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Srtrc Hall of Fame Ceremony Downing Street 12Th May 2008

Srtrc Hall of Fame Ceremony Downing Street 12Th May 2008

Introduction Ged Grebby UK Project Co-ordinator

The 2007-8 season was officially the most successful season in the history of our campaign with more posters produced, events at clubs and community education work than ever before. We are now working on our Annual Review for this period, which we hope to have finished for July 2008. This newsletter can only give a flavour of the work we have carried out since our last newsletter in and Robbie Earle presented the December. We managed to a brilliant season for our Hall of Fame Ceremony. anti-racist campaign with a fantastic event at 10 Downing Street with our patrons, supporters and sponsors. Work is progressing well on our four new films: 1. A film in conjunction with Fifpro the international players’ union called “Racism and the Beautiful game”. This DVD will be used by players’ unions around the world to promote ideas on how football can combat racism. 2. A film and education pack to combat the growth of Islamophobia in society. 3. An updated version of our DVD. 4. A new Scottish Show Racism the Red Card DVD. The aim is to have all four films finished and ready to launch for the beginning of the new season in August. We have interviewed the following players and ex- players: , Lillian Thuram, Samuel Eto’o, , , , Brian McClair, Gordon Taylor, , , Leroy and Fabulous Flournoy were Rosenior, Freddie Eastwood, Jermaine Easter, , amongst the guests at 10 Downing Street. , , , , , , , , , , , , David Nugent, Matthew Taylor, Noe Pamarot, Benjani Mwaruwari, , John Beresford, , , , Nyron Nosworthy, , , , , , Gary Bennett, Brendon Batson, Paul Davis, Paul Canoville, , Hughton, Stephen McManus, , Jean Claude Darcheville, , Garth Crooks, , , , , Al Bangura, , Jason Roberts, , Sol Campbell, , , and Kolo Toure. Avram Grant and of Chelsea FC came to show their support. As you can see we have had an excellent response from footballers, football clubs and managers and the prospect of having all these new resources available to us with education packs by September 2008 means this is going to be a very exciting year for our organisation. My thanks go to all our staff, volunteers, management committee and patrons who have worked so hard to make this season such a successful one for our campaign. Show Racism the Red Card, PO Box 141, Whitley Bay, NE26 3YH. Tel: 0191 257 8519. Fax: 0191 257 8541. www.theredcard.org

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SRtRC Hall of Fame Ceremony Downing Street 12th May 2008

