Wednesday 26 June 2024 | 9.30am – 3pm
We welcome you to join us this June for the biggest one-day “Live and Running” Ground Care and Turf Machinery show in the entire country!
Over 30 manufacturers will be showing and demonstrating this year. It’s the perfect opportunity for you to talk to the manufacturers, watch a variety of product demos, meet the team, take advantage of our ride-and-drive trials and listen to industry speakers.
A barbecue lunch and refreshments are also included, of course, as well as Becky’s legendary cakes. You know you want to.
We’re also delighted to support Aylesbury Foodbank on the day, so if you can, please bring along any tinned or packeted food to donate. Aylesbury Foodbank will have staff on-hand to take your donations and ensure they reach the people who need them. Thank you!
| Organisation | Time | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Grounds Management Association Phil Jeggo | 11.15am to 11.30am | Learn how GMA promotes and protects the interests of the professionals and volunteers who make sport possible by keeping green spaces and playing surfaces safe, accessible, and sustainable across educational establishments, community facilities, and sports clubs at grassroots, amateur, and professional levels. |
| Perennial Kate Cooney | Midday to 12.15pm | The only UK charity dedicated to everyone who works with grass, trees, plants and flowers. Your whole team need to hear what support and advice is available, so that if / when they need it, they know where to go! |
| Lord’s Marylebone Cricket Club Karl McDermott | 2pm to 2.15pm | Head Groundsman at Lord’s since December 2018, Karl will be talking about his career to date, starting out with a summer job at Clontarf Cricket Club in Dublin!
Highlights include time at the Ageas Bowl as Deputy Head Groundsman for the ground’s inaugural Test Match in 2011. Also progressing to Head Groundsman there in time to oversee England’s victory over India, the third Test Match to be held at the Ageas Bowl. Karl will include a Q + A |
