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On Sunday 14th April, Reading RFC hosted the third annual Olly Stephens Memorial Cup, remembering our brother-in-rugby and continuing his parents' incredible work raising money to ensure his legacy is to give something positive to the community. The total raised of £6,000 will be split between three charities in Olly's memory​.
In 2021, aged just 13, Olly wandered over to a field, Bugs Bottom, opposite their house - sliders on his feet, his phone in hand. 15 minutes later, he was stabbed to death by two teenage boys in a field behind his house, after they recruited a girl online to lure him there. The entire attack had been planned on social media and triggered by a dispute in a social media chat group.
For those who would like to learn more about Olly’s story, the Digital Detectives series on Channel 4 will feature it at 9pm on the 29th of April. The programme makers have worked closely with Thames Valley Police and his family. Note that it’s hard watching and support is advised if showing it to younger children.
Keen to ensure Olly's tragic passing counts for something, Amanda and Stuart Stephens have been working tirelessly ever since to raise money for a variety of charities. One of the ways this is done is the Memorial Cup, held annually for the under 14 boys teams of Reading and Reading Abbey, who also host the event in rotation.
On this occasion, a raffle was held with a wealth of generous prizes donated, and there were speeches from Yasmin Miller (Reading RFC President), Karen Rowland (Reading Lead Councillor for Community Safety), Ruth Pearse (Parenting Special Children) and Ian Jenner and Ken Davies (team coaches). Ben Gander, Olly's best friend and a player himself, gave a team talk on the field beforehand, and our own Danny Pratt presented the trophy - won convincingly by Abbey at 53-5.
With advanced raffle sales, £1,000 contribution by the John Sykes Foundation, and a top up from Olly's fund, the total raised is an impressive £3,000. This is doubled by the Big Give, so that three charities (The Ben Kinsella Trust, No. 5 and Parenting Special Children) will receive £2,000. One of the buckets is still in our clubhouse if you want to help this amount go even further.
Huge thanks go to the following for their hard work in making the day successful: Amanda & Stuart Stephens, Shelley Gander & John Kelly (committee); James Waite, Matt Turrell & Chris Mills (match officials); Ian Jenner, Ken Davies & Lisa Crew (coaches/managers); Colin Stonehouse & Conor Ramage (car parking); Josey and the clubhouse team; and anyone else who made a contribution big or small, the value of which isn't made any smaller by my failure to include them.
Massive thanks also go to everyone who came to support the teams on the day and put their hands in their pockets, producing such a fantastic monetary result.
Next year's game is set to be even bigger, so watch this space for the date and be sure to be there!
Space created
A quiet journey
A soul to speak
And souls speak to
A created movement
A bond unknown
Vines untied
A call within
A silent pause
In silence seeing
Courage my friend
In trust I hold
Ania
Erddig, Wrexham - 252.06ha (622.85acres) A late 17th century house, containing much of the furniture and textiles supplied for it in the 1720s, with an early 18th century formal garden. The magnificent state bedroom is decorated in the Chinese taste. An unusually rich history of master/servant relations includes a servants' hall with 18th century portraits of estate and household staff and there is a complete range of outbuildings with smithy, joiner's shop and bakery still in operation. The property was extensively restored in 1973-77 following severe mining subsidence. Given in 1973 with an extensive area of land, by Mr P.S.Yorke.
Security Services Federal Credit Union donates to the Utah National Guard Charitable Trust on June 18 at Thanksgiving Point.
2. Kings Trust Cottages. Adjoining and on the same side as Budworth Hall is a row of typical 17th century timber framed cottages with 19th century shopfronts. The income from these still funds an educational trust under the 1678 will of Joseph King. Ongar's first school occupied part of the cottages, and housed the schoolmaster until the early 20th century.
Erddig, Wrexham - 252.06ha (622.85acres) A late 17th century house, containing much of the furniture and textiles supplied for it in the 1720s, with an early 18th century formal garden. The magnificent state bedroom is decorated in the Chinese taste. An unusually rich history of master/servant relations includes a servants' hall with 18th century portraits of estate and household staff and there is a complete range of outbuildings with smithy, joiner's shop and bakery still in operation. The property was extensively restored in 1973-77 following severe mining subsidence. Given in 1973 with an extensive area of land, by Mr P.S.Yorke.
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, 1758-65.
The National Trust.
By Matthew Brettingham (1699-1769), James Paine (1717-1789) & Robert Adam (1728-1792).
Interiors complete by the 1780s.
For Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804).
Grade l listed.
The Dining Room.
This was a room designed around the theme of eating and drinking including that of the mantelpiece which features the figures of Ceres and Bacchus (goddess of the harvest and god of wine).
Kedleston Hall is an extravagant temple to the arts. Commissioned in the 1750s by Nathaniel Curzon whose ancestors had resided at Kedleston since the 12th century. The house is framed by historic parkland and boasts opulent interiors intended to impress.
Designed for lavish entertaining, Kedleston Hall displays an extensive collection of paintings, sculpture and original furnishings, reflecting both the tastes of its creators and their fascination with the classical world of the Roman Empire.
Inherited by George Nathaniel Curzon, Viceroy of India between 1899 and 1905, the hall also houses the many objects he amassed during his travels in South Asia and the Middle East, and in his role leading British rule in India.
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
~johann wolfgang von goethe
Trust Yourself Necklace
Green glass beaded, antique copper chain necklace; measures approx. 18 1/2 inches in length.