Peacehaven & Telscombe are a fan owned Step 5 non league Community Football Club currently in the Southern Combination Footba ... ll League. In January 2016 with the club at its lowest ebb, popular chairman Brian Suckling lost his fight with cancer and passed away. Deputy chairman Sue Norwood became acting chairman but had a mountain to climb. Debts were still piling up and the playing budget was again slashed. Manager Colbran, who commendably stuck to his unenviable task could not prevent the club's second relegation in two seasons. Something big and bold had to be done to save Peacehaven & Telscombe FC. In May 2016 the club launched its campaign to become a fan-owned club. It had six weeks to raise £35,000, the minimum requirement to become a community football club. By the June 30 deadline more than £40,000 had been raised. And the icing on the cake was when global betting giant Unibet came on board as club sponsor. A new manager was appointed, local man Mark Shutt. He set about building a squad of players with a nil playing budget, but recruiting players who wanted to play for the shirt and not money. The club is now on its way to becoming solvent. A committed board is in place and all of the club's youth sections have now been joined together to ensure a positive future. At the end of season 2016/17 Peacehaven & Telscombe finished in a respectable 14th place in the Southern Combination league with 48 points from 38 games played. The objective in its first season as a community owned club had been achieved and the slide had been halted. Off the field the club paid off a significant chunk of its debt and by April 2018 will be debt free. It also announced that for the 2017/18 it would be fielding an under 18 and under 21 sides which means each week 20 youth and men's teams will be fielded by the club. read more