As a neighbour of Roy Mitchard, he became interested in Kings Langley Football Club and joined the committee of A F C Kings Langley (The Association Football Clubs of Kings
Langley) which was formed in January 1993 as an umbrella club for the Seniors and Juniors, dedicated to obtaining football grounds for both within the village.

Land had been identified at Peter Witt’s Rectory Farm, Hempstead Road, which was surveyed in February 1993, had plans for the pitches submitted in July and received planning approval in September.

By May 1994, the purchase of the ground had been completed and the clubhouse and pitches layout was being designed and drawn up for planning permission.

Graham Gaywood began pitch levelling in early 1995, planning approval for the clubhouse was granted in June and the National Lottery Council approved a grant of £33,000 towards the project. while the building work on the clubhouse started in January 1996. Costs had risen, due to a number of circumstances, including the need to raise the proposed ground levels due to services and The National Lottery were approached again and made a further grant of £46,000, taking the total grants from themselves, Dacorum Borough, Kings Langley Parish Council and the Football Association to just over £100,000.

A sum equating to roughly half that was the value of Graham Gaywood’s generous services and resources in providing pitch levelling and pavilion groundworks up to slab level, all for free. The remainder was raised by the club as the final cost for the project approached £180,000.

The finishing touches were added to the clubhouse and grounds and on 1 st March 1997, the club had no fixture and carried out an eight a side ‘match’ between firsts and reserves and on the following day the first competitive match was played at the new ground, provisionally named Rectory Park, when Kings Langley Youth F C took on Oxhey Jets in an Under 14 League match. County League games followed for the senior team over the next few weeks and for the 4-1 win over Bedmond Social in April, a crowd of close to three figures provided real atmosphere.

Then, on April 25 th, the club was shattered when Graham Gaywood passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, aged 67. That the man who had done more than any other to bring Kings Langley F C back to a home of its own in the village, saw so little of the realisation was a tragedy. The A F C Kings Langley committee immediately paid tribute by renaming the ground Gaywood Park and endeavored to prepare, somewhat sadly, for an August opening.

Graham was a big man, in both stature and character and was always ready to help anyone in the village community, even chauffeuring his yellow Rolls Royce for many a young local couple to and from their weddings.

An eccentric, he had a collection of five post WW2 aircraft on the banks of the Trout Lake and they were his pride and joy. Without his contribution to the history of the Club, it is not an exaggeration to say that we might not be here now.