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Social Action Star Of The Year Award: Team Welly Wagners Needs Your Vote

A local group of young people known as Team Welly Wagners from Rotherham United Community Sports Trust are hoping to be crowned NCS Social Action Stars of the year after being named regional finalists in the prestigious award presented by Santander. The 17-strong team of young people from Rotherham beat hundreds of NCS youth social […]

Social Action Star of The Year Award: Pathfields SGT Needs Your Vote

ARGYLE Community Trust has been shortlisted for a Social Action Star of the Year Award in the National Citizen Service (NCS) 2016 ceremony. The awards are staged to recognise and celebrate the hard work and achievements young people have made through their time on NCS, with Argyle Community Trust’s specification nomination focussing on a project […]

Changing Lives: Bradford’s Short Breaks Project

The EFL Trust’s aspirations of using the ‘Power of Football’ to change lives and create a legacy, has been represented through a fantastic project run by Bradford’s Disability Football Club (BDFC). The disability club formed in 2002, provides access to football for anyone of any age, both male and female, with any disability whether it is learning or […]

Swindon Town fan shreds nearly half his body weight

A boyhood Swindon Town supporter has lost nearly eight stone in two years through Swindon Town Community Trust’s Football Fans In Training (FFIT) programme. Shaun Ferguson, who has supported Swindon Town for more than 41 years, has not looked back since signing up to the club’s FFIT programme in January 2014 and says after getting married, it is the most amazing thing […]

Pompey set to host Sporting Memories game

Pompey fans are being asked to celebrate the history and heritage of the club and raise awareness of dementia, ahead of kick off during Portsmouth v Leyton Orient on Saturday, by recalling their memories of Pompey using #PompeyVoices. Saturday’s fixture at Fratton Park is, in partnership with Portsmouth in the Community, The Sporting Memories Foundation, and […]

Girls enjoy an action packed day with Wigan Athletic

As a prize for winning Wigan Athletic’s  Girls Cup competition, year eight pupils from Golborne High School visited the club’s training ground on Tuesday to meet the first team players and enjoyed a training session with Latics academy coach Jay Cochrane at Wigan Youth Zone. The pupils will represent Wigan Athletic at the Area Finals of the Kinder + Sport EFL Girls Cup tomorrow, […]

Fitter Fans programme a huge success in Bolton

Fitter Fans, aimed at getting those aged 50+ more active and healthy as well as enjoying the additional benefits of taking part in sport has proven very popular with the older generation of Bolton. The programme, run by Bolton Wanderers Community Trust takes place at the Macron Stadium weekly and offers a variety of light physical activities […]

Derby fan lost 6 stone through Active Supporters programme

Derby County fan Stephen Roper lost more than six stone in a year thanks to the Derby County Community Trust’s Active Supporters programme. Stephen said he ‘’lost control’’ and piled on the weight after a series of ‘’life-changing events’’. He lost six stone, two pounds in one year under the scheme and says he has […]

Rob Green on the perfect degree for football supporters

Leeds United goalkeeper Rob Green believes the BA Hons Business Management (Sports and Football) Degree is the perfect qualification for football supporters. The former England international is currently studying to gain the degree through the Open University and the course uses case studies and examples from the football industry to help apply theory to real […]