The Prime Minister recently hosted Show Racism the Red Card’s Hall of Fame Ceremony at 10 Downing Street. The Hall of Fame was initiated in 2004 as a way of thanking the high profile role models who have so generously given their time and commitment to our campaign. The first Hall of Fame Ceremony was held at Coutts HQ in the Strand and awards have previously been given to Thierry Henry, , Brendon Batson, Rio Ferdinand, Shaka Hislop, Gordon Taylor and Sir among others. This year’s Ceremony was sponsored by Reed Smith, Unison, PFA and Unite the Union. The Ceremony was very well attended and was tribute to NON-FOOTBALLING ROLE MODELS the time and effort people are willing to put aside to Rugby: Joe Shaw, Colin Charvis support our anti racist message. Sol Campbell came along to Basketball: Fabulous Flournoy accept an award, the same week that he captained Actors: Tracey Wilkinson, Patrick Miller FC to FA Cup victory. Avram Grant and Peter Music: Heather Small Kenyon of Chelsea took the time to attend in one of the busiest weeks of their professional careers leading up to the COMMUNITY EDUCATION WORK Champions League final. The Reading chairman John Leroy Rosenior, Brian Irvine, John Anderson, , Madejski was there to pledge support, even though his club , Kieron Brady, , Dean Gordon. had been relegated the previous day and he was on crutches because he broke his ankle a few weeks ago. The SCHOOLS COMPETITION Manager and Chairman of City FC, Dave Jones and Peter Risdale also took time out from their FA Cup final Bobby Barnes, Chris Freestone, David Collins, preparations to show a united front against racism. Howard Gayle, Higgins, Dave Bennett, , Bob Bolder, Iffy Onuora, Paul Elliott. We were also fortunate enough to have senior Government Ministers present on the day to champion our cause, Gerry UNSUNG HEROES Sutcliffe, Minister for Sport and Jim Knight, Minister for Don Cowper, John Last, Kamber Kimti, Kim Burns. Schools and Learners. Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, kindly agreed to open the Ceremony After the awards, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown spoke with a speech backing our campaign and paying tribute to to thank all recipients for their hard work fighting how far the campaign has progressed from its inception in discrimination and working towards eliminating prejudice. 1995. SRtRC Honorary President, Shaka Hislop took up the Mr Brown was then presented with a framed Show story, sharing his personal experiences of racism and his Racism the Red Card/Raith Rovers poster to thank him for pride at how his original donation of £50 over ten years ago hosting the Ceremony and for backing our campaign. set the wheels in motion for the campaign which is now prevalent tackling the scourge of racism throughout Europe. The event was afforded extensive media coverage including slots on Newsnight and News. The Ceremony hosted 170 footballers, managers, Shaka Hislop wrote an article that featured on The basketballers, rugby players, and many other celebrities Guardian website, which can be found at: and dignitaries. Many, many high profile players and Managers turned out for the campaign including Scotland http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/may/15/ Manager , , , Anton majorleaguesoccer Ferdinand, Nicky Shorey, , Justin Hoyte, Jason Roberts, , Moritz Volz, Al Bangura, Simon One of the aims of the day for our campaign was to lobby Grayson, and . Football Clubs were the Ministers present to help us achieve our goal of also represented at the highest level, Chris Mort of providing every school in with a copy of our Newcastle United, John Reid and Peter Lawwell of Celtic, educational DVD. We have already managed this in both Martin Bain and of Rangers, Lex Gold of the Scotland and Wales and it would be a landmark SPL, Campbell Ogilivie of Hearts, Gordon Smith of the SFA achievement for us if we were able to secure a and representatives from both FA and PFA in England. commitment from the Government to make it happen in England. Leroy Rosenior was interviewed on the day The presenters were ex-footballers Leroy Rosenior and outlining the work of the campaign and the interview can Robbie Earle, both members of our Hall of Fame, and the be found at: awards were allocated according to the following categories: http://youtube.com/watch?v=i2yi5jULNpE EDUCATIONAL EVENTS AT SPORTING CLUBS The day was a resounding success thanks to the hard work Sol Campbell, Jason Roberts, , Danny Shittu, of staff and Management Committee members and the Jason De Vos, (received by his Manager significant contributions from Unison, Reed Smith, the PFA, Dave Jones), Justin Hoyte, Efe Sodje, Jim Smith, Craig Unite, Dave Anderson MP, Jack Nicholas, Paul Burgess, Gordon, Jackie McNamara Snr, Brian Hall. Lee Dobson and Potts Printers.

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Campaign in WALES Sunil Patel Welsh Campaign Co-ordinator

Since the last newsletter, we have continued to promote our work throughout Wales and our campaign has attracted support from up and down the country.

The last few months saw us deliver our first ever football club workshops with Swansea City and Welsh side Welshpool FC. Both the workshops were held at local schools and saw first team players sharing their views and experiences of racism with young people. We have had a tremendous response from the football clubs in Wales and we will look to broaden our events by holding workshops with Rugby clubs in Wales next season. The campaign has taken on a new Information and Support worker for Wales to assist in developing the work in Wales. Jason Webber has been working for the Football in the Community department at Merthyr Tydfil FC for the past few seasons, he is currently working towards Level 3 (B Licence) UEFA coaching award and will assist us towards increasing physical activity as well as adopting new ways of delivering our anti-racism Leroy Rosenior visits Barry Comprehensive school to spread workshops. He will also support the Co-ordinator and our message. manage administration for the campaign in Wales. The Vale of Glamorgan Council became the first in Wales If you would like to be involved with the campaign to give us funding towards our anti-racist workshops that in Wales, please email Sunil at [email protected] are being delivered by ex-professional footballer Leroy Rosenior. The workshops have been a great success with us visiting 10 schools and 6 youth clubs throughout the area in the last few months. We are hopeful that other Councils will see the benefits of these workshops and that they can be delivered throughout Wales. Another successful schools competition saw a record number of schools participating from Wales. Once again great prizes were provided by the Football clubs and the FAW. The overall winner came from Pembrokeshire in West Wales and was among the 5 overall category winners who watched the Wales football squad in a training session ahead of their game against Iceland. The prize winning ceremony was once again held at the in Cardiff with guests including Cardiff City’s Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank along with players from Welsh rugby sides Cardiff Blues and Swansea players Jason Scotland and help Scarlets. 'show racism the red card' at Cefn Hengoed School in Swansea.

