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Annual Review 07/08

Show Racism the RED Card

NEW FOR AUTUMN 2008 Contents

FOREWORD: , Honorary President 2 ISLAMOPHOBIA INTRODUCTION: Ged Grebby, UK Project Coordinator 3 DVD and 32 page education pack. CAMPAIGN WORK IN : Also includes DVD update of the film Sunil Patel, Welsh Campaign Coordinator 5 ‘A Safe Place’. CAMPAIGN WORK IN : Billy Singh, Campaign Coordinator, Scotland 9 REPORT: Tommy Breslin, £30 Campaign Worker (Scotland) 12 EVENTS MAP 14-15 including REPORT: Zoobia Aslam, P&P Education Worker (Scotland) 16 REPORT: Gavin Sutherland, Campaign Worker () 17 REPORT: Paul Kearns, UK Office Manager 19 REPORT: Sarah Soyei, Community Education Manager 21 POSTER MAP 27 HONORARY PATRONS, MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE AND STAFF TEAM 28 AVAILABLE FROM

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THE LAST TWELVE MONTHS ARE A PERIOD THAT AS THE LEFT AND BELOW: EVERYONE AT SRtRC CAN REFLECT ON WITH MUCH CAMPAIGN PRIDE. SRtRC’s UK Project Coordinator, Ged GROWS WE A year made all the more memorable by SRtRC’s second Hall Grebby at Number HAVE NEW of Fame induction ceremony, held at No. 10 Downing Street. 10 Downing CHALLENGES Amidst a great assembly of patrons, players and supporters Street BUT INTEND TO of the campaign, the Prime Minister spent time talking to the STICK TO OUR guests and showing his approval and support for the event MAIN MISSION and SRtRC. Even the British weather behaved itself, the STATEMENT OF sunshine making the day truly memorable! COMBATING However, besides the prestigious venue and esteemed RACISM company, there was a serious message to be heard. A message THROUGH relayed by many individuals connected by common experiences; ANTI-RACIST having received, or heard, of unjust actions inflicted on people EDUCATION. because of race or religion; and a shared belief that we can all make a difference. The difference that we dream of and aspire to is so often caught in the pieces of artwork, stories and films produced by school children in our competitions, and highlighted in their innocent and accepting smiles. As we took time out to honour the individuals who have been most instrumental in connecting their common experiences with thousands throughout the UK and Europe, even as we gawked in wonder at our surroundings; we somehow knew that our own experiences, our own histories and our futures would be captured in the artwork of our GED GREBBY UK PROJECT youngest supporters. The future is bright. Introduction COORDINATOR In this review we tell of our history, how racism has changed over the years and how we have adapted to suit. We look THE END OF THE 2007/08 FOOTBALL SEASON SAW OUR CAMPAIGN HOST IT’S SECOND HALL OF FAME forward to another year, another year of trying to make a AWARDS CEREMONY. THE IDEA FOR THE HALL OF FAME CAME ABOUT IN 2004 AND WAS TO THANK THE difference. PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLERS WHO HAVE BEEN SO CENTRAL TO OUR CAMPAIGN’S SUCCESS.

The 2008 ceremony took place in have achieved this massive milestone of £36,542 and an expenditure of SHAKA HISLOP HONORARY PRESIDENT Number 10 Downing Street and was a for our campaign. £30,046. On average, we now incur this level of expenditure every three fitting tribute to the players, ex-players Over the last year we have been Foreword and managers who have made this weeks. Thankfully we have generated developing our campaign on a number an income in excess of one million season our most successful ever. of fronts and hopefully we can give a pounds over the last 2 years. The first The Prime Minister, Secretary of State flavour of these important changes in Annual Report also shows our patrons for Culture, Media and Sport, Minister this Annual Review. As the campaign to be Shaka Hislop and , of Schools and Learning and the Sports grows we face new challenges but who were joined by , Ministers all attended this ceremony intend to stick to our main mission David Kelly and Gary Bennett in the which hosted 170 footballers, statement of combating racism through WE LOOK FORWARD second Annual Report 1997-98. managers, and rugby anti-racist education. This Annual TO ANOTHER YEAR, Today we have over a hundred patrons players, and many other celebrities and Review should be read in conjunction and Gary Bennett now works for the ANOTHER YEAR OF dignitaries. with our Project Summary and our campaign as our head coach. TRYING TO MAKE A In getting the Prime Minister to host Guide for Football Clubs and Councils, DIFFERENCE. this year’s Hall of Fame ceremony we which are all designed to improve the also had a lobbying aim to get our way we work in partnership with other educational resources into every school organisations. in the UK. In previous Annual Reviews I This is the tenth published Annual have mentioned that the Scottish Review in our organisation’s twelve Government and Welsh Assembly have year history and looking back at each helped us achieve this aim in these of the Annual Reviews gives an idea of ABOVE AND RIGHT: two countries but we have not yet got the real progress we have made as a SRtRC’s Honorary President, our educational resources into every campaigning charity. Shaka Hislop at Number 10 school in England. This event certainly Downing Street helped our cause no end and I hope to In the first Annual Report 1996-97, the be able to report very soon that we published accounts showed an income

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LEFT: Dean Gordon, Norma Stephenson and

HERE ARE A FEW OF MY HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2007/08:

