|
|
|
|
DISABILITY |
|
|
.jpg) |
|
|
|
Fairfield get
Cash Boost
|
|
|
|
Students at Fairfield
School are joined by Arnie Sidebottom and Football Development
Officer Andrew Shuttleworth for the launch of the new football club
|
|
|
| |
| FOOTBALLERS AT ONE OF YORKSHIRE'S LEADING
SPECIAL SCHOOLS, the Fairfield School in Heckmondwike are
celebrating a £10,000 grant from the Football Foundation, the
UK’s largest sports charity. |
| |
| The cash bonanza has given the school much needed
funding to set up a football club for students with severe and
profound learning needs. Eventually the school has plans
to help set up and play in a league for pupils with similar
needs. |
| |
| Former Manchester United footballer and England
cricketer Arnie Sidebottom was on hand to formerly launch the
scheme and joined in with the players in their lunchtime
football session organised by local coaches. |
|
|
|
|
|
Through close partnership working with the Football
Development Officers at West Riding County FA, Fairfield received
their Football Foundation grant and also became an FA Charter
Standard Special School. Karen Winton, School Sports
Coordinator at Fairfield School, has been the driving force behind
the schools recent success and said: “The grant has helped
us provide the students with new opportunities to play football.
We hope eventually the players will actually be able to compete in a
league, which would be a fantastic boost to everybody’s self
esteem and overall confidence.”
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Football Foundation is dedicated to revitalising
the grass roots game, constructing modern football facilities,
developing football as a force for social cohesion and as a vehicle
for education in communities throughout the country. Funded by the
Premier League, the Football Association, Sport England and the
Government, the Foundation is the nation’s largest sports charity,
having already funded 1,300 projects worth over £300 million. |
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Lee, Chief Executive of the Football Foundation
welcomed this latest funding boost in West Yorkshire: |
|
|
“We warmly congratulate the club for their hard work
and dedication in securing this award. Grass roots football is the
lifeblood of the game in this country which is why it is vital that
projects such as this now have the benefit of Foundation cash.” |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|