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Patrons: ; ; ; ; ; ; Earl Barrett; Warren Barton; ; Brendon Batson; Gary Bennett; John Beresford; Graham Branch; Craig Brown; ; ; ; ; ; Eugene Dadi; Jason De Vos; ; Paul Elliot; ; ; ; ; Alain Goma; John Hendrie; ; ; Gerard Houllier; ; ; Andrew Impey; ; David Kelly; ; ; ; Lomana Lua Lua; Brian McClair; ; David O'Leary; Martin O'Neill; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Sir ; ; ; Jim Smith; ; ; Stan Ternent; ; ; Danny Wilson. Scottish Patrons: ; Craig Beattie; ; ; Craig Brown; Richie Byrne; Mo Camara; Jason de Vos; Xander Diamond; ; Paul Elliott; Derek Ferguson; ; ; Michael Hart; ; Colin Hendry; Tony Higgins; Jim Jefferies; ; ; ; David Marshall; Gordon Marshall; Jamie McAllister; Stuart McCaffrey; Derek McIness; Alex McLeish Jackie McNamara (Sr.); Tony Mowbary; ; Hamed Namouchi; ; ; Barry Nicholson; Colin Nish; Phil O'Donnell; Martin O'Neill; ; ; Mark Reynolds; Colin Samuei; ; Jason Scotland; Gary Smith; Jamie Smith; Walter Smith; Michael Stewart; Andy Walker; ; . Endorsements: "Here at Wanderers FC we have a team of players which includes 18 different nationalities and has a mixture of ages, colours, religions and beliefs. However, we all work together with the same aim, and that is to win games of football. We oppose any form of discrimination here and fully support all efforts made to stop it, not just for a 12 day period but all through the year." Sam Allardyce, Bolton Wanderers FC. "As an Honorary Patron and one of the first people to get involved on the footballing side of Show Racism the Red Card, I am amazed at how the organisation has gone from strength to strength in the ten years since its birth. In those days it literally was 'one man and his dog' working away to get the message across, unlike today where we have not only an Honorary Patrons list reading like a Who's Who of the footballing world, but also Premiership and Football League players and ex-pro's giving up their valuable time for this worthwhile cause. Going into schools to educate youngsters on changing racist attitudes gives us much satisfaction and in the privileged world we live in it helps us to give something back. Show Racism the Red Card has done as much for changing attitude as the government in this country - that in itself is a tribute. Well done to Ged Grebby and his hard working staff - and here's to another 10 years!" Chris Kamara, SRTRC Honorary Patron.

Contents

Contact details page 1 Report by Paul Kearns,

UK Office Manager page 30

Intro: Shaka Hislop page 4 PART 2:

Events page 32

Report by Ged Grebby PART 3:

Project Coordinator page 6

Campaign work in Wales page 14

Sales & resources report page 18

Education Scheme page 22

Introduction

I have finally come to the end of my footballing career here in . A statement I make with some sadness and very little regret. It’s a career that lasted some 14 years, 4 clubs, great friends and even better memories. Even now as I sit in the quiet of my room here in the States my mind very rarely drifts to my footballing exploits, not so much to what I have achieved or what might have been, but to the life long friends and accomplishments that I can call my own. There are team-mates, fans and staff at Reading FC, just as at Newcastle, and Portsmouth, that I proudly regard as lifelong friends…but my mind keeps drifting to SRTRC and what we’ve managed to accomplish over the years.

I think back to those early days of travelling the North-East with my good friends Warren Barton and John Beresford, and smile as I then consider SRTRC’s presence in Germany for the World Cup conversation with Ben, one of our volunteers with an extensive and highly successful poster working with me for the very first time, where he tells campaign, and a new-look magazine on the shelves me that after a particularly enjoyable evening in East of thousands of school libraries across the country. he feels he may have stumbled upon his My smile beams with pride. It’s a pride that words calling- he’s sure he wants to be a teacher and work dare not express, but many people will understand with kids. It’s days like these, it’s the thousands of and are very much a part-of. Not only the hundreds curious minds, it’s the moments when kids realise of footballers who are now an integral part of the that they too can make a difference that makes it all campaign, but also the countless volunteers who worthwhile. The days I’ll never forget. give of their time willingly, and thousands of kids who proudly show off their ‘Red Cards’. So after 14 years of playing the game I love there are hundreds of games we could talk about. But after Long after the game has passed me by, long after just over 10 years with SRTRC my proudest the hurt of that goal (sorry I had to achievements are on the pages to follow…I hope you put that in!) has faded I will remember my enjoy them as much as I have… Shaka Hislop.

Pictured above: Shaka Hislop recieving the PFA Special Merit Award, photo reproduced by the Players’ Club by

kind permission of the Professional Footballers’ Association.

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Endorsements: "It is testimony to the commitment and drive of all the staff at SRTRC that so much excellent work has been achieved in the past 10 years. I have no doubt that the scope and diversity of the work undertaken has had a positive impact on affecting racist attitudes. Good luck for the next 10 years". Brendon Batson, SRTRC Honorary Patron. “I would like to congratulate Show Racism the Red Card for the achievements of the past ten years. I am glad that players and coaches have been so wholeheartedly behind the campaign, and been able to make a difference. There has been a marked change in behaviour at football games, and where once racist abuse and chanting was commonplace, it is now almost non-existent. The racists have nowhere to hide, and have been forced to confront their actions and attitudes. Fans who once stood by and did nothing, will now make it clear that this kind of behaviour is unacceptable. SRTRC is a shining example of what can be achieved, and and elsewhere is all the better for their efforts. Their work is not finished yet, and a new generation of children will benefit from their educational campaigns, but I think that football can be proud of this progress. Best wishes”. Walter Smith, Scotland National Team Manager. "It is great to see SRTRC go from strength to strength. In these days of real challenge for those of us who really believe in a multi cultural society, Red Card’s genuine grass roots work is an example which many could follow". Dave Anderson MP, Blaydon Constituency. "The National Union of Journalists 100 per cent supports Show Racism the Red Card. There is no place for racism in football, just as there must be no room for it in the rest of society. But with the prominence that football assumes in our national (and international) life, we should be especially concerned that the ugly pollution of racism does not infect the minds of the young. Football stadiums are also a workplace for many NUJ members and as such our members should not have to put up with being presented such attitudes in the course of their work. Red Card has achieved so much over the years in helping to purge intimidating racist atmospheres from matches. Yet there is still more to do and we wish the campaign's future efforts well". Chris Morley, NUJ President. “UNISON is proud to continue its support for Show Racism the Red Card. Only through teamwork, unity and education can we build a society free from racism and xenophobia. Ignorance of the issues is the real enemy and the campaign remains at the forefront of anti-racist education”. Dave Prentis, UNISON, General Secretary. "The FA has been a long-term supporter of Show Racism The Red Card and recognise the value of the work they do. It also complements our own efforts to address racism and other inappropriate behaviour, both on-and off- the-field. It is a credit to SRTRC that they have made such inroads over the last10 years in tackling this issue and we wish them continued success in the future with their campaign." Simon Johnson, Director of Corporate Affairs, . show racism the red card annual review 2006 5

Report from UK Project Coordinator Ged Grebby

we are undertaking has grown to such an extent that we are unable to cover all aspects of the work in this Annual Review without it looking like an encyclopaedia.

Whilst our organisation has grown and the impact we have made has been greater; the need for our resources and campaigning is also on the increase. Racism has been on the increase in the UK and we are trying to address some of the key growth areas: Islamophobia being the main one. Our main Show Racism the Red Card video was updated in October 2005 and we were privileged that Frederic Kanoute was able to share some of his experiences as a Muslim playing in top-flight football. The DVD has proven to be extremely popular and has been a great addition to our resources. The fact that every school in Scotland (3,500) has a copy of our Scottish video and every school in Wales (2,000) has a copy of our DVD, has been a huge achievement for our organisation. Demand for all of our resources remains high, Introduction reflecting their accessibility and popularity.

Since our last Annual Review was printed in July One of the reasons we did not produce an Annual 2005 we have been through an extremely busy period Review in 2006 was due to the fact that we wanted to for our organisation. Back then we had a staff team of 5 put our limited resources into printing England World workers in the North East and 2 in Scotland; now we Cup posters and producing a high quality magazine. have grown to 6 workers in the North East of England, 3 In the end we printed and distributed 300,000 England in Scotland and one in Wales. In addition we have been posters in 2006, bringing our total number of posters working with five ex-professional footballers in and magazines distributed in one year to over one Scotland, who are helping us to deliver anti-racist million. The new magazine was twice the size of education and football training. The scope of the work previous magazines at 64 pages and this allowed us to

Pictured above: Ged Grebby, UK Project Coordinator photo reproduced by kind permission of NDS

Photography.

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cover more issues and interviews than ever before. It 2006 saw our 10th anniversary and we celebrated it has proven to be a great asset to our public work in style at the Hilton in Newcastle, thanks to the and profile. financial support of Coutts Bank. One hundred and seventy five guests joined us to mark the occasion and We have expanded our direct schools work in the last it was a great way of saying THANK YOU to all the 18 months and this has given us a great bonus to our organisations and individuals who have made our educational work. The campaign harnesses the high campaign so successful. profile of professional footballers to combat racism in society, but it is not just the current footballers that are Although we are continually striving to improve on role models to young people. The ex-players we work what we do, we also need to restate that our original with are able to have a great impact and the football “Big Idea” in December 1995 to “use our contacts in training has been a great way of making our campaign professional football to produce anti-racist materials an exciting addition to the school curriculum wherever directly accessible to young people”, remains the key to we have been. The direct work in schools also allows us our organisation’s development today. In the last ten to assess how good our resources are and what years the status of professional footballers as role improvements and additional resources are required. models has if anything increased.

All of the above advances in our work have been My thanks go to all the staff, management made possible thanks to an increase in funding and we committee, Scottish and Welsh advisory committees now have more sponsors than ever before. See the back and volunteers who have been the driving force of page for details of our major sponsors. making this a successful year for our charity.

Pictured above: Charlie Hardwick and Kevin Miles at SRTRC's 10th anniversary held at The Hilton Hotel,

Newcastle upon Tyne, photo reproduced by kind permission of NDS.