The North East Community Education has gone from strength to strength since it was established in 2004. The funding for this scheme originally came from the Football Foundation, and South Tyneside Councils. The success of this programme then led to other councils coming on board: Newcastle, , Durham and Gateshead Councils. This has meant that from just employing one However, we cannot be complacent as football coach: Gary Bennett (ex-Sunderland) we now have John an anti-racist organisation because Anderson (ex-Newcastle United) and Dean Gordon (ex-Middlesbrough) racism has certainly not declined in on our staff team. We are just about to sign an agreement with society in the last twelve years. Racism is Middlesbrough Council to deliver the anti-racism workshops in their constantly changing and consequently schools; so the scheme will hopefully grow and grow. we need to be reviewing and changing our anti-racist educational resources. We have had a similar growth of our community education work in With this in mind we developed this Scotland and Wales. The use of ex-professional footballers as coaches years magazine with focus on different and anti-racist education workers has been a really brilliant areas of racism: Islamophobia, Refugees development for our work. and Asylum Seekers, migrant labour and SUNIL PATEL and Glenn Loovens with 2007 also saw us host our three biggest prize giving ceremonies for travellers. We are also in the process of a winner from the City event producing new educational resources our school competition. Events at Hampden, Wembley and the WELSH CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR around these growth areas of racism. Cardiff were extremely well attended and were 2008 promises to be an exciting year for the highlights of a busy year of educational events at football clubs. our organisation with five new anti-racist We also managed to add to our resources by producing a number of educational resources being produced: new resources in the course of 2007: Campaign work in WALES 1. A film in conjunction with Fifpro, the • A DVD which showcased the campaign. international players’ union, called ‘Racism and the Beautiful Game’. • A Project Summary to accompany the campaign DVD. A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE OUR LAST ANNUAL REVIEW INCLUDING CARDIFF CITY REACHING THE FA CUP This DVD will be used by players’ • A Guide for Councils working with our resources. FINAL, SWANSEA CITY GETTING PROMOTED AND WALES WINNING THE GRAND SLAM IN RUGBY, IT’S BEEN unions around the world to promote • A Guide for Football Clubs working with our campaign. A GOOD PERIOD FOR WELSH SPORT AS IT HAS BEEN FOR OUR CAMPAIGN IN WALES. ideas on how football can combat • Regular newsletters updating our sponsors and supporters on our racism. We’ve had tremendous support from Tydfil CBC and is progressing towards Radio interviews have been aired on work. clubs in Wales including players from obtaining his ‘B’ Licence in coaching. The Wave Radio, Red Dragon and on 2. A film and education pack to other sports helping to promote our He will be working part-time with Champion 103, and we’ve also featured combat the growth of Islamophobia Partnership work is key to increasing the impact of our anti-racist message by attending our events / SRtRC as well as continuing his on Welsh language football programme in society. message and the more organisations we have working with us in the fight against racism the better. workshops at stadiums and schools. partnership with CBC. ‘Sgorio’. 3. An updated version of our Show We also produced our first ever poster Racism the Red Card film. As well as providing administrative We have produced over 50,000 anti- The other key development for our charity has been our staff team with a team as Glamorgan players support, Jason will also look to racist posters with sporting clubs such 4. A new Scotland SRtRC film. which has grown and developed significantly in the past year. helped ‘show racism the red card’ and strengthen our work in other areas such as Cardiff City, Wales under 19 women’s distributed 3,000 posters to fans ahead 5. The ‘A Safe Place’ film to combat During this period Norma Stephenson, the President of Unison, made as volunteer recruitment and partnership team and Glamorgan Cricket club that of games in Cardiff and Colwyn Bay. racism against Asylum Seekers and us her official campaign for the year and this had a great impact within work with Sports Development Officers have been distributed through schools, refugees will be updated and the union. This led to a number of branch donations and standing Our work has expanded into other such as Football Development, 5 x 60 councils and sports clubs. available on DVD for the first time. orders being arranged and culminated in a fantastic conference speech areas such as delivering workshops in and Dragon Sport Officers along with With these resources at our disposal I by in June 2008. Our thanks go to Norma and Unison for schools, youth clubs and football voluntary sector organisations. am confident that our organisation will their outstanding support. academies with the assistance of ex- continue to develop and grow in the and Fulham footballer Leroy RAISING THE course of the new season. Rosenior. The workshops have seen a great response from teachers and CAMPAIGN’S PROFILE pupils with the majority of youngsters CONCLUSIONS AND THE WAY FORWARD recognising Leroy and becoming IN WALES engrossed during the workshops. The main target for our organisation in the next year is to get our new educational resources into every school in the UK. Through media channels such as The campaign in Wales has recently taken The Islamophobia DVD will be a very welcome addition to our resources and through our direct work in schools we will be able newspapers, radio and television, the on our first Information and Support to gauge its impact. The educational resources can also be used in a wider setting than just in schools and one of our campaign has started to establish itself Worker Jason Webber who will help us challenges is to look at adult education in more depth in the next period. throughout many parts of Wales. We’ve towards our next goal, which is to sustain had good newspaper coverage of our My thanks go to all the staff, management committee, Scottish and Welsh Advisory committee, volunteers, players, managers the campaign for the coming years. football club events, school competition Welsh Campaign Coordinator Sunil and supporters who have been the driving force behind making this our most successful year on record. Jason also currently works for the and workshops in schools and youth Patel and boxing champion Amir Khan Finally, a big thank you to all our sponsors who have helped make all the actions that we have taken possible. Sports Development Unit with Merthyr clubs. showing racism the red card

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I would like to thank everyone who has ANTI-RACISM SCHOOL helped towards making the EDUCATIONAL COMPETITION competition a success in Wales including the teaching unions, schools, WORKSHOPS - The SRTRC school competition has been pupils, judges and in particular, the running for 8 years and the number of football clubs / FAW for donating the SCHOOLS schools entering from Wales has prizes. continued to increase over the past 2 Our workshops have been delivered to competitions. We have seen more than schools in Wrexham, Merthyr, Cardiff 100 schools from 18 of the 22 Local and Vale of Glamorgan to approx 800 Authorities in Wales involved and this young people. Recent workshops in the year saw an increase of 24% from the Vale of Glamorgan have seen us deliver previous year. football coaching alongside classroom based workshops. The coaching has There has been a great response and the been delivered by our football coach standard of entries has been excellent; Leroy Rosenior. entries have also been in Welsh and we will continue where possible to promote The Vale of Glamorgan Council became our work bi-lingually with production of the first in Wales to give us funding our materials and resources. towards our anti-racist workshops and we visited 10 schools and 6 youth clubs Our prize giving ceremony was held at in the area. We are hopeful that other the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and Councils will see the benefits of these the prizes have included category workshops and will support them so winners meeting the Wales football that we can deliver them in other parts squad players which was arranged by of Wales. in Wales. We will expand the workshops so that The competition in Wales will see more they are delivered to junior football schools being involved in future clubs and Football academies. This will competitions and we have already be done with the assistance of received orders for the new DVD / Overall winning entry in Wales by volunteers who will be recruited in the Education packs that are being released Mari Roberts of Ysgol Brynconin in delivered our workshop to their youth coming months. later this year. Pembrokeshire FOOTBALL CLUB academy players with the help of first ‘SHOWING EVENTS team players who answered questions RACISM THE on racism from the youngsters. Since the last review, our football club Our next club was Porthmadog FC and RED CARD’ events have taken us into the Welsh this event attracted well over 100 as well as our regular school children from local schools as In response to incidents of events with Cardiff City, Wrexham and well as football programme Swansea City. ‘Sgorio’ who featured the event during racism at football matches, we contacted 2 The New Saints (TNS) became the first a live broadcast. clubs involved and this led WPL club to host an event as we Swansea City players Jason Scotland to immediate action by and visited a local the clubs to promote their school to talk to youngsters about their experiences of racism in football and in stance that racism will not society as we started to take this be tolerated at their format into schools. grounds. We will continue to monitor incidents in the Penydarren Park the home of Merthyr coming season and will Tydfil FC was another venue we visited as first team players were joined by work with the clubs as Leroy Rosenior who briefly managed soon as any incidents the club to talk to pupils from a nearby arise. school who also watched our campaign DVD. ABOVE: The new season will see us continue Welsh international working with the football clubs and we ‘shows Our Football coach Leroy Rosenior will also be working with other sports racism the red card’ delivering a workshop at Lansdowne Swansea City players at Cefn Hengoed such as rugby clubs to promote our Primary school in Cardiff school in Swansea message.

