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Pudsey Juniors
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| FOOTBALL LEGEND NORMAN HUNTER was
the star guest at Pudsey Juniors presentation Evening in June |
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Norman
Hunter presents Pudsey Chairman Ron Downs with the
Charter Standard Award
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The
ex. Leeds Utd and England hero was at the Pudsey Civic
Hall, not just to present the players with their trophies, but
also to present the club with their newly won FA Charter
Development Club Award |
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| Chairman
Ron Downs is rightly proud of the progress made since the
clubs formation in 1989 and talks enthusiastically of plans
for the future |
| "Pudsey
juniors are committed to providing junior football within the
local community. It is the intention of the club to develop
and grow from its existing solid foundation" |
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Pudsey Junior Football Club,
ironically, owes its existence to another sport. Late in
1989 Pudsey St Lawrence Cricket Club put out a rallying call for new
youngsters to join the club and the call was so loud that, not only
did they get more cricketers, but a football team was formed ! |
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Today, with over 300 members, Pudsey
Juniors now boasts some 12 boys teams and 4 girls teams ranging from
6 to 16 years of age making this club one of the largest in the West
Riding
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| The Club frankly
admits that the girls section was introduced through the
desire achieve Charter Development status, but it
immediately became obvious that the demand for Girls
football was higher than expected and plans are now in place
to develop both the Boys and Girls sections to give all
players a complete route through from junior to open age
football |
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Girls
Team Managers Mick Townley, David Walker, Mark
Sawyer and Andy Driffield line up with some of the
players
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| As a Development Club
Pudsey Juniors takes it's links with the local community seriously |
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With access to 22
linked primary schools in the Pudsey area together with five High
schools the club are able to provide a structured coaching
development programme which provides the correct environment for
junior football to develop within the community.
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Links, particularly
to Priesthorpe High School as a centre of Sports excellence,
provides inspiration to recruit and retain players, coaches and
officials.
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All Managers and Coaches within the
Club now hold Level one Coaching certificates and Two are further
trained to Level Two standard and dedicated officers of the Club
ensure that qualifications and the High standards achieved over the
recent years are maintained.
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Parents are actively encouraged to participate in the Club
in a variety of ways, and the Clubs written Constitution, Child
Protection Policy, and Codes of conduct are strictly adhered to from
Players, Spectators through to officials, organisers and coaches.
Pudsey have a recognised disciplinary committee tasked with dealing
with all aspects of Club Discipline.
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The Club is run on an amateur and voluntary basis with
monthly committee meetings. The Club enjoys a solid financial
position and supports a plethora of organised events including trips
to Holland and France representing the local community.
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Pudsey are presently based at The Parkville Suite
(formally known as Pudsey Sports and Social Club)
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