Daily Record / Sunday Mail - Kits for Kids Promotion 2006

Oakbank of Calderwood Football Club were one of only 500 youth football teams throughout Scotland fortunate enough to accepted for the Kits for Kids promotion run by the Daily Record / Sunday Mail and CIS Insurance last year.

The goal for this promotion was to save enough tokens which appeared in the daily Record and Sunday Mail on a daily basis over an 8 week period.  The reward was that the team would receive brand new strips, tracksuits and rain suits free of charge if we could collect 4,000 tokens.  Again this proved to be another major success for the club as the players, players parents, grand parents, friends, work colleagues and the local community got right behind us by collecting the tokens on our behalf over the 2 month period.  We were absolutely delighted with the support we received from many sources and eventually collected just over 10,000 tokens more than double our target figure!

We then found ourselves in the fortunate position that we were able to help several other clubs achieve their figures by giving away the additional 6,000 tokens to the teams who were struggling to achieve their targets to obtain the free kit.

Overall this was yet another fantastic TEAM effort by everyone associated with the club. This also proved that even though we are a very small club with only ten players we can achieve big things when everyone chips in for the benefit of the kids who play for the team.