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FORTNIGHT OF WE NOW HAVE TO WORK TOWARDS STABILISING THE CAMPAIGN BY FORMING KEY PARTNERSHIPS AND Billy Singh, Derek ACTION OBTAINING THE NECESSARY RESOURCES TO CONTINUE Ferguson and MSPs at the WORKING WITH THE PEOPLE OF WALES TOWARDS Scottish Parliament send Every October sees the FARE Fortnight out a clear message of Action and for the past 2 seasons, ELIMINATING RACISM FROM SOCIETY. the Fortnight in Wales has seen all the Welsh Premier League clubs taking a united stance against racism. Match programmes and club websites promoted a message to fans as well as WORKING TO PROMOTE FOOTBALL INCLUSION players warming up with SRTRC t-shirts and holding up red cards. OF BME GROUPS

Other clubs such as Cardiff City and The last 18 months has seen us work with under-represented groups and towards Merthyr Tydfil FC also took similar action them being more involved in all areas of the game. We are currently working with and our Football coaches Dave Bennett a group of Asylum Seekers / Refugees to form a club that can enter the football and Leroy Rosenior visited schools and league in Wales. Having secured kit for the players, we are now looking to arrange youth clubs to deliver workshops. courses in First Aid and coaching to help progress this work. This years FOA will see Junior clubs in Wales being involved and taking a We will look to build on this work and engage with other sports departments and stance against racism. We will be to promote participation amongst the BME communities. working with the club secretaries and delivering workshops with the young players who will then unite in a show LOOKING FORWARD of action prior to kick offs. The campaign has made great progress since establishing itself in Wales since BELOW: Welsh Premier League players October 2006, we now have to work towards stabilising the campaign by forming united for the ‘Fortnight of Action’ in key partnerships and obtaining the necessary resources to continue working with Wales the people of Wales towards eliminating racism from society. Campaign work in SCOTLAND BILLY SINGH CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR, SCOTLAND THE CAMPAIGN IN SCOTLAND HAS HAD ITS MOST SUCCESSFUL PERIOD TO DATE. FROM OVER 100 MSPs PARTICIPATING IN A RED CARD ACTION AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT TO DELIVERING ANTI RACIST WORKSHOPS TO OVER 4000 PUPILS OUR MESSAGE HAS BEEN SPREAD FAR AND WIDE. BUT THERE REMAINS A LOT TO BE DONE...

Statistics show that racism in Scotland On a very sad note the campaign lost is on the increase. We hear daily two of its most ardent supporters with reports of people being verbally and the passing away of Phil O’Donnell of physically abused all over Scotland. and of Anecdotal evidence suggests that Celtic. Phil had attended many Red racism still rears its ugly head in the Card events and appeared on our junior, amateur and youth leagues. educational video and we met with Gone are the days when racism is Tommy recently when we were based only on colour, with racism filming at Celtic for our new towards migrant workers, Asylum educational DVD. Seekers, Refugees, the Irish and English Both will be sadly missed but we communities also occurring on a daily have happy memories of two basis. Show Racism the Red Card will outstanding individuals and true endeavour to tackle racism in all its gentlemen who helped spread our guises. But we all have a role to play anti racist message. by challenging racist attitudes on our streets and in our workplace. Only then The following pages provide an can we truly say that “We’re a’ Jock overview of our major achievements MSP Bashir Ahmad and First Minister Tamson’s Bairns”. and our plans for the future. Alex Salmond

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EDUCATIONAL EDUCATING TO CHALLENGE RACIST ATTITUDES AND EXCLUSION REMAINS THE KEY TO COMBATING RACISM WORKSHOPS IN THE LONG TERM. In partnership with Inverclyde, , East Ayrshire and Councils we have delivered anti racist workshops and football coaching sessions to over 4200 pupils in 140 ISLAMOPHOBIA AND LAUNCH OF GOOD schools. The campaign relies heavily on the role model status of footballers to NEW SCOTTISH PRACTICE GUIDE FOR deliver our anti-racist message. We currently have Derek Ferguson, Jim EDUCATION PACK COUNCILS Duffy, Brian Irvine, , Educating to challenge racist attitudes In February 2007 we formally launched Michael Weir and and exclusion remains the key to our Good Practice Guide for Councils at delivering our workshops in schools combating racism in the long term. Our . Colleagues from and communities. educational strategies and projects aim England and Wales and friends from to keep pace with the changing face of Red Card campaigns in and WORKSHOP FEEDBACK racism in Scottish society. Norway joined us. Our guest speaker was ex Celtic, Chelsea and Pisa star “The children are now more aware of There will be a concerted effort to Paul Elliot who is now an ambassador racist language in their speech.” tackle the rise in Islamophobia and our Sylvie Clarke from new educational resource tackling this for FIFPro, the international players Banchory “Improved the classroom community issue will be key to this. union. Our Good Practice Guide is Academy in spirit.” designed to help local councils work A new DVD and education pack for Kincardineshire at closely with our campaign and get the “Improved confidence to speak about Scotland will also be available towards Hampden Park best out of our anti-racist resources and racist issues.” the end of the year. The film will include with the winning the services we can provide. interviews with , Jean entry for our anti- “I wish I had filmed Derek’s workshop Claude Darcheville, Stephen McManus, racist school to use later with other classes.” , , Simon HAMPDEN competition “The children were totally engaged Ford, Abdessalam Benjelloun, Thierry with their own learning on the day. A Henry, , , Julie EXHIBITION Curriculum for Excellence in action.” Fleeting and Gordon Smith. Currently on display in the Hampden FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS THANKS Park Football Museum are the winning entries from the school’ • Securing long term partnership agreements Our campaign wouldn’t be successful without the help and competition from the last six years. with councils to deliver Islamophobia support of many individuals and organisations. They are too The exhibition will run until the end workshops. numerous to mention here and please don’t be offended if of August 2008. you don’t get a mention. • Develop day long events at football clubs and community settings. Major sponsors - The Scottish Government, GMB, UNISON, HALL OF FAME The Educational Institute of Scotland, Scottish Qualifications • Launch of third party reporting of racist Authority, General Teaching Council for Scotland. Congratulations to our Scottish Hall of incidents in partnership with Motherwell FC Council Support – Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, East Ayrshire, Fame winners Tony Higgins, Fraser and Strathclyde Police. Falkirk, City, Aberdeenshire, North Lanarkshire, Wishart, Gerry Britton, Craig Levein, South Lanarkshire, Midlothian, Renfrewshire and Highland. Robbie Neilson, Derek Ferguson, Jim • Fortnight of Action 2008 to incorporate Major supporters – The Scottish Football Association, The Duffy, Brian Irvine and Jackie expansion into the lower leagues. , The , McNamara Senior. Their work on behalf • Independent review of school competition Scottish Junior Football Associations, Scottish Women’s of the campaign has been over the last six years. Premier League, UEFA, PFA Scotland and FIFPro. immeasurable and long may they continue to support our work. Robbie • Major re-launch of school competition in Scottish Advisory Committee - Veronica Rankin, Eileen and Craig received their awards on the 2009. Dinning, Kevin O’Neil, Derek Kirkwood, Fraser Wishart and pitch at Tynecastle and Tannadice. Tony Higgins. • In partnership with the Scottish Rugby MSPs – All who took part in Red Card action in October 2007. Union we will be producing a Red Extra thanks to Bashir Ahmad, Bill Butler and John Park. Card/Scotland rugby poster. LEFT: Dean Gordon, Gerry Britton, Jim Individuals – Derek Ferguson, , Brian Irvine, Gary Duffy, Andy Burnham MP, Brian Irvine MacKay, Michael Weir, Gerry Britton, Dave Scott, Humza and Kieron Brady in the garden of 10 Yousaf, Riki Grauer, Jackie McNamara Snr and David McPhee. Downing Street to collect their SRtRC All Red Card staff and volunteers but especially Tommy Hall of Fame awards Breslin, Ruth McGeoch and Zoobia Aslam.