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Campaign in SCOTLAND Billy Singh Scottish Campaign Co-ordinator

The campaign in Scotland over the last 6 months has been as hectic as ever with our schools’ competition prize giving ceremony at Hampden, Hall of Fame ceremony at Downing Street, workshops in schools and events at football clubs. Below is a summary of our work over the last few months. HAMPDEN EXHIBITION Currently on display in the Football Museum are the winning entries from the schools’ competition from the last six years. The exhibition will run until the end of August. SCOTTISH EDUCATIONAL DVD We are in the process of producing a new DVD and education pack for Scotland. Interviews have taken place with top players from Rangers, Celtic, Hearts, Hibernian, Dundee United and Kilmarnock. We will aim to launch our new resources for August 2008. Our goal is to have these new educational resources in every school in Scotland and deliver workshops to schools all over Scotland. , David Longmuir and Ludovic Roy with prize winner Sam MacKenzie, Greenwards Primary School, Elgin NEW COACHES at Hampden Park. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome our two new allowed entrants to submit pieces of artwork and poetry coaches, former Hearts legend and Hibernian around this subject. The number of entries we received legend Mickey Weir. They are both based in the reflected the continuing popularity of the competition. area and are already delivering workshops to schools. They The entries remained as diverse and interesting as join our existing team of Brian Irvine, Derek Ferguson and Jim always without losing the focus of the theme. The Duffy. Not a bad 5-a-side team we have there! entrants once again demonstrated their unique approach to tackling racism through artistic expression, which gave CLUB EVENTS the judges a difficult task of selecting the winners. Successful events were held at Dundee United, Livingston, The prize-giving day at Hampden Park is always a day Kilmarnock, Falkirk, St. Johnstone and Hibernian. full of fun and excitement for the winners and for Show EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS Racism the Red Card to showcase the achievements of the young people involved. By the end of June we will have delivered anti-racist workshops and football coaching sessions to over 3000 The ceremony was presented by Jim Duffy, ex pupils in North Ayrshire, Inverclyde and Falkirk council areas. professional footballer and media pundit. He was also one of the competition judges and delivers Red Card anti- OTHER NEWS racist workshops to schools. Others present included We held a day of action in Perth with The Scottish Hockey George Burley, Gordon Smith, Mark Hateley, Gary Union in February and we will be producing a Red Card Caldwell, Rob Jones and Robbie Neilson. Scotland rugby poster in partnership with The Scottish The winners were presented with their prizes, which Rugby Union. We also held a day of action with the Scottish included signed footballs, signed football shirts, match Junior Football Association with 64 clubs taking part. day tickets and VIP days for the winners and prize money We are very pleased to announce that the General Teaching of up to £1000 for their school. The football prizes were Council for Scotland have become sponsors of the campaign. kindly donated once again by all of Scotland’s top clubs and the Scottish FA. FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS The overall winner was Sylvie Clarke from Banchory During the summer months we will be attending many Academy in Kincardineshire. All winners had the community events, T-in-the-Park and Belladrum music opportunity to win again with the mystery prize draw, festivals and Edinburgh/ Melas. Our pilot scheme which this year was 2 tickets to the UEFA cup final in for third party reporting of racist incidents in football ! The winner was Hannah Worthington from stadia will be launched in partnership with FC St Cyrus School in Montrose. and Strathclyde Police in August. We are already planning for next year’s competition with SCOTTISH SCHOOLS COMPETITION major changes to be announced. Watch this space! This year’s Scottish Schools art competition was focused Zoobia Aslam - Education Worker, Scotland around a central theme; “Welcoming new Scots: Email: [email protected] challenging racism, celebrating diversity”. The theme Further info: www.theredcardscotland.org

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Report on EVENTS Gav Sutherland Campaign Worker (England)