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Summary of our main areas of work: d) Websites and downloadable resources

Development of anti-racist educational resources. Tommy Breslin has been working on improving our website and set up a new Scottish website. The a) DVD websites are the easiest way to update our resources and we are looking at ways to improve them. For The DVD has been a great addition to our resources example, Zoobia Aslam has been working on having on it not only our main video, but also two of downloadable anti-racist worksheets. The idea of our previous videos. The DVD has also allowed us to these worksheets is to challenge growing forms of display some of the winning videos from the school racism and we have developed three to start with: competition and the animations from the young • Islamophobia prizewinners have become a feature of our public • Racism towards travellers events. The main video from our DVD has been shown • Migrant workers from Eastern Europe. several times on the Community Channel. e) Guides on how to work with the Show Racism b) A Safe Place the Red Card campaign and their resources

The A Safe Place video, which combats racist myths We have also been working on best practice guides, against asylum seekers, has proven to be an designed to increase the number of organisations invaluable addition to our resources. The “Coaching working with our campaign and improve the way we with a Conscience” scheme in Scotland is built around work with other bodies. Sarah Soyei has produced a using this video, and the report by Gerry Britton guide for councils and a separate guide for football shows that this video has been a great way of turning clubs. The aim is to increase the number of negative attitudes towards asylum seekers around. partnership councils and football clubs working with Of the children who took part in the workshop and our charity over the next five years. football training, 92% felt that their awareness of issues relating to racism had been increased through their involvement. The A Safe Place video has been shown on Teachers TV a number of times.

c) Scottish video

In Scotland we have also produced a Scottish version of the main video with a Scottish education pack. Thanks to the Scottish Executive this resource was sent to every school in Scotland.

Pictured above: Sarah Soyei at the launch of launch of our SRTRC publication ‘A Guide for Councils’ photograph reproduced by kind permission of NDS.

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Scotland Zoobia Aslam the Campaign Worker. In July however we suffered a setback when Roddy McNulty left our The organisation in Scotland has gone from staff. The development of our campaign in Scotland strength to strength with the help of our Scottish owes a lot both Roddy and Imran Alam and we thank Advisory Committee and the Scottish Executive. The them both and wish them all the best in their Scottish Advisory Committee is made up of respective careers. representatives from the Scottish Football Association (SFA), the Education Institute of Scotland (EIS) and As you can see from the detailed reports of the work Unison and the Scottish Professional Footballers in Scotland in this Annual Review, both Zoobia and Association. Tommy have done an outstanding job holding our organisation together along with Gerry Britton. For The Scottish Executive has increased our funding example, during the Fortnight of Action (17th-30th of year on year and backed our Business Plan 2006-9 to October) this year the number of actions taking place the tune of £275,000. They have also been extremely actually increased to over 300. flexible with our organisation and allowed us extra funding when initiatives have presented themselves The other highlight of the Show Racism the Red like for example the Coaching with a Conscience. Card calendar is our annual prize giving ceremony organised by the EIS at Hampden and this year was Thanks to this funding we were able to increase our again exceptional. staff by taking two further full-time members of staff in Finally, in December we were able to announce our June 2006: Tommy Breslin the Admin Worker and new Scottish Coordinator: Billy Singh.

Pictured above: City of Council partnership launch with Gerry Britton of the Scottish Professional

Footballers Association and SPL players Jose Goncalves, Andy Driver and Michael Stewart. show racism the red card annual review 2006 9

We are currently working on a three-year business plan for Wales and hope to see a real transformation of our work in this country.

My thanks go to all the WAC members for their time and support and in particular Dawn Hayes the secretary and Unison her trade union.

The School Competition

The Schools Competition is a great way of engaging young people in our campaign and the work produced by the young people (posters, poetry, short stories, videos, songs, etc.) has been a fantastic addition to our resources. The Football Clubs again gave us great prizes for the competition in 2006 and we had a great turnout of players to hand over the prizes including for the third year in a row .

Wales We have secured funding for the competition from the Hilton Foundation, the National Union of The Welsh Advisory Committee (WAC) has been Teachers, the EIS and the Scottish Executive and the running well throughout 2006 and we have secured competition is a major priority for our campaign. We funding from all the major partners in Wales: The will again be having the Scottish Prize giving ceremony Football Association of Wales (FAW); the Sports at Hampden and are aiming to have our first ever prize Council for Wales; the Welsh Assembly and Unison. giving ceremony in Wales at the . The FAW Trust have also provided us with office space and admin support for our new Coordinator for Wales The winning entries will also be made into display Sunil Patel. stands, which will tour libraries, schools, football clubs and other public venues in 2007. These stands have Sunil started with us in October 2006 and has hit proven to be very popular in Scotland and we will now the ground running organising a whole series of be producing around 50 stands with this year’s events and initiatives. As you can see from Sunil’s winning work. report we are now running the schools competition Wales with the support of the Welsh Assembly, who paid for every school in the country to get our DVD and education pack.

Pictured above: Thierry Henry at our SRTRC prize giving ceromony.

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Events at Football Clubs and Posters The events at Football Clubs with the players present remain one of the highlights of our campaign Another priority for 2007 is to increase the number and as you can see from the Events reports, we held 24 of Football Clubs working with our campaign. The of these in 2006. The impact of these events both in posters of first team squads holding up our red cards terms of the press and publicity they receive and the have proven very popular over the years and since 1997 direct impact on the people who attend has been we have printed and distributed over 6 million posters. fantastic and we aim to increase the number of events These posters advertise our educational resources, in 2007. schools competition and website. Groups in several other European countries have also taken up this idea North East schools work from us, as it is a simple way of getting the Football Clubs and players to support an anti-racist message. The direct work in schools in the North East of This year we have produced posters with a number of England has now been running since June 2004 and new clubs including: Plymouth Argyle, Colchester has made a major impact. In this time we have run United and Dagenham and Redbridge FC and we aim sessions with 13,407 pupils. These pupils have to build on this in 2007/8. received both football training from Gary Bennett and anti-racist education from Kieron Brady and Gary.

As detailed in our last Annual Review we had two partnership councils funding this work: and South Tyneside; but this has now increased with Council becoming the third partner in this work.

The development of this work has allowed us to increase our contacts with a whole range of organisations in the region and consequently improve the way we operate as an organisation.

In August 2006 we held our first ever Community Day event, organised in conjunction with Walker Football Club. “Walker United” was in response to a rise of racism against asylum seekers in this part of Newcastle and was a great success with over 2,000 people attending during the day. We are looking to use this model to see if we can run similar events with community football clubs in 2007.

Pictured above: young fans attending a SRTRC event at St. James Park photo reproduced by kind permission 0f

NDS & Lee Dobson Photography.

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Partnership Councils that make up these committees have also been great in delivering either funding or funding in kind. One of the key aspects of our educational work is making links with Councils. In Scotland and the North We also have a partnership agreement with East of England we have a number of excellent Newcastle City Council to harness the skills of their partnerships with Councils where we are working design team. We would like to thanks: Judith Hinitt, closely to deliver the best service that we can. Through Pat Dale, Paul Burgess, Lee Dobson and Margaret using our guide for Councils we aim to increase the Baird at Newcastle City Council. number of partnership councils in 2007. We have also managed to build up a team of Volunteers and Secondees entertainers who are volunteers and include: Elliot Joseph our poet in Residence; Richard Braithwaite Volunteers remain very important to our campaign who demonstrates football skills; Ian Solomon and and they are involved at every level of our organisation his rappers from the Nu-Mcs. from the management committee to our schools work. We have had too many volunteers to thank Conclusions them all individually, but they have been a great asset to our work, allowing us to reach a far greater 2006 was a good year for our organisation and we audience than our staffing alone would allow. are now on a far stronger footing in terms of staffing and finance at the start of 2007. We aim to increase In Scotland and Wales the work has developed on a both the quality of our educational resources and our sound footing thanks to the Advisory Committees and impact geographically this year. the invaluable time and support the individual members have put into the work. The organisations

Pictured above: Richard Braithwaite performs his Silky Skills at our ’Walker United’ event. Photograph reproduced by kind permission of NDS.

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Endorsements: “Racism has no place in football so it is great to see football leading the way in helping to rid it from society. Show Racism the Red Card has helped to do this very effectively over the last ten years and I am delighted the Football Foundation supports that work. Professional players and clubs that are engaged in the scheme deserve credit for giving up their time to such an important cause.” Sir David Richards, Chairman of the Football Foundation. "The CWU are extremely pleased to offer its support to the 'Show Racism the Red Card' campaign. Their work is of exceptional value to society and the schools initiative is to be highly commended. Keep up the good work.” Billy Hayes, CWU, General Secretary. “ United are delighted to be included in this review and confirm our continued support for Show Racism the Red Card. The Blades applaud the work of the initiative and wish it continuing success in changing racist attitudes in our great game. It provides the conscience and prompting needed to ensure that we in football don't forget our responsibilities with regard to social change.” Andy Pack, Sheffield United FC. “Over the past decade Show Racism the Red Card has had a huge impact on changing racist attitudes. Having been involved, initially in Scotland, and latterly south of the border, I can confirm that the work of Project Coordinator, Ged Grebby, and the many illustrious Honorary Patrons has had considerable impact. Surely long before the end of the next 10 years there will be no need for a continuation of the Project!” Craig Brown, SRTRC Honorary Patron. “Coventry City Council has been delighted to support 'Show Racism the Red Card' through sponsorship of posters featuring both Coventry City Football Club and also the England team during the World Cup. Coventry has a wonderfully diverse population with a range of cultures and experiences, and we are proud to support 'Show Racism the Red Card’ as part of our commitment to challenging racism and promoting good relations between people of different ethnic groups in Coventry.” Jaspal Mann, Coventry City Council. “Everybody at United would like to congratulate you on the 10th Anniversary of Show Racism the Red Card, and wish you all continued success in your great work.” Jim Smith, SRTRC Honorary Patron. “UNITED for Intercultural Action admires and supports the work done by 'Show Racism the Red Card' to respond to the difficult situation of racism in football and to promote the values of multiculturalism and minority rights through football and its personalities. The work of 'Show Racism the Red Card' has been presented at UNITED international conferences and very much appreciated by the other participating organisations from all over Europe.” UNITED for Intercultural Action. "Show Racism the Red Card" has made a real difference in the last 10 years in genuinely changing attitudes and challenging racism. Can I offer on behalf of my constituents a sincere thanks for your decade of achievement.” Fraser Kemp MP. show racism the red card annual review 2006 13

Campaign work in Wales Report by Sunil Patel, Wales Coordinator

Since becoming the Co-ordinator for Wales in October 2006, our work in Wales has seen great support from various groups, organisations and from the people of Wales. I am proud to be part of the campaign and look forward to developing the work throughout Wales in the year ahead.

With the support I have received from our Wales Advisory Committee, the campaign in Wales has made great strides in the past few months and will continue to gather momentum in the coming months ahead.

We have produced posters with the 3 Welsh football teams playing in the English leagues and printed 20,000 posters between them. The posters have started to be distributed free to the people of Wales and the clubs have distributed them directly to their supporters carrying our anti-racist message.

In conjunction with the Football Association of Wales, our campaign will also be working with the clubs from the Welsh arranging events around the grounds. We will also be working with grassroots football organisations in Wales and BME organisations with the aim of reaching all areas of the game.

Pictured above: FC players from left to right: Matt Crowell, Lee Roche, Shaun Pejic pictured here with

Sunil Patel, Wales Coordinator. Photograph reproduced by kind permission of Wrexham Football Club.

