down the Line – Newnham Park 11^th October 2009.

Sporting – Newnham Park 25^th October 2009.

This year Hampshire were successful in winning 3 Inter County titles and these were in the disciplines of Olympic Trap, FITASC and Sporting. Congratulations go to all the winning teams and individuals. Equally my sincere thanks to all those members who travelled to take part in these competitions.

This past year 8 members registered an interest to represent the County. This resulted in each of them receiving a voucher to be used at Fareham Clay Target Club. Richard Faulds has also kindly offered to provide his services at a reduced rate in order that these Juniors can undertake tuition by Richard at Owls Lodge. This is anticipated to take place in the Spring.

Congratulations go to Phil Eames who successfully won his England Down the Line place for the first time. He will also get a cheque for £50.

Again my sincere thanks for the support that has been given by both Committee Members, Hampshire Champions, Team Managers and the Web Master who all have given their own time over the past year to support the Hampshire CPSA. I am sure that all of you will appreciate the work that goes on behind the scenes in bringing together the teams, writing the reports for both the Web site and monthly CPSA Magazine.

I would like to conclude in wishing everyone a successful year in both shooting and qualifying to represent Hampshire. May we as a County again build on the successes of last year by hopefully adding a few more titles.

David Bennett
Chairman Hampshire CPSA   dbennett@bell-group.net

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