Showing posts with label football. Show all posts
Showing posts with label football. Show all posts

Sunday 28 March 2021

FREE football sessions for boys and girls (Aged 9-13) with Queens Park Rangers (QPR) Football Club

 

FREE football sessions for boys and girls (Aged 9-13) with Queens Park Rangers (QPR) Football Club.
 
2pm - 4pm Every Saturday from 3-April
Ark Elvin Academy (Old Copland School)
Cecil Avenue, Wembley, HA9 7DU.
 
Everyone and all abilities welcome - Just turn-up and play!
 
(All sessions are Covid compliant as per Government and Middlesex Football Association guidelines)

Sunday 26 January 2020

QPR coaches deliver free Saturday football sessions for Brent youngsters at Ark Elvin


From Zaffar Van Kalwala

I’m organising free football sessions for Brent boys and girls aged 9-13 years old with Queens Park Rangers. 

Please could you also include the link below.

Really pleased to be organising  Free football sessions for children in Brent with Queens Park Rangers Football Club.

Please sign-up HERE - Open to all boys and girls aged 9-13 years old (regardless of ability) living in Brent.

Just turn-up and play!


Delivered by qualified QPR coaches, sessions will take place on 3G astroturf (children should wear appropriate footwear and clothing).

A big thank you to London Blues for supporting the project.

Sunday 17 September 2017

Monday 14 March 2016

Get involved in Yellow Pavilion one-off activities

The Yellow Pavilion is off Olympic Way
Here’s some ways to get involved in the Yellow Pavilion in the next few weeks. They are mostly one-off activities we’re looking for help with so your time commitment is limited. We offer a friendly welcome, a chance to meet local people and be part of your community and of course we’ll show you what to do.


Children needed to play football!


Do you have a 3-8 year old who’s into football? We’re looking to try out a possible new instructor.  and have a trial session to see if we like what they’re offering. It’s this Thursday 17th March from 5-5.45pm. Please let me know if you and your child or children (boy or girl of course) would like to take part. It’s and is free and indoors with a small ball.
  

Open Mic

Do you want to organise an Open Mic with musicians, maybe poets and other performers? We’ve some interest from performers and people to help and are looking for someone who can take a lead with help.


Help with arts and crafts workshops over the Easter holidays. For all of these we already have someone leading the activity and they’re looking for help:

 
Organise a local table tennis league

 
We’re looking for a volunteer or two to start a table tennis competition to find the best player in Wembley Park using our outdoor table. Skills needed are being well-organised, enjoy emailing and can use your email account for this and good with communicating. We can help with publicity of course.


Fixing electronics

We hope to run an event in May with volunteers helping people fix electronics such as monitors, smartphones or vacuum cleaners. If you have skills or an interest in this area let me know please.

To find out more about any of these please email or phone me.

Best wishes
Michael

Michael Stuart
Community Engagement Manager
Yellow Pavilion
0734 206 0976
http://wembleypark.com/news/yellow-pavilions-acitivities/yellowpavilion@wembleypark.com
Note: I usually work Monday - Thursday

Friday 7 November 2014

FA cap ticket sales for England Women's match at Wembley due to line closures


With ticket sales at 55,000 for England vs Germany on Sunday November 23rd the FA have stopped sales of tickets for what will be the highest attendance ever  for an England  women's football match in the UK, although more than 75,000 watched the Great Britain women's team during the 2012 Olympics.

The cap is a result of both the Metropolitan and Jubilee lines being closed on that weekend and their replacement by buses.

This normally results in confusion on normal weekends with tourists from Wembley's many hotels trying to lug multiple heavy suitcases on to the replacement buses.

Brent Council needs to ensure that TfL is publicising alternative public transport routes well ahead of the match.

One can't but think that the women's game fans are  getting second class treatment from TfL and the FA.

Thursday 11 September 2014

Rugby statue to be erected at Wembley Stadium to match Bobby Moore


Association football has Bobby Moore, so who will rugby have?   Brent Council has given planning permission for a  Rugby Football League statute to be erected at Wembley Stadium:


The application proposes the erection of a statue, to the north-eastern side of the outer stadium pedestrian concourse. This is a joint venture between Wembley National Stadium Limited (WNSL) and Rugby Football League (RFL).
The application seeks consent for a statue of a certain size at this stage. The detailed design is to be unveiled at a later date, though the submission does specify this to be a bronze statue place on a steel base, also that it is to be Rugby Football League themed and a tribute to the sport

The plinth would be 1.5m high and the statue itself 3.3m, making a total 4.8m from ground level. 