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The campaign also recognises the importance of Website other sports in Wales such as Rugby and will be producing posters with Welsh Rugby clubs in the The website gets updated regularly with the months ahead, we will also look to work with other campaign in Wales and our supporters are kept aware areas such as Women’s football. of the developments on a regular basis.

Events Working with other groups

My first SRTRC anti-racism event was at City There has been great interest from other groups in which was attended by school children from 2 local Wales and we will be looking to build relationships that schools. It was great to see children at such a young will enable us to promote our anti-racism message age quiz the players with testing questions on their through a variety of ways. An example was when I was experiences of racism and then listening to the approached by a student at one of the top Universities answers with interest. The events are an integral part in the UK who wanted to promote our message of our work and we will be holding regular events with through the University Football teams, we arranged an clubs around Wales in the year ahead. event prior to kick off and an article was published in the student paper that got distributed free to over Schools Competition 2007 23,000 students.

Our annual schools competition will be the most successful yet with the backing we have had in Wales from the Education Minister, Jane Davidson. The National Assembly have helped promote the competition in Wales by sending out our DVD and Education pack to nearly 2000 school throughout Wales.

Our launch of the competition was held at the National Assembly for Wales in December ’06, it highlighted the backing we are getting from organisations in Wales which included the teaching unions, sporting authorities and Local Councils. The launch was also attended by Wales International Rugby players from Cardiff Blues Rugby club and showed our commitment to work with other areas in sport.

Pictured above: Wales International footballers: Jason Brown, Steve Evans, Lewin Nyatanga and photograph reproduced by kind permission of the Football Association of Wales.

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The way ahead Joint events with other organisations.

The campaign in Wales has a long way to go in I am looking forward to the year ahead and with the reaching its goal, but it will continue to grow in the backing and support from the people of Wales, to times ahead. We will be looking to form and build make a positive impact through our campaign. partnerships with organisations around Wales, in particular the Football Clubs, Local Councils, Sporting Authorities and the National Assembly for Wales. We will be looking for support that will enable the campaign to make an impact in Wales long term.

The coming year will see: -

• More schools than ever enter our schools competition.

• Regular events held at clubs throughout Wales.

• Campaign work with grassroots football organisations.

• Other areas in sport being covered by the campaign.

• More activities than ever in Wales during the FARE (Fortnight of Action).

Pictured above left: Richard Braithwaite with young people practicing silky skills. Above right Earl Barrett and

Frank Sinclair with young supporters. Photograph reproduced by kind permission of the Bury Times

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Endorsements: "It is very pleasing to see the campaign going from strength to strength and to be involved in developments here in Wales. In today's world it is more important than ever to tackle the evils of racism and build understanding and tolerance between people from different backgrounds". John Griffiths. “The Football Association of Wales has been pleased to support Show Racism the Red Card to extend their excellent work into the Principality, which will culminate with the appointment of as Project Worker for Wales in the near future. The enthusiasm and commitment of those involved in SRTRC is outstanding and the progress made in eradicating racism and other forms of discrimination in football is due to significantly to the organisations initiatives that have gained the admiration of those involved in football in the . The FAW looks forward to supporting SRTRC in future to ensure the continued success of this vital work.” John Deakin, The Football Association of Wales. "UNISON Cymru/Wales is proud to be associated with Show Racism the Red Card. We know only too well, because of problems we deal with in the workplace, that tackling racism is a vitally important area of work. What better way to start than by addressing the issue directly with children at a very early age - and what better way to do that than to use their footballing heroes as role models to get the message across. Congratulations to Show Racism celebrating your 10th anniversary." Dawn Hayes, Senior Regional Officer, UNISON, Wales. "I am pleased that the "Show Racism the Red Card" organised schools competition is coming to Wales. The competition is a great way to demonstrate that there is no place for racism in football and that racism will not be tolerated on or off the pitch. The Welsh Assembly Government is committed to tackling the issue of racism and to promoting an anti racist message to all areas of society." Alan Pugh, The Culture and Sports Minister. "It is important that children are made aware of the anti-racism message as early as possible and our work helps to promote this message in an enjoyable and influential way, it's great to have the full backing from all areas of our society and I look forward to taking the campaign to all parts of Wales". Sunil Patel, Wales Co-ordinator. “In January 2006 two hundred Newcastle University Secondary PGCE students attended the "Learning in the Diverse City" conference at St James' Park. Show Racism the Red Card were instrumental in the planning of the day and leading sessions. The delegate student teachers benefited from the inspiration, knowledge and skills of all involved. The day was a huge success, and participants left feeling more confident that they could deal with racism and prejudice in the schools they will work in, promote equal opportunities and celebrate the diversity of multi-cultural Britain. We would like to thank SRTRC for their significant contribution to the event.” Rachel Lofthouse, DPD M.Ed Practitioner Enquiry, School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University. show racism the red card annual review 2006 17

Sales and Resources Report April 2005-March 2006 Report by Gavin Sutherland, Campaign Worker for England

It has been another successful financial year sales- wise for the organisation. During the period April 2005-March 2006, Show Racism the Red Card’s North-East office received a total of 837 orders for resources. 253 of these orders have been for multiple resources, either multiple copies of a particular resource or offer (such as the 200 magazines offer), or for a combination of our resources. Through direct sales of our resources we have generated an income of £94,449.52

We handle hundreds of requests each year for information, free materials or assistance with external events. SRTRC have always tried, wherever possible, to provide free materials for distribution on stalls, at other organisations events and to those who contact us for information about the campaign, whether for a school or college project, interest in being a volunteer During this period, Show Racism the Red Card has or simply curiosity. The distribution of free materials developed structurally and expanded its range of is a great way to involve people in the campaign and resources. The organisation has continued to be publicise our other, saleable, resources. fortunate enough to receive much publicity, due to the work undertaken and events held, using professional The chart above shows the numbers of resources footballers to promote our message. There is no distributed from the North East Office over this doubt that this high media profile constantly period. Some items are shown in batches of 100 in motivates people to find out about Show Racism the order for all figures to be represented on the Red Card, its resources and activities. The North-East same graph. office has continued to manage a high volume of orders and enquiries, distribution of free resources and participation in, or providing materials for, other organisations events

Pictured above winning artwork from our 2006 Schools Competition by Nina Haveron and Emily Pollock.

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Posters

The posters for the 2005-06 season were extremely popular, as we can see from the distribution figures. In England and Wales, we printed 360,000 posters with 40 different football teams, 3 rugby teams and the Newcastle Eagles basketball team.

So far, during the 2005-06 season we produced posters with 36 teams in England, as well as two Rugby teams and the Newcastle Eagles basketball team. In total so far this season we have printed

325,000 posters and have absorbed the cost of production through the sponsorship of posters from organisations.

Pictured above: from the left to right John Beresford and signing the new season’s football

posters photograph reproduced by kind permission of NDS and Lee Dobson Photography.

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organised at Charlton Athletic FC and Newcastle Civic Centre for the winners in the South and North of England respectively. Winners again received framed certificates, signed shirts and balls, match tickets and Show Racism the Red Card goody-bags. My thanks to the Football clubs who donated prizes, all who took part, the teachers who organised participation in their school, and those at the partnership councils, Charlton Athletic FC and Newcastle City Council who helped to organise the competition in their areas and make such memorable Prize-giving events. Reports on these events are available in the Event Reports section of this Review.

The organisation for the schools competition 2007 has gone extremely well so far. Schools are currently Competition 2006 registering with us for this and as the Project Worker role has changed to that of Campaign Worker, now The competition in England and Wales was not responsible for Event Organisation, the School promoted as extensively this year. This was because Competition and posters only, since October 2006. I we did not have the people-power to run a have been able to devote more time to the competition of the size of last year’s without other competition and aim to have school participation up areas of our work suffering. The competition was to 2005 levels by the end of registration in February. It promoted on our website, however a flyer advertising is our aim to have organised a prize giving ceremony it was not produced and enquiries about the in early May at a Nationally renowned venue. competition from formerly participating schools were referred to the website. Thanks This said, we had some great entries submitted I would like to thank the following people for all and retained interest from many schools who had their efforts during 2005 and 2006, making my work taken part before. We have also managed to forge in the office easier: links and strengthen existing ties to partnership councils, who have run a local level competition in Imran Alam, Paul Benzie, Kate Blackwell, Tommy their schools, these councils are Milton Keynes Breslin, Kim Burns, Don Cowper, David Foster, Derek Council, County Council, Bury CLAS Gardner, David Harris, Sheila Harris, Judith Hinitt, and Derby City Council. Mags, Fiona McCarthy, Ashleigh Rutherford, Joe Smart, Sarah Soyei. 162 schools took part in England and Wales this year and successful Prize-giving ceremonies were

Pictured above: Prize winning artwork by our Schools Competition Prize Winner Sophie Whitehead.

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Endorsements: “We are all determined to ensure that football and society as a whole is racism free and I am sure that the work carried out by SRTRC has been successful in promoting this ideal through the unique power that is football. Keep up the good work” Alan Johnson, Everton FC. "The Norwegian Show Racism the Red Card campaign is built on the solid experiences of Ged Grebby and his team. We would never have achieved so much since our launch in 2000 without their vital and continuous support. Racism is an evil to be fought day in, day out. The achievements of the British campaign is a role model to the rest of the national SRTRC campaigns." Morten Stenseng Gulbrandsen, Show Racism the Red Card, Norway. “Many congratulations on 10 successful years. FC fully endorses the aims of Show Racism the Red Card and actively supports its good work in highlighting the need for vigilance and awareness.” Graham Bell, MFC Media. “Aston Villa are pleased to congratulate "Show Racism the Red Card" in attaining the significant milestone of ten years of unstinting efforts to achieve racial equality for all. Dave Ismay, Aston Villa FC. “No one has worked harder in the fight against racism that Show The Racism the Red Card. I am proud to be a supporter of their work. Like many, I remember only too well the days when racism was rife at football grounds across the country. We're winning the battle thanks to Show Racism the Red Card and a lot of hard graft but we have to keep on with the work on the ground and there is never any room for complacency." Geoff Martin, Glastonbury Left Field, Hope Not Hate. “As a country with a great love of sport, and one fast becoming a multi-cultural society, it is important that the great opportunities for personal and community development offered through participation in sport are not marred by racism. The Red Card campaign is a very positive move to heighten awareness of this undesirable aspect of life, which if left unchecked can demean people, communities and destroy sport. Louth Local Authorities support the Show Racism the Red Card campaign in Ireland.” Noel G. Redmond, County Sports and Recreation Officer, Louth County Council. "Newcastle United wishes to underline the fact that racism, in whatever form, will not be tolerated. Newcastle United's work with the 'Show Racism the Red Card' campaign is well recognised and many of our players are heavily involved in this excellent initiative. is firmly committed to stamping out racism and sending out the message that racist behaviour has no place on or off the field." Mark Hannen, Newcastle United FC. "Blackburn Rovers fully supports the work being led by "Show Racism The Red Card" to combat racism through the production of educational materials and the use of professional footballers as anti-racist role models. We continue to wish the organisation the greatest success in bringing communities together using the power of football to encourage belonging across divisions and differences." Gill Kinloch, Blackburn Rovers FC.