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MESSAGES OF TOMMY BRESLIN CAMPAIGN WORKER, SCOTLAND SUPPORT include squads wearing SRtRC T-Shirts, FORTNIGHT OF clubs running SRtRC articles in the "Football is a powerful sport. It ACTION 16th – 30th match day programmes and anti-racist teaches young people the public address announcements prior to importance of being part of a OCTOBER 2007 kick-off. team and gives them the self- All ties in the second round of the confidence to make themselves The fourth Show Racism the Red Card Fortnight of Action in Scotland took on the 27th of October were better people. Show Racism involved. This expanded participation by the Red Card is an integral part place between the 16th and 30th of October 2007. The profile of the a further 22 clubs and included a large of football. It helps our young number of teams from the East of people to understand different organisation has grown since the Scottish office was established in 2003. Scotland League, the Highland League cultures and makes sure that and the Stagecoach Super League. The there is a place for everyone in So too has the Fortnight of Action (FoA). This time of concerted action SWPL joined with us for the first time the Scottish football family. The and the West of Scotland Youth League work that they do has made a across Scotland encourages community groups, schools and professional supported the Weekend. The number of real difference right across our clubs participating in the Weekend of country.” football clubs amongst others to positively engage with Show Racism Action increased from 42 in 2006 to 82 Gordon Smith, the Red Card. in 2007. Chief Executive, Scottish Football Association COMMUNITY BASED WEEKEND OF Redpath “Our view is clear - Albion/Pilmeny discrimination should only be EVENTS ACTION 26th – 28th Sports Club at on the basis of ability. We look A further 63 organisations participated the forward to working with Show OCTOBER during the fortnight. As a result over 500 Mela after Racism the Red Card in the A very important and visible part of the actions took place as part of the FoA. winning coming years to help get their FoA is the Weekend of Action in which The Mela Cup message across.” Many grassroots teams in Ayrshire, all 42 Football Clubs playing at the and Edinburgh held centre Lex Gold, Chairman, professional level took part in anti- circle Red Card displays prior to kick off. Scottish Premier League racist initiatives. These actions are particularly popular The involvement of the SFL and SPL and create a sense of unity from the “Show Racism the Red Card An increased number of schools were clubs is the highest profile event in the grassroots through to the professional has been a highly successful involved in actions. These actions took THE FORTNIGHT OF ACTION AS A CATALYST SRTRC Scotland calendar. The actions levels. campaign in raising awareness the form of anti-racist workshops, fun A major aim of the Fortnight of Action is to encourage anti-racist actions, events of the negative effects of runs and football tournaments. The Dar and initiatives to take place throughout the year. Many organisations begin their racism on society and the Club Al-Falaah Community Education actions during October and run follow-up events during the year. There are other has been delighted to support Association, the Sudanese Community organisations including schools and community groups that look to the Fortnight of the initiative for many years.” and others celebrated the religious Action for ideas and inspirations. Peter Lawwell, Chief festivals of Ramadam and Eid Ul Fitr. Executive, Celtic Football Club Govanhill Community Development Trust Days of action were undertaken by the Scottish Hockey Union and the Scottish and the Active Life Club both organised Junior Football Association following the model developed by the SPL and SFL “Our Club wholly endorses the anti-racist and multicultural days for the events. principles of Show Racism the whole family at the Larkfield Centre in Red Card and the great Govanhill, Glasgow. These days were The 2007 Fortnight of Action built on the success of the three previous years with commitment shown by the attended by over 1,000 local people. The an unprecedented estimated 500 actions taking place across Scotland. The grant organisation. There is simply celebrations tackled racism and sought scheme strongly encourages community groups to get involved. The Weekend of no place in football for to bring people of different faith beliefs Action generates positive media publicity and reaches people of many different prejudice of any kind. As a and cultural backgrounds together. ages and socio-economic groupings; it is the highest profile event of the SRtRC Club we are committed to calendar. eradicating any anti-social Anecdotal evidence indicates that there behaviour at football matches are many more organisations taking and we will continue to offer action during this period out-with our Show Racism the Red Card our grant scheme. Many groups, schools full support.” and others have SRtRC resources that are utilised to educate young people THE CELEBRATIONS TACKLED RACISM AND SOUGHT TO Martin Bain, Chief Executive, about the dangers of racism during the BRING PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT FAITH BELIEFS AND Rangers Football Club Fortnight. As October is Black History CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS TOGETHER. Month, non-SRtRC initiatives are also Dundee United participating in the Fortnight of Action very evident throughout this time.

