BURLEY-in-Wharfedale Cricket Club has rewarded one of its crowd funder supporters with a bumper fresh food hamper from a village allotment.

The club is hoping to raise £35,000 through its crowd funding appeal to improve their practice facilities. It is hoping to install a hybrid pitch, refurbish the artificial nets and build a secure flood proof equipment store.

When Sarah Ramsden received a flyer about the appeal and asking her to support the club she pledged £20 as she was aware of the work the club does for the youth of the village.

A range of rewards are available on the crowd funding page and the reward for pledging this amount was “a selection of seasonal fruit and vegetables”.

Sarah said the payment was largely made to support the club that had given so much to her own family and other young cricketers in the village and she hadn’t expected to redeem anything more than a few carrots and apples.

However, Sarah and her children were absolutely overwhelmed by what happened next when they were invited along to Dave Cooper's allotment to pick a wide range of seasonal produce.

“The children and I had great fun on the allotment touring round with Dave letting the children pick everything," said Sarah.

"Our favourite has to be the sweetcorn which was being cooked and eaten within half an hour of leaving the allotments, we’ve never had better! I’m not sure whether the children enjoyed the picking or the eating more!

"Dave was so kind chatting through everything with us and letting the kids get stuck in. It was a brilliant way to spend an hour, right here in the village.”

Whilst on the allotment they gathered Bramley and Keswick apples, marrows, golden courgettes, a squash and a pumpkin, loose leaved lettuces, rainbow chard, kale, broccoli, beetroot, leeks, three different types of potato, red and brown onions, dwarf and climbing French beans, tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers.

To add flavour to the vegetables herbs like fennel, mint, borage and basil were collected. On top of this a bunch of Michaelmas daisies and enough sunflowers to make Van Gogh reach for his paint brush were cut.

Sarah added: “Burley-in-Wharfedale CC has always shown us nothing but kindness. The children have been members for three years and the team behind the scenes are incredible.

"It would be fantastic if they could enhance their work with improved facilities for the cricketers of the village.”

To support the club and find out more about the rewards on offer follow visit: https://tinyurl.com/ypajk6b5