Blog - what’s happening
RAFFLE - December 2018
Caversham United are running a raffle to raise some money towards running the club. Every entry is appreciated and can be done so via our JustGiving page. Main prize is a new Caversham United shirt, with many other runner up prizes available too.
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/caversham-united?utm_term=BYMbEA6xE
16/12/2018 - the raffle was a huge success with our target for donations being met. Prizes are in the process of being arranged but the donation page remains open in case any wishes to add further.
Caversham United are running a raffle to raise some money towards running the club. Every entry is appreciated and can be done so via our JustGiving page. Main prize is a new Caversham United shirt, with many other runner up prizes available too.
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/caversham-united?utm_term=BYMbEA6xE
16/12/2018 - the raffle was a huge success with our target for donations being met. Prizes are in the process of being arranged but the donation page remains open in case any wishes to add further.
RECENT EVENTS
The #CavIgotNamesForYou nickname search for the club was a huge success. Caversham United even had an interview on BBC Radio Berkshire and the tweet reached over 60,000 people! We received hundreds of entries and narrowed it down to a final three:
The Cavaliers 👑
The Bridgers 🌉
The Billy Goats 🐐
With the final three selected, we again featured on BBC Radio Berkshire. Voting closed on 21 November and The Billy Goats was the winner, taking nearly 50% of the public vote! COYBG 🐐🐐🐐
In conjunction with the new nickname, Caversham United are also ran a competition to design a new club crest which has now been chosen! A beautiful design which features the Billy Goat!
The final part of the trilogy was the design of a new home kit. Having been let down by a sponsor in the last minute of pre-season, the club has made do with previous years kits due to being unable to buy new ones.
However, teaming up with Football Kitbox (@footballkitbox on Twitter) we launched a kit design competition with huge interest. Over 100 kit designs were submitted, which were narrowed down to a top 16 and split into four Twitter polls.
The winners of the four polls made a grand final and the winning kit, designed by Jack Veness (@jack_veness) will be crested by Football Kitbox and Kappa! The new shirt of also available to buy here: http://bit.ly/2RvL9Np
The #CavIgotNamesForYou nickname search for the club was a huge success. Caversham United even had an interview on BBC Radio Berkshire and the tweet reached over 60,000 people! We received hundreds of entries and narrowed it down to a final three:
The Cavaliers 👑
The Bridgers 🌉
The Billy Goats 🐐
With the final three selected, we again featured on BBC Radio Berkshire. Voting closed on 21 November and The Billy Goats was the winner, taking nearly 50% of the public vote! COYBG 🐐🐐🐐
In conjunction with the new nickname, Caversham United are also ran a competition to design a new club crest which has now been chosen! A beautiful design which features the Billy Goat!
The final part of the trilogy was the design of a new home kit. Having been let down by a sponsor in the last minute of pre-season, the club has made do with previous years kits due to being unable to buy new ones.
However, teaming up with Football Kitbox (@footballkitbox on Twitter) we launched a kit design competition with huge interest. Over 100 kit designs were submitted, which were narrowed down to a top 16 and split into four Twitter polls.
The winners of the four polls made a grand final and the winning kit, designed by Jack Veness (@jack_veness) will be crested by Football Kitbox and Kappa! The new shirt of also available to buy here: http://bit.ly/2RvL9Np
In other news...
@cavershamunited has now surpassed 600 followers, which is incredible given be had 70 around a month ago. Thank you for all the support!
27 November - we have surpassed 800 followers and been @ASRomaEN’s Team of the Day! Incredible!
1 December - we have over 1,000 followers! Incredible stuff! Thanks again for your support, we really appreciate it! Whatever next....!
27 December - we are over 1,500! This is incredible stuff!
15 January 2019 - 2,000 followers! We can’t believe it...
16 April 2019 - 3,500 followers. Build it and they will come 🐐
27 November - we have surpassed 800 followers and been @ASRomaEN’s Team of the Day! Incredible!
1 December - we have over 1,000 followers! Incredible stuff! Thanks again for your support, we really appreciate it! Whatever next....!
27 December - we are over 1,500! This is incredible stuff!
15 January 2019 - 2,000 followers! We can’t believe it...
16 April 2019 - 3,500 followers. Build it and they will come 🐐