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Events 2007-2008

MUSIC CONFERENCES In the past year we aimed to enhance We have run stalls at the EIS, Unsion and Love Music Hate Racism our involvement in the field of music. conferences. These stalls proved popular with us distributing over 500 As a result of this drive we now have SRtRC films and Education Packs for use in developing workshops an established presence at T in the Park across Scotland. and the Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival. These festivals provide us with an opportunity to engage with large amounts of music fans, we have found ZOOBIA ASLAM that our presence is welcomed and EDUCATION WORKER, SCOTLAND important. In October Love Music Hate Racism collaborated with the NME to SCHOOL ART COMPETITION 07/08 release a free anti-racist double album. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCOTLAND We took stock of these albums and distributed 700 copies across Scotland. This year’s competition was focused around a central theme; “Welcoming New Scots: In April 2007 we once again joined challenging racism, celebrating diversity.” Over 8000 pupils took part from 135 schools. Billy Bragg for the Scottish leg of his The judging panel this year was made up of Yvonne Strachan (Scottish Government, tour. Head of Equality), Mark Fernandes (The Educational Institute of Scotland), Jim Duffy (Red Card coach, former footballer/manager, media pundit) and Dan Gerrard (Spartans FC). All entries were of a very high standard and the judges had a SUPPORTERS GROUPS difficult task picking the winners. GET INVOLVED Over 280 school children, from as far afield as the Isle of Harris and Wick, attended the gala prize giving ceremony held at Hampden Park. Prizes included signed footballs, A vital component of the Scottish game signed football shirts, match day tickets, VIP days and prize money up to £1000 for is the fans. Through our work with their school. The football prizes were kindly donated once again by clubs throughout Report: Supporters Direct, we have established Scotland. Players in attendance included (Celtic), Mark Hately (Rangers), a positive relationship with a number Robbie Neilson (Hearts FC) and Rob Jones (Hibernian FC) and they were joined by new GAVIN SUTHERLAND CAMPAIGN WORKER (ENGLAND) of fans’ trusts. The Arab Trust ,The Scotland manager and Scottish FA Chief Executive Gordon Smith. Bairns Trust, the Honest Men Trust, United Clydebank Supporters, the Killie The overall winner was Sylvie Clarke from Banchory Academy in Kincardineshire. SINCE THE 2006 ANNUAL REVIEW WAS PUBLISHED, THE ROLE OF CAMPAIGN WORKER HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED. Trust and Livi for Life all organised All winners had the opportunity to win again with the mystery star prize draw, THE SPECIFIC AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS ROLE ARE THE ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT OF educational events at their stadiums which this year was 2 tickets to the UEFA cup final in ! The tickets went EDUCATION EVENTS AT FOOTBALL CLUBS, THE ORGANISATION OF THE ANTI-RACIST SCHOOL COMPETITION AND to Hannah Worthington from St Cyrus School in Montrose. involving players from their clubs and DEVELOPMENT OF PARTNERSHIP WITH COUNCILS TO WORK WITH SRtRC ON THE COMPETITION. local young people. The Red Ultras and the Jungle Bhoys developed and ANTI RACIST CLUB EVENTS unveiled banners condemning racism JANUARY 2007 – EDUCATION EVENTS AT FOOTBALL CLUBS and welcoming Refugees and Asylum Events were held with 17 clubs including Aberdeen, Dundee FC, Dundee United, A major part of the Campaign Worker’s on pages 14-15. SRtRC have aimed to Seekers. Fans groups and Trade Union Dunfermline, Falkirk, Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian, , Livingston, MAY 2008 role in England is to increase the run quality educational events at activists supported the campaign by Motherwell, Partick Thistle, Rangers and St Johnstone. I am pleased to report that since January number of education events at football football clubs and in doing so, afford organising SRtRC stadium hoardings at The clubs host these workshops at their stadiums and invite local schools to 2007 great progress has been made in clubs. The target for events at football young people the opportunity to view St Johnstone FC’s McDiarmid Park, participate in the event. The workshops involve the screening of a SRtRC film these areas of the Show Racism the Red clubs during 2007 was 40, which we SRtRC resources and question players Albion FC’s followed by a Q&A session with a panel of guests including players from the club Card campaign. SRtRC is now working managed to attain, an increase of 15 on their experiences in society and and Falkirk FC’s . and representatives from the PFA Scotland, SRtRC and the local council. with an increasing number of football events on the highest total taking place football. We also try to further develop clubs around England and is reaching in any previous year. The events are relationships with footballers, football COMMUNITY EVENTS many more young people directly with one of the pivotal parts of the clubs, other sports stars, other potential the anti-racism message at our campaign combining education of role models, Local Authorities and other Each year we hold a stall at the educational events. The School young people on the subject of racism, organisations, to encourage them to Glasgow and Edinburgh Melas. These Competition has also been greatly football club and player involvement in become active with Show Racism the stalls prove popular with the large improved and since the last Annual the campaign, press interest in the Red Card. crowds and our presence has been Review two fantastic Prize-Giving campaign and in many instances, It is important for us to continue to try enhanced through the inclusion of 5-a- Ceremonies have been organised for the partnership work with Local Authorities. and develop relationships with football side football tournaments with an anti- 2007 and 2008 competitions respectively. As you can see from the map on pages clubs who have not hosted events racist message. In this report I aim to outline the work 14-15, from Jan 07 – May 08, we have before and when we have worked with We have delivered many bespoke undertaken during the period January covered the length and breadth of a club, maintain that relationship. In educational workshops with schools 2007 – May 2008. England, staff teams clocking up the first half of 2008 SRtRC have been and community groups and regularly approximately 21,345 miles to work fortunate enough to hold events at all provide resources for community ABOVE: 2008 Competition overall with more football clubs than ever of the football clubs who hosted events groups to run SRtRC stalls at their winners, students from Rosslyn Park before in the history of the campaign. during the period Jan – May 2007. We events. Students with Kilmarnock FC players at Primary School, Nottingham There are more statistics on the map have also been able to work with four

