Welcome to the Nailsea Churches FC annual charity 6-a-side tournament website

Every August Nailsea Churches FC organise a 6-a-side charity tournament that's held on the astro-turf pitch at Gordano School in Portishead. The idea behind the tournament is to get 8 mens teams together (a mixture of Bristol Church League and local business teams) to play some decent footy and at the same time raise as much money as possible for a chosen local charity.

The tournament was started up in 2005 and is now into its fourth year. The charities that have benfited in the past have been:

2005 - Portishead Youth Centre - we managed to raise £434 to help towards their redevelopment costs.
2006 - Ravenswood School (Nailsea) caters for children between the age of 4 and 19 with complex and severe learning difficulties and with autistic spectrum disorders. We managed to raise £593.50 for them to go towards buying a new minibus.
2007 - The Springboard Opportunity Group (Clevedon) is a charity set up to support children aged 0-5 with additional needs and their families in the North Somerset area. We managed to raise £910.52 for them to help with the running costs of the centre.
2008 - The Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre (Nailsea) offers physiotherapy, dietary advice from their dietician, help concerning benefits etc., counselling and hyperbaric oxygen therapy for MS sufferers, all taking place in a very relaxed, friendly atmosphere. We managed to raise a whopping £924 for them to help with the running costs of the centre.

Tournament Photos

Please check out the photos from all of the tournaments so far (click here). Feel free to download them if you have taken part in any of the tournaments yourself, otherwise all images are the intellectual property of the photographer (John Sheppard in most cases) and may not be used for any other purpose unless permission has been granted. Click here or use the menu at the top-right of the page to contact us regarding specific use of any images.

Thank Yous

There are a number of people/organisations that make regular contributions to the running of the tournament and we'd like to take this opportunity to thank them:

Baldor UK - For always entering a team (but never winning the tournament ;o) and raising wadges of cash for the charity each year.
Gordano School - Who give us a generous discount on the hire of the pitch, which means more of the money raised goes to the charity.
John Sheppard - who has kindly given his photographic services to us since 2007. Please check out his photos on the photos page.
And to everyone else that has ever taken part, refereed or donated to our chosen charity - A HUGE THANK YOU TO YOU ALL!