Westbourne are proud to be sponsors of the following:

Folkestone Invicta Football Club

In July 2003 Invicta signed a new three year sponsorship deal with Westbourne Hygiene, the Shorncliffe based suppliers of cleaning solutions.

The deal involves shirt sponsorship, a high profile at the club, and the renaming of the Cheriton Road ground to the Westbourne Stadium.

Westbourne Managing Director Peter West told the Folkestone Herald "I've followed Folkestone Invicta's fortunes for many years and am delighted that we are gettng involved at what looks an exciting time for the club."

Roger Knight, when asked about the new sponsorship deal with Folkestone based Westbourne Hygiene said. "We're very excited about the new sponsorship arrangement. It is a three year package which has a substantial financial benefit to the club, quite the biggest sponsorship deal Invivcta have ever had. The Directors of Westbourne Hygiene have also shown incredible support and were infact the first to sign up for the eX52 club. Westbourne Hygiene are a very successful company employing local people and we at Invicta will be trying to match their success as we aim to bring Conference football to the town within the next five years."

Gerard Greene

Gerard Greene enjoyed the best season of his career in 2002/03 and the result was a leap of 25 places up the ranking list to No 38.

The Kent-based pro made an excellent start to the campaign by reaching the quarter-finals of the LG Cup at the Guild Hall in Preston. He knocked out the likes of Graeme Dott and Fergal O’Brien before being edged out 5-4 by Jimmy Michie – losing the last frame on the final pink.

Greene found another spell of fine form at the Palace Hotel in Torquay in March. He got through to the last 16 of the European Open, beating Jimmy White before losing 5-4 to John Higgins. The final qualifying round of the Embassy World Championship followed at the same venue and Greene scored an emphatic 10-3 defeat of Anthony Hamliton.

“I’m looking for a nice easy draw this time,” quipped the left-hander, who lost 10-2 to Higgins on his first visit to the Crucible in 1999. “Everybody wants to get to Sheffield, including myself, and that’s why it’s so hard to get there.

“I’m disappointed that I haven’t achieved more in my snooker career so far. My problem is that I’m too inconsistent. I follow a good year with a bad one.”

He did not get the easy draw he wanted at the World Championship, and went down 10-3 to defending champion Peter Ebdon.

Greene, whose parents come from Belfast, helped Northern Ireland to victories over the Republic of Ireland and England and a place in the semi-finals of the Coalite Nations Cup at the The Hexagon, Reading, in 2001.