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THROUGH THE CONTINUED PROMOTION OF THE COMPETITION AND OUR RESOURCES WE AIM TO CONTINUE TO ENGAGE WITH COUNCILS IN THIS WAY AS IT PRODUCES SOME BRILLIANT WORK AND ENSURES A STRONG ANTI-RACIST MESSAGE IS DELIVERED TO YOUNG PEOPLE IN EACH OF THE PARTNERSHIP AREAS. Sunderland AFC club event clubs who have not hosted events An increasing amount of football clubs to more football clubs around England. before in the first four months of 2008 are also now hosting full day events This type of event adds real educational and we will continue to strive to ensure with Show Racism the Red Card which value for the young people who attend the events are of a high educational presents the young people who attend and makes the experience of attending standard and expand the range of clubs with a range of workshops on anti- a SRtRC event all the more memorable we work with throughout the racism themes. This also allows us to for them. remainder of the year. work with other organisations that are Space is limited in this Annual Review SRtRC have managed to work with invited to host a workshop. A typical to detail reports of all of the events more Local Authorities at the education full-day event at a football club will see undertaken, but these reports are events, which is helping us to forge four rotating workshops and typically available on our website. I would like more partnerships for other areas of one will be run by SRtRC, one by the to thank all of the staff and volunteers England Women’s Captain, our work, such as the competition and football club (such as a ground tour or who have worked on these events, all and England player, at introducing resources to new regions. workshop run by the study support of the football clubs who have hosted the 2008 Prize Giving Ceremony In the period Jan 07 – May 08, 45 centre) and two workshops run by them for their time, support and Councillors and council representatives external organisations. In the afternoon efforts, the schools who have attended have taken part in the panels at the all groups re-convene for a SRtRC event and Local Authorities and other education events as well as 3 Members with players from the club. SRtRC aim organisations who have taken part and ANTI-RACIST SCHOOL flyer for us to every school in England. work and ensures a strong anti-racist of Parliament. to introduce the idea of full-day events helped support the events. The competition was also promoted message is delivered to young people COMPETITION through the campaign's magazine and in each of the partnership areas. website. A calendar was produced I have produced a full report on each of One of the most valuable projects the utilising winning pieces of artwork from the last two competitions, which is campaign undertakes each year is the the 2007-08 competitions in England, available by contacting me at the School Competition, which has been speaking at Arsenal Scotland and Wales. The calendar was office. Full reports on the Prize-Giving greatly improved in 2007 and 2008 to FC educational distributed free of charge and was a Ceremonies are also available from the ensure a more effectively organised event new way to promote the competition. office or on our website. We could not competition. As well as being rewarding All of the 2007 entries were used as a have wished for two more prestigious the competition also produces one of touring exhibition, which visited public venues in (07) and the highest profile events SRtRC buildings and venues around England The (08). Over the organise, in the Prize Giving Ceremony. such as Trade Union Conferences, two years 21 Players, former players The aims of the competition are to Libraries and Town Halls. and SRtRC Honorary Patrons attended engage young people in thinking about All of this promotion has meant that in the Prize Giving Ceremonies to present the issues of racism and producing their 2007, 610 schools registered to participate prizes to 67 winning pupils of all ages, own work, increase the number of in the competition, both independently from all over England. schools working with our campaigns and through partnership with councils I would like to extend a huge thanks to resources and make use of the winning running competitions in their localities, all of the young people, teachers and entries as part of our campaign resources. which then send on their entries to the schools who have taken part in the I think that over the last two years we National SRtRC Competition. In 2008, 569 competitions, the football clubs for have been able to meet these aims. schools registered to participate in the donating prizes, the sponsors of the competition for their support, all the It has been possible for Show Racism same ways. Both registration figures are a players, celebrities and patrons who have the Red Card to give more staff time to huge improvement on the registrations of attended the Prize Giving Ceremonies, the organisation of the competition in 2006, which were 181 schools. the judges, partnership councils for all of 2007 and 2008 competitions through The competition has allowed the their great work and SRtRC staff and the Campaign Worker role, which has campaign to establish new partnerships volunteers for their hard work at the allowed us to effectively promote the with councils. In 2008, 7 councils ran Prize Giving Ceremonies. I look forward competition nationally. In England, SRtRC competitions in their areas, an increase to another great competition in 2009. was able to produce 40,000 flyers of 2 councils on 2007’s total. Through advertising the competition each year the continued promotion of the and one of the competition’s sponsors competition and our resources we aim GAVIN SUTHERLAND the National Union of Teachers were to continue to engage with councils in CAMPAIGN WORKER (ENGLAND) able to circulate 30,000 copies of the this way as it produces some brilliant [email protected]

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Report: PAUL KEARNS UK OFFICE MANAGER

IN TERMS OF SPONSORSHIP IT HAS BEEN A FANTASTIC 12 MONTHS FOR THE CAMPAIGN. WE MANAGED TO SECURE IMPROVED FUNDING FROM UNISON, A NEW THREE-YEAR AGREEMENT WITH THE PFA, MP Phil Wilson joins SRtRC coaches Gary FUNDING FOR OUR NEW DVD Bennett, John Young people meeting players at Newcastle United FC club event FROM THE HILTON IN THE Anderson and Dean COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AND Gordon, volunteer FUNDING FOR THE FIRST TIME HALL OF FAME NEW WEBSITE Honorat and prize FROM THE TRADE UNION SRtRC intend to revamp our website winners after the CEREMONY Racism Q&A session at PROSPECT. and launch a brand new fully We held our Hall of Fame Ceremony in interactive website in 2008. The Ferryhill United 2007 May at Downing St hosted by the website tender has now been short- SPONSORSHIP Prime Minister. The event was an listed to two companies to redevelop unparalleled success and attracted a the site. The new website will We received an excellent response to our fantastic turn out of players and dramatically improve our web presence Report: request for poster sponsorship this managers including Sol Campbell, and will incorporate: season and of the Councils that had George Burley, , Nicky • Streaming media of current and ex sponsored posters for season 2006-2007 Shorey, Justin Hoyte, , Peter SARAH SOYEI COMMUNITY EDUCATION MANAGER professionals detailing their all but two Councils renewed their Risdale, , , experiences of racism, advice for sponsorship. We also secured poster , , Moritz THE COMMUNITY EDUCATION TEAM IN HAS CONTINUED TO GROW AND DIVERSIFY OVER young people and support for the sponsorship from ten new Councils and Volz, Jason Roberts, and campaign. THE LAST 12 MONTHS. THE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION HAS REMAINED OUR KEY SPONSOR FOR THE PROJECT AND this meant we were able to print a many others. We managed to secure WE ARE DELIGHTED THAT GATESHEAD COUNCIL, DURHAM COUNTY COUNCIL, NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL AND record number of posters. 650,000 funding for the event from Reed Smith, • A password protected area for posters of 61 different teams in England, PFA, Unite and Unison. The ceremony Management Committee members. THE NORTHERN ROCK FOUNDATION ARE NOW SPONSORING OUR WORK, ALONGSIDE OUR EXISTING approximately 180,000 posters of 22 was also supported by senior • A section for teachers with SPONSORS OF SUNDERLAND CITY COUNCIL, SOUTH TYNESIDE COUNCIL AND NORTH TYNESIDE COUNCIL. teams in Scotland and 56,000 posters of government ministers and was a downloadable resources available. This sponsorship together with in kind Year 6 pupils who we have not support young Asylum Seekers who 7 teams in Wales, approximately fantastic showcase of the work our • Online educational games. support through partnerships has worked with before. We ensure that may come to their school. 880,000 posters in total. This was a campaign has undertaken since our • An online shop. considerable achievement taking into inception 12 years ago. allowed us to greatly increase the the young people are left with an • Citizenship Days in Secondary account the number of managers sacked Once the new site is up and running, amount and variety of activities that understanding of what racism is, Schools to Year 8/9/10 pupils; we prior to Christmas. We produced posters I hope to build up the number of we are able to deliver throughout the the danger of stereotypes and what work in partnership with other with clubs from all four divisions, Arsenal RESOURCES external links and ask all professional region. In the first six months of the they can do to challenge racism. organisations to allow the entire football clubs to add an SRtRC link to project in 2004 we worked with 1439 Ladies and even Forest Green Rovers We intend to review and refresh our • Extension workshops which look year group to experience a carousel their websites. young people. In the last year we have from the Blue Square Premier League. resources and explore the possibility of specifically at the racism faced by of workshops throughout the day. In addition we retained sponsorship of producing new T-shirt designs and delivered workshops to 11564 young Partners include: Positive Images, people and engaged with far more Asylum Seekers and Refugees to £2,000 from the Communication mugs. We already have some designs in Year 6 pupils who received the CSV Community Connections, Workers Union and also agreed funding mind from this year’s school competition through community festivals and other Durham and Gateshead EMTAS high profile events. Our workshops in SRtRC workshop in Y5. We ensure with the Metropolitan Police to cover and hope to produce some new T-shirt that the young people are left with (Ethnic Minority Traveller posters for the 2007-08, 2008-09 and samples over the summer. The calendar primary schools have gone from one Achievement Service) and hour to three and where possible our an understanding of the terms 2009-10 seasons. we produced last year of children’s ‘Asylum Seeker’ and ‘Refugee’, why Newcastle Islamic Diversity Centre. artwork from the competition was a events at football clubs are also much The organisation moved into new offices more in depth, from two hours to people are forced to leave their • Workshops for Adults; we have this year and we now have a much fantastic resource and we intend to countries, and some understanding worked with teachers, trainee reproduce the calendar again this year. whole day events. Our workshops in more suitable working environment. The school include: of what it might feel like to be in teachers, council staff and parents office move has been a big step forward that position, the myths to educate against racism and for us and has vastly improved storage, RIGHT: Anton Ferdinand is • Introductory workshops, which perpetuated by the media and why inform on issues such as the race technology and working conditions in interviewed in Downing Street for explore issues of race, identity and the media produces these stories equality duty in schools and Asylum line with the growth of the organisation. SRtRC DVD stereotypes to Year 5 pupils and and what young people can do to Seekers and Refugees.

