The Paul Hunter Foundation celebrates 10 years

 

The Paul Hunter Foundation celebrated 10 years of delivering snooker across the UK in October 2016.  January 2017 will see the Masters Trophy renamed the Paul Hunter Trophy.  The Paul Hunter foundation would like to thank Barry Hearn and World Snooker together with Jason Ferguson and the WPBSA for their support in making this happen.

 

The Paul Hunter Foundation has had donated and raised over £550,000 in its

Lifetime

 

The money has been used to achieve the foundations objectives set out by the

Charities commission.

 

PHF has delivered 580 live road shows to over 10,000 children

 

PHF has operated in over 160 different communities in the UK

 

PHF has targeted deprived areas giving away 2750 cased cues.

 

The PHF has worked in all communities reducing ant – social behaviour

Police forces have quoted a 63% reduction of first time entrants into the

Criminal justice saving huge amounts of tax payers money (source Accrington)

 

PHF has relocated and installed 12 full size snooker tables into the

community or schools and repaired over 100 tables.

 

PHF has supported budding young snooker players in Germany and Poland, and is actively helping introduce teaching into the school curriculum in Poland.

 

PHF has introduced many disabled players to snooker and actively supported there national competitions.

 

The Foundation would like to thank everyone (far too many to mention) involved over the past ten years for the support, enthusiasm and dedication in undertaking Pauls wishes that his charity would make a difference to their lives by getting able bodied, disadvantaged and disabled youngsters off the streets of the UK to play snooker.  The remaining of the Maters Trophy will ensure that Pauls legacy and achievements both as a player and through the Foundation will live on.

 

“In defeat a true sportsman

and competitor should loose

with as much honour

and Grace as in victory”

 

Paul Hunter – the Master

 

He would have been World Champion

 

Here is a poem written by Kevin Flaherty who is the Grandfather of two of the children who attend the PHF sessions in Menstone, Ilkley in West Yorkshire

 

 

The Master

Three times the supreme master of his game

Forever now, that trophy bears his name

A shining star, bestowed with fragile frame

Dimmed to a flicker, then extinguished flame.

 

The grass roots of his legacy

Nurtured by our pool of tears

The seeds of growth, his prodigy

Foundation for the future years.

 

Investing his ambition in the young

His trust became the vision that he’d seen

His values and his image living on

Reflecting all he was – and could have been.

 

The baton passed on to this generation

Inspired, fired, by his firm Foundation

Triumph snatched and borne out of disaster

A phoenix risen from the ashes of the Master

 

 

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