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North East Community Anti-Racism Education Scheme Report by Sarah Soyei, Regional Community Education Coordinator

Background

We have been running a programme of community anti-racist education in the North East of England since June 2004. This work is delivered by our staff team of ex-Sunderland stars Gary Bennett and Kieron Brady and aided by a team of volunteers. Gary Bennett was one of the first black footballers in the North East, he played for the Black Cats for 11 years and was their captain for 5, before moving on to become themanager of Darlington FC for 2 years. Kieron was said to be a truly exciting natural talent before injury sadly caused his early retirement from football when he was only 21.

Gary runs football training sessions with the youngpeople, which are always extremely popular; eventhose who say that they hate playing football are converted by the end of the session due to Gary’s natural enthusiasm and skill in involving everybody. Kieron delivers the classroom workshops, he is unable to participate in the football training due to an I was on maternity leave from September 2005- injury, which forced his early retirement from March 2006. During this time Joe Smart coordinated professional football. We have discovered that the the community work throughout the North east and football training and presence of ex-professional oversaw such events as the “Teaching in a Diverse players add an extra dimension to the work and City Conference” and the “Soccerama” football increase the enjoyment and participation of the tournament. My thanks go to Joe for all of his hard young people. work during this period.

Pictured above: Pictured above: Sarah Soyei, SRTRC Regional Community Education Coordinator Competition at

‘Walker United’ photograph reproduced by kind permission of NDS.

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Whilst the main focus of our work is delivering anti- racism workshops to young people in schools and youth groups across the North East, we have been working in the community on other more high profile events. Amongst other things since April 2005 we have organised

• Stalls at several community events throughout

• Events at premier and football league clubs in the North East

• An anti-racist community day entitled stalls at 32 conferences, festivals and other events “Walker United” in conjunction with Walker We deliver anti-racist workshops around the “Show United Football Club and other local Racism the Red Card” DVD and we also run community organisations workshops aimed at dispelling the myths surrounding Asylum Seekers and Refugees using the “A Safe • A teacher training conference entitled Place” video. These workshops are extremely “Teaching in a Diverse City” in conjunction important in today’s climate where newspapers and with Newcastle University and other smaller politicians help to feed the misunderstandings and teacher training events resentment that many people have towards asylum seekers and refugees. It is not surprising that many of • A “Gold Standard for Race Equality” scheme the young people we meet are very confused about in conjunction with South Tyneside Council the issue.

• The production of a guide to working with Previously we only delivered the A Safe Place Show Racism the Red Card’s resources for workshop to secondary schools. However the success councils and football clubs of the scheme in Glasgow, where they have been delivering this workshop to 10 and 11 year olds with • A schools anti-racist football tournament great success has inspired us to open the workshop to these ages in the North East. It will also be a good Since the start of the project we have run way to follow up the original workshop and build workshops with over 10000 young people in the upon the work that we have already delivered. North East. We have visited 53 Primary Schools, 18 We have often been asked whether girls and those secondary schools and 17 youth groups, and had not interested in football engage with our resources,

Pictured above: Joe Smart at a SRTRC community event photograph reproduced by kind permission of NDS.

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in order to answer this question we have started to ask and increasing equality. We are working with local the child’s gender on the feedback form. We have councils to produce a guide to advise schools of the collected feedback for 300 young people and so far criteria they need to meet and how they can evidence there is no indication of any difference in the levels of this work and will be piloting the scheme in 2007. enjoyment or participation between the sexes and 99% of both boys and girls asked have said that they Partnership working and information enjoyed the session overall. sharing

Breakdown of work by Area By working in partnership with other organisations Show Racism the Red Card Gold we are able to offer a much more in depth and valuable Standard for Schools experience to the young people we work with. In the current format, on our own, we spend a maximum of In a partnership meeting representatives from two hours in the classroom with each class. When South Tyneside council mentioned the difficulty they working in partnership we are able to persuade were having in getting schools to work with them to schools to take whole year groups off timetable, report racial incidents, release staff for training and teachers become involved in the organisation of the devise and put into use relevant race equality policies day and have more ownership of the event and we can so we came up with the idea of working together to put ensure that each group works around the issues for a in place a Gold Standard for schools who are prepared whole day. to commit themselves to the task of reducing racism

Pictured above: Kieron Brady with 7 volunteers and Maggie Fisher from CSV at George Stephenson School in

Killingworth, 1st December 2006. Photograph reproduced by kind permission of NDS.

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During 2006 we worked in partnership with the young people around the issue. We visited following organisations: our first school in partnership on the 1st December 2006, and worked with 160 young • CSV – Community Connections people over an entire day. Show Racism the This project finds volunteering positions and Red Card provided 2 workshops whilst supports volunteers from an asylum seeking volunteers from CSV provided 4 more. The background and they had already realised the volunteers worked across the curriculum potential these volunteers could have in telling their stories and providing workshops dispelling racist myths and had taken a group in Drama, Home Economics, Geography and History and the day was a great success. We then visited St Bedes in Peterlee together, working with 90 young people over the course of the afternoon and we hope to work in partnership regularly throughout 2007

• Nu-Mcs London ant-racist rappers Ian Solomon and “Serocee” came up and worked with us to deliver two workshops in South Tyneside and Sunderland. They taught the young people how to rap, alongside delivering an anti- racism and anti-gangster lesson. It was an excellent workshop. The young people were completely engaged and thoroughly enjoyed the session. 67% of those who took part described the workshop as excellent and the other 33% as very good. We are currently looking at ways to build upon the initial success of this partnership and to work together on a larger scale in the new of volunteers to work in a school in South school year. Tyneside. After discussing the issues in some length we realised the best outcomes would • “The Word” be achieved by working in partnership as CSV An anti-racist hip-hop group who were set up were already equipped to recruit and support in Thornhill School in Sunderland. They have the volunteers whilst we had the access to run several large-scale community events in schools and we equipped to educate the which we have taken part with Gary and

Pictured above: young supporter at our ‘Walker United’ event. Photograph reproduced by kind permission of

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Kieron helping to comprise a panel taking Sharing Good Practice questions on racism from the audience. We Our work in the North East and partnerships with provided them with resources to distribute local councils has attracted interest from all over the and invited them to participate in our events UK; Glasgow, Edinburgh and Nottingham Councils and hope to extend this partnership in have already begun their own projects and QPR, the future. and Milton Keynes football in the community schemes have expressed an interest in developing a • “L’Afrique a Newcastle” similar scheme in their areas. We worked with the festival organisers to deliver a series of workshops in Newcastle as We have also developed guides advising part of the week long festival. We are currently organisations of the ways in which they can best engage developing a partnership with Newcastle with Show Racism the Red Card’s resources. There are Football Development Service to visit schools two guides; one for football teams and one for councils together in 2007. in which we will be able to share the experience that we have had in the North East in order for them to set up • Justice First similar schemes in their own areas. To our great We worked together to deliver a weeklong pleasure, the model of the schools work developed programme of work in Stockton on Tees. The here has been successfully adopted and used to run posters that the young people produced workshops in Glasgow where ex- players have during these workshops were made into a been delivering “A Safe Place” Workshops in booklet to be given out at a charity football conjunction with football training. Representatives match that was held at part of the FARE week from Notts County football club have been to observe of action on the 22nd October 2006. workshops and receive advice on how to set up a similar

Pictured above: Supporters of our campaign.

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scheme in their area and Gary and Kieron have visited • Looking to hold anti-racist soccer schools, Carlisle United to share good practice with them. which will be run by ex-professional footballers and contain a strong element of anti-racist Looking Forward education.

• Aiming to build upon the Gold Standard for The project has been extremely successful in its Race Equality Scheme. first two and a half years, and we are ever looking to expand and improve the work. In 2007 we are: • Planning to run annual regional anti-racist football tournaments. • Aiming to run a series of workshops in • Planning to run regular events at all of the high conjunction with Newcastle Football profile sporting clubs in the North East. Development Service. • Planning to work in partnership with other • Planning to build upon the success of Walker organisations working in the field of anti-racism United to work in conjunction with other grass and myth busting around asylum issues. We roots football clubs to work in partnership to have already set up events to be delivered in hold further community events in 2007. We are partnership with , The Word, also on the steering committee for a large North East Refugee Service and Community music based community event, in partnership Service Volunteers. with UNISON and other local groups, which • Planning to run monitoring events with young will be held in Sunderland in the Summer. people.

Pictured above: Young supporters at South Tyneside Town Hall for launch of 'Working with SRTRC and their resources: A Guide For Councils. Photograph reproduced by kind permission of NDS

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• Going to distribute the guides that we have Ellis (TWAFA), Julian Simpson (L’Afrique a Newcastle) produced to councils and football clubs and (Newcastle United Academy), The Lord Mayor of meet with them to help them to set up Newcastle, Kim Burns, Judith Duffy, Lewis Duffy, Bev anti-racism education schemes in their areas. Hutchinson, Iftikhar Hussain, Joe Smart, Walker Central Football Club, Newcastle Street Wardens, Acknowledgements: Thanks to the Football Northumbria Police, Northumbria Ambulance Foundation, Government Office North East, NUT, Service, Ian Solomon (KMC/FURIOUS), Amer Sheikh Nancy Rios, Jacqueline Campbell, Les Platt, Steve (The Word), Gillian Saunders, Eleanor Ryall Woodward (Sunderland City Council) Dave (Darlington FC), Mark Hannen (Newcastle FC Owen,Pam Vedhara, June Horne, John Braithwaite Academy) Louise Wanless (Sunderland FC) Martin (South Tyneside Council), Ron Nicholson, Jane Burn, Lightfoot, Anne Wood, Debra Lagun, Richard Cllr David Faulkner (Newcastle City Council) Dave OswaldJeremi Lundeya, Ian Turnbull, Ashleigh Doughty (Choose Health) Rachel Lofthouse Rutherford, Gavin Sutherland, David Foster and all the (Newcastle University), Angela Killoran, Alan Gate Newcastle, Sunderland and Darlington players who (Walker Boys Club), Jane Davies (Sunderland have attended events and helped to make them University), Viki Angel and Neil Denton (ARCH), Mark special for the young people involved.

