Ten teams entered the inaugural “Wrexham AFC Charity Shield Tournament” at NEWI on Saturday with Tetra Pak and Electric 6 (Manweb) qualifying for the penalty shoot-out final. Tetra Pak were comfortable winners and will now get the chance to play a 60 minute, eleven a-side, match on the Racecourse on Saturday July 8th 2006 at the “Fans’ Open Day”. They will play the team which raises the most sponsorship money - to be announced when all sponsorship forms and monies are collected.
Mold Alun School had their name drawn out of the hat and now have the pleasure of selecting one person to play with Wrexham AFC’s first team in a friendly match also arranged for the “Fans’ Open Day”. It is understood that they are thinking of raffling the prize to raise additional money for Nightingale House Hospice, the local Parkinson’s Disease Support Group and Wrexham Football in the Community.
Phil Wyn, who organised the event on behalf of Wrexham Supporters’ Association hopes to raise between £2000 and £2500 for the local ‘worthy causes’ through individual sponsorship. Electric 6’s work colleagues held a cake day at work, Tetra Pak kindly offered to match the money raised by their team and Phil’s employers Nucletron sponsored his team to the tune of £10 a penalty scored; sadly they only scored six goals in total!
A big thank-you goes to Denis Smith and Geraint Parry at Wrexham AFC for kindly providing the prizes, Minera Trusses for sponsoring the event and to all teams, players and sponsors for taking part in this competition.