At the Prize Giving Ceremony it was revealed that the overall winning entry of the 2008 competition was a short animated film produced by a group of eight pupils from Rosslyn Park Primary School, . The film also won the new ‘All Ages and Abilities Multi-Media Category’ and is an outstanding piece of work. Show Racism the Red Card hope that with the school’s permission, we will be able to use the film as an extra on our new DVD. You can see the winning film here: http://www.footballfoundation.org.uk/about-us/ our-strategic-partners/ and here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T-47Atu_hKY SRtRC would like to thank all of the young people and schools that took part in this year’s competition for all of their hard work. The campaign would also like to thank the Our overall winners were from Rosslyn Park Primary School judges of the competition for their time and the competition in Nottingham. sponsors, The NUT, Football Foundation, One NorthEast, The PFA, The FA, UNISON, Hilton in the Community Foundation SRtRC SCHOOL COMPETITION 2008 and Unite – the union, for their support. It has been another very successful year for the competition in England, with 561 schools taking part Plans are being made for the Show Racism the Red throughout England, new partnerships with councils have Card Anti-Racist School Competition 2009. This year’s been developed and as many people have commented, competition will be bigger and better than ever, the standard of quality of the entries continues to with more great prizes and another fantastic Prize increase. Giving Ceremony. Details and registration available The Prize Giving Ceremony was held at Arsenal FC’s from September 2008 on the SRtRC website. , on April 24th and was a fitting climax to the competition. The winners came from all over England to the Royal Oak Suite to receive their EDUCATIONAL EVENTS AT FOOTBALL CLUBS prizes from among others: England International Theo JANUARY – APRIL 2008 Walcott; England Womens’ Captain Faye White; England Pan-Disabilities Captain, Chris Holland; Honorary Patrons Since our last Newsletter in December, we have continued Brendon Batson, , and Chris our programme of educational events with football clubs Powell. Sponsors were also involved in handing over around England. During the period January – April, we prizes to the young winners and Dave Prentis, General have worked with 15 clubs outside the North East region. Secretary of UNISON, spoke to open the event. Everyone Of these football clubs, 10 were hosting an event similar in attendance was able to go on a tour of the stadium to one they had hosted in 2007 during the corresponding before the ceremony, which added to the excitement. time period, 4 were with football clubs who had not Football Clubs were again very generous with prizes for hosted a SRtRC event before and one was with a club winners in their locality and in addition to prizes who had not hosted a SRtRC event since 2005. donated, every winner received an England shirt, Mitre It is great to be working with an expanding range of ball, England Cap and SRtRC goody bag. clubs, which means we are able to reach even more It was an excellent Prize Giving Ceremony, the Royal Oak young people with these events and forge new Suite was a fantastic venue and the young people really partnerships with clubs and local councils. The attendance enjoyed receiving the prizes from famous players, having of players and support of the clubs and councils has photos taken and the tours of the Emirates Stadium. ensured that young people throughout England have been Show Racism the Red Card covered the costs of travel for presented with a very positive anti-racism message. Show the winners and their families to the event. All of the Racism the Red Card plan to continue our education artwork and creative writing entries sent in to the events with football clubs throughout the remainder of competition were on display at the event on the large 2008, spending the summer booking events for the next exhibition boards. We again plan to make the exhibition school year with new and existing, partner clubs. available to public buildings throughout the coming year During January – April, we held events at clubs including: to publicise the competition and showcase the work of Reading FC, Everton FC, Birmingham City FC, Tottenham all the entrants. Hotspur FC, FC and Lincoln City FC.

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North East SCHOOLS WORK Sarah Soyei Community Education Manager (England)

This has been another very successful period for funding GATESHEAD for the Community Education Team: Funding for our Community Work in Gateshead started in • Durham County Council commissioned us to work in January and the work has been going well. The feedback Durham schools over the next year. that we have received from teachers has been • , and South Tyneside all overwhelmingly positive. renewed their sponsorship for the work and the Northern Rock Foundation and Newcastle City Council are both sponsoring us to deliver work around tackling Islamophobia. We plan to launch this project in Newcastle in the new school Term. We are pleased to welcome Conrad Franks who has joined us as a part-time Administration and Support Worker. This has allowed us to increase our work in schools and will provide much needed foundations for the project. The increased support that we are receiving through local sponsorships and partnerships has allowed us to greatly increase the amount and variety of activities that we are able to deliver throughout the region. In the first six months of the project in 2004 we worked with 1439 young people. In the last six months we have worked with 9647 young people, our workshops in primary schools have gone , of MFC and ex player from one hour to three and where possible our events at Dean Gordon supported our event at The . football clubs are longer from 2 hours to whole day events. MIDDLESBROUGH FC EVENT In February we undertook another first for the Community Education team in a County Durham school. We had been We held a two hour event at Middlesbrough FC on asked by Witton Gilbert Primary to help them tackle some Monday 11th February. Local councillor Brenda Thompson of the deep-rooted racism in the village, which was opened the event which was attended by over 150 causing serious problems for the BME families that had young people and 30 adults. The audience were treated recently moved to the area and we agreed to launch an 8 to a performance from Tees Valley World Drummers and week programme of work with adults around the issue. an educational session from SRtRC education worker We went to the primary school and delivered a day of Kieron Brady before Middlesbrough FC players Robert activities with the young people and then Kieron, Dean Huth and Julio Arca joined the team for a Q&A session and John held a talk-in with local parents for an hour after with the young people. The young people who asked the school. This was an amazing experience for all involved. best questions received match tickets and a signed The hall was packed and some of the parents said that Middlesbrough shirt, thanks to for making us so they had no idea how bad the racism was in the area and welcome and to David Foster for arranging for the young resolved to do something to tackle it. people to attend. NEWCASTLE UNITED FC EVENT Over 150 children attended a whole day event at St James Park on February 6th 2008 with schools from Newcastle, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Gateshead contributing to the success of the event as a whole. VIP guests included: North Tyneside Mayor John Harrison, Sheriff and Deputy Mayor of Newcastle David Wood, Mayor and Mayoress of South Tyneside, Mr and Mrs Donaldson and Dave Edmundson of the Football League. The entire Newcastle Women’s football team came along with a number of them arriving especially early to take part in the workshops. This really added to the impact of the workshops from the perspective of the young people. The young people experienced a carousel of workshops from Show Racism the Red Card, IDC, Positive Images Pitch side presentation at St James Park. and a ground tour organised by the club.