Pictured above: The grand finale of ‘Walker United’ a SRTRC event photograph reproduced by kind permission

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Endorsements: “Enfield Council fully supports the work that Show Racism the Red Card does to combat racism in a way that appeals directly to young people. The use of positive role models is especially effective” Martin Garnar, Enfield Council, Education. "It is great to see SRTRC go from strength to strength. In these days of real challenge for those of us who really believe in a multi cultural society, Red Cards genuine grass roots work is an example which many could follow" Dave Anderson MP, Blaydon Constituency. "Show Racism The Red Card has played a leading role in making the North East and the rest of the UK a more tolerant place. We are delighted that SRTRC was able to contribute to this year's Festival and bring a sporting dimension to our message of inclusion through the arts." Julian Simpson, Event manager, L'afrique a Newcastle. 2006 saw the first local SRTRC competition for schools to be held in Milton Keynes ahead of the national competition. The project involved 41 MK schools, engaged more than 13,000 young people, and attracted over 5,000 entries. Supported by MK Dons, MK Council, MK Youth Service, MK REC, and MK Dons Supporters Assn. the campaign was a huge success. Milton Keynes Football First Project together with partners would like to express thanks to the SRTRC team for their very generous support for our project and wish SRTRC very best wishes for the annual review. Dennis Woolford, Football First. ”Prejudice is universal and different forms of bigotry often fuel one another so Nil By Mouth applauds the positive actions of Show Racism the Red Card. Racism, like sectarianism, divides communities and individuals alike. Therefore we believe that a unified approach is the most effective way to tackle hatred and abuse. SRTRC has achieved huge progress through this and Nil By Mouth will continue to work in partnership with the campaign to further fan the flames of hope and understanding”. Richard Benjamin, Nil by Mouth. “The City of Edinburgh Council sees SRTRC as a best practice model to tackle racism. The partnership work over the last two years has grown siginificantly and during 06/07 we have undertaken to deliver a more expansive range of anti racist activities. Many of these activities will be delivered through existing services and it is this "mainstreaming" approach, which will lay the foundations for future work between the two organisations”. Nick Croft, Senior Policy Officer, City of Edinburgh Council. Last season staff and players alike joined in various campaigns to help support SRTRC. FC were proud to support this campaign last season and will do all we can in the coming season. Getting out into the community and educating children at an early age is very important and in conjunction with our community coach and SRTRC hopefully we can make a real difference. Angela Burnett, Kilmarnock FC. SQA is delighted to continue to support Show Racism The Red Card. This innovative approach to tackling racism from a young age is the right way forward. Anton Colella, Chief Executive, SQA.

Report by Paul Kearns UK Office Manager

been a great support, gradually handing over tasks as I started to establish myself and get my feet under the table. I am now starting to feel more at home within the organisation and hope that my role will have a big impact on the efficiency and capacity of SRtRC to do what the organisation does best, using professional footballers as role models to deliver a very important message to young people.

In my short time with the organisation, I have attended events at Huddersfield Town FC and the National Assembly of Wales. At both events it was inspiring to see the effect that our message can have upon young people and refreshing to see the energy and passion that someone like Jane Davidson, (Education and Lifelong learning Minister for Wales) has for our campaign. I will also have the opportunity I spotted a small advertisement in the local paper in coming weeks to attend events at Sunderland AFC, at the beginning of October 2006 that immediately Newcastle United and as a Liverpudlian born and drew my attention. UK Office Manager for Show bred, am immensely proud to be part of the team Racism the Red Card, combining my passion for taking SRtRC to for an event with FC social equality and lifelong love of football. I am very in February 2007. I am hoping to introduce my North proud to say that my application was successful and I East colleagues to a new concept, a trophy room full joined the organisation in mid November. After an of trophies! induction that left my head spinning I have to say that so far it has been everything I expected and much, I have now had chance to appraise the Office set up much more. and accounting systems. We will shortly be filing accounts for the year 2005-2006 with the Charities SRtRC is a small, close knit team and all members Commission and are completely up to date and on of staff have gone out of their way to help me settle in schedule to file accounts for year 2006-2007 ahead of and learn the ropes, Ged has been particularly helpful deadline. I intend to introduce a new accounting helping to fill my in-tray on a hourly basis! Gavin has system for the financial year 2007-2008 and have

Pictured above: Possible stars of the future at a SRTRC event, photo reproduced by kind permission of Unison.

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recently acquired the necessary software. This will have already forged good relations with colleagues in grant us the facility to accept Credit and Debit Card the Scottish and Welsh Offices and will seek to payments online, which I expect will increase sales of improve coordination between the three offices in the resources. coming year.

We have sourced new Office space and are Show Racism the Red Card is a charity that makes a currently in negotiations with the backing of North huge difference to the lives of children in England, Tyneside Council to relocate in or around June 2007. Scotland and Wales and I am exceptionally grateful and proud to have the chance to make my In my short time with the organisation I have also contribution to such a worthwhile cause. started to build a database of key Council contacts for the distribution of the Best Practice Guide with a long- Although I haven’t been in post for very long I have term view to increasing the number of Partnership to express my sincere thanks to all the staff, Fiona Councils we work with. I intend to undertake a similar McCarthy, Derek Gardner and Don Cowper for all project to establish and build relationships with their support helping me to settle in and to Simone football clubs, to increase the number of posters that Doyle, Kevin Miles and Sue Abbott for placing their we produce and the number of events held at clubs. I faith in me.

Pictured above: Group of young supporters at one of 0ur SRTRC events.

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12th July 2005 29th September 2005 Show Racism the Red Card Bristol City FC poster launch

football match: The event was organised by Mandy Thorpe and ex-players v MPs attended by Bristol City players Clayton Fortune and Jamie Smith, who answered questions from local The ex-professional footballers included Bobby school students. Barnes, , Bob Bolder, Warren Barton, Garth Crooks, Gary Bennett, Paul Davis and John Beresford and they took on the Parliamentary team 1st October 2005 lead by the sports minister . The Soccerama Tournament players won the game! This was followed by the Parliamentary preview of On Saturday 1st October over 150 pupils from across our new DVD. the North East took part in the inaugural SRTRC 6 a side football tournament. Year 6 pupils from Our thanks go to Stephen Hepburn MP for Middlesbrough, Sunderland and South Tyneside organising the room in the House of Commons. converged on Soccearena in Durham for a great

Pictured above: Ex-players supporting our campaign at our Walker United event Photograph reproduced by kind permission of Lee Dobson Photography.

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afternoon of football and fun played against a Also present were footballers and Tariq backdrop of Show Racism the Red Card message. Khalil of Cardiff City and Roberto Martinez, Izzy Thanks have to go to David Foster and Gary Bennett Iriekpen, and of Swansea whose hard work made the event possible. City. Attending from the Welsh Football Assoication were: , Wales Manager, and Wales 10th October 2005 Internationals Ryan Giggs of United SRTRC Launch of the SRTRC and Jason Brown of Gillingham. Campaign in Wales The guest speaker at the launch was John Griffiths, Welsh Assembly Member for Newport East who has The SRTRC Wales Steering Group arranged a launch given his wholehearted support to the campaign on of the Welsh Campaign to take place at the Vale of behalf of the Assembly Government.The new Welsh Glamorgan Hotel on 10th October 2005. Guests version of the SRTRC DVD was played to the from partner organisations UNISON, NUT, FAW, audience, following which questions to the FAW Trust, Sports Council for Wales and the Welsh footballers were invited from the schoolchildren Assembly Government, were invited to attend, as present. were two local schools. A number of children asked the players what their

Pictured above: Ryan Giggs with young supporters at launch of SRTRC Campaign in Wales.

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experience of racism had been as children, adults Tranmere Rovers, David Weir the club captain of and footballers. Ryan Giggs, in particular, gave an Everton, Frank Sinclair and Graham Branch of insight into the difficulties he had experienced. This Burnley, Jason Roberts and Andreas Johansson of surprised a number of people present as Ryan, whilst Wigan and ex –players Howard Gayle and Earl being of mixed race, is not obviously black. Other Barrett. Our thanks go to Alan Johnson of EFC for players were also very open and honest about their organising the event. experiences and how they dealt with them.Following “We are all determined to ensure that football and the Q&A session, children were invited to come society as a whole is racism free and I am sure that forward to get autographs. the work carried out by SRTRC has been successful in The event and, in particular, the impact of the DVD promoting this ideal through the unique power that received very favourable feedback with the partner is football. Keep up the good work” organisations even more committed to ensure that Alan Johnson, Everton FC SRTRC in Wales becomes as successful as it is in parts of England and Scotland.Report by Dawn 18th October 2005 Hayes, Unison. London DVD Launch Tottenham Hotspur FC 13th October 2005 North West DVD Launch This event was attended by around 100 young Everton FC people, who enjoyed the opportunity to meet some of their favourite THFC players. , Aaron Everton FC again hosted the North West launch of Lennon and Ledley King ably fielded questions from our DVD. Attending the event were Calvin Zola of the young people in the audience on racism and had

Pictured above: Featured from left to right are Robbie Keane, and Ledley King of Tottenham

Hotspur at for launch of SRTRC DVD.

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time to stay and give autographs for all afterwards. the DVD’s extras were shown throughout the event Several members of the THFC women’s’ team also and were very well received. attended the event.. Geoff Mason from Unison The event was well attended by young people, their chaired the event. families and players from both Nottingham Forest FC Thanks are due to all the staff at Tottenham Hotspur and Notts County FC. Rune Pederson, Eugene Dadi, for their brilliant assistance on the day and in the Spencer Weir-Daley and Justyn Roberts attended from organisation of the event and to Kim Burns for the Nottingham Forest, Rob Ullathorne and Kelvin same reasons. Wilson attended from Notts County FC. Dave Bennett also attended, as did Gary Bennett. All the players 19th October 2005 answered questions on racism from the floor and Midlands DVD Launch happily posed for photographs and signed Nottingham Forest FC autographs at the end. The young people, as always, were able to take away copies of all our free resources, This event combined a prize-giving presentation for magazines, posters, bags and stickers. young people who entered a SRTRC themed Our thanks go to Nottingham Forest FC and competition organised by Nottinghamshire County Nottinghamshire County Council, particularly Raj Council over the last year, with the first screening of Sharma and his team from the Regeneration Dept for the new SRTRC video/DVD in the Midlands. Much of organising an excellent event.

Pictured above: Young supporters. Photographs reproduced by Lee Dobson Photography

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24th October 2005 this they received resources and watched our new Poster Launch Chelsea FC DVD, before asking questions of the assembled panel. Carlton Cole of Chelsea FC, Shaka Hislop, Show Racism the Red Card’s first ever event at Gary Bennett, Bobby Barnes of the PFA and Elliot Chelsea FC was a great success. As it was half term, Joseph, who performed some of his poetry. Gary had the young people who attended were from local the unenviable task of picking the best question, with youth groups and football teams, and they the young person judged to have asked the best thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon at Stamford question receiving an authenticated Chelsea Bridge. Firstly, a ground tour was available to FC shirt, signed by the whole squad. everyone and the audience got to see the media Our thanks go to Kim Burns who chaired and helped room, dressing room, tunnel and dugout area. The to organise the event, all of our volunteers and to all young people displayed an encyclopaedic knowledge the staff at Chelsea FC who made sure that the day of the Nationalities of all of Chelsea’s players in the went flawlessly. dressing room, when quizzed by the tour guide. After

Pictured above: Chelsea FC's presens a ball signed by the 2006 Premiership Champions to our

Schools Competition Prize Winner Sophie Whitehead.