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As well as our workshop delivery in BREAKDOWN OF WORKSHOP DELIVERY BY AREA schools we have organised 3 large anti- racist festivals in Newcastle, North Tyneside and Ferryhill. We have also received fantastic support from local sporting clubs. Newcastle United FC and Sunderland AFC have regularly given match tickets for home games as prizes to give to young people who engage with our work and many other clubs have provided prizes, rooms, players and other support. We have held 17 events at sporting clubs throughout the region in the last 12 months.

FEEDBACK TEACHERS’ FEEDBACK:

“Overall opinion of the day?” “How did you find the SRtRC/A Safe Place DVD?” Young people meeting players at Middlesbrough FC club event

YOUNG PEOPLE’S FEEDBACK “I have learnt that racism is a very serious thing and no-one should have to put up with it. You should not judge a person Workshop feedback by what they look like, you should judge them by who they are and not make fun of them.” Matthew “We’ve learnt how other people feel when they are bullied and we’ve learnt to treat people with respect no matter how people look.” “Do you think that the day has improved young people’s “Do you feel that the day encouraged discussion about Dylan understanding about racism?” racism between pupils?” “I have learnt that racism should never happen anywhere there is no exception.” Anon At secondary school events we ask the young people to Feedback from 483 young people, collated Jan 2008 complete a questionnaire before and after the workshops to SAMPLE COMMENTS FROM YOUNG PEOPLE 2008 see the impact that the work has had on their views. The feedback below has been compiled from several schools “Today I’ve learnt that if you are different in any way it does across the North East. not matter you should see the person for what’s inside nothing else. No discrimination.” Heidi A “I have learnt today that Asylum Seekers and Refugees are children and put across a strong message. This is the first time SAMPLE COMMENTS FROM TEACHERS not bad people. They are just people who have gone through that we have had a visit. We would definitely like another. Sensitive Issues covered in a way appropriate and accessible extraordinary experiences and that they only want a better to age group. Excellent rapport with children….Well Albert Elliott Primary School home.” organised, well resourced and well delivered. Enjoyed by all “I particularly liked the fact that the children are made to Olivia children and educational too! think and challenge their own and society’s stereotypes and “I have had loads of fun and I’ve learnt so much. I would St Bedes RC Primary prejudices and that they have to make their own minds up” love it if you came again. I’ve enjoyed every moment. Thank “The subject matter was very motivational and everyone Valley View Primary you for coming.” enjoyed it… well organised and paced lessons” Michelle Hahn “Fantastic Day, delivered brilliantly. Children loved it and Greenside Primary learned a great deal from the experience.” RIGHT: SRtRC’s Laura Fleck and Sarah Soyei with The lesson was extremely well thought out, engaged ALL the Biddick Hall Juniors Sol Campbell at No 10 Downing Street

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Asylum Seekers get lots of free things The North East has too many Asylum Seekers

Other cultures have positively influenced my life Asylum Seekers should be allowed to come to the UK

SRtRC Head Coach Gary Bennett and Unison President Norma Stephenson at Walker is United community event

people experienced anti-racism and Newcastle United FC club event football training workshops from Show Racism the Red Card, Workshops about Traveller Issues from Marie Simpson, Asylum Seekers who volunteer with The day kicked off with a football signed by Samuel Eto. After the Q&A Eagles Basketball Team; Newcastle CSV Community Connection told their tournament for under 8s organised by the football tournament resumed Falcons RFC; Newcastle United FC; story, and Andrew Tinkler from Positive Ferryhill Town Youth FC. The football alongside a variety of other activities Darlington FC; and Durham County Images delivered a music based tournament took a break at 10am and including Hip Hop workshops, Martial Cricket Club. local MP Phil Wilson then officially Arts Workshops, Arts and Crafts, workshop. Alongside these workshops Our event with Durham Cricket Club was opened the day. Football Skills, Balloon Modelling, Face the young people produced their own the first time that we have done with a Painting, Henna Painting and work aimed at fighting racism in the This was followed by a Q&A session cricket club and it was an extremely Bollywood Workshops. There were also form of posters, poems, short stories with Phil Wilson; Honorat, an Asylum successful day. Young people from four community stalls, which provided and PowerPoint presentations. Some of Seeker from the Ivory Coast; County Durham schools attended a information about Hate Crime, this work was displayed at the Ex-Sunderland AFC players Gary whole day of activities organised by Community Safety and Volunteering. community event ‘Ferryhill United’. The Bennett and Kieron Brady; Playing for Success at DCCC, Durham The feedback was overwhelmingly young people were asked to complete Ex-Newcastle United FC player John EMTAS and ourselves. It was a beautiful positive and has led to the questionnaires before and after the Anderson; and Ex-Middlesbrough FC day and the young people were able to organisation of an even bigger workshops. The graphs below player Dean Gordon. There were a eat their packed lunches in the stands, community festival to be held in demonstrate the impact of the work in huge number of interesting questions before watching our DVD and taking Ferryhill on the 6th July 2008. Ferryhill Business and Enterprise and the young person who asked the part in a question and answer session College. best question won a Barcelona shirt with Neil Killeen and Mitch Claydon We also organised a whole day of EVENTS from the Cricket Club, Gary Bennett, activities for 100 primary children from We have organised 20 high profile John Anderson and Margaret Hockey. 3 local primary schools at Ferryhill events across the region in the last year, The young people finished the day One of the highlights of the year was education in the area. Working very leisure centre. The culmination of the including large community festivals in meeting the Cricket Club mascots and an intensive programme of work we closely with Fiona Ranson and Marie work was a community festival called Walker and , a 5-a-side football taking part in a bowl off before taking were able to deliver in Sedgefield Simpson from Durham EMTAS we “Ferryhill United”. We were able to tournament in Middlesbrough and a home their signed posters and Show thanks to funding from UNISON and organised citizenship days for Year 9 organise this event thanks to funding week long anti-racist soccer school in Racism the Red Card goodie bags. support from our partnership with the pupils at three of the local secondary from UNISON, the Football Foundation conjunction with Walker Central FC. Space is too limited here to provide in EMTAS team from Durham County schools: Ferryhill Business and and Sedgefield Community Safety Council. During the recent elections Enterprise College, Sunnydale We have organised events with: depth reports of every event, but Partnership. The event was held at Carlisle United FC; Durham County many have been covered in the there were high levels of support for Community College and Spennymoor Ferryhill Leisure Centre on the 20th racist organisations, which has School. Council; Hartlepool FC; Sunderland AFC, newsletters which are still available to October from 10am – 3pm and was a Walker is United community event South Tyneside Council; Newcastle download from our website. highlighted a need for anti-racist During the Citizenship Days the young great success.

