An inter-estate football tournament for youths aged between 12 and 15 years old will be taking place during the schools’ half term break at the end of May.
Wyre Forest Community Housing's Neighbourhood Wardens have organised the sporting event in conjunction with Redditch YMCA, Barnardo’s and the ContinU Trust. The tournament will take place at Habberley Playing Fields next to Baxter College, Kidderminster, on Wednesday 1st June between 11am and 4pm.
The event will enable young people across the Wyre Forest to interact with each other and take part in physical activity. The day will also be used to promote communities coming together and encouraging responsible citizenship.
Positive sportsmanship will be encouraged throughout the event, including the promotion of football's equality and inclusion campaign, ‘Kick It Out’ and the anti-racism charity, ‘Show Racism the Red Card’.
Several professional football clubs, such as Birmingham City and Chelsea, have kindly donated signed photographs of top players that will be used as prizes for various competitions that will take place on the day.
The event has been supported by funds from AimHigher through the ContinU Trust’s ‘Opening Doors’ Programme. The programme arranges a variety of career advice and citizenship themed projects for young people in the local area.
Ray Brookes, Group Chief Executive of The Community Housing Group, who will be presenting the winning medals at the tournament said: “Events like these are a fantastic way of bringing communities together and promoting issues, such as citizenship, team work and tackling anti-social behaviour by providing positive alternatives”.
For further information about the event, please contact Debra Roberts, Neighbourhood Warden Supervisor on 01562 732325.