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November 2005 "The Norwegian Show Racism the Red Card SRTRC Norway’s campaign is built on the solid experiences of Ged Grebby and his team. We would never have achieved wins anti-racism award so much since our launch in 2000 without their vital

John Carew was presented with this year's anti-racism and continueous support. Racism is an evil to be award by SRTRC (Norway) at the Norwegian Players fought day in, day out. The achievements of the Union 'Player of the Year' ceremony. Carew has been British campaign is a role model to the rest of the the main star of the campaign in Norway since its national SRTRC campaigns." start in year 2000. He is always willing to lend his Morten Stenseng Gulbrandsen, Show Racism the Red name, autograph and photo to our work and also Card – Norway using his position to get massive media attention to the problem of racism in football. 3rd November 2005 Carew was presented with the award by the former South Tyneside Event: The Sunderland captain and SRTRC worker, Gary Bennett. Customs House, South Shields Two of the young winners of our latest schools competition were on the podium displaying their South Tyneside Council worked closely with us to winning banner. Carew also won the prestigious organise this event. Players from Sunderland and "Player of the Year". Newcastle and our patrons were invited to attend. John Beresford [ex-Newcastle] Nyron Nosworthy At the press conference Carew asserted that he was [Sunderland] and Justin Hoyte, [Sunderland] attended even more proud of winning the anti-racism award as alongside Gary and Kieron which provided an racism is a problem in society and more important excellent panel. The occasion was a great success. than football. The Norwegian Show Racism The Red The teachers gave a lot of positive feedback and Card campaign is run by the Norwegian Players Union expressed an interest in organising workshops at their and Norwegian People's Aid.

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schools in the near future. 110 children attended and of Leeds United AFC, Nick Montgomery of Sheffield all received free promotional material. The event United FC, Stephen McPhail of Barnsley FC and was well covered by the local press. Our thanks go to SRTRC Honorary Patron and former Sheffield the Customs House for providing a great venue. Wednesday player, Earl Barrett. Also in attendance were long-standing supporter and Emmerdale This event was attended by 130 guests and had an actress Charlie Hardwick. excellent Q and A led by Ex-Newcastle players and SRTRC Patron John Bersford and Nyron Nosworthy Our thanks go to all the guests,, and all the Staff at and Justin Hoyte from Sunderland AFC Leeds United Study Support Centre and at Leeds United FC, especially Steve Smith, Linda Farnhill and 24th November 2005 Stix Lockwood. DVD Launch: Leeds 5th December 2005 United FC Annual Launch of the North Leeds United’s excellent Study Support Centre was East schools work: Newcastle the venue for the Yorkshire launch of the new Show United FC Racism the Red Card DVD. The video was very well received by the audience of around 60 young people We re-launched the Schools work programme for from local Primary and High Schools. Players from North East regions and screened the new DVD for several Yorkshire based clubs attended to help an invited audience of local young people in the launch the video/DVD, David Healy and Ian Moore Kielder Suite of the St James’ Park stadium. Around

Pictured above: Pictured above: Left to right Carlos Logan, Titus Bramble, Matt Clarke and John Beresford meet young supporters at 2006 launch of North East schools work programme. Photograph by NDS.

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80 young people attended and had the opportunity to ex-Hull City player Billy Whitehurst. Who fielded put questions to the panel, comprised of players from questions on racism from an audience of 150 local clubs around the region. Titus Bramble attended from young people Newcastle FC, Matt Clarke and Carlos Logan from Darlington and Ex-Newcastle United star and 10th January 2006 honorary patron, John Beresford also attended. This Teaching in a Diverse City: event provided us with the opportunity to finally Newcastle United FC present John Beresford with his well-deserved ‘Hall of Fame’ award. The aim of the conference was to raise awareness of multiculturalism among student teachers and to Our thanks to all at Newcastle United FC for all their prepare them for teaching children from a range of help with the event, particularly to Mark Hannen for ethnic backgrounds and cultures. Rachel Lofthouse: liasing with the players and Dave Pattison for PGCE coordinator at Newcastle University, was organising the ground tour for guests before the start concerned this important issue was not being given of the event, which everyone seemed enjoyed the attention and time it deserved. Rachel had heard very much. of Show Racism the Red card and wanted to use our 7th December 2005 workshops as a basis for the groundbreaking daylong conference. 200 bags containing an annual review, DVD Launch: Hull City our old education packs, a flyer for our new DVD and a magazine were given to the students on their arrival. Attending the event to help launch the DVD in Hull We ran two workshops through out the day centred on were Hull City duo, Craig Fagan and Kevin Ellison and our Show Racism the Red Card and A Safe Place

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videos. The students were divided into groups of 50 three London boroughs, delivering over a hundred and all experienced both workshops. Rachel sessions in the past eighteen months. Kim was very Lofthouse said this after the event: ‘we were very impressed with this and immediately suggested that pleased with the event - students had enjoyed the the contribution of the QPR Community range of workshops / lectures and were enthused by Department be recognised by induction into the the working with people who have such genuine Show Racism the Red Card Hall of Fame. passion and commitment for such significant The event was attended by three QPR players, Danny issues. We are very grateful for the work of SRTRC Shittu, Marc Nygaard and Steve Lomas along with and the key note speakers who provided their inputs Club Chairman, Mr Gianni Paladini; former QPR for free’ player and Show Racism the Red Card Patron Gavin Peacock; Show Racism the Red Card founding 16th January 2006 Patron, Shaka Hislop; and the campaign’s Ged Hall of Fame Award: Queens Grebby and Gary Bennett. In the audience were Park Rangers FC representatives of many organisations showing their support for Show Racism the Red Card, including Towards the end of 2005, Show Racism the Red Card the Fire Brigades Union, Football First Milton was contacted by Queens Park Rangers FC, inviting Keynes; the Khalsa Football Academy; the local us to hold an event there. London volunteer, Kim Member of Parliament; as well as local and national Burns, popped-down to for a chat with press. We were also delighted to be joined by staff from the QPR Community department, and representatives of the Trinidad & Tobago Football was amazed to discover that they had been taking Association (Shaka Hislop’s international side), the Show Racism the Red Card anti-racism who were visiting QPR to arrange a pre-World Cup resources into schools, libraries and youth groups in friendly international against Iceland at Loftus Road.

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Two classes of local schoolchildren were invited and Queens Park Rangers FC for an excellent event, for enjoyed watching the DVD, collecting their goody- their wonderful hospitality and for all their hard work bags, and meeting the players. They also came up with in their local community in support of the campaign. some terrific questions for the panel, which the QPR We look forward to working with you for many years players dealt with very well, bringing in their own to come. experiences of discrimination and displaying a genuine commitment to the objectives of the Show 24th January 2006 Racism the Red Card campaign. The players were Ghyllgrove schools event particularly generous with their time, which was The morning was spent in a class watching the Show appreciated by everyone. The highlight of the event Racism The Red Card DVD. This was followed by a was undoubtedly the presentation of the Show Racism class discussion. The pupils showed a very good the Red Card Hall of Fame Award by Show Racism the understanding of the issues surrounding racism in Red Card’s Gary Bennett and the former QPR player society and asked some very testing questions! After a Gavin Peacock to Chairman, Mr Gianni Paladini, quick kick-about in the playground the class divided Community Scheme Manager Andy Evans and into groups - some writing short poems, others Community Department staff member designing posters. One group acted out a play, Martino Chevannes. which they will film and send in to SRTRC We would like to take this opportunity to thank schools competition.

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After lunch Shaka arrived and signed hundreds of players from Darlington took their places at the top posters, shirts and shin-pads then bravely went into table along with Ex-Middlesbrough player and the school assembly hall were he was 'grilled' by the SRTRC patron Curtis Fleming. They were Matthew Ghyllgrove infant and junior school. The pupils Clarke, Carlos Logan, Akpo Sodje and Joey asked Shaka some very interesting questions about Hutchinson. Darlington provided a signed shirt, a racism, bullying and his career. Shaka was then signed football and 2 signed calendars as prizes for happy to play some football with the after school the best questions. After the main event the children football club. All of the young footballers were were taken on the ground tour. determined to tackle or take the ball past Shaka so Darlington showed exceptional hospitality and he was very lucky to come out unscathed! All in all made us, and the children, feel very welcome. the school staff were very helpful and the pupils Thanks to Eleanor Ryall, the marketing manager for keen to learn and Shaka made the whole event Darlington for all her hard work and to the really special. Darlington players for their support of the campaign

31st January 2006 15th February 2006 DVD Launch: Darlington FC Poster Launch: Newcastle 180 young people from 3 local schools attended this Falcons RFC event. Upon arrival the club provided them all with As part of our on going objectives of tackling racism hot food, and they were also given a goodie bag of in the community, we have started to branch out Show Racism the Red Card resources. Kieron Brady from football to other sports including ice hockey, chaired the event. After screening the new DVD

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basketball and rugby. This event saw the presentation David Wilson. The children then asked the players of the second poster we have produced with the questions about racism, which the player answered Newcastle Falcons. with good will and humour. The girl who asked the best question won two tickets to a Newcastle Falcons The launch took place at Kingston Park, the home of home game. the Newcastle Falcons. All in all 60 children attended aged from 12 to 17. They were invited to go to the event We were very pleased with the event and the children as a reward for their good attendance records. and teachers gave us some very positive feedback. Our thanks go to the players who gave up their teme Kieron Brady was the chair for the event and after and particular thanks to Mark Foster who organised watching the DVD the young people were then the event and arranged the match day tickets. entertained by the Word who are an educational rap group started by a science teacher at Thornhill School 16 February 2006 called Amer Sheikh and involving a group of current Poster and DVD launch: and ex students. The group had been around several Cardiff City schools performing and talking about anti racism and mutual respect. We had invited them to perform two Children from Trelai primary school in Cardiff attended songs at the event. the launch. Posing questions on racism to a panel made up of former Cardiff City players Gary and Dave After the Word had finished the Newcastle Falcons Bennett and current players, captain and players were introduced and took their seats at the top defender Neil Cox . Also present at the event was Luke table. They were Joe Shaw, Mark Mayerholfer and Clements who was the Welsh regional winner of

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SRTRC poster competition. Luke won a Manchester success. Outside the hall packed with school United shirt and a visit to for a training students and others were large numbers of press session with Rio Ferdinand on 14 March. taking pictures of football legends Niall Quinn, After the formalities, all the children who had asked Curtis Fleming and Dessie Farrell. questions came up and had their photos taken with Students came from schools with more than 40% the players and just before a tour of , non-Irish national composition. So it was pertinent players signed copies of the new poster for the that in questions young people put to the panel children to take away with them. some of the young people referred to their own experience of racism within . 27th March 2006 Dublin event: Shelbourne FC There was a lively questions and answers session at the event following presentation of the Irish website, The Show Racism the Red Card launch at - DVD and poster. Awards were given to the students the home of Shelbourne FC - was an outstanding who asked the best questions. As the event drew to a

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close thousands of posters were taken from the tables Members and Staff who were present to lend their and autographs were sought and signed. The launch support to the anti-racism campaign. was covered in major tabloids and broadsheets as well Eagle players Aki Rihilahti and Tom Soares the as the television news. along with ex-England international Chris Shelbourne FC was a magnificent host for the event. It Powell, who plays for Charlton Athletic were present to was entirely appropriate to hold the launch of Show answer questions on racism from the young people Racism the Red Card Ireland at one of the country's and signed autographs. Also present were, Mary leading clubs. We have met with Galway United and Lawmann from Croydon Council. The Mayor of officials from Shamrock Rovers and FAI cup winners Croydon, Councillor Maggie Mansell and Councillor Drogheda United about developing a pilot public Mark Watson spoke about the ills of racism and other awareness project with these clubs as the pioneers. hate crimes and why we should all work together to We are delighted with the reaction so far. kick racism out of society. The Nu-Mcs , gave a rapid rendition of positive rap with audience participation 17th March 2006 which animated and excited the children and other 2006 Crystal Palace guests and left the audience wanting more.

