Bronze tour player signs sponsorship deal
MAKING friends, helping people.
The Oddfellows friendly society certainly lived up to their motto by giving one of their junior members a big break.
Austen Petty, who last year clinched back-to-back Eastleigh & District Under-13 League titles, has been awarded a £450 sponsorship package from the Oswald Branch.
Branch chairman Terence Rendle said: “In line with the society’s motto of making friends and helping people, the Oswald Branch management committee agreed to sponsor Austen after hearing about his success in the Eastleigh Snooker League.”
Petty, who works with World Snooker coach Tim Dunkley, has a top break of 44 in competition and is a product of Chandler’s Ford Snooker Club’s renowned junior section.
As well as his local success, the 13-year-old budding star from Boyatt Wood, near Southampton, finished eighth on this season’s Cuestars South of England Under-21 Bronze Tour.
His undoubted talent and exemplary conduct around the table have already come to the attention of a Southampton Super League skipper.
Oddfellows is a nationwide not-for-profit friendly society established more than 200 years ago.
It focuses on providing social activities, advice service, care service and financial benefits for its 120,000 members.
For more information about the Oddfellows, see www.oddfellows.co.uk/.
Picture by Kevin Legg