By our roaming reporter B.McKitrick

On Saturday 2nd June 2007 First Touch set out on our annual 5 mile stroll from Battery Park Pavilion to Lunderston Bay to raise funds for the club. Players , coaches, parents, grannies, friends, babies in buggies and dugs on leads left the Battery at 11 am following a short but rousing exhortation from M.C Jim Black. It was an overcast but mild morning as Group 2 boys set the early pace stopping
only to pose for pics for our resident photographer, Jeremy Burrows. As the walkers passed through Gourock we were encouraged not just by passing shoppers but by some of the parents transporting barbecue equipment and supplies to prepare for the splendid nosh awaiting our arrival to Lunderston Bay.
A battery of blazing barbecues expertly tended by parents, rows of tables laden with buttered rolls, trays of tomato pasta, lasagne, baked potatoes, sandwiches, coleslaw, cakes, crisps and juice awaited the hungry hordes.
Undeterred by the voracious midges boys and parents played football, rugby, head tennis or sat at the picnic tables and bantered. A series of races for players and parents followed handicapped by overfull stomachs (the boys) and decrepitude (the parents) which proved highly entertaining to the massed audience and bemused public even the tide paused for a closer look!
All too soon the packing up and tidying brought a very enjoyable and successful day to an end. Everyone had played their part to provide a superb meal and fun day with the shared aim of helping First Touch to prosper.
We raised more than £2,000.00 which we shall continue to invest in the development of our coaching and purchase of equipment.