A Leighton Buzzard golfer has been honoured with an “Unsung Hero” award by the sports’ leading body for his work in steering his club through the year-long pandemic crisis. Simon Rossiter had only been Captain of Leighton’s Plantation Road club for three months when national lockdown measures were imposed to help curb the spread of…
Leighton Buzzard golfers were back in action yesterday (Monday) after a three-month pandemic lockdown. Members of the Plantation Road club were out at first light and by the close of play, around 200 had completed their first rounds since the lockkdown was impose4 in early Janurary to help curb the spread of the…
Christine Rimmer’s year as Captain of the Ladies section of Leighton Buzzard Golf Club hardly got off the ground – but it’s not stopped her raising over £2,000 to help keep an air ambulance in the sky. Only weeks into her year in office, Christine’s fundraising activities were grounded by government measures to curb the…
Five different sporting organisations preparing to spring back into action once pandemic restrictions are lifted, have been given a cash boost by the Leighton-Linslade Sports Council. The Sports Council, a grass-roots organisation which for over 50 years has helped a wide variety of sporting activities in the community to grow, develop and flourish, is…
Course Title: Virtual Multi-Sport Time to Listen Course Date: Tuesday 23rd February 2021 Time: 18.00-21.30 Location: Online, Zoom. Cost: £40 per person. Description: This virtual Time to Listen workshop for Club Welfare Officers (CWO) will be delivered via Zoom over 3.5 hours and at the end of the course participants will be able to: – Identify what a club welfare officer does…
A life-long member of the Leighton Buzzard community who has raised over £75,000 for local and national charities helping the young, the elderly, the sick and the needy, has been awarded the BEM in the New Year honours list. Retired bookmaker Geoffrey Dimmock, 78, raised the money for worthy causes with an annual golf-charity day…
Despite the social restrictions to help curb the spread of the Covid 19 virus, there’s no shortage of Christmas spirit at Leighton Buzzard’s Plantation Road golf club. Last year, a three-strong group of ladies dressed up as elves to help Santa on his busiest night of the year……this year three have become four – a…
The daughter of Leighton Buzzard Golf Club’s highly-regarded professional is to be the next Captain of the Junior Section. Seventeen year-old Olivia Campbell will succeed Ed Stephenson in January – with Ed’s younger brother George her Vice Captain. Olivia, whose dad Maurice has been the Leighton club professional for almost 20 years, took up golf…
Golf is back on the sporting menu as from tomorrow (Wed 2nd December) after a month-long national lockdown to help curb the spread of the covid virus. Almost 300 Leighton Buzzard members have booked slots to play their Plantation Road course, with fourball groups teeing off at ten-minute intervals from 8am. Although virus infection rates…
For more than 20 years, retired bookmaker Geoff Dimmock has raised money for worthy causes with a golf charity day at Leighton Buzzard’s Plantation Road club. And against the odds, 78-year-old Geoff has succeeded in raising £3,100, despite his golf-day plans being abandoned due to the pandemic lockdown. “Local businesses, friends and supporters at the…
