The PCA has long-established, strong relationships within both the sport and business communities. Through our partners and the PCA's wide range of events and commercial activities, we are able to focus on building long-term security for our membership. For more information on how your company can become a PCA partner please contact Aileen Phipps, Commercial and Events Assistant, via email aphipps@thepca.co.uk or call 020 7449 4226.

VPAR Live Golf Scoring

VPAR Live Golf Scoring has recently launched a new version of their real time corporate golf scoring system. 

VPAR’s interactive, game-changing golf technology provides players with real time leaderboards as they are playing. Capturing all the excitement and adrenaline of the game on easy to use handheld scorepads, each player can track their progress, check out the competition, and see what’s happening elsewhere on the course as the game unfolds.

VPAR Managing Director, Jason Stoop, said, “We’ve made some big changes for 2012. We’ve introduced brand new, easier to use scorepads supporting many new features, including a wide range of game formats and a brand new GPS feature, which allows users to get distance measurement to the green.”

With VPAR, teammates and spectators can keep up with every second of the game thanks to interactive leaderboards in the clubhouse, broadcasting live scores. VPAR’s system also ensures everyone can enjoy the live action online too – from colleagues back in the office, to family at home, or friends watching the interactive screens in the clubhouse.

VPAR is the most exciting and powerful way to get inside golf, immersing players and their teams in every adrenaline-filled moment of their corporate or charity golf day.
For more information, please visit www.vpar.com

Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Plc

Randall & Quilter’s support of the PCA seemed a foregone conclusion; considering our love of the game and their outstanding events calendar. The wide range of events readily available to our clients has ensured thoroughly enjoyable social occasions over the years. With the start of the new season, we anticipate another year of not only success within Randall & Quilter, but also for English cricket.

Randall & Quilter Services

Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Plc (R&Q), is a specialist non-life insurance investor, service provider and underwriting manager.

R&Q has pursued a buy-and-build strategy, to create a comprehensive range of investment activities and services in the global non-life insurance market.

Insurance Investments:

• Purchase of run-off insurance companies
• Purchase of reinsurance debt
• Capitalisation of specialist Lloyd’s syndicates

Insurance Services:

• Claims and reinsurance management
• Exit solutions
• Accounting and consultancy services
• Broker acquisition or replacement
• Audit and inspection
• Credit control and broker performance monitoring

Underwriting Manager

Sponsorship and Management of:

• Lloyd’s syndicates
• Other underwriting entities (Managing General Agents)

Captives:

Offering a full range of Captive services:

• Captive formation and management
• Risk Retention Groups
• Rent-a-captive facility
• Exit solutions

For further information, please email Alan Quilter at alan.quilter@rqih.com, or call +44(0) 20 7780 5960.

Plutus FX Foreign Exchange Company

Plutus FX is a London-based foreign exchange company, which specialises in currency conversion.  Whether sending or receiving foreign transfers, or exchanging travel money, Plutus FX offers better rates than high street banks or other traditional money providers.

At Plutus FX, we offer a ‘boutique’ style service, meaning your dedicated FX dealer will discuss your situation and tailor a solution to your specific foreign exchange requirements.

Our clients range from multinational companies transacting on a daily basis, to individuals who may only need to use us once a year.

Plutus FX is authorised by the Financial Services Authority and HMRC. We offer segregated client accounts and our management, compliance and dealing teams boast a long and successful track record in the global foreign exchange markets.

Applying these skills to your requirements means we can provide the most straightforward way to send or receive foreign payments and offer you significant savings.
We at Plutus FX are delighted to continue our partnership with the PCA and look forward to seeing many of you at the upcoming events.

To find out more about how we can save you money, visit us at www.plutusfx.com, email us on info@plutusfx.com or call Steve Marsh on +44 (0) 20 3178 3300.

The Cricketer

First published in 1921, The Cricketer is the world’s biggest-selling cricket magazine and a proud PCA 903 Club member.

Already delivering an ABC audited readership of 32,000, under the stewardship of new Publishing Director and former Nottinghamshire cricketer, Andy Afford,  the magazine is about to undergo an overhaul that will see the heritage title better reflect the game as this country's premier team sport and bring it in line with the modern newsstand. Stuart Broad is the cover star of the first new-look issue, out on 18 May 2012.

We currently have 188,000 unique visitors to our website per month, but with the newly re-launched site and the new in-play portal, covering all the daily action the moment it happens, we hope this will go even higher. At the centre of the new platform is a unique newsfeed widget which displays live posts from writers in the field, providing ‘in the moment’ insight, underpinned by live scores from every county match and England fixture.

And finally, The Cricketer now boasts its own online commentary channel. Broadcast from New Cavendish Street in central London, Test Match Sofa (www.testmatchsofa.com) provides live ball-by-ball coverage of all England matches, home and away, plus major domestic games. With an exciting summer of cricket ahead there will certainly be plenty to talk about.

Speak to The Cricketer’s commercial manager, Jim Hindson, about getting your business’ message across, via the newsstand, online, mobile and live on air.

For further information, please contact Jim at jim.hindson@thecricketer.com, or call 07866 241241, or on Twitter @thecricketermag.

City Golf Club is Ready for The Olympics

City Golf Club is a stunning venue just a short walk from Bank Tube and Moorgate Station.

With London set to take centre stage this summer, it is important to secure the best venue for all the events and hospitality you have planned.

Whether you’re planning to enjoy the Olympic Games, Euro 2012, Wimbledon or the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee – City Golf Club makes entertainment in the City easy.

All PCA 903 members can enjoy a special price of £70 +Vat for simulator hire during the Euro 2012.

For reservations, please contact Ally on 020 7796 5962, or email ally@citygolfclubs.com quoting ‘PCA’.