Sunday 20 October 2013

Copland own goal over football coach redundancy

Local press coverage some time ago
 'Fourth Official' writes a Guest Blog
Just 3 months after their ‘postponement’ (ie cancellation) of the school’s  long- planned annual Sports Day in July, the new management at Copland  are planning another spectacular sport-related own goal by proposing to sack  the school’s long-standing and widely-respected football coach Paul Lawrence, who has done so much for the school, for the development of boys’ and girls’ football  in north London generally, and even for the England national team in the shape of new 18 year old  star and ex-Copland student, Raheem Sterling, (coached from age 10 by Paul and  who recently joined Roy Hodgson’s squad in England’s successful qualifiers for next year’s  World Cup in Brazil).         
 This latest public relations disaster by Copland and Brent is likely to go national when Monday’s edition of the Independent carries the story of coach Lawrence’s inclusion in a list of 32 Copland mentors, caretakers, support staff and librarians who are the subjects of a redundancy ‘proposal’,  an axing of key support staff aimed at cutting the school’s debt in order to make Copland easier to flog off to some dodgy academy chain looking for a prime-site bargain. (The school’s debt dates from the recently-convicted Sir Alan Davies’s  ‘false accounting’ days.)
 The London Borough of Brent, whose ‘light touch’ approach to auditing and ostrich-like attitude to the nepotism and dodgy dealing in the school at the time contributed to the budgetary black hole, have always refused to cancel the debt or even to attempt to retrieve for the school the missing money, estimated at the time at up to £2million).         

 While the Copland management were drawing up their hit-list of who was to receive the early Christmas present of 32 red cards, Greg Dyke, now head of the Football Association, was announcing the setting up of a special Football Commission to try to find out what is wrong with football in this country; why we underachieve internationally; why top English clubs have to import foreign players,  and so on. 

With immaculate timing worthy of Theo Walcott at his best, Copland was simultaneously planning its own uniquely helpful answer to some of these questions; which is that, while at one end of the system the sports minister and the FA are spouting aspirational bromides about grass-roots, academies and excellence, at the other end, in the real world,  Brent’s  benighted bean-counting administrators, anxious to satisfy the demands of Gove’s ‘forced academy’ policy, fail to see the irony in casually sacking  a successful football coach who has made a huge contribution to community cohesion, let alone to the enjoyment of the ‘beautiful  game’ itself,  at a school situated  a few hundred yards from our national sport’s national home.        
  
 Meanwhile, Heather Rabbatts, now an FA director, on Saturday criticised Greg Dyke’s all-white Football Commission for its lack  of ethnic diversity. She said: ‘we are not only failing to reflect our national game but we are also letting down so many black and ethnic minority people - players, ex-players, coaches and volunteers, who have so much to offer and are so often discouraged and disheartened by the attitudes they encounter.’  Paul Lawrence could be forgiven for yelling ‘Tell me about it!’ when he read those words.      

Greg Dyke’s  reply to Ms Rabbatts  was this:  ‘The aim of the Commission  is to ensure that talented English kids, whatever their ethnicity or creed, are able to fulfil their potential to play at the highest level in English football, something which currently we are not sure is happening. We still want to see people with relevant experience from the BAME community on the Commission.’  

Well, the people of Brent might know one of those people you say you’re looking for, Greg. Time to call  Paul, maybe?  Perhaps the Commission would  appreciate his contributions more than a Wembley school’s management seem capable of doing. Perhaps Copland’s  loss could be English football’s gain.          

  But, of course, what Paul Lawrence would really like to do at the moment is to simply carry on doing what he’s done so successfully up to now: coaching Copland’s ordinary kids and its prospective England stars to fulfil their potential, so that they may  ‘have that true sense of self-worth which will enable them  to stand up for themselves and for a purpose greater than themselves, and, in doing so,  be of value to society.’          
                                                                                                     
 Just like it says in the ‘Welcome’ message on Copland Community School’s website, in fact.

Previous coverage of Raheem's connection with Copland and Wembley  LINK