jack bannister

50 years of player support
PCA Benevolent Fund.
“The PCA Benevolent Fund is one of
the biggest differences between my time
in the PCA and now,” Bannister said.
“The more money it can raise from
various functions the better. There are a
lot of players in many sports who once
they finish things tend to go sideways
because they don’t realise at the time
that they have had a fairly sheltered
existence in their twenties and thirties.
So the bigger the Benevolent Fund can
get, the better.”
The PCA has come a long way since
the days of Bannister and Rumsey, but
there is still much work to be done but
we cannot do it without the support of
our members.
LEFT FRED RUMSEY
was RESPONSIBLE TO
organising THE VERY
FIRST PCA MEETING IN
1968; RICHARD BEVAN
was AN INFLUENTIAL
FIGURE DURING HIS TIME
AS THE ASSOCIATION’S
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
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