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WE HAVE ORGANISED EVENTS WITH: CARLISLE UNITED ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS POSTERS PRODUCED WITH THE FOLLOWING CLUBS: FC, DURHAM COUNTY COUNCIL, HARTLEPOOL FC, SUNDERLAND AFC, SOUTH TYNESIDE COUNCIL, Thanks to the Football ENGLAND NEWCASTLE EAGLES BASKETBALL TEAM, NEWCASTLE Foundation, Les Platt, (Sunderland City Council) Irene Arsenal FC; Arsenal Ladies; Aston Villa FC; Barnet FC; Barnsley FC; FALCONS RFC, NEWCASTLE UNITED FC, DARLINGTON FC Lucas, Dave Owen John Birmingham City FC; Blackburn Rovers FC; FC; Bolton Wanderers FC; AND DURHAM COUNTY CRICKET CLUB. Braithwaite (South Tyneside AFC Bournemouth; Bradford City FC; Brighton and Hove Albion FC; Burnley FC; Council), Simon Underwood, Mark Bury FC; Charlton Athletic FC; Chelsea FC; Town FC; Colchester United FC; Ellis, Cllr David Faulkner, Simon Coventry City FC; Dagenham and Redbridge FC; Darlington FC; County FC; Wood, Ann Wood, Councillor Doncaster Rovers FC; Durham County Cricket Club; Everton FC; FUTURE WORK David Woods, Rob Atkin, Lisa Bell, Forest Green Rovers FC; Fulham FC; Halifax Town FC; Hartlepool United FC; Hereford United FC; Hull City FC; We are holding four Community Festivals over the Summer of 2008 Debra Lagun, (Newcastle City Council), Maureen Clare, Fiona Town FC; Leeds United FC; City FC; FC; Town FC; Macclesfield Town FC; Manchester City FC; We have invited young people who Ranson, Margaret Hockey, Sue Green, Marie Simpson (Durham Manchester United FC; Middlesbrough FC; Milton Keynes Dons FC; have attended our workshops from Newcastle United FC; Newcastle Eagles; Newcastle Falcons; across the region to a monitoring event County Council) Cllr John Harrison, Paul Gowans, Felicity Shoesmith, Northampton Town FC; Norwich City FC; Nottingham Forest FC; at the JJB Soccerdome on the 10th July. Athletic FC; Peterborough United FC; FC; They will have the opportunity to Tony Rice, Barry Wilkinson, Ann Taylor, Roxanna Roknabedi, Reading FC; Rotherham United FC; United FC; feedback on their experience, and how Sheffield Wednesday FC; Southampton FC; Stockport County FC; it has impacted on them, preview Yannis Xamonakis (North Sunday 6th July - "Ferryhill Is United" Sunderland AFC; Tottenham Hotspur FC; Tranmere Rovers FC; Walsall FC; some of our new resources and help us Tyneside Council), Nitin Shukla, Dean Bank Recreation Ground, Ferryhill, Watford FC; West Bromwich Albion FC; West Ham United FC; to improve our work, before taking part Mark Cheetham (Gateshead County Durham, DL17 8PP. 11am-5pm Council) Alan Gate (Walker Boys Wolverhampton Wanderers FC; Wycombe Wanderers FC; in a fun football tournament to finish Yeovil Town FC; York City FC. the day. Club), Garry Marshall, Florence McGregor (), SCOTLAND The Northern Rock Foundation and Dave and Rita Foster (Ferryhill Newcastle City Council are funding our Town Youth FC) Alan Blakemore, Aberdeen; Celtic; Dundee; Dundee United; Dunfermline; new community education work which Sean Barry, Ian Davey, John Falkirk; Gretna; Heart of Midlothian; Hamilton Academicals; is aimed at combating Islamophobia. Thurlbeck, Katie Banner and Hibernian; Caledonian Thistle; Kilmarnock; We will be launching the project and James Bake (Sedgefield District Livingston; Motherwell; Partick Thistle; Rangers; Raith Rovers; our new DVD on the subject in October Council) Kenny Bell, Clare Ross County; St Johnstone; St Mirren; Stranraer. Saturday 19th July - "Walker is United" and will be initially targeting the Williams (UNISON) Robin Fry, The Lightfoot Centre, Wharrier Street, workshops at Year 10 students. Anita Sarkar (VODA) Richard WALES Walker, , NE6 3BR. Durham EMTAS has supported us in the Braithwaite (Mr Silky Skills), Glamorgan Cricket Club; Cardiff City; Wrexham FC. 10am-3pm production of an education pack on Jimmy Nelson, Mark Hannen, travellers, this is now being edited and Gary Oliver (Newcastle United we hope to launch the pack and FC), Louise Wanless (Sunderland workshops on Traveller issues towards FC) Kevin Stonehouse (Darlington the end of the Autumn Term. FC), Melanie Magee (Newcastle If you require any more information Falcons RFC), Zoe Vickers please contact Sarah Soyei at (Newcastle Eagles), David Ross, [email protected] Karen Hall, Yvette Thompson Sunday 27th July - "Wallsend is United" (Durham County Cricket Club) Ian Burnside Business and Enterprise Solomon (KMT), Amer Sheikh College, St Peters Road, Wallsend, (The Word), Ciara Van Vogt (CSV NE28 7LQ. 10am-4pm Community Connections), Andrew Tinkler (Postive Images), Abu Tayeb (IDC) Martin Lightfoot, David Foster, Sue Abbott, Simone Doyle, Kev Miles, David Kendrick, Derek Gardner (SRtRC Management Committee), Iftikhar Hussain, Clare Troman, Azeem Ahmed, Richard Hopper (Volunteers) Paul Burgess (design), and all the players who Sunday 10th August "Sunderland have attended events and helped Together against Racism (STAR) to make them special for the Festival" Centre, young people involved. Commercial Road, Sunderland, SR2 8PD. 11am-4pm Walker is United community event

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