Everyone you meet at CHUFC is a volunteer, from the Chairman to the groundsmen to the Coaches to the Tea ladies. As a small community club, we need all the help we can get. So whether you can give up some time to help keep the building maintained, donate prizes to our fundraising tombolas, sponsor first-team players, take pitch banner adverts, help coach a game, or pay to watch a youth, u18, u23, First team or our new Ladies team matches... this club would not survive without you and the unsung heroes that keep it ticking over. And that's why Non-league Day was set up.

James Doe set up Non-League Day in 2010, and it has grown to become an annual part of the football calendar. It is backed by Premier League and Football League clubs, MPs, celebrities, media organisations, charities, and most importantly, the non-league clubs themselves and the fans who turn up on the day.

Non-League Day provides a platform for clubs to promote the importance of affordable volunteer-led community football while giving fans across the country a chance to show support for their local non-league side.

Many non-league clubs are almost exclusively volunteer-run, with money taken at the turnstiles, often funding thriving youth set-ups, projects, and facilities that benefit the whole community. The level of skill on offer at non-league grounds might not be the same as that at the Etihad Stadium or Stamford Bridge, but there are other sides to the experience, from which the smaller club will always win hands down.

The vast majority of games still kick off at 3pm, ticket prices are realistic, you can often stand (and drink!) anywhere in the ground, and you will always be guaranteed a warm welcome by people who run their clubs for the love of the game.

So, if you are not doing anything this Saturday at 3 pm, come down to Chalky Lane and support our first team in the SCFL Division One Match against Forest Row. Buy a ticket, buy a beer, buy a burger, but most of all, enjoy the beautiful game.

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