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Young people enjoying their trip to St James Park...... which included a tour of the Dressing Rooms.

During the afternoon the young people came together to competition was displayed and we had a performance from watch performances from various members of the ‘Crunk’ Albert Elliott school choir. Kieron led a short educational collective, a group of young people from across the session before the new Fifpro DVD was premiered and the region who, with the help of Streetwise and Show young people asked their questions on racism to the panel. Racism the Red Card, have recently written, recorded and The winners won Newcastle FC and Newcastle Falcons released a CD of songs which speak out against racism tickets and it was a very successful event, appearing on the and bullying. They put in some great performances – the front page of the Chronicle Extra in South Tyneside. children particularly enjoyed the acrobatic dancing. DARLINGTON FC EVENT Greg Irvin and James Grindall of the Newcastle Falcons joined Shola Ameobi and Chris Mort, Chairman of NUFC, Kevin Stonehouse of Darlington FC had arranged for Three for our Q&A session after we showed the Show Racism Rivers Housing to sponsor this event – meaning that all the Red Card DVD. Twenty or more questions were taken the adults and children present were provided with a from the young people in the audience, with the best lunch immediately after their morning ground tours. question being rewarded with fantastic tickets for the The Tees Valley Drummers warmed up the crowd with a Blackburn home game. The great number of hands still in 25 minute performance, involving a good number of the the air at the end of the Q&A session was testament to children in their session. This was followed by our DVD the impact the day had made. and a Q&A session. Exhibitors included The Children’s Society and The Racial Julian Joachim, Guylain Ndumbu-Nsungu and Alan Harrassment Prevention Team, who spoke to the young Milburn MP attended for photographs at the end of the people present about new steps put in place to make it event. The best questions from the Q&A were awarded easier to report racist behaviour. with tickets to a Darlington game, with every questioner The Newcastle United FC Foundation has been of fantastic being rewarded with a SRtRC football. support to our project over the past few months, not only hosting this event, but also providing 10 match tickets for FORTHCOMING ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS every home game which we are able to distribute at There will be four Show Racism the Red Card community events and school visits. festivals in this summer: NEWCASTLE FALCONS EVENT Sunday 6th July - FERRYHILL IS UNITED Dean Bank Recreation Ground, Ferryhill, County We held another all day event with the Newcastle Durham, DL17 8PP. 11am-5pm to be followed with a Falcons at Kingston Park. 2 schools from each of Hope not Hate music festival from 5pm-8pm. Newcastle and North Tyneside attended and experienced a carousel of workshops including a ground tour, and Saturday 19th July - WALKER IS UNITED workshops from SRtRC, CSV and Positive Images. The The Lightfoot Centre, Wharrier Street, Walker, young people had the opportunity to watch the SRtRC , NE6 3BR. 10am-3pm. DVD and ask questions to a panel which included Falcons Sunday 27th July - IS UNITED players Joe Shaw, Russell Winer and Joe McDonnell. The Burnside Business and Enterprise College, club and players were extremely supportive and a St Peters Road, Wallsend NE28 7LQ. 10am-3pm. fantastic day was had by all involved. Sunday 10th August SUNDERLAND TOGETHER AGAINST SOUTH TYNESIDE FIRE STATION RACISM (STAR) FESTIVAL Centre, Commercial Road, Sunderland, We held an event for 80 young people and invited adults at SR2 8PD. 11am-4pm. South Tyneside Fire Station on Tuesday 1st April. Pupils from Laygate and Albert Elliott Primary Schools joined us If you require any more information please contact for a two hour event. The artwork from the schools Sarah Soyei at [email protected]

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