The event jointly organised with Croydon Council was A very exciting day was had by all and our huge thanks attended by local schoolchildren, their teachers and go to the Palace staff and everyone who participated, representatives from some community organisations. but particularly to the players who took time out to The Mayor of Croydon attended, as did some Council make the day an enjoyable one for all.

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4th April 2006 young people received a goody bag of Show Racism DVD Launch: Sunderland Civic the Red Card's resources and had the opportunity to get autographs at the end of the event. Centre “We have been working with Show Racism the Red Nyron Nosworthy from Sunderland AFC was on Card since June 2004 to deliver anti-racism training hand to answer questions on racism from local to schools in Sunderland. It has proved to be one of youngsters at the Sunderland Launch of our new the most successful programmes the Sunderland educational DVD. The launch took place in Partnership and the City Council has ever been Sunderland Council Chamber on Tuesday 4th April. involved with. The feedback from students and their Local schoolchildren, group leaders and council teachers has been overwhelmingly positive and we members attended the event jointly organised by hope this innovative programme will be able to Sunderland City Council.The event concluded with a continue in the city for many years to come. question and answer session between the young The Sunderland Partnership enthusiastically people, Nyron and ex-Sunderland stars Gary Bennett supports the aims and objectives of the Show and Kieron Brady. The Show Racism the Red Card Racism The Red Card project and wish the venture team were greatly impressed by the thoughtful further success as it celebrates its 10th anniversary.” questions posed by the young people and the best Canon Stephen Taylor, Chair, Sunderland two questions were awarded tickets for Partnership Sunderland's home match with Fulham. All the

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5th April 2006 26th April 2006 Launch of Newcastle Eagles Prize Giving Ceremony (South): Poster: Ashington High School Charlton Athletic FC

Five of the Newcastle Eagles Basketball team visited The first of two Prize Giving Ceremonies recognising Ashington Community High School Sports College; the overall winners of the Show Racism the Red Card Ashington is a town fifteen miles north of Newcastle, anti-racist schools competition 2006; was brilliantly to launch the 2005-06 team poster. The huge impact hosted by Charlton Athletic FC. An audience of over of the five six feet plus players arrived at school sent 100 young people, teachers and invited guests were in an excited buzz around school generating mass attendance to see the winners receive their prizes interest in the event. The two hundred students who from Chris Powell of Charlton Athletic FC, former attended the event were treated to excerpts from the professional players – Paul Elliot, Gavin Peacock, Bob new (06) dvd and followed up with a Q & A session Bolder, Bobby Barnes and Dave Bassett, and actors with the players and a photo shoot with the whole Tracy Wilkinson (Bad Girls) and Patrick Miller group. The school and the students wished the (Byker Grove). players all the best for their up and coming league and cup matches and presented them with an Ashington The winners were from schools in Milton Keynes, High School commemorative plaque. Solihull, Winchester, Essex and Andover. Young people from local schools also came to the event for a

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chance to ask the panel questions on racism during a hosted by Bury NUT Equal Opportunities officer, Lyn Q&A session and get some autographs. Grant, through her role with the Ethnic Minorities Achievement Grant funded, Curriculum and All of the winning entries were on display around the Language Access Service (CLAS). The service has room prior and during the event. The winners were coordinated the competition locally for three years. fortunate enough to be awarded prizes such as Show Racism the Red Card co-ordinator Ged Grebby signed shirts and footballs and match tickets. In and staff member, Kieron Brady also compered the addition to a ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ goody bag event. and a framed certificate. Some of the winners were Pupils were thrilled to receive their prizes from also awarded VIP trips to the training grounds of football heroes, Earl Barrett (ex England, Villa and some clubs. All the signed shirts, balls and match Oldham player), Gary Bennett (ex Sunderland tickets were donated by various professional football captain), Frank Sinclair (from Burnley FC) and Bury clubs; to Show Racism the Red Card, for this players, John Daly and Lewis Coburn. Other guests purpose. Our thanks go to all the clubs for their included, Alan Johnson (Football in the Community generosity. officer from Everton FC), Richard Jobson Charlton Athletic FC were also able to offer all in (Professional Footballers Association) and Dave Mc attendance the opportunity of a tour of the stadium.. Our thanks to all of the winners for their work, the teachers for facilitating their schools’ involvement in the competition, the players and actors who attended and to Charlton Athletic FC for hosting a great event.

27th April 2006 Schools’ Competition Prize Giving: Bury FC

On Thursday 27th April, nearly 200 pupils, family members and teachers packed into the Allen suite at Gigg Lane, home of Bury Football Club, to celebrate the achievements of the young contributors to the Show Racism the Red Card competition. Other members of the audience included, Richard Palframan (NUT North West regional officer) and Helen Andrews (Bury NUT divisional secretary and North West executive member).The event was

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Dermott from the Football Foundation, who in racism and how panel members had responded to response to a question from a pupil, was pleased to racism themselves. discuss his desire to encourage more participation Lyn Grant said, “I am proud that my union sponsors from British Asian players at a professional level. Bury such a productive and effective charity. SRTRC seeks Director of Learning and Culture, David Pritchard, to eliminate racism not only from sport, but within praised the young people for their contributions and society as a whole. The quality of their materials talked about the importance and success of work in means that teachers can really explore the causes and Bury schools to counteract racism and promote racial impact of racism as well as ways of empowering harmony. young people to counteract racism. This years Bury Pupils received certificates, posters of their favourite competition has been the most successful to date. teams, badges and finalists received SRTRC t-shirts. Sixteen Primary and six Secondary schools have Bury FC kindly donated family match tickets and a participated. In all, two thousand Bury pupils have signed football that, along with an England shirt, were used the Show Racism the Red Card materials in used as ‘best question’ prizes when pupils were given lessons and assemblies in 2006. I am delighted to say the opportunity to ask the panel questions relating to that in recognition of this success, the CLAS have racism and racial harmony. The quality of the been asked to contribute to a good practice guide questions from Bury pupils was impressive, with being compiled by Show Racism the Red Card.” questions such as, how best to support a victim of

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2nd May 2006 and he made an excellent impromptu speech on the Prize Giving Ceremony (North): importance of fighting racism. Charlie Hardwick Newcastle Civic Centre from Emmerdale presented Kieron with his award and also made a fantastic speech. 50 young people The second of the Prize Giving Ceremonies to from 12 different Newcastle schools were present celebrate the efforts of the overall winners in the as well as the prize-winners. Gillian Sanders from Show Racism the Red Card Schools Competition, the council invited these young people due to their was held in the Council Chamber of the Civic excellent school attendance records. Thanks go to Centre, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Winners were Gillian, Ron Nicholson, Mark Hannen and Hazel from schools in County Durham, Liverpool, Green, all the winners and guests who attended, the Middlesbrough, Oldham and Spilsby. Councillor teachers who ran the competition in their schools David Faulkner made the introductory address and and also to Newcastle City Council for hosting Kieron Dyer and Shola Ameobi attended from the event. Newcastle FC. As well as giving out the prizes to the "Newcastle United wishes to underline the fact that winners, which included signed shirts, balls and racism, in whatever form, will not be tolerated. match tickets as well as a Show Racism the Red Newcastle United's work with the 'Show Racism the Card goody bag and framed certificate, there was a Red Card' campaign is well recognised and many of surprise for Kieron Dyer. Kieron was presented with our players are heavily involved in this excellent a Show Racism the Red Card Hall of Fame award initiative. The club is firmly committed to stamping

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out racism and sending out the message that racist reception in the local community and large numbers behaviour has no place on or off the field." of people came on board to ensure the success of Mark Hannen, Newcastle United FC the day.

In the lead up to the event Show Racism the Red 13th August 2006 Card ran anti-racist workshops and football training Walker United Community Day: over two weekends with youngsters from the Walker Central FC football club. Ian Solomon came up from London to run anti-racist hip-hop workshops with the young This event was the result of collaboration between people and he ran his first workshop the night Show Racism the Red Card, Walker Central Football before the event. Club and the local leisure centre. There had been an Over 30 organisations provided stalls and there increase in racial tension in the Walker Area, a were plenty of activities and entertainment for relatively deprived borough of Newcastle that is a young and old alike, most had an anti-racist or dispersal area for Asylum Seekers. The tension had multicultural theme and companies specialising in culminated in incidents such as a vicious attack on international cuisine provided the catering. A local an Iranian Asylum Seeker. The football club councillor opened the event and a celebrity football approached Show Racism the Red Card about the match between a Show Racism the Red Card team problems in the area and together we came up with of ex-professionals and a Walker Best 11 followed. the idea of a community day for the borough. The One of the most moving and thought provoking aim of the day was to provide an enjoyable day for parts of the day came next; A celebrity panel took the people of Walker whilst educating people in anti- questions from young people on racism, a young racism and celebrating the things that diversity has Newcastle Academy player spoke about how he had brought to the region. The idea was met with a great

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come over from Holland to play at the academy and Richard Oswald, Pc Stoker, George Welch, Councillor was living in Walker. He explained that he has had Woods, Simon Smith, John Anderson, Curtis stones thrown at him and abuse hurled whilst waiting Fleming, Ian Bogie, Derek Forrest, Richard for the bus to go to training and he told them how Braithwaite, Insp Ronnie Lowes,, Newcastle Street hurt he was by this. People were visibly affected by Wardens, all the stall holders and volunteers what was being said. The two young people who asked the best questions won tickets to St James’s 19th September 2006 Park to watch Newcastle United play in the UEFA cup. Start of the New Season: A team of show Racism the Red Card volunteers had Chelsea FC been working tirelessly inflating balloons all day and over 1000 red Show Racism the Red Card balloons The first Show Racism the Red Card event of the new were released as part of a balloon race, which was a football season; was hosted by Chelsea FC at great statement with which to finish the day. Stamford Bridge. 116 school children from local Thanks to Angela Killoran, Alan Walker, Debra Lagun, schools attended to ask questions of a stellar panel. Ann Wood, Jimmy Nelson, Cllr David Faulkener, Including Chelsea’s newest signing, , Paul

