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BOLLYWOOD NIGHT
 The Ickenham Festival Team is arranging another Family Bollywood Evening at Vyners School on Saturday 12th March from 7pm until 10.30pm. This colourful fun event is for both young and old and will raise funds for Ickenham Festival 2012. Tickets are £9 for adults, £6 for children and will include food, music and dance lessons. There will also be a licensed bar.
More details from Nidhi Uppal (07833 133742), David Edington (01895 672783) or at www.IckenhamFestival.org.uk
DONATIONS
This month, receipt is acknowledged, with grateful thanks, for donations from:
Ickenham and District Society of Model Engineers; Ickenham Churches’ Women’s Group
Copy for the April issue of ICN should be with the team by 12 noon on 13th March.
ICKENHAM YOUTH FOOTBALL CLUB
 Ickenham Youth Football Club (IYFC) was formed in 2006 by four Ickenham residents: Derick and Annette McCorkell, Paul Morris and Ray McCaffery (pictured, l to r). They recognised that a number of local children had a desire to play the ‘beautiful game’ in an organised manner and so, starting with a nucleus of 50 players, mostly living in Ickenham, the club was formed.
Since then it has grown to cater for 260 children, aged from 4 to 13, playing in 13 different teams. The younger fraternity play in teams of seven while those aged 11-13 play full 11-a-side games. The club is affiliated to the Harrow League so players get to compete against several other teams based all over Middlesex.
Needless to say, all this takes a lot of organising, most of which falls upon Derick and Annette, the Club’s Chairman and Secretary respectively. Each team has its own manager and coach and there are administrators who plan fixtures and so on. The Club is registered with the Middlesex Football Association and operates in accordance with guidelines laid down by the English FA. It is also in the process of becoming Charter Standard. Players pay a small subscription to cover expenses such as pitch hire and insurance, but all the organisers operate on a purely voluntary basis.
Where to play is one of the big challenges. Currently the Club uses Douay Martyrs’ sports field, Tweedale sports field by Ickenham Park, or ‘Top Fields’ beside the cricket club pitches for their home fixtures. Ideally though, they would like to find a home that could provide three full size pitches and five smaller 7-a-side ones, plus clubhouse and changing facilities for everyone involved. Another option could be to seek funding for a clubhouse by Douay Martyrs grounds. Unsurprisingly, all these plans would cost money, so the club is always in need of sponsorship or donations in one form or another.
If you’d like to know more about the club, or think you might like to support it in any way, please get in touch with Derick or Annette on 01895 621061 or 07973 226538 /07974 319443.
BURNS DELIGHT
 “O wad some Power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us!” So said the great bard, Robert Burns, in his ode ‘To a Louse’. Oh, if only all of us could possess that priceless gift!
This ode was read as part of the ‘traditional’ Burns Night celebrations laid on by the Ickenham Festival team in Douay Martyrs School, attended by some 140 happy residents. Doug Neilson was the presenter, Sean Walker the Piper, the Larkrise Ranters made the music and the school chefs cooked the haggis, with trimmings, as well as soup and pudding, to a tee.
 And what a jolly evening it turned out to be! We ate (and drank) our fill and worked it off to communal dances such as ‘Strip the Willow’ and the ‘Dashing White Sergeant’. Scarcely an able couple sat out and, despite the best efforts of the caller, we witnessed some intriguing variations on these long-standing dance favourites! As the participants agreed, “Auld Lang Syne came all too quickly.” But never mind, God willing, there’ll be another opportunity on Burns Night next year!
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