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Canoville (the first black player to play for Chelsea), by some freestyle rap from Ian Solomon.This event Dave Bassett (SRTRC Honorary Patron), Sue was a great way to start SRTRC’s tenth season of Dawson (MK Dons Exec), Michael Cole (Chelsea activity and our thanks go to all the guests and in FITC), Dave McDermott (Football Foundation) and particular to Chelsea FC, Pippa Hancock and Michael Colleen Harris (Freelance journalist). The question Cole, for their help in organising the event. and answer session was superb, with questions ranging from the England vs Spain racist incidents to 10th October 2006 Paul Canoville’s experiences playing in the 80s and 10th Anniversary Celebration: being abused by his own fans. The young person Newcastle Gateshead Hilton selected for asking the most thought provoking question won two tickets for a Chelsea FC game and We celebrated our 10th anniversary with a lunch at a signed England shirt (by Ashley Cole). The young the Newcastle/Gateshead Hilton. people all had the opportunity of a tour of the ground The event was very kindly sponsored by Coutts Bank. before or after the event. During the event the Organisations and individuals who have shown audience saw the SRTRC DVD and were entertained support for the campaign were invited with 175

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people attended travelling from all over the UK. The Thanks to Coutts Bank, Don Cowper, Sandre Singh afternoon was chaired by Show Racism the Red Card (Hilton Hotels), John Beresford Charlie Hardwick, Chair, Kevin Miles and Emmerdale Actress and long Azeem and Sameera Ahmed, Richard Oswald and standing Show Racism the Red card supporter everyone else who contributed to the great success Charlie Hardwick. A phone message from our first of the event. Patron, Shaka Hislop, was broadcast from the USA and a video message of congratulations was shown 17th October 2006 from England captain, as we were sitting Poster Launch Everton FC for lunch. The assembled crowd was then given the opportunity to preview the new Show Racism the Everton again hosted a Show Racism the Red Card Red Card campaign video. Once the lunch had event at and as with previous finished, the crowd were entertained by local anti- seasons, it was very successful. A great panel was racist hip hop group “The Word” before John assembled to answer questions from an audience of Beresford, one of our founding Patrons, spoke on young people from local schools. Featuring; Tim behalf of all of our guests by congratulating us on Howard, Nuno Valente (+ interpreter), Calvin Zola our achievements in the past and wishing us well in (Tranmere Rovers FC) and Honorary Patrons the next 10 years. Howard Gayle & Earl Barrett. The event saw the

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unveiling of the new Everton FC/SRTRC poster, “Liverpool UNISON has given full support to the copies of which were distributed with magazines, campaign during the last 10years.We have organised bags and stickers. After the main event the audience a soccer tournament each year to promote the had an opportunity to get autographs from the campaign, over 200 young people attend this event assembled VIPs and go on a tour of the Goodison each year from various racial and social Park ground, including dressing rooms and the backgrounds.Liverpool UNISON held a stall at this dug-outs. An under 7’s team from the area also years Liverpool carnival and we distributed hundreds attended to be presented with their trophy by the of copies of the latest "show racism the red card Everton players. The team are sponsored by Unison magazine and hundreds wore our "show racism the and have been wearing SRTRC sweatshirts to all their red card " stickers. Keep up the good work” games, at time of writing they are undefeated! Raph Parkinson, Branch Chair, Liverpool UNISON 17-30 October 2006 Fortnight of Action in Wales, Show Racism the Red Card would like to thank Before kick-off on the 27th / 28th October 2006, Everton FC and in particular Alan Johnson for players from every Principality Building Society Welsh organising the event and the involvement of Everton Premier league in Wales united in calling for a players, the players and patrons who attended, Gary racism-free football and society. Players and referees Simcock of Skillsforce for inviting the young people held up 'Show Racism the Red Cards' prior to kick and all who attended for making it another occasion offWith 17 clubs in the Welsh Premier league, the to remember. message was conveyed throughout Wales as the

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teams are from all corners of the country. This event assemble to see the DVD and take part in a included the match between Bangor City (blue) and question and answer session with, six first team Aberystwth Town (green), Bangor City captain Paul players, the manager and the chairman! In total 325 O'Neil is seen holding up the red cardShow Racism schoolchildren attended from local schools and the Red Card would like to thank the Football were treated to a great afternoon with a well re- Association of Wales (FAW) for their support during enforced anti-racism message. On arrival the young the Fortnight of Action. people were presented with a goody bag and sticker each, the bag containing our magazine, the MK 18th October 2006 Dons/SRTRC poster (produced by the club), the Poster Launch SRTRC England poster, an MK Dons FITC brochure Milton Keynes Dons and some specifically produced, by the club, Show Racism the Red Card resources – a ‘gonk’, pencil A new benchmark for events at football clubs was and bookmark. The school children were then set at this event, co-organised by Football First – MK whisked off on a tour of the National Hockey Council and Milton Keynes Dons FC. The event saw Stadium, before returning for refreshments prior to one of the largest audiences we have ever had at any the event.

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Kim Burns chaired the event on behalf of SRTRC and where the audience had the opportunity to get items did a great job. The audience was very excited to see signed by all those present. Media interest was high the players and manager there and got a tremendous on the day too, with players and the chairman reception. After a viewing of the DVD, on two interviewed by MK Tv as well as radio stations. screens simultaneously, the audience had the Our thanks go to Dennis Woolford at Football First, opportunity to ask questions of the panel. Martin for all his help in organising the day and promoting Allen, manager of MK Dons, selected who asked the the campaign locally, Sue Dawson, MK Dons Chief questions. Everyone who asked a question received a Executive, for the same reasons, Pete Winkelman, SRTRC wristband and a pair of tickets for an MK and the players for attending, MK Dons Dons game of their choice. The three questions that for hosting the event, the football in the community were judged to have been the most interesting by staff and Matt from the club shop for helping us stuff Martin Allen were also given a bonus prize of signed the goody bags and to Kim Burns and the other shirt, signed ball or signed hats. The message was volunteers from MK who helped run the event. presented well to the audience and should have left a lasting impression reinforced by activities at that 16th November 2006 weekend’s fixture, which was MK Dons designated Poster Launch: Cardiff City FC anti-racism match.

An appearance from one of the MK dons mascots Cardiff City hosted a Show Racism the Red Card ‘Mooie’ came in advance of the autograph session event at Ninian Park and as with previous seasons, it

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was very successful. Dawn Hayes chaired the event 19 November 2006 and the panel assembled to answer questions from Cardiff University Shows Racism the young people included Cardiff City players Willo the Red Card Flood and Malvin Kamara. Ex- Cardiff city player Dave

Bennett was also in attendance. The young person Cardiff University's IMG Group D teams Euros who asked the best question received a football showed 'Racism the Red Card' before their match signed by all the Cardiff City players. against Cardiff Crusaders. In an initiative organised by the Captain Dan Tennant-Ralphs and Show The anti-racist message was reinforced by activities Racism the Red Card, the team all wore t-shirts Dan at the Cardiff City home match against QPR the designed with the words 'One Game For All, Without following day. Players from both clubs warmed up Racism' and also held up cards with those words. wearing the Show Racism the Red Card t-shirts prior Wales Co-ordinator Sunil Patel said "It's great to see to kick off. that one of the top Universities in the UK is showing We would like to thank Cardiff City FC and in their support for the campaign and just re-iterates particular Nick Alford for organising the event and that football is a universal game and should be the involvement of Cardiff City players, Scott Young enjoyed by all, this was reflected in the team spirit of for inviting the local schools, Dave Bennett, one of Euros which had players from eight nationalities our Patrons who participated on the panel and Dawn playing alongside each other". Hayes who chaired the event.

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21st November 2006 22nd November 2006 Poster Launch: Portsmouth FC Anti-Bullying Week: Huddersfield Town AFC Schoolchildren joined forces with players past and present to show their support and to raise the red Show Racism the Red Card took part in this event card. 150 pupils from primary and secondary organised by Kirklees Council, to combat bullying in schools around the city, were invited to the Milan all forms. As with most SRTRC events, we had some Mandric suite at , for an afternoon great support from players of the region. Matt presentation. Glennon attended on behalf of Huddersfield Town A huge cheer echoed around the room as AFC, from Bradford City AFC Steven Schumacher & Portsmouth Football players Lomana Lua Lua attended, Leigh Bromby came from (making his fourth appearance at the annual event) Sheffield United FC and John Hendrie, one of and Noe Pamarot entered the room. Prizes were SRTRC’s Honorary Patrons were on hand to take awarded to those asking the best questions. part in two different Question and Answer sessions. 70 young people attended and they all took a very positive message back to their schools.Our thanks to all the players who attended the event. To Qaisar Mahmood and Sinead Boyle from Kirklees Council for organising the event and the other staff from the council for their help on the day and Huddersfield Town AFC for hosting the event

4th December 2006 Launch of the Welsh Schools competition: National Assembly of Wales

Sport and Politics came together to launch the Show Racism the Red Card Schools competition at the National Assembly for Wales on the 4th December 2006.

The event and was headed by the Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills Jane Davidson who addressed the audience and

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reiterated the importance of schools to enter the competition in Wales. The Culture and Sports Minister Alan Pugh who was one of the guest speakers also backed the campaign and was delighted the competition was coming to Wales. The Minister also outlined the Welsh Assembly Governments’ commitment to tackling the issue of racism and to promoting an anti racist message to all areas of society. Local school children from Kitchener Primary school attended the launch and were delighted to see Welsh Rugby International’s Rhys Williams, Robert Sidoli and Robin Sowden Taylor from Cardiff Blues along with Wales under 21 and Swansea City FC midfielder Owain Tudor Jones at the event.

All the players showed their support for the schools competition and the campaign by participating in a Q & A session taking questions from the school children. They also spent time talking to the children and guests after the event as well as holding an autograph and photo session which proved very popular.

Show Racism the Red Card patron and ex- Also in attendance were members of our Wales footballer Gary Bennett was also in attendance, Gary committee which includes The Sports Council for spoke about the school work he does in the North Wales, Welsh Assembly Government, UNISON, FAW East of England holding anti-racist workshops and FAW Football in the Community, along with accompanied by football training and the importance Teaching Unions, Local Councils and Schools, WCVA of educating young children at an early age on the and the Commission for Racial Equality. issue of racism. Show Racism the Red Card would like to thank the The launch was well attended and included the Ministers and the players who helped us launch our FAW Secretary General David Collins and Vice competition. We would also like to thank everyone President Phil Pritchard, along with the Welsh who attended and we look forward to working Premier league Secretary John Deakin and the head together, to ‘show racism the red card.’ of the Sports Council for Wales Phil Carling.

Pictured above: Young pepole attend our SRTRC workshops

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